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Me? I'm type 7, the Enthusiast. As mentioned earlier in this thread most Otherkin are type 4, so I'm definitely not an Otherkin--in fact, type 4 was one of my lowest scores on the exam.
My opinion of Otherkin is that people are just that: people. True, you can mold your spirit or astral form into a nonhuman shape and even change your psyche to the point where you believe yourself to be something other than human, but keep in mind that the dragons, unicorns, and other spirit entities might not accept you as one of their own and might view you as nothing more than a poor imitation of the real thing... and do you want to spend eternity as an inferior copy of a spirit that wants absolutely nothing to do with you?

Most of my other numbers were in the middle range, including type 8. As far as Changelings as concerned, I've met a few in my time but don't know if they are really reincarnated Faerie Folk or just crazy humans. I believe the latter to be true, but with one particular young lady I used to know I'm not quite sure, as her magical talents were rather powerful and she had an aura that wasn't entirely human...

Well me personally I am more Changeling than Otherkin. Personally I have had a vision of soul/self. I have also had a past life regression/recall experience/vision (don't know which) in which I felt/experienced my soul.

It's not all tea and cakes either. I believe that it is one of the reasons I have an intense fear of deep water. I say "deep" meaning mostly anything I can stand in over my waist. Showering is fine but I feel that is part of my human side. Also with the human part comes a liking of swimming. I still swim on occasion, even if it scares me. But on the other hand, if I were to be dropped in the middle of a lake, I fully believe I would have a heart attack trying to swim to shore, overcome in panic.

The dark also bothers me, but that could be a human thing. Same with spiders. I also feel "phantom" wings, but that could be something with a spirt I let posses me a couple times when I was feeling depressed.

I even have a friend who is a Troll (not underbridge kind, blue with lotsa knight-type attitudes), who even had a child walk up to him (it seems it is easier from children to See, what with not having their minds clouded by beliefs, etc.) and she was lost from here mother and crying. She looked at him and said 'You blue.' And stopped crying and let him help her find her mom.

And that brings up the question: can other people remember interacting with "other-kin". The girl could have a racial memory of Trolls. Considering also my friend is rather large (6'4", 300+lbs) and he doesn't look the friendliess. It is interesting about the experience with the child.

He is also highly honor-bound. If he actually, fully gives you his word, he'll keep it. But again, this could be a human thing. I don't believe so, but it is possible.

Who you were before is a part of who you are now. A person could spend an entire lifetime and still not be able to truly forget who they are. Humans are very complicated creatures. If you want to tack a funny label such as 'otherkin' to that, go ahead, but just know that it doesn't make you at all different from anyone else.

I never claimed to be different. Never once. I'm not able to turn invisible or move things with the power of my mind, I can't kill without touching anyone. I eat, I sleep, I s**t, I do my homework, and I interact with my friends and family. Using the word otherkin is simply like using the words homosexual or Jewish. It simply describes a subgroup of which I happen to belong. That's all. Nothing more.

Except that 'homosexual' and 'Jewish' have definitive meanings that don't try to describe nonexistent situations. razz "Other"-kin indeed. What is this group from which you are somehow "other"? The quote in my sig pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter. Suck it up, human! evil

Yes, but once you try to communicate something it becomes a part of the communal reality, and therefore falls under the laws of reason and must be backed up by it. So far, your arguments have not convinced me that the concept that you are somehow "other" is anything more than a fluffy fantasy. How can you place a label on yourself when you haven't even defined what it is that you are apart from? Though I suppose it doesn't matter if, as you put it, you wish to be in your own little world.