So I posted this, and on the same day I took it off the rambles page. I'm a little fearful that this may be taken wrongly, and I don't know if I like the explanations I gave or not (example, I could go into more detail or explain other experiences adjacent). Maybe when OtherCon rolls around, I'll bring this up and edit it. For now, it's gonna be an unlisted creation.

A small blurb on my viewpoint in personal identity in nonhumanity. Unlike the imaginary friend page, I use community-created terminology, because I thought it would be too difficult to explain without pre-existing terms.

To begin, these are personal experiences and identity that have no physical manifestations. They are abstract, and the only effect they have is of my own personal perception of reality. It does not affect the readers’ whatsoever, nor should it dictate the readers’ experiences. I am simply writing my own experiences down for the sake of writing them. Also because I think experiences are interesting. :-)

Now let’s get onto it.

Identity is a fickle thing.

Current Viewpoint (as of 2023):

I experience my “nonhumanity” as both psychological and spiritual. It comes from my imagination, but my imagination would like to see it as a metaphysical, spiritual-like occurrence. Therefore, I decided to reconcile them and see the experiences as both imagination and metaphysical.

My otherkinity – especially, if not mostly, fictionkinity – often goes hand-in-hand with a sort of plurality or souldbonding (soulbonding has two definitions, very curtly: one is in which a writer’s characters talk to the writer, and the second in which characters from another universe visit a person, who may have reached out to them). Meaning I hear mind voices I associate with the character who I may identify as, though they themselves may regard themselves as separate persons. Usually what happens is that I feel like I am the character, and then after (time differs per experience, sometimes shortly) the character will talk as a separate person.

The “shifts” I feel from this phenomena can be like being influenced by the person. This entanglement may only happen for a short while, or it may become a part of my own identity. If you want any more information about the kind of plural-ish aspect of my experience, you can visit this thing

Because of how the identity occurs, I am sometimes unsure to label myself as a specific character or creature. I toy around with just saying I’m a fictional character, or nonhuman. There are at least two or three identities I regard close to myself due to how long I’ve had them, even when I don’t quite “feel” like them.