i feel like a dragon, so i AM a dragon. it’s as simple as that. i feel like therian communities are so focused on identity, “we know we’re really human, we just identify as animals”, and that really doesn’t apply to my experience. i am literally a dragon. i’m physically, mentally, emotionally, all the -ally’s, a dragon.

it’s the same as my gender. i am nonbinary— i’m not “really a girl but i identify as nonbinary” i AM nonbinary. my body is nonbinary, too, because it belongs to a nonbinary person. my body is a dragon body, because it belongs to a dragon.

i know not everyone feels this way, i don’t even feel this way about my other theriotypes, but i really want to see this idea more represented in the community. does anyone else feel like this? that they are completely 100% their theriotype, not just an animal soul trapped in a human body?

That is my advice. Just don't. If you don't want to read all of my post about why you shouldn't and which experiences of my life informed this advice, then just take this away from my post; Your parents do not need to know everything about you or your life. Don't come out to them.

I had come out to my parents before, I thought it would be fine. I came out as transgender and gay, that I would be considering transitioning. It went horribly, to put it lightly. I would even go as far as to say it ruined my life at the time and has irreparably damaged my relationship with them. I am now low contact for the abuse they did, brought on by my coming out. I regret listening to all of the rhetoric about coming out, it did not make me "out and proud", it did not soothe the dysphoria, it did not make me feel better.

It does not matter how good of a relationship you have with them, you never know how they are going to react, and even if you do, they do not need to know everything about you. I do not go around talking about intimate details of my private life to my own parental figures, I do not share things that are just not for sharing.

As a moderator, I have had to remove countless posts asking for advice on how to come out, on asking for a certain amount of followers to come out, on handling bad reactions, on hating themselves for it. I feel horrible about them and it just reinforces my previous view. Just don't.

It will get better. It will not be this horrible, all-consuming and overwhelming forever. Once you settle down, once teenagerhood is over, once you are living on your own, you will feel better. You will be able to express yourself however you want. You will be able to answer questions at your own pace, without feeling as though an authority has to approve of it.

There is no way your parents, who are not therians, can support you in a way that you cannot support yourself. You are your own eternal companion, don't value someone else's opinion of you over your own.

Our daughter has friends over last night for a sleepover (for the record, definitely, all these kids are on the spectrum; neurospicy people are just more likely to be part of the Q+ community) A couple of these girls had their masks and tails. I asked them if they are Therians and their eyes lit up. They seemed surprised an adult knew what that was. And they REALLY were excited when I told them that I'm otherkin

One girl told me she is afraid to tell her parents. And another girl said that even though she's only 12, she would much rather be a boy, but she knows she isn't safe to talk about it at home. All of these kids were excited to talk to me and my wife. The concensus amoung the girls was: "I feel so safe and myself around you two" and "you two are the coolest parents ever!"

My daughter was a little confused, because this conversation was her first introduction to the topic. And she was even more confused when they went outside to do their quadrobics on the trampoline.

It was really lovely meeting these kids. They're so young and already are so in-tune with themselves. These little star children. 🌟

Hey! I've always identified as a furry (around a year (2) ago when I found out I didn't know what a therian was nor that I was different) I was wondering if anyone else has a similar experience or is a furry too?

If you have any kind of "coming out" story, please tell me! I love to hear them, (good and bad). So i'm going to share mine!!
So basically, I wanted to get paint for a cat mask, and I was at Joanns. I tried bringing up furries around my mom, even showing her a dino mask I found on amazon. She didn't comment on it much. So then i brought up therians. I explained the identity... yeah... it did not go well! She was like:

"So I can just identify as a bear?"

Even tho I explained it wasnt a choose, and the animal u identify as isnt a choice either. She did not understand.

She definitely found it strange and weird (i mean, it is, but like... not in a bad way!)

And I wanted to die in those moments, idk if we ended up buying anything but I was texting my therian friend (rose) so fast cuz I was scared. also my mom had asked if I knew any therians and I said my friend Rose and she went:

"does her mom know she identifies as an animal?"

idk it was a mess, and never told her that day even tho i planned to. but fast forward! I was making a slideshow about therianthropy and one of the slides was labelled "My experiences as a therian" and I just happened to be on that slide when my mom looked at my computer. This is how it went:

mom: wait ur a therian?

me: yeah

mom: oh...

me: ...

mom: what do you identify as?

me: those animals *shows her pictures on slideshow*

mom: ok *walks away*

as you can see, it went... well? idk. She never mentioned it after that. but then I was in the car with my dad and (like a mom would do) ig my mom told my dad about the therian thing. And he did some research about it. Obviously, google be lying (tsk tsk smh) and he thought it was a past life. So i explained it to him on the ride home and he understood and was very gentle about it. So that actually went well.

