[ SECRET POST #3270 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3270 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This, and probably more realistically, people destroying any chance at a healthy social life and possibly professional/academic future because they decide to be "proud and out" about this. If they insist to their peers that they are actually a cat, or a fox, because on the Internet they've gotten support for this, they probably don't have much hope for a close social network.

Not to mention the inevitable gross appropriation of real LGBT issues. When this shit gets co-opted into "gender identity" and "queer", I personally have a problem with it.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

THIS! THIS THIS THIS!

So I fell down the otherkin/fictionkin/'multiplicity' rabbit hole as a teen. I had some serious mental issues (depression, ptsd, a personality disorder, anxiety) and just about the only way I found to cope with that plus a bad situation at school and at home was pretending to be Sephiroth. Mind, it started out as JUST pretend. I'd have a panic attack and I'd convince myself to chill b/c 'Sephiroth wouldn't panic over something petty like this', dealing with my abusive and neglectful parents was 'not as bad as dealing with Hojo must be', etc. Initially I didn't believe I actually WAS Seph.

But then I made some friends online who thought they WERE actually these different things. Anime characters and OCs and wolves and shit. There was all kinds of terms for it, and whole websites devoted to it with fancy glossaries of terms and big communities. Soulbonders, and fictives, and multiplicity, and 'kin of all kinds. It was almost this religious thing, where they came up with all kinds of explanations for how they were really these fantasy things. Alternate universes, and worlds inside your mind, and 'how can you say someone isn't really Sephiroth? What defines Sephiroth's personhood?'

And I was just a fucked up kid who had finally made friends who didn't think I was weird or screwed up, so of course I went along with it. And I wasn't just Sephiroth, no, I had a whole system of headmates. Just like all my friends! And I kept up this farce for damn near a decade, which took basically all the energy and time I had. I couldn't manage two separate online personas, so for all intents and purposes I didn't exist outside of my anonymous system persona. And I lived in constant fear that somehow my irl identity would be linked to my 'system' identity.

Thank god I never outed myself to anyone irl.

The thing is, outing yourself DOES basically destroy your chance at having any sort of life. Look at the adults in those communities. Either they're in the kin closet b/c they aren't willing to wreck their whole life or they're dirt poor fujoshi cat ladies with a social circle limited to other internet crazies. Because irl your boss isn't going to be fine with you telling them you're a Shadow Wolf.

The community is designed to catch the interest of mentally vulnerable people. It tells them they can be special, more special than anyone around them. And the only other people who can understand just how special you are, are the other people in this community. Anyone else would just laugh at you. It isolates you from the rest of the world. It's incredibly cultish.

[(Anonymous)]

I think I have someone like that on my dash. Her kins are several anime characters and at first it was just a bit weird (I figured it was something like role play) but now I see her getting deeper and deeper into it and other stuff. She has depression, self harms and is (probably, I think she self diagnosed I can't keep up) bipolar and I feel like she's trying to make sense of herself that way. Every psychologist is neurotypical and therefore doesn't know what they're talking about, but her friends who also have kins (and the same disorders) understand her and coddle her. They have this bubble around them where nothing is ever their fault and everyone else is just not sensitive enough to see their and their kin's suffering. It's that us vs. them mentality that makes them feel save. I mean, I even understand that and can't really blame them in a sense but that won't work forever. That bubble will burst in real life.

Kind of feels like their doing identification with a certain character to a whole other level, basically taking ownership.

Meanwhile, I only battle with ol' depression and anxiety and think kintypes are nonsense, so I might as well be neurotypical (I am starting to hate that word) to her.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I really really wish the Internet didn't let people uncritically validate each other's crazy-cakesness.