The fact that the p-shifter community & it's adjacent communities try to market themselves as open and welcoming to alterhumans who experience delusion is, in full honesty, horrific.
I am alterhuman and have a history of delusions, and I spent my formative years in the p-shifter community, so I'm not talking out of my ass when it comes to this stuff.
MANY people who consider themselves p-shifters or mythicals are relatively young, I was a p-shifter at 12, and got specifically involved with the mythical community at 13 via grow wings.
People of that age range are more prone to magical thinking, ESPECIALLY when you're coming from a bad or unstable home life like I was. The need for an escape + magical think easily feeds delusions.
I spent my teenage years, even after I stopped involving myself with those communities, fearing for my life about awtok because deep down I still thought it was a real group that existed. I also, even after leaving said communities, struggled with p-shifter based delusions, and in turn, worsened species dysphoria.
My nonhumanity existed prior to my delusions, but my relationship to it was fundementally changed in an unhealthy manner during my teenage years due to people feeding into the magical thinking and delusions of a vulnerable young teenager.
Sure, ones subjective reality may have p-shifts or something, your experience is yours. However with the shared reality we all experience, aka capital R Reality, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Every time a P-shifter or mythical is asked to provide evidence that this stuff is occuring in our shared reality, there is ALWAYS an excuse as to why they can't.
Anyways yeah you cannot change my mind that p-shifters and mythicals as a community are Inherently harmful towards those of us with delusions or those of us who are prone to delusion. And when any criticism is given, when anyone speaks out on this, we're pretty much victim blamed.
