it's quite comforting and reassuring to see adult otherkind. we're 17 at the moment, and looking around alterhumanity communities, we mostly see other young folk like ourselves. it certainly doesn't help with the anxiety that this is just some fad, lol, but seeing people and blogs like you and yours really eases that worrying voice. thanks for simply being present and open about your otherkinity
I’m glad you found some usefulness to my post(s). I still have more to write about my djinni stuff, yet my post about obscure Otherkin seems to have encouraged more to open up about that. In a way, that was part of the intention, to find more who didn’t fit in with the bigger (or more popular) groups of Otherkin.
The Otherkin communities have grown in recent years, thanks to people being willing to question and accept that Otherkin is a real phenomenon, instead of a fad or something to do just for fun. The latter is still a problem, but we just have to keep educating the ignorant. They’ll eventually move onto something else, or as I am often saying “The next shiny object.” But we do have to take back our vocabulary from them so it doesn’t get watered down any further by incorrect definitions. That will likely take more effort.
Keep looking around at the other communities, and if you ever want to know some places to try out, there are a few Discord servers worth joining, as well as the still relatively new message board “Nonhuman National Park” (it’s only about a year old now). Of course, I can only recommend the ones I still visit, but maybe we need a post just on Discord servers worth joining :-)