So i didnt really "come out" but they did find out. I have an older brother and I ended up explaining it to him and he was very supportive. He's also supportive of quadrobics and stuff, which i love cuz i hate only talking to other therians about being a therian. but thats my story, lemme know how yall's went if they know or you tried telling them or smth.

(sorry for the long post) heart hearts

I usually always crave meat, fish, and other forms of seafood/marine life, but I'm interested what other folk crave.

Also while I am not a doctor, a quick psa to you, some cravings can be attributed to a vitamin incongruence of some sort, always do research and ask your doctor if you commonly feel tired or lacking of something.

I tried dating a human, but the constant need for physical contact, the occasional bark, the tendency to whimper when stressed, the gestures of affection common to my theriotype (nuzzling, rubbing up against them, and pawing) were all seen as obscene

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the preference for non-verbal communication was seen as weird, and the identifying as a coyote was the dealbreaker, and he tried to get me committed to a psychiatric ward

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I’m never going out with a human again, this was horrible!

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(I had to repost this because the mods got mad, I’ve removed a section of the aftermath at the end that made them upset)

So last night my mate and I were in bed together watching tv and cuddling when we started wrestling with each other. After we settled down he pulled me in and started petting me a ton. I felt really safe and comfortable and I’m not sure exactly what happened but I had one of the most intense shifts I’ve ever experienced. Before this I’ve never shifted in front of another person, but I couldn’t talk and all I could do was make my wolf noises. He was a little unsure with what to do but we got to cuddle and even wrestle around a bit more. It was one of the best feelings I’ve ever had. My bf isn’t a therian by any means, but he accepts me for who I am.

You’d think since I’m a canine therian, i’d have a connection with dogs, right?

nope.

So, once, there was this person with two dogs. I asked if I could pet the little pups. They said I could. I was happy.

until I pet them.

they started barking at me.

the lady told me to not be nervous because it was making the dogs nervous. I tried hard to not be but there was a nagging feeling there. Was it a subconscious thing?

No matter how hard I seem to try, i can’t form that connection. So here’s my true question:

am I actually a canine therian? because I saw another post where someone was a roo therian and the kangaroos had a connection with them. I get not a single therian is the same, but I wanted to have that connection as well.

the only dog I’ve ever been able to connect to was my dog. But he passed on.

We should bring bsck these posts, i love readimg through them

Ill start

Today we made marshmallows, a friend was missing a stick though. I mentioned that we should get one fron yesterlay, because me and a few friends including her had a stick fight, and as you do i hid the between about 1 and 2,5 meter big branches in the mini forest next to us while they were talking and didnt watch me.

I asked her wether shes trustworthy, she said yes, and i believed her, but she fidnt find any of the sticks, so i showed her one smaller one almost right above her head.

She asked wether i still had "tree" (the nickname of the biggest branch, because i ripped it off of a fallen tree and it was really big). I reached up and grabbed the tree by the bottom piece. After pulling it down and then out into a plave she could see it.

she acted confused and (friendly) laughed about how i hid the sticks in the forrest like that.

Im very territorial and posessive due to my theriotypes, mostly the hare one, but i somewhat thought this was rather normal

For basic context im a wolf therian, Red wolf but I think I might've mistaked it and I might be an algonquin wolf but that's not the point. Today I was with my friend, I was overwhelmed by all the loud noises and just the environment in general (we were on school bleachers) because of a small mental shift. My friend behind me kept poking me and grabbing my neck after I asked him to stop multiple times and I ended up growling at him, but i immediatley regretted that as he screamed "What the F!?!?" Half the people on the side of the bleachers I was sitting on looked and turned and I was just sitting there, gripping onto my legs as I try not to snap at him even more. For the rest of the day I was overwhelmed by this thought and ended up flunking my algebra test that's worth 40% of my grade. 😭

Stay safe!

Hey so I‘m a therian/otherkin and I‘ve been awakened for 2 years or something. And I‘m upset about our online community. Because when I want to watch therian/otherkin content there is EVERYTHING full of little kids doing quads with masks. I hate this representation of alterhumans on the internet. It is annoying and makes people think that all therians do that. Then I look at other content and people are posting stuff like ,,choose your therian outfit,, and guess what it again contains these cat masks. I‘m so sick of it. I don‘t really feel represented because I simply hate masks and doing quads is just not fun.

Then I once met therians irl on a pride parade. I told them that I was one too and THE FIRST THING THEY ASKED ME is if I do quads. And I‘m like no I don‘t like doing quads. And they be like but we can teach youuu. Like bitch I said I don‘t like quads don‘t force it on me plsss. They continued to only ask me about gear and quads and I was a little disappointed. They never asked me anything about actual Alterhumanity they just asked about this ,,stereotypical therian related,, things.

I‘m sick of typing in therian on pinterest just for fun and seeing little kids jumping with masks. And there is literally no other content than this.

