Okay, I’ve been iffy on these for a long time after realizing not everyone uses the results the way I do. I have contemplated stopping these before as it made me viscerally uncomfortable to think about and I didn’t want to contribute to the problem. This problem being people blindly believing a “yes/maybe/no” divination reading even if it could be wrong. I know @/aestherians and @/a-dragons-journal have already made posts on this.

The way I’ve established I do “kinfirmation” readings is more similar to a coin toss, taking the reading with a grain of salt but ultimately relying on myself for whether the answer feels right or not. A post by Poppy made me think on why this is, they said something along the lines of “you can only trust yourself to know the answer to these questions” and my brain’s response was “I can’t” which prompted me to spend the rest of the day ruminating on this. Because I knew that was wrong. Why can’t I trust myself? and then it hit me. This way of doing divination readings was a form of coping due to being gaslit from an early age and being taught that I can’t trust myself. I’ll be making another long post about this on another blog.

Regardless, now that I know it was an (unhealthy) coping mechanism and a bad use of my divination skills I would feel even worse feeding into other people’s unhealthy coping mechanisms. If you feel that you can’t trust yourself then that’s what you need to worry about, not whether or not something is a kintype or not. You need to trust yourself to be able to understand yourself.