Personally I wish they knew that we don't and can't choose to be otherkin. It's not something you grow out of or can decide to stop being. It's just how we are.

I forgot how good it felt. And now it's over, and my body feels wrong again. Until today I hadn't shifted since last October when my fictionkin awoke and became my primary kintype for a while. I forgot how good it feels to just be a werewolf. Werewolf shifts are hard to describe. I feel stronger and fitter, like I could complete just about any physical challenge but cause major damage in the process, something I used to my advantage for highschool sports. And although I'm relatively short I feel bigger, probably because of the phantom limb stuff - the nonexistent tail, the claws, the ghostly sensation of fangs, the feeling of fur running up my limbs and the extra layer of muscle that isn't there but somehow makes me feel twice as strong. My senses aren't exactly better but I'm more aware of them. And my upper lip does this weird shaky thing when I growl that makes me look insane. It's like it's trying to peel back from a muzzle I don't have but clearly should. Every second of it is exciting, my heart races and my ears prick at the slightest noise and don't feel an ounce of human shame or pain. I'm just wild. Sure I can get myself human enough to hide it and function but it feels feral nonetheless. Then it ends, when I come down it's worse than coming off any drug. It's so depressing. I'd also forgotten how it feels coming back to my senses with the dysphoria kicking in. My body feels wrong all the time but after experiencing something so close to how I should be it's almost worse. This isn't how I'm supposed to be. This isn't my wolf form and it definitely doesn't look like my human form. This is some weird alien flesh cage I live inside. I wish otherkin were more accepted in society and I could see a therapist to talk to about my species dysphoria without them thinking I've clinical lycanthropy or that I'm making it up. My parents threatened to throw me out over being otherkin in my teens and threw away my gear, horror books and werewolf related art, so y'know I often get scared about telling people I'm otherkin. As far as my parents are concerned I either "grew out of it" or learned to keep my shame to myself, but pretty obviously I'm over eighteen and still the way I am. This isn't something you "grow out of", trust me I tried over and over again. Most of my friends are cool with it but only one of them is alterhuman so it's hard to find people who really understand. Thank the gods for Reddit.

You can call me Deb or Debleb. I'm a red european dragon, around the size of like maybe a transit van but a little less tall. Lived somewhere in europe, I think it's somewhere around France or Germany but the British Isles aren't out of the picture, in a cave den in a deciduous forest. Probably somewhere near a human settlement since I was no stranger to protecting my hoard from the dragon-slaying knight type (I'm fairly sure that's how I was killed as a dragon, actually). Think your stereotypical European dragon who hoards treasure and breathes fire (no princess stealing though!)

Hi! I'm new to this community, and I know very little about it, but I want to know if it's possible that I am moth therian, or if it's just a deep connection. Moths are my favorite animal and they have been for quite some time. I feel a deep sympathy towards them in some ways I don't feel for other species. For example, of course it's desparing to see an injured animal, but I sometimes struggle to hold back tears when I see an injured moth. I am hesitant to say I am otherkin or not because despite my connection I am very fine being human, but I feel just at home when I "muse" a moth (musing is a way of me changing my phantom body parts, and if I muse an animal it is always anthro- I consider my spirit/soul/subconscious to be something of a shapeshifter and I always have) I also own a (poodle) moth plushie and she's my absolute favorite! I have an affinity for soft things and I adore lighting, from art to glow sticks and neon lights, but my favorite is moonlight. The sun drains me, I'm sleepy in the afternoon, and wide awake at midnight (regardless of how I try to adapt my sleep schedule) My friends and I joked about me secretly being a moth but after last night (I remembered an injured moth that would surely die and wept for their innocence) I realized I should ask around here. I consider myself to be a hardline scientific method sort of person but I'm open to new ideas and more spiritual or hard to define things.

Apologies if anything I said was offensive- I'm ignorant, I don't mean it out of malice. Feel free to correct me. Anyways, what are your thoughts?

Hi guys! I'm Moon Storm (or just Moon) and I'm a wolf therian and polykin! I'll do a better introduction later but I wanted to get right to my idea.

I posted this on r/Therian and r/otherkin as well but I wanted to ask here too.

I was thinking of trying to write a book that's like a little collection of stories and tips and stuff from otherkin and therians. I don't even know if it's a good idea, but if it is, and you want to share your story, you can message me or something if you don't want to put it in a comment :)

Thanks!

-Moon Storm

I have a discord group for therians and otherkin if you would like to join pm me its open to all the link just times out

Hello, I am a 13 yr old girl with 9-tailed kitsune, wolf, and dog kins. I was browsing around on Tumblr and I noticed how much otherkin hate there is. I even saw someone claiming they were otherkin when they were 13 but they aren't anymore. I am scared because that is my age. I am serious about being otherkin. I knew I was since I was 7 or 8 but I just didn't know the word for it. I don't want to lose my true identity! Why is there so much otherkin hate? We aren't hurting anyone! No, we are not mentally ill, this is our true identity. I don't know if I'm valid.

