@Concerned_Catgirl Okay so, a Kink is a sexual interest. Something that gets you off and makes you feel that much more into an encounter.

A Fetish is something that is tied very heavily to your sexual gratification, often to a point that one may not be able to experience gratification without it being introduced.

The reason it bothers me is because I've got fetishes and they're borderline debilitating from a sexual standpoint, and when people talk about it as if it's a light kinky sort of thing I feel really invalidated, is all.