Ok, you know what I don’t understand? I have seen a few posts that are throwing spiritual otherkin under the bus, and it is being done by psychological or coping kin. They are saying stuff like “I have seen very few people who were otherkin for non-mental illness reasons” or “Spiritual otherkin are appropriating from coping otherkin”.
Like, no, spiritual otherkin have been around since the word “Otherkin” was first used, as have psychological kin. If anything they have been around for longer than the word “otherkin” was made. We are not a minority among the otherkin community, in fact if we look at all the communities outside of tumblr, we would probably see that there are equal parts spiritual and psychological kin.
Please, stop throwing part of the community under the bus. Stop saying stuff like “Otherkin can only be for people with mental illnesses” because that further perpetuates the idea that we are all mentally ill. Stop saying stuff like “you can’t be kin if you aren’t coping” because there is a size-able chunk of the community that would disagree with you. And for goodness sake, stop saying stuff like “spiritual kin aren’t real” because that’s just makes no sense.
I am in no way dissing psychological otherkin, I just want to give you guys a wake-up call. Spiritual otherkin do exist, we are as real and valid as you, stop throwing us under the bus.
