Might as well get this posted right off...

[aureantes]

Just found the group and joined -- FTM, and "unofficially" Aspie since I diagnosed it myself. Just like I self-diagnosed being trans, actually....(they both made perfect sense when I realized it, though

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[aureantes]

That's okay, I can wait up....:-| I don't think the post'll self-destruct quite yet.

[_trivium]

This probably comes off as a bit off-topic in nature, but what do you mean by 'multiple/faceted consciousness?'

And I've seen others relate Otherkin-ism to transsexuality before, and I don't agree with it at all. Because there are clear differences between male and female brains and there is undeniable, scientific proof that transsexuality exists, as evidenced by clear differences in the brain scans of transpeople and their cisgendered counterparts...but you can't quantitatively prove that you weren't human in a past life. Which isn't to say that all Otherkin, Therianthropes, and the like are all just "full of themselves," it's just that you can't place something so subjective and immeasurable on the same level as something that's an medical/psychological disorder.

[_trivium]

Crap, there's supposed to be an 'actual' inbetween 'an' and 'medical/psychological.'

Excuse my noobness.

[aureantes]

No worries, it likely came off as intended anyhow. The definition of what is recognised as an 'actual disorder' and what isn't is arbitrarily dependant on the medical/psychological community....and as was revealed this past spring, they do have a habit of not listing conditions in the DSM that they haven't yet figured out a treatment (preferably a pharmaceutical one) for already.

[aureantes]

Well, I correlate it socially by the fact that many people don't believe that transexuality objectively exists, and insist that it's a subjective disorder to be solved only by conforming to apparent biology.....likewise, many people assume that the "species dysphoria" of being otherkin (it varies in degree, of course) is an entirely subjective phenomenon -- seeing as there's yet been no formal scientific investigation into its possible genetic or physiological correlates -- and thus a disorder to be solved only by conforming to the assumption of "human" and claiming/expressing nothing else. I wouldn't say that being otherkin is immeasurable -- we just don't have any established testing standards for it yet

[libranboy]

I believe in reincarnation and past lives, as well as being animals in past lives, as well.
I'm a furry. ^_^;
FtM, Asperger's.
Yeah.