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Have you ever met an "otherkin" in real life?

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Dec 22, 2018 2:47 AM
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It's easy to find otherkins (people who see themselves as non-humans) on websites like Tumblr, but I personally never saw anyone claiming to be one in real life. Like, do they actually exist or is this just a form of roleplay? From what I've heard they seem to have quite ""strong"" personalities so that's quite surprising.

So have you ever met one? And do you have anecdotes about it? There aren't enough cringe compilations about it on Youtube and I'm in search of funny stories.



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Dec 22, 2018 2:56 AM
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i don't think so
and its the first time I've heard of this word
so thats useful to know
hmm back in highschool
there was this one guy who was wandering around my school (my hs located on a mountain, so there were villagers)
not sure if it is superstition but he claimed to be an advocate of a mythical entity and he 'accepted' humanity blah blah blah (I couldn't remember what he said exactly, a lot of mind fucking stuff)
maybe he is considered an otherkin idk

Dec 22, 2018 2:57 AM
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take ur pills bro. i'm worried about you
Dec 22, 2018 3:41 AM
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The internet is part of real life. I haven't met any face to face that I am aware of. I just have spoken to one online before which was type three of what I describe below.

There are three kinds of otherkin:

The people who relate to animals better than people so they start to identify with them. A decent number of these kind seem to have autism which is why they relate to animals more. This type is also more likely to be misanthropic.

The people who have a delusion that they are in every way this animal. They often have a psychotic disorder.

Then lastly the people who have a spiritual belief that they have the soul of a particular animal or were a certain animal in a past life. This also may relate to the first type I describe but not as likely to have autism and more likely to be fairly average in behaviour despite less common spiritual beliefs. I assume this type also at times can be misanthropic but less frequency than first type because they tend to be a bit more optimistic I think.
Dec 22, 2018 4:00 AM
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I've never heard of this and I feel very uncomfortable right now
Dec 22, 2018 4:03 AM
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I knew one in highschool, she was almost 300 pounds and wore a rainbow fox tail to school everyday. Somehow she ended up dating someone who i was friends with at the time too. Was fucking wild
Dec 22, 2018 4:36 AM
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trashie said:
I knew one in highschool, she was almost 300 pounds and wore a rainbow fox tail to school everyday. Somehow she ended up dating someone who i was friends with at the time too. Was fucking wild

Sure she wasn't just a furry or just liked the tail like a fashion thing? That isn't really enough to identify her as an otherkin from what little you said. I also had a girl who wore a tail pinned to her jeans every day at my school.
Dec 22, 2018 4:50 AM
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i knew a girl who was a furry (brought her costume in regularly for world book day and the like) but not anyone as ...unique as an otherkin. would be fascinated to meet one though.
AnimeFreak-San said:
is this a male gender issure...human issue...mental illness perhaps?
Dec 22, 2018 4:53 AM
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mayoinnaisu said:

and its the first time I've heard of this word
so thats useful to know

Heh, not particularly. Legend has it there are only around 5 otherkin in existence...


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Dec 22, 2018 5:19 AM

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traed said:
trashie said:
I knew one in highschool, she was almost 300 pounds and wore a rainbow fox tail to school everyday. Somehow she ended up dating someone who i was friends with at the time too. Was fucking wild

Sure she wasn't just a furry or just liked the tail like a fashion thing? That isn't really enough to identify her as an otherkin from what little you said. I also had a girl who wore a tail pinned to her jeans every day at my school.

ye my friend ended up airing all her shit one day. I mean she also walked around school making fox noises so theres that too.
Dec 22, 2018 6:17 AM
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Not that I know of.
Never came across a real-life furry either.
Dec 22, 2018 7:58 AM

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No. But I hope I find a deerkin during deer season so I can see how much they truly believe in their identity.
Dec 22, 2018 9:52 AM

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Well, I've definitely met furries, which is like the same thing.

You're gonna get jumped by some furries one day bro hahah.
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Dec 22, 2018 1:59 PM

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Apparently I did? I used to be in their circle back in ninth grade but due to drama with one friend, I separated from that group but still had their tumblr's. According to some posts they reblogged and a mutual friend, they were big-time furries and had 'kin' and listed a whole ass page of that and yeah. To this day I still get a good laugh out of that (and am thankful to have dipped when I did)
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Dec 22, 2018 3:31 PM

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as long as they watched anime...I would be cool wit it.
Dec 22, 2018 3:54 PM
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no, most of them spend their time away from normal people
Dec 22, 2018 3:58 PM

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Yeah, she said she was red panda and I said I was a marmoset.
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Dec 22, 2018 11:02 PM

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Nope, I've known a few furries and plenty of bronies but never an "Otherkin". Heard of it though. I'm sure If I travel around enough and talk to some random folks I could find one.
Dec 23, 2018 5:30 AM

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Never heard/met/saw these things outside of Tumblr and Devianart.
And I hope I never do.

This is a typical "otherkin" if somebody here wonders.
Dec 23, 2018 3:39 PM

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you've gotta be insane to actually think you're a tortoise.
Dec 23, 2018 3:57 PM

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no and i hope i never do

i have met a couple furries though, however furries aren’t as bad as everyone makes em sound as the ones i’ve met at like conventions or whatever are really nice and normal people...except for my friends’ little sister...god help her

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