I’m newly-Awakened (somewhat) and I’m really reluctant to join the ‘kin community because I have two serious issues with it. Firstly, the community’s unhealthy preoccupation with past lives. While I definitely get the fact that the belief of Otherkin itself is built upon it (aside from the psychological 'kins), there is a line to be drawn between “missing home / what we’ve left behind” and overdoing it / becoming obsessed with it. Secondly, it pisses me off to constantly read stuff about angelkin and reiki. I identify as angelkin and I know jack shit about reiki. I’m not interested in learning it, or practicing it. I don’t do lightwork either, whatever that shit means. Of course there’s a word “usually” in front of “angelkin” and “practiced reiki”, and then you’d be religiously told that it’s not meant to be a “how to identify an angelkin” either (pun intended), but seeing as I encountered this shit almost everywhere I looked / some variation of it (meaning other “mystical” shit)…it seems pretty paradoxical that “it wasn’t meant to be taken as gospel”. Let me phrase this correctly: I identify as non-human and I don’t want to practice mystical shit. I respect those who do, but it’s not my cup of tea, thanks. I also don’t want to walk whatever “angelic” path the community has set up for my kind; I’ll blaze my own. As in, I’ll help and heal people in my own way. Am I the only one? I hope not.

While we’re on this topic, I also don’t want to believe whatever else the community told me to believe. I’ve read a rant earlier on this blog about how the community paradoxically promote open-mindedness while at the same time stripped 'kins of our own thoughts and force feed us whatever they want us to believe, and I think it’s true. To some degree. That is a huge part of my consideration to join the Otherkin community.

Lastly, I see that there is an ongoing effort to dismantle our stereotype as fluffy whitey lightey do-gooders; I say, keep up the good work, folks. It grinds my gears to see sites claiming to be 'kin and then promote this ignorant stereotype about angelkin. Of course there is a grain of truth in this, but it’s not universal truth or wholly true, and should be labelled accordingly.