A little rant about the current mentality in the OVC

[WingedWolfPsion]

Ok, let's straighten something out. Vampirism is not a medical condition--unless having 6 functioning fingers is a medical condition. It's not a disease, it's not a disorder, and it's not a disability. Innate vampires are functioning exactly the way they are SUPPOSED to function. They have a broad spectrum of instinct, psychology, physiology, energy body differences, all of which mesh together as seamlessly as they do for any other creature born to be what it is. They aren't just ordinary people with something missing.

Vampires are DIFFERENT. They are not WORSE--they're not missing something. They are not BETTER--they aren't some sort of next step on the evolutionary tree (evolution doesn't work in a linear fashion toward superiority in everything). They are different. A different way of functioning and being.

Now, when you have people who are different from one another, and they work together, what you get is a stronger and much more effective force. This is because peoples' strengths can be pooled to complement each other. Vampires can do amazing things, but they need help to stay healthy. This is a partnership, not a shameful dependency.

So, rather than seeing this as some terrible deficit that needs to be cured, 'lived with', or managed, how about seeing it for what it is--a different way of being. A way of living/surviving that can be complementary to other ways of living. One of the things many donors here have been asking is 'why does this seem to be beneficial to us?"

Perhaps we need to leave that question for the time being. I think 'why' has gotten to the point where it's distracting people from 'what'. How is this beneficial to us? If we don't know how, but we know that it is, perhaps we need to do more work to find out. Clearly we are benefiting from the relationships we have with real vampires. I think we need to really explore what those benefits are. I don't think we've scratched the surface of what we might accomplish by seeing this as a true partnership, and exploring what we can do TOGETHER.

Just a suggestion.

[RealLifeBella]

Well said, Wolf.

[Giselle47]

Go Wolf go Wolf!!! Which is why we have here. Mission to help us grow too

[sphynxcatvp]

...unless having 6 functioning fingers is a medical condition.

Actually, it IS - Polydactyly, or polydactylism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyly

It doesn't just affect cats, it's just more well known in cats.

[NyteMuse]

...unless having 6 functioning fingers is a medical condition.

Actually, it IS - Polydactyly, or polydactylism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyly

It doesn't just affect cats, it's just more well known in cats.

*has a Princess Bride moment*

[WingedWolfPsion]

Well, I meant that by some interpretations, being perfectly healthy is a medical condition. But when most people speak of a medical condition, they mean something detrimental. (Which polydactylism is not. I had a polydactyl cat while I was growing up, too. He used his thumbs, it was awesome).

[sphynxcatvp]

Ah, true enough there. It's definitely not a detrimental thing by itself. (Though in doing some quick research, the polydactyl mutation in people may come along with other concurrent mutations that aren't so good. I don't know that the problems are specifically related to the polydactylism, though.)