r/Therian: The Animal(s) Within You

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/-KodyCore- on 2024-04-09 23:29:37.

A therian is someone who identifies as a non human animal.. but I still identify as human.. am I still a therian? ..

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Honey_Pie13 on 2024-04-09 20:58:47.

Im a coyote therian who would really like some pointers or suggestions on how to have a theriotype affirming hairstyle! Ive been cutting my hair for years and im pretty good at it. for a bit of info my natural hair color is a darkish golden brown, my hair is EXTREMELY THICK, and kinda curly/wavy and i tend to get some ringlets on shorter parts of my hair

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Same-Weird-5735 on 2024-04-09 17:38:46.

Sometimes when I do a Warrior Cats roleplay i feel shifty

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/ciel-theythem on 2024-04-09 16:43:41.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/TheZoniWarrior on 2024-04-09 13:03:30.

I have a lot of trauma but I’m not sure whether my trauma is what’s causing my questioning. Im questioning if I’m a therian but I’ve only been able to find signs from after my trauma. I don’t have any healthy coping mechanisms and I think this is a new coping mechanism to stop my emotions taking over too much.

Any advice would be appreciated 🫶

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/alt-vxvii on 2024-04-09 00:25:14.

I *think* I have phantom limbs, but i am unsure. For me it feels like an occasional soft tingling on my head (for ears, which are the most prominent) and as if there is "energy" feeling like ears are there yet it is faint and i can tell they aren't there. Is it also normal to be able to "turn on" phantom limbs? it is quite easy for me to 'turn on' phantom ears but not quite a tail or paws, although paws are easier. Whenever I think of my ears, I have phantom ears. I have looked it up and some say it is normal while others argue it is just your imagination.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/IceWolf_Alphaheart on 2024-04-09 07:24:12.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/kiurumatra on 2024-04-08 10:52:46.

Like i see others talk about urges etc but like, i dont really have any of that

I'm just silver fox & that's it, not many urges, not many shift, no past life as fox, nothing like those childhood experiences i see some ppl have, nothing like that making me feel disconnected from the community bc thats all i see on other ppl experiences & nothing like mine experience

• I do have almost constant phantom shifts tho, but its like neutral & not any specific animal/creature
• I cant even tell is it involuntary or voluntary
• I cant tell is it identifying "as" or "with" the animal or just a strong connection or do i just like the animaö so much it become part of me, i honestly dont know
• Then there is the entire "multiple fur types from one specie" thing, like couple of different cats in different fur colors (not in breeds) & couple of different fox species like i dont see ppl talk about this either + the ones im stuck questioning.
• But im still questioning stuff like i have been for months, heck im been questioning since like 7th grade
• No but seriously when i say im multialterhuman I mean there is simply so many labels to describe it but none describes well enought

Terms (this list is unclean & not specific, don't have the energy to clean it now) putting this here just to give a idea why this is so complicated

• Inexbeing
• Animalhearted
• Paratype
• Otherlink
• Choicelink
• Otherhearted
• Othervague
• Demihuman
• Librahuman
• Humanflux
• Alterhuman
• Nonhuman
• Multialterhuman
• Therian
• Contherianthrope
• Polytherian
• Cladotherian
• Theriomythic
• Suntherian
• Cambitherian
• Pluritherian
• Vacillant therian
• Otherkin
• Inexkin
• Polykin
• Conceptkin
• Demikin

To anyone wondering what's label x google is free, ask if u cant find then I can help

Idk maybe the fact that im multialterhuman & AuDHD with anxiety makes me so disconnected from the community idk anymore

• Yes i know that my experience is valid
• Yes i know that shifts/urges/etc dont automatically mean ur therian etc
• No im not letting myself stuck on overthinking this, learned my lesson with the lgbt+ chaos

This is not perfect text, I simply dont have the energy

Sry for any wording mistakes, my brain feels like slimy cotton in soda/sparkling water & im tired

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/AtticChildren on 2024-04-08 22:17:14.

