When i first joined a kin community back in the early 200's i was happy to find a community that understood what i was going threw. I thought i had finally found a place where i would feel welcomed and acknowledged. But what i really found was people pushing me away right off the bat. No discussions were aloud or spoken of that involved shapeshifting. I quickly left the community after a discussion with another member who told me i was basically making what i went threw up and it was a mental illness. Funny, when you look up therianthropy *the non shapeshifting version of* you often see psychiatrists classing us kin as having a mental illness. Of course nothing could be further from the truth for us. Upon searching even years later i still often see this all the time, you cannot talk about shapeshifting you cannot shift its not possible, its harmful. Its like a never ending trend drummed into these communities. Please explain to me the harm in it?. Sure i get it we cant fill people with hopes and dreams. Thats not the intentions of what i created this community for. Nore should that be a intention for any other communities. But it does not mean that we cant discuss it that we cant even go near the topic. That we cant even be open to it, that to me is just a joke. We as kins are already looking for acceptance among the non-kin. How are we suppose to be accepted if we feel rejected in the very community we are suppose to feel welcome in?. Its just not fair and it also feels like your being rejected by these kin communities who do this. Its not the way i thought it was going to be. We should be accepting of each other no matter what regardless of our beliefs. We should be respecting each other as a community not pushing people away. Thats why i created this community because i want people to reach out and not feel rejected because they believe or feel they can shapeshift. With all that being said shapeshifting is not always on a psychical level. We as kin already have many types of shapeshifts. So why are we not allowing shapeshifting discussions?. I often see people saying that its not possible that its going to make us less believed and taken seriously by people who are not kin. Rubbish. People are not going to be accepting of us straight away regardless. Because they simply dont understand us. Things dont always work out the way we want them to. Perhaps one day they will. Shapeshifting is all threw our history books, its been there since the beginning of time itself. For all those that have come hear i welcome you. You wont be made to feel rejected for what you believe in.
Any young kin joining the community should know that unfortunately we are not able to advise if you can and cannot shapeshift if you have the ability it will come to you. We can only offer help and support for what you are going threw. You may have not awakened yet. Or you may not be able to psychically shapeshift at all.
We are in a world where we are finding out new information everyday about the human race. We dont know what is and what is not possible. We have had contact with many advance races. Anything is possible.
Remember regardless of what you believe not everyone can shapeshift and theres nothing wrong with that. It does not make you any less kin. It does not change who you are and how you feel.
I hope that who ever reads this does not take it as bad taste but this is just how i felt about those communities.
A lot of otherkin get nervous when shifting is brought up because in the past it was used by scammers and abusers to hurt others, and a lot of them are so desperate to become animals that they feel especially vulnerable to those abusers. I get their concerns and fears and I think it's valid for vulnerable ones to keep their distance, but I don't think it's fair for them to peg or attack all shifters as if all are that way. Most of us hate abusive shifters and scammers too and do all we can to keep them out and from hurting others, it's not something we condone.