#lavalampo

We told our psychologist before we had a diagnosis, yes. I mean, at some point, you'd have to explain your system without having a diagnosis to even get one in the first place, right?

We basically explained it to her as you'd explain it to a singlet who doesn't know what plurality is. We said that we're multiple people in a body--some here for different reasons than others, some here for no reason at all. We explained that we want to be treated as separate people when we go see her and we will tell her who is fronting when we start the session. We also explained that we're happy being multiple people even if some issues arise with it and we don't want to fuse or integrate. We got the diagnosis from our psychiatrist after explaining the same to him.

You read that right. They ‘apologized’, but only because they were sworn at by most of their followers. They were very clear they thought it was just people having imaginary friends and making things up. (I can’t comment on imaginary friends because I have not researched them in a psychiatric context, but hm.)

Reading magical history requires you to have at least a basic idea of psychology, in the same way learning herbalism requires you to be halfway to a chemist’s degree. You have to know how to match up past experiences to modern terms in order to understand what’s going on, in the same way you also have to learn sociology to see why people said the things they did, and the context they said them in.

it would be mostly just an annoyance except that when kffies tag one of our headmates drawings as kin, it messes him up and throws him far away from the front. so we've just taken to tagging our posts with "don't tag as kin".

You are so right. People are scared of the word voluntary, like choosing it means it’s fake and not meant to be or not really real or something like that. And this is something that having more ‘linking voices would absolutely help. If people see ‘linking as that fun thing that people do to help themselves and learn and not as just being thrown out of the ‘kin community, then more people will just gravitate there instead of trying to force otherkin to be what they are.

(I’m not on mobile so I can’t use the image feature for asks so I hope a submission works)

Apparently NH is claiming that people are sending them r*pe threats??? Unless they’re getting anon asks that they’re not posting on their blog, I see no evidence of this literally anywhere

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I had to reply on my main to them, but I can say considering they posted ‘proof’ of someone I’ve never seen before in my life - and I do condemn sending that sort of shit to people - that they really are painting us unfairly.

I was as nice as possible. I did not send them any harassment. I told them we got a lot of misinfo and hate. And yet they blocked me and refused to listen or ask questions.

‘otherkin’ is the tag I check daily that so far as I know, everyone uses. The alterhuman tag is either ‘alterhuman’ or ‘alth’, I would say check both for a good week or two daily until you know which one gets used more. For otherhearted, I would guess ‘otherhearted’ but I honestly don’t know.

I only check ‘otherkin’, and I do so daily. I just scroll through, block all wishkin and antishippers I see, and respond to posts I think that warrant responses. I also check the ‘saint seiya’ tag, and used to check ‘funamusea’ before I just accepted I wasn’t going to get anywhere with that. :p

Just pick a few tags you see folks use, check them daily for a week or two, and you’ll probably find out where the tags are, or at least the people that are the ‘community voices’ so to speak, and then figure out what tags they use and go from there.