Oh, and I have an idea! How about all the otherkin who can't storm Area 51 go storm the internet on September 20 and say anyone who critizes otherkin is being a bully?

Sorry for my little rant, I hate seeing anyone bullied. I want to end bullying forever.

Okay so I'm not an other kin I wanted to come here to ask some questions but apparently you need to post a roll call so here I am. I currently don't want to share my real name but I'm not a troll. Just here to ask some questions regarding being an other kin.

PS : rules don't say i have to tell my real name

I'm really in a hard situation right now.I have been away from home for the past two years. (I live in Ontario, Canada)I left due to my mother being physically and mentally abusive towards me.She used to hit me a lot and one time threw me across the room when I was 8 yrs old.

I ran away because of this, and have been shelter hopping ever since.I've had no time to establish myself, and recently I've had to move around a lot more sporadically.Because I'm currently couchsurfing, and don't have much time left at the place I'm staying.And I've tried to get another place to stay (contacted about 10 people on the website).And don't have anything concrete.

I've also tried to contact my friends, and they said they couldn't, or didn't respond.This has me very stressed and worried.As I might not have a place to stay.

A friend recommended me to come here for advice, because she said this is the bestplace to do so.

If somebody could get back to me soon, I would greatly appreciate it.

It is commonly questioned as to whether objectkin is a valid identity. However, what about people who claim to identify as fictionkin with fictional living objects like the Brave Little Toaster, one of the cars from Cars, Herbie etc.?

Ok. Older Satyr-kin here... mid 30's... I grew up knowing that there was going to be a war... like a day that humanity could see through our guises and the magickal superpowers we believed we had could shape reality. And humanity would probably not really like that...

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What happened to that?

Hello y'all how are you today? I was wondering if I can get help with my phantom limbs. Thank you!

Sticky thread thing for introductions went down so ill do one here

My name is Kaigana, i am an enby from Australia and my kin is a 7-tailed kitsune named Takayuki.

Would anyone here be interested in joining a Discord server for Yokai Kin (as in kitsune, tanuki, etc.)? Not sure where to ask, so hopefully here is alright!

Hello!

I believe I am a fae or yokai (otherkin) of sorts, and some sort of nature guardian. Specifically, I love forests and trees, and I can become vengeful if I see them cut down. I used to believe I was a kitsune, but I am less sure of that now. My reason for believing this was that I often would picture myself as a "half fox" as a child. However, I now realize I also would see myself as having other animal features in "human" form. That is to say, a tail, or ears, or a full centaur-like body. These have manifested in drawings from when I was young, dysphoria, and phantom sensations.

I seem to have "form instability", meaning that, spiritually, I can be anything. I tend to be playful and can be good intentioned or bad intentioned depending on the moment. I also enjoy a good guessing game, and like to playfully have people guess things about me.

I have been looking into phookas lately, as they match a lot of this. Especially the fact that I often have the phantom sensation of glowing yellow eyes. Nevertheless, phookas usually appear as black furred, whereas I can be any color I choose, spiritually.

So what might be a fae or yokai that would fit this description? Does phooka still fit, or something else?

(Sorry if this is a bit hard to swallow, but know that what I'm referring to here are trends that I've seen, phantom sensations, mental images, feelings, and the like. Nothing here is physical in any way, shape or form.)

I was only just getting into the kin community on Tumblr when it all kind of went down... so I’ve been looking for other communities. This one doesn’t seem too active? But it’s worth a shot I suppose.

I’m a fox faery, I simply go by Vixen. I have feathered wings, and some fox characteristics, sometimes antlers as well. My wings grow back when torn off fairly quickly, and I love it when they do, it’s something my partner loves to play with. I’ve always been owned by someone, minor deities, dragons, nature spirits, etc. I was lucky enough to find an incarnated demon lord irl to be my current partner/owner. I’m curious if there are other fae or demons here?

I also used to be a water nymph, though that has been a less frequent incarnation.

i've been feeling really connected to deku from my hero academia, i've felt similar or the same experiences to him and had dreams about us. it's the same for shouta aizawa. would this be considered fictionkin (or otakukin)?

and i was wondering if fictionkins characters can talk through their "hosts" as i like to call them, since that's kind of what's been happening. i feel that side of me, that izuku midoriya and shouta aizawa side of me coming out to possibly speak through me. when i speak of this, i feel like a freak because people call me a trollkin. what do you all think?

Ever since I was little, I felt that something was wrong with this world. The feeling always stayed at the back of my head. I knew that something was missing. Something so simple and fundamental that it could not be described. When I saw a dragon at the age of 7, something clicked. It was a love at first sight. There was an instant bond, a connection I've never experienced with a human. That is when silver dreams started. Dreams more real than the waking world could ever be. They were logical, coherent, stable in terms of places, characters and time. There was virtually no way of knowing that it was a dream at first. Yet, I had that knowledge within me. It didn't come from any place in particular. I knew it in my heart of hearts. The fact seemed as obvious as 2 + 2. I remember 3 of those dreams in total, each one crystal clear in my memory. When I woke up, I was changed. From my next one, I will not wake up at all.

