What is the difference between Otherkin and Furries?
*facepalms* But seriously. I’ve heard of sites that lay claim to the furry lifestyle being but just one of the broad spectrum of Otherkin. While the two communities do have some things in common, serious Otherkin tend to shy away and even attempt to distance themselves from the furry genre. Among the Otherkin communities, putting on costumes to represent your True Form, (which furries are well known for, as well as the….ehm…’conventions’….) is seen as a cruel and shallow misrepresentation of the true beauty of our souls. It would be like a vampire kin putting in plastic, cereal box fangs and going around with a bad Bela Lugosi accent. While we certainly respect gentler, milder forms of the Furry community, because we understand their feelings of being an othersoul, again, we tend to shy away from the more flamboyant members of this community.
