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chasingcaribou:
A dragon’s human body wouldn’t be pressed against the walls of their room, so the same sensory overload wouldn’t occur, even if the phantom body is larger then the room. But a shirt is interacting with your human body, and if you have extra sensation already I think it’s more of an overload?
How do others who feel about that?
Honestly, to me it sounds like you’re bending over backwards to try to justify the reaction. Phantom wings aren’t going to be “pressed against the body” the way clothing are pressed against the human body to create the kind of doubled sensation you’re talking about — they’d be pressed against the phantom body. In the case of dragon otherkin, they’d be folded against the draconic body not folded down around a humanoid body. Avian therianthropes? Around a birdlike body.
The closest you might get to the scenario you’ve described are with fae, angelkin, and some winged elves since they have wings on an otherwise humanoid phantom body. And if that doubled sensation was particularly troubling for any of them, it would be rather easy to extend the wings rather than holding them against the body in the first place. It certainly shouldn’t cause discomfort, much less pain.
Again, the folks with phantom tails seem to learn to deal with this just fine without being unable to wear pants or underwear. How do we know that? Because they don’t talk about not being able to wear such things the way that some winged otherkin talk about not being able to wear full shirts.
I experience phantom limb sensations, including phantom wings, and I have never once had any sense of them interacting with my clothing or physical environment in any way. Nor have I had any sort of troubling doubled sensation from them and my clothing. And I really don’t think reinforcing the idea that this is common/normal/to be expected is at all healthy.
chasingcaribou:
A dragon’s human body wouldn’t be pressed against the walls of their room, so the same sensory overload wouldn’t occur, even if the phantom body is larger then the room. But a shirt is interacting with your human body, and if you have extra sensation already I think it’s more of an overload?
How do others who feel about that?
Honestly, to me it sounds like you’re bending over backwards to try to justify the reaction. Phantom wings aren’t going to be “pressed against the body” the way clothing are pressed against the human body to create the kind of doubled sensation you’re talking about — they’d be pressed against the phantom body. In the case of dragon otherkin, they’d be folded against the draconic body not folded down around a humanoid body. Avian therianthropes? Around a birdlike body.
The closest you might get to the scenario you’ve described are with fae, angelkin, and some winged elves since they have wings on an otherwise humanoid phantom body. And if that doubled sensation was particularly troubling for any of them, it would be rather easy to extend the wings rather than holding them against the body in the first place. It certainly shouldn’t cause discomfort, much less pain.
Again, the folks with phantom tails seem to learn to deal with this just fine without being unable to wear pants or underwear. How do we know that? Because they don’t talk about not being able to wear such things the way that some winged otherkin talk about not being able to wear full shirts.
I experience phantom limb sensations, including phantom wings, and I have never once had any sense of them interacting with my clothing or physical environment in any way. Nor have I had any sort of troubling doubled sensation from them and my clothing. And I really don’t think reinforcing the idea that this is common/normal/to be expected is at all healthy.
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