Otherkin
People who identify as not entirely human / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Otherkin are a subculture of people who identify as partially or entirely nonhuman. Some otherkin believe their identity derives from spiritual phenomena (such as possessing a nonhuman soul, reincarnation, or the will of God), ancestry,[1] symbolism, or metaphor.[2] Others attribute it to unusual psychology or neurodivergence and do not hold spiritual beliefs on the subject.
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This article is about the subculture. For the band, see Otherkin (band).
The otherkin subculture in part grew out of online communities for people identifying as elves in the early-to-mid-1990s. The word has since come to be treated as an umbrella term for a number of nonhuman identity subcultures which developed around the same time.[citation needed]