I’m not gonna lie the whole “go in public with the goal of finding therian friends” disturbs me deeply like therianthropy is an involuntary identity creepy/super conservative/homophobic/racist and generally awful people can still be therians because it’s involuntary and while we as a community don’t accept them they still are therians so any therian you meet and decide to befriend you have no idea if they are a bad person or if they are even a good friend. You know nothing about them but still you go “yep we friends now” and this becomes more problematic as you realize this community is almost entirely minors. We shouldn’t encourage minors to go out and befriend people simply because you want to connect with other therians. Going out in public and friending someone just because they are a therian (involuntary identity) is like a cis afab seeing another cis afab in public and going “we are both cis women (involuntary identities) therefore we should be friends!” i don’t think a relationship based on “oh we both have this involuntary identity“ is going to develop into anything good- ik you might have had a relationship with someone just cuz they wore gear in public turn out fine but there’s a massive chance it just ends up toxic because it’s based on something neither of you can control. But idk what do you all thin? does it feel creepy to you or am I being paranoid?

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/steaveeeeeee on 2024-04-09 00:37:30.

I told them and they just walked away they did say weather they support me in a bit they just need time to think

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/FelixTheDragon on 2024-04-08 21:13:42.

The title says it all. I’ve been asking around and a lot of people say that you have to be born a therian, but a lot of people say it can develop in later life. I know a) I’m a cat, b)I didn’t choose to be a cat and c) I wasn’t born that way (I just imitated cats a lot in childhood and it somehow ingrained itself into my identity). That’s pretty much a therian, but I’m getting so many mixed responses that it’s really confusing me. Has anyone had similar experiences?

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Jenny_Therian on 2024-04-08 17:06:38.

I was making a mask but then... HE SAID 'are you a furry' i said i was playing 'the cat game' im so happy he believed it! but still my parents think i am a furry😭 (no hate against furrys i am not a furry and they called me that so)

What should i say to my dad?

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Inevitable-Basil6565 on 2024-04-08 09:43:49.

Does anyone have any good comebacks for tail-tuggers or anyone who physically bullies therians? If someone tugs your tail then do you turn and stare or do something else? Just looking for some comebacks for this behavior.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/pizzapin3appl3 on 2024-04-08 14:41:40.

I feel kind some weird kind of anxienty around humans, and especially around school, is this normal? I always feel the need to back away from people.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Elegant_Anxiety9002 on 2024-04-08 00:09:00.

I really don’t know or understand anymore. I called myself a Therian for a while, however I no longer think I actually am one. Idk if I’m just faking it. I don’t have any involuntary experiences anymore. However i still have heavy species dysphoria and i still don’t feel fully human. Never have. sometimes I feel like i just wanted stuff to happen (experiences, shifts, instincts, etc) because I wanted to feel something other than not feeling nothing at all. Unfortunately I do have depression, and having “shifts” (Which I no longer have anymore) was comforting to me in a way. Maybe it was because I didn’t have to feel like Me if that makes any sense. I don’t know if I’m therian, otherhearted, etc. It’s all so frustrating. I kinda just wanna be happy with myself and figure this out, but it’s only really causing more stress. i don’t know how to figure this out

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/DearDeer8080 on 2024-04-08 07:10:12.

Sometimes I'll be walking on my 2 legs right and then I'll randomly crouch down slightly, feeling like I need to walk on all 4s to move then when I stand up again I feel un sturdy and it feels wrong, I've tripped multiple times like this.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Tescos_clubcxrd on 2024-04-07 20:30:57.

(Sorry if this is the wrong flair)

So I’ve never felt fully human. I’m sort of… disconnected from the world and the only thing keeping me to it is family, social media (Only Pinterest, Reddit and YouTube) and my friends randomly bringing up stuff from their lives. I don’t feel like I identify as an animal completely, but I feel like I am partially, if that makes sense.

