Why do I see so many hate towards spiritual kin these days? Like, I’ve seen at least five posts today about how spirituality isn’t the only way to be kin and that a kintype isn’t automaticly a past life and vise versa. An while is is true I don’t get why people have to… bitch about it so much. As someone who is other/fictionkin and therian, all spiritual, all past lifes I still identify as… it makes me kinda sad (Just wanted to ask someone who is in the community much longer than I am)

I for one would personally love to see a post that actively puts spiritual kin down in favour of psychological kin that isn’t clearly saying “this is more geared towards psychological kin because that’s the focus of this post”. No, really. I want to see it.

Both of your examples are things I’ve personally said in the past 48 hours, and I was not bitching, I was explaining nuances and showing that being kin isn’t as concrete as tumblr might make you think.

Let me tell you, as someone who’s been here maybe 3-4 years now, and that’s not very long at all, psychological kin have barely anything to work with.

If you asked me for three credible posts about psychological kin by three different people, it would take me a while. Felix probably has one, House of Chimeras might, but past that I really have no effing idea where I’d find it. If you wanted spiritual kin instead, it’d take me ten minutes maximum, and I’d probably find a few more within an hour.

If sharing the spotlight for one in ten posts counts as hate to you, then uhhh, step outside the community and take a good look around you. They exist, too. And we the spiritual kin need to stop throwing them under the bus with all the misinformed spiritual kin saying otherkin is only past lives, or it’s all about souls, when that isn’t true, because while that can and does happen, it’s not the only way.

Saying that you can either take a train or a car to Boston isn’t hate towards trains or cars; but you’re pretty much saying that it is from what I can see. I think you should be a little more respectful towards them, and accept that their experiences are just as legitimate as yours, and deserve the same amount of attention. Because believe me, some new kid trying to figure out what’s what may only half identify with the spiritual side, but find the psychological side and burst into tears because there’s a word for it. An experience I’ve seen, more than once. Let them have their attention and posts and comments. They deserve it just as much as the rest of us.