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Thank you for your reply, I understand and it’s a good point but I think that while classifications are good to make things clear dividing a small community with close experiences in two against the wishes of some of them is not ideal. I also think the otherkin community wants only people who believe it’s an spiritual thing lately, I mean between coping kin and people who believe being kin is psychological or anything not spiritual there isn’t such a big diference and both tend to be excluded.

I think its important to share space- but I also think its important to have dedicated spaces to both. We have similar experiences, and a…

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I believe healthy multiplicity is real and your anon is missing the point, psychology is supposed to explain the workings of the mind not own them and only allow for their worldview to exist, so please don’t assume I’m one of those anons, but I think that what people like the anon are doing to you reminds me of what otherkin like you do to other kin, you define who can be part of the community by your views, like being against coping kin, according to my worldview as kin that is possible.

Sorry this took me longer to get to! You have a point! The difference is that I absolutely believe that copingkin exist as a phenomenon…

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Other sources beyond Vessiere’s study include: Multiplying models: Personal identity, dissociation and the possibility of healthy multiplicity by Gale, Lindsey and Alterity: Learning polyvalent selves, resisting disabling notions of the self by Walker, Wayland. We can gather from these that healthy multiplicity is indeed A Thing that happens. What we -cannot- gather is what causes it. To label all non-DID or DDNOS systems as imitation systems or BPD is a huge oversight and logically unsound.

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