I discovered the Alterhuman community at the start of last year (early last year), and I started reading into it. I thought for a bit that I was a therian but I didn’t have involuntary shifts and all that stuff. I figured maybe I was just a furry, but that label didn’t really stick with me quite right either.

I might be otherhearted?? But I’m not sure. Maybe I’m just faking it all, maybe I should just say I’m otherlink and call it a day. But I don’t know, I’m confused about myself and I need advice.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/OrchidButterflie on 2024-04-08 05:00:30.

Tw for gore kind of?

Hey! Questioning coyote here. I was on a walk with my dog and saw two adorable rabbits. Then, I thought I about chasing after them, sinking my teeth into their fluff, and eating them. And it made my mouth water?? Is this a normal experience?

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Manek0inu on 2024-04-07 14:19:21.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/2021Voldemort on 2024-04-07 12:31:41.

So was chilling with my friend at a club and suddenly he said to me “I can see your tail” and I immediately panicked thinking I was still wearing my tail but then I asked “you can? What colour is it?” And he said “oh um it’s just your hoodie, it looks like you have a tail.” And I was also having a tail phantom shift when that happened by the way. So I just want to know if this has happened to anyone else and also it’s just a kinda funny experience

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/AtticChildren on 2024-04-07 23:12:03.

I keep seeing people going “THERIANS ON (insert random date/time, or simply “the eclipse“) GO TO (insert urban air/sky zone) WITH YOUR GEAR AND DO QUADS TO FIND OTHER THERIANS” AND IM SO SICK OF IT. These are awful ideas- if there’s any place your going to get harassed by people who don’t have impulse control preventing them from physically assaulting you it’s going to be a sky zone or urban air. Not to mention the holidays we already have (including the 4th of every month) and the fact that these new holidays center around gear and quads which arnt important to the therian identity like I get that that’s how you show in public your a therian but cmon dont make an entire holiday centered around them that just hurts people like me who dont like/do quads/gear activities. And I’m not gonna lie the whole “go in public with the goal of finding therian friends” disturbs me deeply like therianthropy is an involuntary identity creepy/super conservative/homophobic/racist and generally awful people can still be therians because it’s involuntary and while we as a community don’t accept them they still are therians so any therian you meet and decide to befriend you have no idea if they are a bad person or if they are even a good friend. You know nothing about them but still you go “yep we friends now” and this becomes more problematic as you realize this community is almost entirely minors. Going out in public and friending someone just because they are a therian (involuntary identity) is like a cis afab seeing another cis afab in public and going “we are both cis women (involuntary identities) therefore we should be friends!” Please don’t make these holidays they are just toxic and unsafe. Not all therians are good people, and not all public spaces are safe just because they are made with kids in mind. If you go and try and make one of these holidays you are BAITING MINORS INTO EXPOSING THEMSELVES IN PUBLIC AS A GROUP COMMONLY TARGETED AND HARASSED. I KNOW YOU HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS AND YOUR PROBABLY A MINOR YOURSELF, I KNOW YOU THINK YOU ARE BEING SAFE AND MAKING RESPONSIBLE DECISIONS BUT YOU CANT ACTUALLY TRUST MINORS TO DO THE SAME. MINORS CANT ALWAYS KNOW WHAT THE SAFE DECISIONS ARE OR MAKE THEM.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Comfortable-Yak8421 on 2024-04-07 21:38:18.

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Dapper-Two8573 on 2024-04-07 18:24:55.

I use therain names, is this normal? Hyena therain name: Blitz Night fury therian name: Noc Maine coon therain name: Rain

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/Redluvz on 2024-04-07 17:07:05.

I think i might be also an imprinting therian,and i would like to ask a question now,

How did you find out that you are an imprinting therian by your experience so far? (to all imprinting therians)

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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/m00n_l0v3r_ on 2024-04-07 09:34:47.

I want to read books about theriantropy or otherkinnity. Does annyone have any book suggestions.