YES ACCURATE INFORMATION ON TUMBLR? impossible.
K no but adding more onto this beautiful post
spiritual reasons like split souls, reincarnation/past life, and misplaced souls. etc.
and psychological that no one talks about for some reason, like imprinting where some uncopable and or, repeated stress, anxiety, trauma, etc caused your brain to take an imprint of something on your identity. there’s also brain wiring, and neurodivergent reasons.
Phytanthropes, those who identify involuntarily with plants, so roses or an apple tree for example
Theriomythic, a choice label for mythical creatures but ones that are more animalistic than human. for example, maybe a completely Animalistic dragon or unicorn
Copinglinks, someone who chooses to identify nonhuman in order to cope.
otherlinks, someone who chooses to identify nonhuman for an other reason than coping. (this is what ‘kinning’ culture is mainly. Tumblr has twisted the terms and turned it into some fun game. everyone who uses ‘I kin this’ or ‘lol I’m kinning (anime character)’ is usually a linker or misinformed.)
kin was originally kind! it came from the original word where, iirc, was used to refer to those who identified as elvenkind, and, the otherkind. it makes much more sense to call yourself dragonkinD but ehh, that was changed and rarely anyone uses it anymore, dunno why it got shortened
otherhearted/kith! (there’s also synpath bbut pathway apparently made by someone who didn’t know this term existed, a term for someone who feels strongly connected and identifies WITH something rather than AS something. kin means you are, kith means you aren’t but you heavily associate yourself with them if that’s a good explanation??
