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« on: December 26, 2012, 04:45:33 pm »
Some crazy person who thinks they are otherkin, but probably aren't, as in my experience with otherkin, they tend not to:
1. Post giant blogs explaining that they are otherkin publically (usually they are private or other otherkin boards)
2. Be vegan if they are otherkin that is cannibalistic
This person is probably just desperate for attention, also, note that she has disabled as a tag for herself, but does not mention the disability. Additionally, note that she identifies herself with the latin term cis, which is commonly used when talking about gender identification (a Cis Male for example, is someone born as a male, and has a personality which matches the gender). While this is used in gender studies, it is not often used outside except by people who have personalities that do not match their gender. For example, you everyday person doen't go around saying "Hi, I'm a Cis Female" when they introduce themselves, and in biographies, people don't write that they were born a Cis Male. They write which gender they had been born as, and in cases, include if they have a personality born that does not match
i.e. "I was a woman born in a mans body".
The fact that she uses the word cis, is either because she at one time was "gender-confused" (NOTE: Gender confused is different from non-cis gender, as in non-cis gender, there is no choice, your personality is just male but your female or female but your male, Gender-confused is where you are not sure if your personality is one or the other, but when you are sure, you are confirmed as a cis-male/cis-female), or, because she has some experience with people who have different personalities due to their gender.
This combined with the tag disability leads me to the conclusion (without reading anything past the first blog post), that her disability is a mental disability, and she probably spent time in therapy sessions. She probably retains the disability status as either a way to supplement her income, or ensure that she can't be removed from her job for her "weird" behavior.
Now, considering the fact that there are MANY support boards for otherkin, but she chooses tumblr, leads me to believe that she fits into the same category as many people who do the same. Someone who believes they are otherkin, but doesn't get along with otherkin, and was ostracized by the community. This is somewhat common (especially with women ages 12-17 and males ages 10-14), except in cases where otherkin do not believe that you are really otherkin, or in the case where you are pretending you are otherkin but then discovered because you wanted to be but aren't. It is actually fairly rare for someone who believes they are otherkin to be ostracized by the otherkin community, but it usually happens when the otherkin community believe that the person thinks they are otherkin because of a mental disability or handicap, and not becuase of true belief.
Source: My knowledge from my time researching, studying and interacting with "otherkin" and vampires. (Did it for a research project, not my idea)
Spoilers: parts of this may or may not be accurate as I don't plan to read more of the blog to narrow down the analysis.
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