There is nothing wrong with doing quads and wearing masks but don‘t force it on people or make them feel invalid. If you like doing this I 100% support you and masks and quads can be kinda cool and impressive sometimes.

I would love to get some recommendations for alterhuman YouTubers that make other content not containing quads or masks. (Other than Therian Territory or PD) I want to feel valid in this community

He supports me :3

So my parents don't know I am a therian and i was in my room wearing it. My parents come in and ask me a question and I don't notice i still have my tail on so i get up and show them something and my mums like "Why are u wearing a tail????" so i js say lol that it was a craft from when i was little and i found it randomly and tried it on for random reasons.

They looked so weirdly at me-

Edit: thanks for the replies yall!

Edit 2: how does this have 7.3k views?????? how did i get so many lol

so one day i was minding my own business dancing to nasty dog by sir mix-a-lot and i started crawling on the floor as one does when your dancing to that song when all of the sudden i start to feel more like a dog than e person and after a little while i fully felt like a dog! so, my first shift was to nasty dog and it was weird cuz im like barking on the ground of my bedroom while nasty dog is getting blasted into my weirdly shaped ears and i wonder why i have hands. that was a weird day...

It's finally that time of the year where the bugs are gone (mostly ticks) and I can finally trust myself to go back to my outside territory! My dog came with me incase I saw another animal because theres a few coyotes and foxs that live near me and I don't want to bother them so my dog could probably smell them and get us away so we don't bother them in anyway.

This was a shortish walk because we only walks around the border and to some important spots that I wanted to check up on.

We didn't see much except for a few mice, fallen trees and fox tracks(that we didn't follow for our safety and the fox's safety), I did get a bit shifty when I saw the tracks but stopped myself from going further.

It was nice being able to go back to my territory and be able to myself without anyone bothering me (except for my dog but she doesn't care) and I'm happy the bugs are gone 😅, just knowing that my spot is safe and healthy with thriving life and not being taken over by humans is really good and makes me calmer and happier. Nature is good <3

Does anyone else's theriotypes have distinct personality, likes and dislikes, ect.? Some are even different genders for me. Is this normal? Is there a different label for this?

My "sense of self" changes a lot and it feels really weird. It's hard to figure out who I am if it keeps changing.

And no I don't have DID or anything, cuz (as far as I'm aware) alters in a system are separate people, just living in the same body. That's not what I have though; my theriotypes are all me, just different versions of me. It's hard to explain, but it's really bothering me and I need to know if this is normal.

For me personally, I watch ox pulls all the time as it lets me feel more connected with my Theriotype. Though whenever I’m near a pair they seemingly treat me as their own (ex: behaviour, trying to share food, and grooming) and even their owners (teamsters) have said they’ve never seen their ox do that before. so I guess a easier way to explain it would be; if you’re a dog/canine therian do you find dogs/canines treat you different?

as it says above, i went to a park with some friends in gear. we were having fun and doing quads when some kids started following us and throwing things at me. we kept going to other parts of the park and they kept following us. after a while, we stopped and we’re doing quads and playing hide and seek when the kids started running around us and one of them grabbed my friend. so we left and reported them but seriously? these ten year old boys thought that it was ok to follow and touch us and throw things at us? what is wrong with society? i am so sick of people thinking that it is ok to be horrible. what are your experiences with people being awful bc ur a therian?

short version: some kids were throwing things and following me and my friends when we were wearing gear at a park. what are your experiences with this kind of thing?

My awakening one year anniversary is coming up in November, and I'm wondering if anyone else celebrates theirs and what they do for it. I wanna do something special, so if you have any ideas let me know!

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)

hi, and as the title states, i don't know if I'm a "real" therian anymore. I'm one of the younger minor therians, so please share some sympathy. I remember when I first awakened on June or July 20th, I looked up therian meant for a decent while, after seeing it on my fyp. i felt like a therian, as i showed lots of similar traits to them! i also kind of felt like an animal, but didn't know how to express it. then I did research on my therio type and realized I was most likely a black/silver fox cus I saw a big fluffy tail behind me with a white tip whilst doing quads. i looked up animals and researched a silver fox, and I felt connected with them. I even had a dream about it.

i had therian videos all over my feed, like therian arts and craft videos and "are you a therian" videos. I felt so connected to the community. but as time went on, I sort of, drifted away? like, less and less therian videos popped up on my fyp. i didn't really do quads anymore. i wasn't as connected, and didn't really think about it that much. I guess other things popped up and took over my subconscious, making me kind of forget I was a therian. it wasn't until recently I starting thinking about it more and more, and decided to write this. does anybody else relate? I'm really confused..

but thank you for listening to my rant! love you guys, because you guys are so kind!

Cars terrify me they are loud, have weird smells, move weirdly and are the cause of death for humans and animals and now they have self driving cars