Elinox Wrote:The thing with psychological is that it isn't always genetic. Autism, for example, which has been compared to certain therian traits, has no known cause and while it has a genetic base, that is not the only factor. So just because being Otherkin doesn't appear to be hereditary doesn't mean it couldn't still be psychological in nature.
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Elinox Wrote:Again, "symptoms" of therianthropy are often very obvious if you know what you're looking at. <!-- s
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But by that theory every otherkin should have mainly the same "symptoms" and be for everyone the same, or sort of the same.
Elinow Wrote:Why do some people have asthma and others do not? Some people are either more prone to a specific disease or just unlucky in being born with it. If we're looking at Otherkin as a physiological or psychological thing, perhaps some people are just more prone/"unlucky" than others?
Asthma is a fysical illness, so it is not really the same. Since you can trace asthma with a few simple test it is already proven that it exist.
The causes may not have been proven, but they do know what the consequences are. But I can agree with you on that point on this one.
But luck - or not having luck- alone isn't a good enough explanation for me personally.
And I think an illness will make your life allot harder than it normally is. Lets take Borderline for example:
I have a couple of friends that have Borderline, and I find that does effect their lifes so much that it is really hard to function in this society, they even lose allot of their friends and find it harder to make new good friends because off their psychological issue. Their relationships are always failling because of it (they do have a pretty severe form, they are part-time in a institution), they can't keep a job, and even harm themself so much that they sometimes end in the hospital or worse.
So I think that it is not a psychological issue because if I look at my life, I don't have that much trouble because of it.