If otherkin cannot choose what they kin as nor can they choose if they want to be otherkin or not, why do I never see an otherkin be an undesirable animal or entity? I’m sorry, but the idea that you can’t control who or what you kin as is simply not true and that’s not coming from my personal opinion but from the nature of your own descriptions. If you answer yes to all of these criteria (and only if all of them apply), you may be considered otherkin. Which means each of us must find a way to reconcile this involuntary identity with our existing beliefs about the world around us, leading to a variety of conflicting explanations. Not only is it not possible to choose to be otherkin, but it is not possible to choose not to be otherkin. This is part of why the explanations for why and how otherkin exist vary so widely because there is no inherent connection between belief system and being otherkin.
Otherkin are people who believe themselves to be partially or wholly non-human on a spiritual and/or psychological level. We have plenty of definitions, but I haven’t seen anyone lay it out quite like this, so I thought I’d make a sort of checklist to help clarify.ĭefinitions haven’t always been this clearly expressed, but they’ve pretty much always been this way. There’s a lot of confusion in some parts of the Tumblr community as to what counts as otherkin and what doesn’t.