!! Otherkin :
MANED WOLF 🦊 ]
ALIEN 🛸

!! Permashifts :
FELIX ☎️ - The Walten Files ]

!! High Fictionkin :
STANLEY 🕓 - The Stanley Parable ]
JINX ⛓️ - Arcane ]
ZEN 🎬 - Mystic Messenger ]
ANGEL 🐇 - Clinical Trial
KANGEL/AME 💌 - Needy Streamer Overload ]
SAM 📼 - Supernatural ]
VASH 🌹 - Trigun ]
KASANE TETO 🎤 - UTAU & SynthV ]

!! Low Fictionkin :
MUNI 🎀 - D4DJ ]
MACAQUE 💜 - LEGO Monkie Kid ]
PHOENIX 🌏 - Ace Attorney ]
AZULÍN 🧸 - Unicorn Wars ]
ANON 🌸 - MyGO!!!!! ]
KAI 🔥 - Ninjago ]
SNUFKIN 🌾 - Moomins ]

I experience both spiritual and psychological kins!
The way I differentiate spiritual kins from psychological kins is by taking note of the different aspects of how a shift behaves.Signs of a spiritual kin: intense emotional states caused by events in my media, difficulty separating myself from the past reality, visions and vivid memories, predicting details before they’re confirmed, etc.
Signs of a psychological kin: main shift affect is taking the characters persona, personal feelings towards a character/media rather than intense familiarity, etc.Neither experience are any more or less personal to me.

WARNING: I am very critical of the IRL and d/a community in the text below. If you don’t want to read that, you don’t have to.
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When I was first introduced to the kin community, I was told early on that my experience aligned more with the irl experience. For a long time I identified with this term, and I thought kinning wasn’t as deep or personal. Looking back, the “delusional behavior” I exhibited was not delusional at all.My “signs of being an irl” were a mix of spiritual kinning and my issues with paranoia.I’ve heard stories where people had been accused of being delusional or even having alters for common kin experiences.
It is not appropriate to accuse others of having a mental disorder, especially when you don’t know them or their experience very well.Even if you have that disorder/symptom yourself, if you are not a professional then it is not your place to diagnose anyone. If you’re concerned, bring it up with them and encourage them to look into it and see a professional if they are able.
Many disorders can imitate or be confused with each other, taking the time to research is the bare minimum.I’m sick of people acting like kinning can only be sunshine and rainbows, or that it can’t be deeper than identification.
The term kinning itself stemmed from a belief system, it is not always people relating to a character.
A lot of us really are who we kin, please respect that.
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Word of advice for people in irl communities/servers
(and honestly a lot of this applies to kin servers too)
Please be cautious. These places can easily become breeding grounds for gatekeeping and anti-recovery behavior from what I’ve seen.
Red flags include: reality checking is fully banned, romanticizing of harmful symptoms, extreme criticism on term usage, others trying to convince you that you have a disorder without qualification, expectation to validate or contribute to symptoms, and more concern for comfort than healthI get if it feels nice to engage with these things, but stuff like this can worsen your mental health significantly in the long-term
So I urge you to be careful