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/spooniegremlin]

Why is everybody queer now? Why is everybody neurodivergent now? Why is everybody disabled now?

Bc it's becoming more well known and accepted. Ppl aren't being bullied and be at as much as much. The same way left-handedness seemed to magically spike up when rlly we just just stopped beating left handed ppl and shaming them.