who-is-page: who-is-page: haibakun: i hope otherkin realise they’re taking a part of an actual religion their “spirit animal” or, u know, the “cultural appropriation” everyone…

Why is is the same people who hate self-dxers are often the first to call ‘kin beliefs a mental illness? “Fictionkin” is not an illness in the DSM. It consequently isn’t even diagnosable as an illness by a trained medical professional, let alone someone on the internet.

It may be because their  worldview centers around not only attaching medical diagnoses to beliefs and personality traits, but receiving ‘permission’ for these beliefs and traits…

i think i may be fictionhearted but i’m not entirely sure? especially because the character i think i am fictionheart/ed (?) with is my own OC… i have a really deep connection to him (that isn’t romantic or sexual or anything) and i have a rlly strong desire to be him.. also i’m a maladaptive daydreamer and this OC is my ‘idealised self’. i have avpd and saw that self-deserting behaviour is common, which i do, and i sort of feel like i’m constantly trying to ‘role play’ almost as my OC (1)

(2) and just completely ignore my actual self.. so do you think i’m fictionhearted ?.. I can’t comment on your mental illnesses/symptoms. However, disregarding them,…