Yes. Exactly.

All preteens/teens go through an awkward stage where they have a hard time fitting in and are trying to figure out what their identity as a person is. When I was 12/13, the internet didn't exist and I did a lot of dumb escapism to find refuge from those awkward feelings. I pretended I was secretly from the worlds in my favorite books, or that i embodied the spirit of my favorite characters.

And then I grew out of it and went on to become a normal adult, as did all my friends, because no one was standing over our shoulders preying on that tender part in our development.

Nowadays a kid going through what I went through would be assured by twitter/tumblr that they were demigender otherkin that needed to find themselves on the Astral Plane and use their own set of unique pronouns. And also maybe consider starting hormone therapy to achieve their "true self", forever altering their bodies to ensure they could never resume normality even after they've outgrown that nonsense

Yes. Exactly.

All preteens/teens go through an awkward stage where they have a hard time fitting in and are trying to figure out what their identity as a person is. When I was 12/13, the internet didn't exist and I did a lot of dumb escapism to find refuge from those awkward feelings. I pretended I was secretly from the worlds in my favorite books, or that i embodied the spirit of my favorite characters.

And then I grew out of it and went on to become a normal adult, as did all my friends, because no one was standing over our shoulders preying on that tender part in our development.

Nowadays a kid going through what I went through would be assured by twitter/tumblr that they were demigender otherkin and that needed to find themselves on the Astral Plane and use their own set of unique pronouns. And also maybe consider starting hormone therapy to achieve their "true self", forever altering their bodies to ensure they could never resume normality even after they grew out of that crap.