#agism

Imagine if someone said "it's not that I hate disabled people it's just that I don't think they should be allowed in most places!"

This happens with most adults, but it’s PARTICULARLY annoying with otherkins.

There is this sense that somebody is completely unaware of, and blind to their identity until they are 18. Once you’re a legal adult, you are granted the ultimate knowledge of your identity and alterhumanity. But until your 18th birthday, you couldn’t possibly know what you’re talking about.

I cannot count the amount of times I’ve been told “your too young to be a zooanthrope” or that my delusions (which have been recorded by my healthcare professionals as psychotic symptoms) are simply an over active imagination.

Perfect strangers on the internet who took one look at my blog and decided to write me off because I’m 17.

Hell, I’ve even gotten this from other older zooanthropes saying that I’m “too young to know” or that “my delusions wouldn’t start that young” and I must be faking it all for internet clout.

It insinuates two things:

it is a bad thing to be a small child.

it is a bad thing to do the things that small children do, the things that are human nature; to feel your feelings, to attempt to communicate your feelings and needs and boundaries with others, to learn, to be curious, to ask questions, to trust, to rely on others, to show affection, to be truly honest, to be vulnerable.

Ive seen a lot of discourse, mainly in fandoms and character interpretations, but I've noticed how much that discourse effects people in their actual lives as well and how people treat each other based on that. So I feel the need to specifcally address this.

Whether you are currently a victim or have been a victim in the past, it does not mean you are incapable of being strong.

Just because you are strong does not make you incapable of being or having been a victim.

Strength and victimhood are not mutually exclusive, and moments of weakness can and will happen to anyone and everyone regardless of their strength. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or what have you. Strength is not what protects you from being a victim, it is what empowers you to keep going in spite of being a victim.

A victim of what? Well, that's open to interpretation. What am I specifically referencing with this? Nothing in particular other than distress at seeing people harm each other even when they agree with each other.

This is not exclusive to any one kind of person, this is not specifc to any race, gender, assigned sex at birth, age, religion, sexual orientation, intellectual level, disability, economic status, or any other kind of determining factor where people have been targeted and treated as other or lesser.