I just remembered something the guy in my dream told the class (see Dreams subforum). He was saying something like when we're wounded, we polarize into dark and light halves, but our natural state is neither dark nor light, but neutral.
And actually, now that I think of that, I question whether he was talking to us as demons, or as sensitives who dealt with demons. Or the demons within the sensitives...
I did realize, though -- that when the only aspect of kin-ness which is engaged with is the physical, then yes, it does become somewhat...of a poor conversation-starter. <!-- s

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--> I know that for me, this goes way past what my preferred form looks and feels like. It could be interesting to purposely break into some of the things that are 'kin related in us which are not related to visuals and shape...