I don’t know exactly when I awakened, but when I did it felt amazing. Like a great weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I doubt there are any otherkin like me out there, most tend to be wolfkin, dragonkin etc.

I guess I knew one day when I was watching this David Attenborough commentary on the animals one day. I don’t know how but…I just knew.



It’s so hard for me to say this, even online. I haven’t told my friends or parents in fear of rejection but here goes.

I am sea cucumber kin.

Laugh all you want but I’m being serious. It felt the connection to my kin, my brothers and sisters when I was swimming on the beach one day. My friends and all wanted to play, but all I wanted to do was lay there basking in the glorious sunlight of the reef.

After my realisation I’ve started eating bits of sand and mud in hope to replicate these silent, yet graceful animals and I quite enjoy the taste. (Not enough to get me sick, of course).

With regards to phantom limbs, I find that I sometimes feel rather short tentacles on my human feet kinda drifting along as I walk.

It’s a weird sort of hazy feeling.

It’s really hard for me to come out as this, and I hope there are some aquatic kin that I can talk to to help ease the great loneliness I feel.

It’s hard.

Thanks for reading,

Fernando.

1:28 pm • 5 March 2017 • 4 notes