5:39pm December 22, 2011

➸ We survived by the skin of our teeth.: You know

lavender-labia:

whatfreshhellisthis:

Even if being otherkin is a manifestation of neurodivergence in some people

That actually changes nothing

Because ND people are still deserving of respect and help

And sometimes the best help for a certain situation/person is…

Otherkin don’t bug me. Specific Otherkin doing specific things, yes, and I’m not fond of the community, but overall I just don’t have a problem with their existence as a whole and can’t really be made to do so no matter how much mockery I see them getting. “Transabled” people, I’m not too keen on the name or the appropriation of trans stuff, but I really don’t give a crap if people want to, say, use wheelchairs, whether they “need” one or not (and if it keeps someone from suicide, then I say they need it, if for an unusual reason… but I also don’t see disability paraphernalia as something that ought to be limited to disabled people any more than it has been throughout history in general). I seem to be incredibly strange for not being incredibly bothered by the existence of both groups of people, but there you have it. (As I said – specific people, is another question. But both groups of people referred to overall are very diverse in opinions. I have every mark of some kinds of Otherkin other than identifying with their community or actually believing myself to be the species in question, so that’s probably why I’m not bothered. I don’t call myself Otherkin, or any of their other names, although I used to before I got fed up with their community as a whole. But I have the same qualities – minus those two things – so I don’t feel like I can judge them just for being like this. And I don’t think I can paint them all with the same brush just because some of them irritate the crap out of me.)

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