I feel like discrimination against otherkin (and, letās be fair, any non-therian alterhumans) is WAY too fucking normalised in alterhuman communities.
I just mentionned in an alterhuman serv that I was questionning a songkin/fictionkin identity and people reacted like "Is that possible ?" That one is okay, itās okay not to know, just annoying people in alterhuman communities for months or years donāt know anything except therian.
Other people were like "Oh thatās too complicatedā¦ in my time we only had therians and mythical creatures" or even "It doesnāt feel right to me that people identify as something thatās not real". Thanks ya pals now I donāt even feel safe in my own goddamn communities. Sure yāall liked us better when the host was just a fox therian. I wonāt miraculously stop identifying as something because itās not is the teeny tiny window of what you consider palatable.
Hey therians. Unfriendly reminder that your communities were built by otherkins. Werewolves and fairies and elves and aliens. Seems like some of you forgot that. Now these people feel as alienated with you as they are with humans.
Non-therians have it hard. Iāve been fakeclaimed by folks because "You canāt be something that doesnāt exist". I canāt find safe spaces, have to explain what I am half the time (honestly that one is not a problem since Iām a yapper), feeling constantly left on the side. People use animal-centric language because sure if youāre not human youāre an animal. A living animal- a mammal - a carnivore - letās say it, a dog. Just Iām not a homo sapiens doesnāt mean I have paws and a snout. We canāt find euphoria tips, gears, weāre constantly forgotten. These are the same for therians with rare theriotypes, monkeys, herbivores, invertebrates, birds.
Otherkins and fictionkins and therians with rare theriotypes have it hard, but donāt get me started on factkin, conceptkin, otherhearted, songkin, plantkin, objectkin. CONSTANTLY FUCKING EXCLUDED. Itās therian this and therian that and sometimes otherkin and the rest is forgotten.
Ok donāt get me wrong. I love my therian brothers and sisters and sibling and friends and elders.
But if yāall therians really care for your non-therian pals youād better show it right now.
We donāt feel safe or understood in the spaces ya built.
