Due to the time period I grew up, no one would have said this and if they did, they would be in therapy. I don't consider myself sang or psi. I hate those tags and think they are misleading. Yes some have the urge to drink blood but they are in the minority but seem to be the most outspoken about this sort of thing. I don't care what anyone believes about feeding, because it is a personal thing and what can one say except I do this or I do that and get asked why and prove it. It is just how it is. For me when you say psi/psy it is psychic energy and not necessarily energy from the auric field or anywhere else from others. There is energy everywhere. Some do better with energy from nature. It is a very difficult thing to describe and I think due to metabolism and frequency. Food is essentially energy which is calibrated by calories which are nothing more than energy units.
I don't follow the 'scene' because those are the young people and I have no interest in it and never have and goth, my children had friends in that. I like black but I wear no special garb, think fangs come from fiction and the list goes on but like anyone else, I cannot decide what is true, right or anything else for another individual. Each person has their own perspective and path to follow. Decade makes a big difference in how you perceive all of this. Some of my family know, some of my friends know but to be perfectly honest it is something you can't tell just anyone unless you want a lot of grief or no job and possibly no friends. If it is a Christian person they will think one of two things, you are loony or evil. So many are these days that it isn't in everyone's best interest to tell all. The Gothic movement is something entirely different and so is the fetish but they tend to mesh together in these days, before the 70s you wouldn't hear anyone talking on it.
My family sort of humors me and accepts it because my characteristics fit with what the "community" usually describes and not the media or those with websites influenced by role playing games. I didn't come here looking for information because I knew there were hundreds of people here for fiction and folklore and not aware of the community and would get the third degree. It is like asking someone why they have a faith or like a certain food. Sometimes the answers aren't there, it is something one just knows for a very long time. What can I say. As far as a lifestyle I consider that a more modern idea of those interested in the more fictional, theatrical side of things...there is room for all views. This is a very personal experience but vampires are a drop in the bucket for what alternative things people do believe.
