I unfortunately couldn't remember what my collar looked like so I drew myself without it :(

If any of you has any kind of advice and enough patience to read me yapping then please do (also sorry for the bad English)

I'll try to put this into sections:

Family vent: My mom doesn't really support/like therians and quadrobists and since I watched a therian/quads comp with her, she's been annoying me with oh, you could do this or that on 4 legs and stuff like that. My father doesn't really understand therians (Just like my mom) and I don't know how to explain it to him. From what he understood, he supports/accepts them I think. I don't think I will ever tell my brothers since they'll think I'm weird. Generally has my family been lowering my self esteem (they don't notice) with comments like oh you'd like to have a fantasy wedding one day? Should I show up in a dwarf costume? Or with comments about my weight/belly fat and stuff

Friend vent: For privacy reasons I'll give my friends letters as names. L just annoys me 24/7 because she says things in school and generally like chill girl or she always talks about her ADHD and anyone that's not her friend is her enemy. I had a friend, H, and she basically ignored me. Like, the breaks in school were just filled with oh,my siblings are more important than 2 years of being best friends

General vent I hate the fact that I can't possess magic, I imagine magic like it's seen on crazycaes channel, just visible. I've always wanted magic and I think it's part of my theriotype (I'm questioning theriantropy even though I'm pretty sure I'm some kind of angel and some kind of animal with a fluffy and long tail, like a cat or smt). I also hate my posture, my hip should be turned more. I want to have so many skills but I don't have enough confidence to start them and to actually put work into them. I am one of those therians that has never actually felt animalistic until they discovered therians. I don't know how I should figure out my actual theriotype and I'm just exhausted from everything like school, the german school system destroys me mentally and I want to just be able to be everything always everywhere. Sometimes I just get overwhelmed.

If you've read so far, thank you! I needed this to just kind of scream my thoughts into the world in any kind of way and I don't know any other safe space where I'd be comfortable enough to post this.

I'm a moth therian. I've been thinking about getting some things for my room to give it a stronger nature-ish feel, like plants, vases, vines, more insect gear, etc.. and while I save up money, I'd really like to hear ideas on art projects I could draw/make to help me better connect and use to decorate before I can look into purchasing items :)

Note, I'm not certain on my specie(s), but im leaning towards being a black witch moth and some sort of small white moth. I'm also most active and connected to moths during sunrise and sunset ^_^

All ideas are appreciated! Thank you!

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.

This halloween, I was able to spot two therians in their gear! But sadly, I was with my family (who doesn't know I'm a therian) and I wasn't able to talk to them. :c So I'm thinking, we can come up with a hand gesture to signal other therians, without causing to much attention. I was thinking maybe a paw print or something. Please send out the word!! <3

Edit: Here are some signal ideas everyone could use that I came up with!!

1. Tapping your nose lightly, a Snout tap

2. Waving a hand shaped like a paw, if you know what I mean.

3. Double ear tap, tapping both sides of your head near your ears, like signaling hidden animal ears.

If theres anymore you would like to add, or you think will work better, let me know! I just hope these'll work :') We should all try them out!!

I decided to go out trickortreating with my snow leopard mask on, and while I was wearing it, one of the people that was hanging out candy, meowed at me. And I'm pretty sure they were AN ADULT. But yet, someone dressed up as a peacock and I'm pretty sure no one made peacock noises them, so umm, normalize dressing up as an animal outside of Halloween I guess?

So, I always after a shift find myself wanting to be that animal, but its not always the same animal (as someone with nine thereotypes) so just right now if you could turn into one of your thereotypes permanently what would it be?

I am a deer therian and I usually have ones like hoofs and antlers. But the other day I was doing normal day things, and I started feeling a tail! It was kind of stressful, but I liked it! I'm posting this here because I can't tell people I know irl.

So I'm wondering what it's like if you have a fully human mind, before I found out I was a therian of course I thought I was fully human, but it never felt quite right, so if any non therian supporters could explain somehow I would be grateful

My aunt and grandma took me to this place where there’s a lake and there was this really nice bit with a bunch of trees! The birds and the sound of the water and the trees just made me feel at home. (This is coming from a wolf therian btw) I tried some quads making sure my family didn’t see me. They know but not the most supportive. I didn’t end up doing too many quads tho lol. But I just felt so amazing. I haven’t been to a place like this before. Yeah I’ve been on woodland walks but this was different for some reason. I think it’s because the other walks your on a path and the trees beside you but I actually got to be is between the trees and I could touch them. Be with them. It just felt so amazing. The whole atmosphere I could have stayed there forever. I truly felt my wolf self. It was a magical feeling.

Basically what the title says.

I'll start. For me it usually isn't that bad, like just wishing I was an animal but there r times it gets really bad like last night. I started feeling uncomfortable with the fact I have human skin specially in my legs, I got a feeling like I needed to move and I started getting desperate because I felt trapped, like my true self was under my human skin but I couldn't get out and I was desperate and wanted to be free and run around where I should be and I started crying and pulling the skin of my thighs(like just grabbing my thighs I didn't break skin) like trying to take it off and get rid of it because it felt like I was under it.