To avoid taking much of your time, since then I spontaneously recall memories. As of now, I have a large number of them.

I am going through a process called merging of souls. Long story short, a very very very long time ago I existed as one creature. Due to a certain event, my soul was split into two independent halves. Very recently (relatively speaking) I've found my missing half. Since then, we are beginning to merge back into a single being.

However, my merging partner does not have a human shell. She's a dragon in blood and bone, somewhere out there in my home realm of 'Fae'. This is a major problem. We are separated and merging can't progress in this human environment. As unrealistic as it seems, I am searching for a way to return to my homeworld. I understand that it's impossible to physically cross realms like that (after all, you don't hear about people spontaneously disappearing in the media, even less of strange creatures appearing). If you can help me, in any way, I would greatly appreciate it

I prefer contact via discord: Zero-state Tsidia#5055

Hi everyone. I know this is kind of out of the blue, but I have a serious personal issue I need some help with.

Ever since my awakening, I've wanted to tell my parents about my non-human side.  I still live with them so it's really hard for me to be able to express my canine side without them questioning it. 

There's so much I've wanted to do that's related to that part of me.  I want to get gear for one thing.  I'm tired of having to constantly repress my dog-like instincts all the time since I spend so much time around them.  It would be nice to be able to growl, howl, etc when I feel the urge without having to hold back or BS some lame excuse for it.  And most importantly, I want to meet other Therians irl, something that would be impossible for me to arrange without them knowing about it.

In short, It would open up a lot of good possibilities if they knew about that part of me.

So here's the question . . .

How the hell should I go about telling them?

It's not that I don't trust them.  I know they love me and care about me and all.  Their good people, don't get me wrong.  But I can tell that the entire concept of identifying as a non human isn't even on their radar.  

In addition, they're both very devoted Catholics.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I'm just not sure how accepting they would be about the idea given that context. 

After all, my mom tends to jump to conclusions more than she should and my dad's even worse.  I can't tell you how many times he's gone on long winded rants about how dumb he thinks transgenders are.  Now I know that isn't really super related to Otherkin, but the point I'm trying to make is simply this: if he's that judgmental of people merely identifying as the opposite gender, how would he react when I tell him that I feel like a completely different species?

And that's what has me worried.  I'm actually kind of scared even.  That they'd think I'm crazy I mean.  Hell, even I initially thought the entire concept of Otherkin sounded kind of crazy when I first found out about it and I had the benefit of first hand experience.

I just don't want them to think I've lost it and throw me in some institution or something.  Again, it's not that I don't trust them, but I just don't want this to blow up in my face.

Please help!

I really just don't understand.

My name's Seth, and I'm really trying to get settled in the Otherkin community, and I'm just not entirely sure where I fit in. Where I feel connections:

a) The Sidhe Host (the Celtic fae, especially similar to elves,)

b) Twilight Sparkle

c) Super Sentai and its power and heroes, particularly so TyrannoRanger of of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.

I also feel like some form of me might have used something like a Green Lantern ring in the past or in some other self, but I'm not sure that's a kin type.

I don't know how common or even possible such a combination is, but I seriously do feel connections to each of these things.

Edited to add my name and some more information . Please feel free to say hi. :)

So I'll just do it here. Hello! My name's Barrett, I'm 16, Enby, Scottish but living in England (urgh) and Wolfkin. I'm here to make some friends, so don't be shy!

It's archived, so I'll introduce myself here, I guess. I'm Alex, I'm dragonkin, I'm 18, I am a transguy, I consider myself Wiccan. My being transgender is in no way related to my kintype, and seeing as tumblr's kin community is... really, really odd, I am trying to find one somewhere else. With very little success so far, honestly.

Is there such a thing? What I am thinking it that it would be a part of demonkin, but it does not quite match.

Yōkai (妖怪, ghost, phantom, strange apparition) are a class of supernatural monsters, spirits and demons in Japanese folklore.

So while they are demons, they do not come from Hell, like most of the demonkin, and are more like spirits of the nature in a chaotic or non-chaotic form. So, would such a thing exist?

If you had to guess what kin type I was what would your guess? (Ill tell you after I just thought it would be fun, im pretty new to this) Okay, so personality wise im *goofy/childish *lazy *nice *anxious *impatient *funny *imaginitive *kind of dumb *open minded *overly giggly *irresponsible *loves people *but also finds people horrifying *needs alone time *considers going to the grocery store a fun adventure.

You can call me Galaxias. I'm a barn owl kin! I'm nonbinary and I go by they/them pronouns. Please note: My gender identity has absolutely nothing to to with being kin. Anyone who says being kin has anything to do with LGBT+ has no idea what they're talking about.