The 'new sphere' of psychology you mention would be the study of identity. It's a messy subject I don't grasp, and I haven't met anyone who's helping really.
I'm a cis male who's never had a real issue with his identity. To be fair, while my position in the Kinsey scale is close to 5, I still hesitate a bit to think of myself as gay. But it's a non-issue. I'm gay. As it is a non-issue to call myself furry, because I love furry and I'm in the furry fandom, etc. Simple as that. And the day I realize I'm into Civil War reenactments, I'll be a Civil War reenactment fan. And it might be something really close and personal to me. And that will be my identity.
But nowadays there are all these kinds of new and strange identities we're not just supposed to respect but understand and include and admire. And doing otherwise is kind of offensive? It's understandable it could be offensive, identity is literally the most intimate thing one has. But when I find a transgender, to whom I say "Interestingly I've found people who have the identity of a different species (therians)", and they feel offended because probably to them that's absurd / undermines their transgender identity. And then I find people who have the identity of not a real animal but an anthropomorphic animal (here Raien). And I also see people who feel they're the offspring of a scaly alien who visited Earth...
I feel I want to express, without wanting to offend (and I probably will anyway): the rest of the world doesn't revolve around your identity. Be whatever you want to be, but don't expect others to take it so much into account, that's your identity.
To the defense of a furry identity, Nuka's surveys show furries identify as furries more so than non-furries identify as other things; their furry identity is in many cases a core part of their experience as a furry fan. He also talks about how identity makes furry fans unite and help each other, etc. And, the definition he uses in his surveys for 'furry fan' is admittedly: 'Someone who believes is a furry'. In that case they'd have to identify as furry to be part of the furry fandom -> identity. But your way of experiencing furry identity Raien is not common.
The 'new sphere' of psychology you mention would be the study of identity. It's a messy subject I don't grasp, and I haven't met anyone who's helping really.
I'm a cis male who's never had a real issue with his identity. To be fair, while my position in the Kinsey scale is close to 5, I still hesitate a bit to think of myself as gay. But it's a non-issue. I'm gay. As it is a non-issue to call myself furry, because I love furry and I'm in the furry fandom, etc. Simple as that. And the day I realize I'm into Civil War reenactments, I'll be a Civil War reenactment fan. And it might be something really close and personal to me. And that will be my identity.
But nowadays there are all these kinds of new and strange identities we're not just supposed to respect but understand and include and admire. And doing otherwise is kind of offensive? It's understandable it could be offensive, identity is literally the most intimate thing one has. But when I find a transgender, to whom I say "Interestingly I've found people who have the identity of a different species (therians)", and they feel offended because probably to them that's absurd / undermines their transgender identity. And then I find people who have the identity of not a real animal but an anthropomorphic animal (here Raien). And I also see people who feel they're the offspring of a scaly alien who visited Earth...
I feel I want to express, without wanting to offend (and I probably will anyway): the rest of the world doesn't revolve around your identity. Be whatever you want to be, but don't expect others to take it so much into account, that's your identity.
To the defense of a furry identity, Nuka's surveys show furries identify as furries more so than non-furries identify as other things; their furry identity is in many cases a core part of their experience as a furry fan. He also talks about how identity makes furry fans unite and help each other, etc. And, the definition he uses in his surveys for 'furry fan' is admittedly: 'Someone who believes is a furry'. In that case they'd have to identify as furry to be part of the furry fandom -> identity. But your way of experiencing furry identity Raien is not common.