Being a new adult who spends and has spend most of their life in hospital waiting rooms, surrounded by elderly people. Being told "just wait untill you get older". Trying to find mobility aids, with mostly elderly people being seen in the example pictures. Elderly people being mad, because you, a disabled person, took the disabled seat.
Young disabled people exist. Young disabled people are valid. Young people can experience pain. Young people can need mobility aids and tools to help them make life easier. We exist and we are valid.
I hope some day, it will be seen that anyone at any age can become disabled. People are born every day with a disability. Mental disabilities don't dissappear with age, and physical disabilities don't just appear when you become an elderly person.
These are terms commonly used in the alterhuman community. They are not terms I've made personally. If you know who coined these terms, please let me know and I'll tag them.
(typo in alt text found by @xcekait)
Alterhuman: having an identity/experience that is either alternative to humanity or an alternative form of humanity
Correction of the definition by @a-dragons-journal @anoneyemoose
Archethrope: an identity under the alterhuman umbrella, in where someone experiences an archetype, trope, or otherwise preestablished character model
Example: someone who identifies with/as pirates
Awakening: the event in where one discovered they are otherkin
Conceptkin: an identity under the alterhuman umbrella, in where someone identifies as a concept
Example: someone who identifies with/as the void
Copinglink: a consciously created non-human/fictional identity
Correction of the definition by @/a-dragons-journal (tagged above)
Original post/definition:
Alright, alright. So look. I’ve seen some people claiming bullshit about the term I created 6 months ago. So, as the creator of the word in
Kin: short for 'otherkin' or used as a suffix to describe a creature/concept/entity/etc to be someone's identity
Example: being dragonkin = someone identifies with/as a dragon
Object-kin: an identity under the alterhuman umbrella, in where someone identifies as an object
Other-hearted: having a strong connection to a species as opposed to identifying as one
Phanthom-limb: sensations of a limb or part of a body that doesn't exist
Poly-kin: someone who's otherkin and has more than one kintype
Shift: some aspect of yourself changing to become closer to that of your kintype.
Examples of types of shifts:
Mental shift: is a shift in which one's mental state changes to reflect that of their kintype
Phantom shift: a shift in where someone experiences phanthom-limbs
Correction of the definition by @/a-dragons-journal (tagged above)
