Well, I came to the conclusion that I'm a vampire just like everyone else does. I started to need to consume both blood and energy, or my health and well being would go to hell in a handbasket.
Coming to the conclusion that I'm a fae was a little harder. I always knew, somehow, that my soul wasn't human. However, until I was at least ten, I did not have an open mind to such a thing, and frequently repressed the weird things that would happen. After my awakening as a vampire however, the world basically got blown open for me, whether I wanted it or not. I decided to finally try and figure out WHAT my soul was. I'd known that I'd always felt phantom wings, so, that narrowed things down. I focused on what I would find a connection with, and never took anything at face value. I, at first, had an EXTREMELY heavy skepticism on otherkin. However, as I looked within myself, through introspection and past life recall, I started to give more credence to the idea. I remembered various past lives, but everything kept leading me back to faery. I decided to research the folklore on it, and was astounded to find many of the traits mirrored in myself. It took me at least a year to accept, then another six months of serious denial. For me, "awakening" as an otherkin was a process of opening my mind, and finding something that I always knew was there, but had never touched. My specific type of fae would be a leanan sidhe. They were notorious for inspiring artists, only to leave them drained and dying. I considered at one point that my need for energy was related to that, and vampirically I was just a sang. As of now, I think it may be related to it, but I don't think it's the direct cause. I'm of the crowd that thinks vampirism is genetic, and otherkin is spiritual.
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