Hey! No worries, I'll try my best to answer. Glad you like the way I word things lol.

So.. "confirm" or "verify" don't feel like either apply, honestly. I prefer something like.. accept, maybe? Something that sounds less final. I don't think there's a way I can ever be 100% sure that my kintypes are my kintypes and will remain throughout my life--there's no confirmation because there's always room for error. Identity is an ever-changing thing, and there's no set in stone rulebook to being otherkin, fictionkin or a therian aside from "I identify as [thing]". That can come in all sorts of different feelings and experiences so it can be hard to pick apart. Sometimes, as people, we can also be wrong, too.

To accept a kintype into my identity, I can only be sure enough that I do identify as them currently, and kind of sure that they aren't fictionflickers (temporary identities where you ID as a character for a bit, then stop) instead. And this can be tricky, because who knows how long a fictionflicker could last? How do you define the difference between a years-long fictionflicker and a kintype? Answers depend on who you ask, really. All this stuff is personal and it's up to you to decide when to accept something into your otherkin identity. I personally stopped engaging with Demon Slayer as a source for quite a while and still got strong shifts of Tanjiro and that feeling in the back of my mind of "yeah, that's me" never left. So I decided that I'd label it as a fictotype and see how it goes. I did the same with my Satoru Gojo kintype too--I deliberately stopped engaging with JJK and the feelings were still there. I tend to test myself like that.

Trial and error can be a part of it too. Sometimes, the best way of deciding if some kintype or identity fits.... Is to take on that label, accept it into yourself, and see how it feels. Does it fit you as well as you thought? Or does something feel off the more you think about it? Does it feel like you're acting instead of coming into your own identity? Does it feel natural to call yourself by that name? A lot of stuff there to consider, but the questioning process can (and usually should to a degree) continue after you accept a kintype. Because let's face it, you can be wrong. And that's all completely normal, too! There's nothing wrong with going back and reevaluating your identity even years down the line after accepting something into it. You don't have to stay static forever. People change, sometimes old clothes don't fit anymore, but you shouldn't feel guilty or "fake" over being unable to put them on anymore. You didn't "lie" about wearing them or having them fit, they did fit, once. You just get new ones instead now.

There's no manual to tell you what your kintypes are, what past lives you have, or what psychological imprints shows and books might have left on your brain. If I had a secret way to use google inside my own head to figure myself out I sure as hell would. For all I know, in 3 weeks time, I could stop identifying as Tanjiro altogether. This identification being "confirmed" is less of a metaphorical legal binding document, and moreso just a.. Potentially temporary stamp of approval. An outfit that I feel comfortable in, that feels like it represents me and maybe I wore it some time before, so I'm trying it on to see if it truly suits me in a comfy way. While the identity might be involuntary itself, the acceptance of it feels partially voluntary in a way to me and just.. furthers the questioning process altogether. Part of being fictionkin for me is trialing how it goes post-acceptance and keeping an eye on things to see if they really feel right, so that's where I'm at now.

hi there!! that's a good question!! ^__^

to figure it out, i looked at a lot of horse photos lol xp and i tried to decipher which photos felt the most like "me"-- i'll typically get the sense that i am looking into a mirror or looking at a photo of myself. sometimes i'll see a photo of a horse that i think looks really cool, and i might mistake that aesthetic appreciation for the "me" feeling. some of the time i'd wish i had a certain coat, but i'd realize that it doesn't give me the "me" feeling. the aesthetic appreciation and "me" feeling aren't the same for me! when figuring out my coat color at first (for my now thoroughbred 'type), i wanted to be some kind of appaloosa because i thought they looked so pretty. but it became clear to me after more introspection and imagining that i was either dark brown or seal bay!

it's also kind of inherent to my horseness! imagining myself as a certain color may feel right even without looking at a photo, and i may imagine myself with a certain coat on instinct, without really thinking.

it just takes a lot of introspection! if i imagine looking down at my horse legs, or back at my flanks, or perhaps in a mirror/pond reflection, does the color feel right? do the markings feel right? does it feel like i'm in my own skin? these are questions i can ask myself to help figure it out.

Had a wing shift the other day, which in of itself isn't a big deal. Until I thought about the fact that none of my current discovered kintypes has wings.

Idk what kind of wings they were to even know where to begin. I just know they are wings.

So...back to kin questioning. *shrugs*

I've been questioning dragonkin/wizardkin/familiarkin/magickin for a while now.

I have a question. So like is magickin something I could use to encompass a generic variety of things and not be set as one thing or another? Like if I felt like my magic manifests as a dragon, a witch, a wizard, other magical creatures, etc. or generic magic, that would still be magickin or would I need to do more questioning?

I haven't seen much out there on the topic and much less any thread in this subreddit on magic kin. Please feel free to share your experiences with your magickin identity if you'd like!

I feel like there must be something else in me, and about me, that isn't human, coexisting with the human bits, hence why I've always said i was "alterhuman" instead of "nonhuman" entirely...i just can't figure out what it is, which leads me to question its existence so much.

Well, I'm decently sure I'm a deitykin. But that realization is so weird when coupled with my age regression. How can I be so big and so small at the same time?

I want to taste the universe. To consume the energy and potential that surrounds me. I'm so close to touching it, to reaching it, to tasting it. But I can't and it feels so wrong. It feels weird to not taste everything around me and even weirder that I can't even see it let alone interact with it.

But then again, I'm small. I'm a child. A curios one, but a child nonetheless. How can someone as small as me touch the universe? Was I both before? Or is it only now?

So I ask for the wisdom of other deitykin. Can I be both, and how can I be both?

& sometimes I just feel like my body is like an alien, like my persona, whenever I think of myself in my head, I just think of my persona & not my actual body or face or anything. Even when I look at myself in the mirror still, I still am surprised every time I see my face. & even like my facial expressions, I'll think I'm smiling for like a photo but then the person will tell me to smile, even though I already am?? So I have to exaggerate my facial expressions all the time to hope that they're actually visible (course I do this somewhat naturally too, but it's mostly for visibility).