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I (21 F) whole heartedly believe I am a dragon. I've known this for years. I've always had a strong connection to this feeling. I've never once felt right in this human body. I'm slowly still learning about otherkin (though I've had this feeling since I was just starting highschool). I'm scared of coming here cause I'm worried it's all just a bunch of kids and I'd like to connect with people my age. As far as I can tell (from YouTube) this community is mostly minors. Are there any adults I could connect to and learn from? I want to learn more about this side of me.
Yup, sounds like you're otherkin. Welcome.
The otherkin and therian communities on reddit lean very young for some reason. If you go over to the older forums you'll probably find older people. I'm a therian, so I mostly know the therian-specific forums such as Werelist. I'm sure there are similar for mythological otherkin. There used be specific spaces for draconics back in the day... There is also a large number of discords, and some of them are 18 . They might be difficult to find however. I've heard that tumblr has gotten better compared to when I was active there 10 years ago, but I'm not sure of the average ages.
Greetings from a 34-year old wolf. :3
Some do, I guess. I don't. I mean, I have a username online that isn't my legal name, because I don't want people irl to find out I'm a therian. But I guess that's not what you mean.
I tend to assume that people who talk about their kintype (true form, as you call it) in third person actually aren't otherkin but experience something else. I mean, a lot of spiritual traditions have ideas such as fylgja/spirit animals/totems/guardian angels and such. And that's not the same as therianthropy/otherkinity.
But some people believe that they are otherkin because of a past life, and might remember their name in that life. Wolves however, don't really have names. So I can't relate.
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Yeah, that's a kind of specific situation and I assume you need to often specify stuff like that.
I'm just a wolf. I don't have a wolf, I can't "talk to my wolf", or such any more than I can talk to my gender or my childhood memories.
I also totally understand it when people like changing their name to reflect their personality or spirituality, regardless of whether that is to show their species identity, religious conversion or transgender identity etc. I've sometimes thought about adding a name meaning "wolf" as a middle name, but then decided I don't feel like it's worth the effort. Some day, I'll get a wolf tattoo, I think.