regardless of obnoxious otherkin, the fact remains that a huge amount of otherkin (especially ones who claim species dysphoria) are neurodivergent, and being otherkin is often an expression of that. the reason i say this especially applies to otherkin who experience species dysphoria is because this term is actually documented to the point that it’s been made clear that they have the belief that they receive sensory information that they don’t have. guess what, this is related to derealization and is a documented disorder/disordered state that arises from neurodivergence. people who experience this belief are not just lying, their brain activity matches their belief that there’s a limb/other body part there, and could be categorized as a delusion depending on the levels of the belief.

i’m not down with handwaving away otherkin as overwhelmingly neurotypical or even pretending like they’re the norm. i feel that the amount of neurotypical otherkin is actually not that important, because it’s the neurodivergent behaviors of otherkin that are targeted and considered the most visible. my non-otherkin neurodivergent behaviors are so incredibly similar to the ones of otherkin that i don’t find it at all fucking amusing that a great amount of you continuously mock the communities. it’s transparent as hell.

your critiques of otherkin aren’t removed from ableism and hatred of neurodivergent people, internalized/horizontal or otherwise.