First, I AM under assault from them almost regularly - my city has a population of them, and I possess physical traits (most notably my long hair and natural longer canine teeth) that make them want to accost me - and thus they react poorly when I tell them I am not part of it and am not interested in it. And in my other discussion, I actually discussed gender - gender is not unusual considering there IS all of the wiring and hormones necessary for both genders in both sexes - different upbringing, genetics and hormone levels can cause a variety of gender fluidity - and that is not strange to me. However, never has humans been another species - at least not in the last tens or hundreds of thousands of years, and even then the species that we were before was not entirely dissimilar to us. We never were bears, fishes, foxes.

As for association - I never truly associated with people either. But did I give up on humans? No. Did I start considering myself human? No. I looked elsewhere and found actual people to look up to - to tell me that people can be fine as much as they're assholes. And your story actually proves my point - you grew out of it when the root issues were resolved.

As for this - I'm not coming up to people and telling them to get help, not specifically. In particular, the conversation itself had a context - the context was about, specifically, psychology regarding otherkin (specifically vampire-kin in this case. I didn't just find an otherkin and tell them that - I voiced an opinion relevant to the article at hand. Of course I don't go up to people to tell them they're fucked in the head - I had just expressed, in a relevant area, my beliefs on the subject based on my experience with the subject group - it just so happened that the opinion was "I wish they would get help for this".