Drag isn’t a dragon. Do you think you’ve seen a comment where drag says drag is a dragon? Please share it.

You’ve lived a sheltered life without meeting many otherkin until now. Now you know better.

Drag made a mistake in the prior comment. Lemmy actually has two users who are spaceships. Drag visited the community and was reminded of Slikki. But the ship drag was thinking of before is Gravitas Deficiency.

Drag’s biological father is a witch. Drag forged drag’s own path, and isn’t a witch, but occultism runs in drag’s family. Instead of a witch, drag became a dragon rider, and the occult side of drag’s family accepts that. The otherkin community isn’t the same as the furry community. Drag would like to reiterate drag’s offer to introduce you to some otherkin spaces. There are even otherkin on Lemmy. One Lemmy user is a spaceship. You should visit !transspecies@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

You are denying science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_disorder

The DSM-IV and psychologists agree that personal beliefs should be evaluated with great respect to cultural and religious differences, as some cultures have normalized beliefs that may be considered delusional in other cultures.[15]

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9599-delusional-disorder

A delusion is an unshakable belief in something that’s untrue. The belief isn’t a part of the person’s culture or subculture, and almost everyone else knows this belief to be false.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539855/

A delusion is a fixed false belief based on an inaccurate interpretation of an external reality despite evidence to the contrary. The belief is not congruent with one’s culture or subculture, and almost everyone else knows it to be false.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/conditions/delusional-disorder

Delusions are fixed beliefs that do not change, even when a person is presented with conflicting evidence. Delusions are considered “bizarre” if they are clearly implausible and peers within the same culture cannot understand them.

You can’t appeal to being “realistic” while you deny science by calling cultural beliefs delusions. You are denying science. Drag has explained the science to you. If leftism is going to do what you say, it will have to leave science behind. And that’s wrong.

Drag’s dragon doesn’t identify as male, and wouldn’t like being called a bro. Drag thinks you called a nonbinary person a “bro” for the same reason you don’t respect its species identity - you’re a conservative. You don’t get to have any input on leftist ideas until you stop misgendering trans people.

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/delusions

Delusions are false ideas or beliefs that someone holds onto, even when there is evidence that they are not real. These beliefs are not shared by other people from the same:

• cultural background
• religion
• social group

Not a delusion. Believing in dragons is completely normal in drag’s cultural background, religion, and social group. If you like, drag can refer you to a few discord servers for dragonkin - otherkin who identify as dragons. Drag can also introduce you to @HonouraryDragon@lemmy.nz, drag’s fiance and dragon.

The alternative to respecting cultural beliefs is cultural intolerance. You’re arguing for cultural intolerance to be part of the ethics of the left. Drag thinks that’s gross.

They make drag feel like a dragon rider, and they expand your mind so you’ll be more tolerant of the next neopronoun user you meet. What you’re calling confusion might, drag thinks, be the feeling of learning something. Drag hopes you can come to enjoy it.

Are you using plastic-eating as a way to call drag dumb without breaking the instance rule about civility?

Drag knows a lot of nonhumans and decided to choose a first person pronoun for a dragon rider. After all, dragon riders aren’t entirely human. The magical bond changes us. And a dragon rider is no longer a single individual. Not in battle, not in soul. Drag is soulbound.

Drag can’t discuss it with Ada. Drag’s banned. You can invite her to this conversation if you like. It would work if you messaged her

Do you want drag to avoid confusing other people by exposing them to unfamiliar kinds of pronouns?

So drag using a word to refer to dragself is an imposition on you?

Thank you, but drag thinks you’re wrong. Drag doesn’t think Ada is the forgiving type. The mistake drag made that lead to getting banned was trusting Ada would keep her promise. Like drag said, drag learned from it. No more trusting Ada.

Drag recognises that’s not a good foundation for reconciliation. But that’s what it feels like Ada was trying to teach drag with the ban. How else is drag supposed to interpret that?

While the atypical pronoun usage can be confusing, it obviously isn’t a personal attack against you.

Ever since drag started using neopronouns, drag has learned that confusing other people is an act of violence. They genuinely feel hurt by it. Drag isn’t sure exactly why, but it might be an ego thing. Possibly drag is making other people feel stupid when they don’t understand. Whatever the cause is, it’s very clear when people talk about incidents where drag upset someone by using a neopronoun. Random bystanders who’ve never met drag before seem to overwhelmingly agree drag is rude, aggressive, confrontational, forcing the conversation… people could only react that way so strongly if they felt that they saw an attack.

At this point drag has just accepted that using drag’s pronouns is violent behaviour. And drag is going to keep doing it, because people who are uncomfortable seeing neopronouns deserve to feel that way. Either they convince the people in charge to punish drag, they keep on being uncomfortable forever, or they grow up. Drag wants the third to happen.

No, drag is referring to dragself in first person using person-independent pronouns.

The reason why drag misunderstood the situation is because Ada broke a promise. Drag thought she kept it because drag trusted her. She thought drag was trying to make her look bad by proving she lied. But… drag couldn’t know the promise was broken, because it was to have a conversation in private messages. Drag thought the third party involved was lying that Ada didn’t do it. Drag was trying to prove them wrong by showing the promise. Drag didn’t know that proving Ada made a promise would make her look bad.

Drag apologised to Ada but she won’t unban drag :(. Drag was genuinely sorry. Misunderstood the situation, learned from the mistake.

Nuh-uh. Just because Israel kills people in order to expand their territory, doesn’t mean people have to die in order for Israel to give it back.