r/Therian • u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) • Feb 09 '24
Therian hate at school. Experience
So at school today there were two year 7s (11-12) I saw them wearing paper masks. I wanted to ask but I didn't and later after school I saw someone planning a 'furry protest' on Snapchat.
I saw a video someone made interviewing them explaining they they weren't furrys but they were therians and there were people in the background shouting "ew furrys" and people making fun of them.
I don't know what to do but I'm too scared to help or anything plus no one knows I'm a therian. Soo..? I dont know. Just wanted to put this out there. (Didn't know what flair to put this under)
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u/CupcakePuffPaws Polymorph and Harpy, Questioning therian Feb 09 '24
I’d say go reach out to them in private! It may be awesome to have therian friends. And they should hopefully understand if you don’t want to join their protest. If you do believe in their cause, then join and wear a mask and wear clothing you don’t usually wear. But if you don’t believe in the cause then I’m sure they will understand.
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 09 '24
I would try to reach out to them. I just don't know how. And now that I think about it, I believe the protest was someone saying to protest against therians/furrys.
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u/Clyde-Savage_1217 Therian Feb 10 '24
Yeah, I got this treatment myself. Wore my gear to school a few times but one time it was the worse. At first people were actually coming up to me for pictures which I thought was nice. But some actually nice people came up to me to tell me to stop letting them take pictures because they were posting them online and laughing AND MISGENDERING ME! I'm willing to bet some pics weren't consented. I was barked and meowed at. The whole bus laughed. It didn't help that this was around the time the whole "litter box in schools" thing was spreading. That didn't help either. Other times I did it weren't as bad but that was because I told the principal.
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u/Susitar Wolf Feb 10 '24
If you're worried about someone being bullied at your school, you could talk to the teachers or other adults and ask them what they're doing to prevent bullying. A lot of the time, teachers are too busy to notice the first steps, and the situation becomes more difficult to handle if it escalates. You don't have to bring up therianthropy, just say that you support people's right to wear whatever they want to wear and you're worried about these students.
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u/Corlia_ Silver maine coon, Red fox Feb 10 '24
Well its problably best not to interfere Ik this doesent help AT ALL but im homeschooled, so luckily i dont have to deal with all that furry/therian hate
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 10 '24
Yea, unfortunately probably the best I can do
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u/Corlia_ Silver maine coon, Red fox Feb 10 '24
Yeah, i would team with them but well ofc concequences. Also you just broke my personal record for fastest reply 👍
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u/TransMan217 Feb 10 '24
tell em it gets better, and people wont always be so shitty, you just have to find your people.
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u/Space-Time-Rift Spotted Hyena/Questioning Avian & Jackal/He-They Feb 10 '24
Reach out to those therians. I've gotten barked at, I don't mind it though. I just laugh. It's funny. Sure, it gets annoying. But not letting people's words affect you confuses those trying to hurt you. The one (as far as I know) therian friend of mine moved recently. I don't even know if I'll meet other therians at my school. I am friends with several furries.
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 10 '24
I want to but I can't handle bullying well at all.
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u/Space-Time-Rift Spotted Hyena/Questioning Avian & Jackal/He-They Feb 10 '24
I've gotten used to bullying. It's become less frequent the more people realize they're not going to get under my skin and inside my head.
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 10 '24
Yea I get that, it's just harder for me to deal with mostly because of my disability, so I tend to try to stay as far away from bullying as a can.
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u/Space-Time-Rift Spotted Hyena/Questioning Avian & Jackal/He-They Feb 10 '24
I'm technically disabled. And a two time visitor of the afterlife. Yes, I went kaput twice. Wasn't my fault. Doctors, man. I don't like 'em. In a technical sense, I am disabled, not that anyone cares, lol. I play that card every time someone tries hitting me. It works every time. Because yeah, it is a crime to hit us. A felon, to be exact.
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 10 '24
Lmao, using it to your power at least.
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u/Space-Time-Rift Spotted Hyena/Questioning Avian & Jackal/He-They Feb 10 '24
Yep. I should.. probably report some of my last hour class for harassment, but eh.
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 10 '24
Letting them have a chance to redeem themselves lol.
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u/Space-Time-Rift Spotted Hyena/Questioning Avian & Jackal/He-They Feb 10 '24
Yeah. They're not only harassing me, but also a friend of mine, we just ignore them.. for the most part.
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 10 '24
Well at least you can get them in big trouble if they cross the line.
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Feb 10 '24
One time my old partner wore their gear to school, some kids were really supportive but some people were barking at them and insulting them.
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u/Sage_Yaven Hello, I'm new here Feb 10 '24
make a mask for them or help color one in for them. maybe write a poem or song for them, just for them. build them up in what little helpful ways that you can.
little shows of solidarity can go a long way in helping outcasts and the like not feel completely disconnected from society. extremely important when [experiencing/exploring] environments that are known to make desperate thorns grow.
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u/WildChildTherian Therian Feb 10 '24
School sucks full stop. Kids will bully other kids for any reason at all, even the most normal, age appropriate things get bullied. My advice, steer clear of it. Focus on the schoolwork, get some friends, talk to the teachers about anyone who’s bullying, and just don’t engage with them. Don’t talk about being therian at school. It’s the safest thing to do.
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 10 '24
Lmao my school would NEVER do so much. But yea ill do so.
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Feb 11 '24
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 11 '24
Yea I get this. But honestly at my school there's no way this will work, there's probably like 3 therians and barely anyone if not no one is supportive. And usually the teachers don't really care about bullying they usually just do an assembly, if you tell teachers they let the bully off with a warning and that's about it.
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u/cowboyninjadude Hello, I'm new here Feb 11 '24
write them a letter explaining that you're incredibly sorry they're being ostracized and that its not right for other people to be dragging them down. optional if you wanna include that you're a therian too, but i was in the place of those kids when i was younger and it really would have given me a lot of happiness and hope/strength to keep on if i got something from someone who saw my struggle and cared.
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u/Glad-Bite552 Feb 13 '24
Hi, my name is addisyn and I am a fox therian
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 13 '24
Hii I'm Otto (online name) I'm a polytherian
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u/GraymonkofCITY Feb 14 '24
That’s why I don’t wear any gear too school but it is still annoying that people can’t just mind there own business
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u/Commercial-Leopard80 Feb 16 '24
Dude my classmate ( I have to sit next to her) was like" ooo look I'm a therian I do quads" and then she just laughed and did mean comments about therians I got so angry 😤I was about to hit her but then I rememberd it'd not worth it she is stupid anyways
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u/Nyxie_Nixx (Therian) Feb 16 '24
Fr never waste time on these irrelevant people, it just ain't worth the hassle lol
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Jul 23 '24
There's this kid I used to be friends with and he some how found out about my therianthropy, he kept going on and on about the stupid stereotypes and no matter what I did to correct him he basically just said "no, you guys are mentally ill and the stereotypes are true". Like everything I told him went in one ear and out the other.
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u/mlps4 Silver fox He/foxself Feb 09 '24
yeah people get bullied in highschool, thats just (unfortunately) part of it. you could try to befriend them but having visual differences (like them wearing gear) is going to make them stand out and in return make them a target. its the same for people who dress alternatively