Otherkin

"Otherkin are a subculture who socially and spiritually identify as not entirely human. Some otherkin claim that their identity is genetic,[2] while others believe their identity derives from reincarnation, trans-species dysphoria of the soul, ancestry, or metaphor.[1] Joseph P. Laycock considers the belief to be religious.[3]"
The earliest recorded use of the term otherkin, in the context of a subculture, appeared in July 1990 and the variant otherkind was reported as early as April 1990.[1]
  The otherkin subculture grew out of the elven online communities of the early-to-mid-1990s.[13] The oldest Internet resource for otherkin is the Elfinkind Digest, a mailing list started in 1990 by a student at the University of Kentucky for "elves and interested observers".[12]
== R ==
We’ve only been out in the therian community and similar communities as a multiple system where most of our headmates are nonhuman in identity (and thus other kin by definition) since 2010 yet we’ve already lost count on the times people have mistaken us for just a singlet who has a huge number of kintypes.  — Date First Written: October 2014
A therian is someone who identifies as a non human earthen animal either spiritually or psychologically. Therian is short for therianthropy or therianthrope. Theri= animal, anthro=man. Therians can have "shifts" but not all do. All therians understand that they cannot physically shift and are not physically an animal, they know they are physically human. 
Therians are a category that fall under otherkin. Otherkin is anyone who identifies as non human. This includes therians, mythkin, fictionkin, plankin, etc. Not all therians are spiritual, some are psychological and not all therians have a connection with their theriotype.
Polykin is a term for an otherkin with multiple kintypes. See also Polytherian
----Otherkin in Hebrew Gematria equals 302:
* Laura	
* The Egg Of Daath	
Otherkin in English Gematria equals 600
* The Water	
* Discipline	
== R ==
The Other; Soulbond; Internet community; Animakin; Animalkin; Kin; Noumenon; The Outside; The Other World; Weird; Transhumanism; Elfkin; Xenokin; Racial kin; Ethnic kin; Ethnokin; Sexual kin
Vampirekin
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