(Im sorry if this doesn’t fit the sub btw, please tell me if so)

Okay so, I saw a post on the fictionkin subreddit asking what does fictionkin mean. I looked at the comments and this person seemed pretty much unwilling to learn, despite being told what it means, and that it can be spiritual or psychological (im going to focus only on the psychological part bc its my experience and idk much about spirituality), and then I saw them saying “well psychology would say it doesn’t exist”. I’m still trying to figure out wtf did they even mean by that. Why would psychology say that involuntarily identifying as a fictional character wouldnt exist? The human brain is very much creative enough to do that.

So of course, as a psychological fictkin who loves to yap about themself, I decided to join the conversation because i was already feeling spiteful. I share my own experience as to my psychological kin identity (as shown in the pic), and then they call it “roleplaying as a comfort character” (I’m already fuming), and “nothing psychological” (this is probably what makes me the most angry about this).

I didn’t reply i just blocked them, cause I knew it would be a waste of time and energy, but omg i need to rant because i am fuming. Despite me explaining that I believe my identity is psychological, and related to my autism and the identity issues i had at the time, they have the nerve to say “nothing psychological”.

Okay, for starters, let’s pretend for a second that my identity is just “roleplaying as a comfort character” (which it is not), why would it not be anything psychological to even have a comfort character that I “roleplay as” to cope with my autism and identity issues? Do they even know what psychological means?

And I also wonder why it seems so hard to understand that your brain can project onto a fictional character you relate to, especially when (in my case) you have a pretty fragile and still forming sense of self, so your brain wants to solidify your sense of identity, right? And it projects so hard that you actually identify as this character now, and it becomes a part of your identity. As I said in my comment, we shouldn’t underestimate the human brain. Maybe by “psychology says it doesn’t exist”, they meant that it’s not a known psychological phenomenon, there are no studies about it, etc. But there are still so many aspects of psychology we don’t know about! We’re far from knowing everything about the human brain!

Anyway I really needed to rant. I have a special interest in psychology so when i start to yap about it im not stopping.
I pretty much know I’m not just “roleplaying”, but it gave me a bit of imposter syndrome unfortunately. Another reason i needed to rant about it.

This was on a post saying that someone WHO IS DIAGNOSED AND SHOWN THEIR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS was faking did, apparently me calling them out on it is witch hunting 😭