What is there to be afraid of, when commenting using your real username ?
Concerning the issue, if someone is sick, they should see a doctor who might be able to help. Its a nebach, but sick people deserve to be helped.
That is my stance on the issue. I don't understand how something that is obviously an illness in the mind became a normal thing, and not considered a problem anymore. Why don't we accept any crazy person for who they believe they are? If someone believes he's really a car why don't we allow him to be? Why don't we allow @meshugener to be a dog? Obviously because we all understand that that is a mental imbalance in his mind that causes those thought. Why did everyone just decide it's normal to "come to the relization" that he's a woman?
"graduate" of BMG -plain malice imho to insert Bmg into this, when as "a graduate", at minimum he should know that this garbage is the antithesis of bmg.
He is simply trying to validate himself
Who here grew up thinking that S'dom was so far out and now sees it live and in living color?
I've had experience with S'dom. I used to be short, but I stayed there overnight once.....
Otherkin is the next wave: http://www.vice.com/read/from-dragons-to-foxes-the-otherkin-community-believes-you-can-be-whatever-you-want-to-be
Stalking Cat, born Dennis Anver, had extensive body modifications. He sadly committed suicide in 2012. Could he have been an otherkin? He "strongly identified" with a cat
I don't know whether to laugh or cry,Its so sad, there are so many people with mental health issues that are being manipulated into thinking that these issues should be embraced instead of getting the help they need
I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
I feel bad for this guy. He may not appreciate that. He may not feel bad for himself even. But for anyone having a kid like that... especially in an orthodox world.. it can't be easy. And while I wholeheartedly agree in treating children with respect and helping build them up I don't really quite get what he's asking of people or the school system. And how he thinks the Orthodox system is ever going to accept that into mainstream orthodoxy.
He turned his kid into that. Feel bad for the kid, not him.