Quote:AFAIK, I don't have a neurological condition that would cause this.
You mean you don't have a noted neurological disorder that would cause this. Anyone can have a neurological condition, but if it's not a problem-causing one (as defined by society at least) then it's going to go by unnoticed except by you.
As for the OP, I actually do experience myself in a human sense, but at the same time as being a fox. While I do believe in the spiritual and souls, and thus the possibility that a past life existence as a fox left an imprint on my soul, I also believe that it manifests itself through my mindset. That, psychologically, I have a mixture of what I know to be the "minds" of humans and foxes. Now I could be way off base, of course, since this is only drawn from what I've observed and interpreted.
In regards to shifting and phantom limbs, I actually look at what I canNOT completely shift into as a hint, and that is the arctic fox. I already feel both human and fox integrated in "form", mentally, but whenever I cameo-shift into another organism, they feel seperate. I take on the "form" and observe the "mind" of the organism that I shift into, but it feels like a costume. It doesn't feel real in the sense that it's a part of my identity, a part of who and what I am.
As far as perception goes, I don't know of any difference between me and fellow humans. In fact, my perceptions are probably worse, because I'm deaf and completely dependent on electronic devices to hear with. My sense of smell stinks too, Isometimes even have a hard time smelling the nasty things in the bathroom until I'm right next to it. my only good working senses are my eyes and my sense of touch. I need my eyes, couldn't survive without them. I'd like to think that I'm more spiritually perceptive than some that I know, but I know it's most likely not true <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->
I think the only real way I can explain how I feel I'm otherkin is my awareness. Which is hard to explain really, it's one of those things that I struggle with words for and feel the need to grab you and put you in my shoes instead (which is impossible to do anways) so I can show you. There's this feeling of awareness, that this is what I am and this is a part of my indentity. Not an awareness that "I'm different" or "I'm special" in the sense that everyone else is fake, but rather an awareness of simply "this is what makes me..ME". It's just something that was always there, something that I took for granted and never actually THOUGHT about it or analyzed it until now.
Kinda like language, your native language. It's just there all your life, you grew up with it and learned it at an early age. Did you analyze your language and thought about it in deep, critical ways of thinking during your childhood? Probably not, not until you went into secondary school at least. You don't really think of your language's reason for existance, it's innate purpose and the extreme complexities in the earlier years, it's just something that's there in your life.
And my apoligies if this has confused the shit out of you <!-- s

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