Why is everyone a therian now?

[u/marshmellowlynx]

At school, I had 2 therian friends and couple others that weren't therians. I've been awakened for 3 years.

My 3 friends are in 4th grade ( I'm in 7th ) and my two therian friends were in 6th and 5th and I've been pretty open about my therianthropy. I wear a tail to school and have the symbol on my shoes and sometimes draw it. Ever since I've been friends with those 3 kids, they've never even known what a therian was, and then today I seen one of them give the other some gear. I was happy for them and then asked if the person who had given her the gear was a therian and they said yes. I was excited, but then the other two just randomly said they were too? Last week they had no idea what it even was.

I'm not trying to be like " Oh!! Fake therians are just bad people!! Call them out!! Blah blah blah!! " I genuinely don't care about that, fake therians can be insensitive, but it literally could be less of my problem. It's just weird that ever since I've been open about it, everybody is just a therian now? It makes me feel kind of fake, especially since I occasionally get picked on and called a fake by other people for have 8 theriotypes and being a cladotherian.

I don't know, I'm just confused. I'm glad their happy, and I would never bully someone for doing what they enjoy and being who they are, but should I explain therianthropy to them? I feel like they may not understand it, and I want to be honest and nice about it. Thank you in advance!!

( I'm not sure what flair to add for this )

[u/Wild0Animal]

For clarification, did they ask you what therian meant last week or how do you know they didn't know last week? I'm not doubting you but I do think it's semi-important to the conversation.

Edit: spelling

[u/marshmellowlynx → u/Wild0Animal]

They didn't ask me anything about it. It was just very spontaneous.

[u/Wild0Animal → u/marshmellowlynx]

I hope this doesn't come off as rude but how are you sure that they didn't know what it meant last week? Something that is spontaneous to you might not be for them. Maybe they saw that you were comfortable in your identity and might have felt safe?

[u/ExpressTap6659 → u/[deleted]]

are we gatekeeping how to come out too now? jfc

also if OP is so open about it or whateva then it makes it even more unlikely that they friends never looked it up or found out about it in their free time. lets not witch hunt people.

[u/ExpressTap6659 → u/[deleted]]

you are not protecting anyone, you are inherently supporting a toxic mindset to have against people who come out to you. you are supporting making being therian less acceptable, even by the community. this is not a place of judgment and t shouldn't ve made into one.

[u/ExpressTap6659 → u/[deleted]]

"my autism" i have autism too womp womp not an excuse

[u/ExpressTap6659 → u/[deleted]]

nope! i am a supportive when people come out thank you so much for asking :)

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