I would explain that type of experience to someone who isn't a therian like "imagine you are forced to wear the skin of someone else and you want to get rid of it because you like how you look and you like who you are but no matter how hard you try to take it off it will remain there as if it was your own"

That's pretty much how I would explain it, what about you?

I'm a somewhat newly awakened therian. I awakened around halfway through September this year. I don't have species dysphoria,.sure, sometimes I still wish I were my thereotype (Virginia possum), but I'm okay with being human. I'm happy that I can read and write and create art. I feel like there isn't enough discussion in the community about how not all therians have species dysphoria. It actually was one of the big things that prevented me from awakening, as I thought it was some sort of requirement.

When I was a little kid, I classified my favorite dreams into categories. My favorites were the ones about me swimming in the ocean, being able to breathe underwater, and just sensing the other living creatures underwater. I would wake up angrily wondering why I couldn't breathe underwater. Why couldn't I swim without drowning. I just wanted to shapeshift and BE a fish. I spent my time flipping through photos of the oceans, reading stories about fish, and planning to move next to the ocean when I grew up. I told my mom: "the water makes me feel free", which really confused her 😭 Even today, I wish I had sharp teeth and the ability to just swim forever without drowning. I still collect pictures of the ocean and sargassum and my habitat, and that makes me happy. I know now that I am a therian, and I'm so happy I'm not alone in this. So when people say therianthropy is a recently made-up thing that isn't real, that's a definite lie. We were all here before we even knew the term.

Has anyone tried using vrchat to express your therian side? Why or why not? If you have, how did it go? Or did you use or consider another vr platform?

I feel so human nowadays despite being a wolf… I rarely feel shifty or wolf-like. As a teen, I awakened in 2015 at the age of 15. I felt so shifty during the years of 2015-2018. I’m now 24 about to be 25 in December and I feel like I am an imposter of my own identity.

I ended up giving up on being a wolf therian in 2019 through 2022 I believe. Truly thought I was human and lived as one. For some reason though.. I keep coming back here.

My wolf side awakened in 2015 from dormancy, as in from a deep sleep and it “woke up”. I used to feel my wolf side as a separate entity/animal guide back then after I awakened. I brought it back in 2018 through a form of channeling, and it was strong in my mind the day after. It ‘vanished’ from my mind the day after due to my own fear of it.

I feel so completely lost without my wolf side. It’s like I’m a human with an inner wolf and I hate it. Yes, I’ve tried everything you can think of under the sun. Nature, wolf documentaries, art, gear, calling upon my animal guides, etc etc.

Help?

About 2 years back, (in December of 2022) I started seeing Therians online. At first I was like"are those furries?"or "what the hell is a Therian?" I was genuinely curious. So, I decided to look it up! Since this was a couple years back, it didn't give me the best idea of what a Therian is. I thought it was really weird at first, so I wasn't necessarily an anti but I didn't necessarily support. Then, later this year I was a junior counselor at a summer camp. In my group (10-11 year olds) I saw some of them running around on all fours, making masks, and then wearing them. I realized they were Therians. I asked"are you guys Therians?"their eyes lit up. They were so happy to see somebody actually know they were Therians. It made their day, and mine. Since I saw them, I decided to do more research on it so I could understand them better. And I realized that a lot of the stuff that we're connected with Therians, was stuff I did all my life. Like, I would have the urge to walk on all fours, meow or hiss, and I even started to get in the head state of an animal, when I would play with my pets. Anyways, just hope that you found this post interesting. I would love to know how you found out you were Therian!

Context:

Today I was just feeling aggravated and like over whelmed to the point of where I had an intense phantom/emotional class. Normally this doesn't happen to THIS intensity, but I guess my animal side had something to say.

But drawing my self in my animalistic nature, really did paint a picture of just how deeply the situation resonated to my animal instincts. Or in other words, the protectiveness I felt in that situation really spoke to my K-9 instincts, to protect and defend myself and whoever is closer to me (if that makes sense).

This could also come from regular human nature to protect the ones we love. But yeah, I hope that this piece may have spoken to some of you guys, not just my fellow K-9's but to maybe any other therian species.

• From yah dawg, midnight

(It just made sense in my head to end it off this way lol)

Have you ever faced a situation where your gender identity conflicts with your animal identity? I'm MTF, so I need to look more or less feminine to be accepted by society. But at the same time I'm a wild cat and I want to look more "feral". For example, I will soon have to get prosthetics for my front teeth. I have naturally long fangs and I'd like to make them even longer, but women usually don't have long fangs. It would make me look less feminine, but at the same time it would allow me to better accept my animal nature. So at some points I have to choose between one and the other. Any thoughts?

I know some furries trick or treat with their fursuits if they have one. Do any of you therians do trick or treating specifically in your therian gear? (either just therian gear and normal clothes or special halloween-themed therian gear / therian gear with halloween outfit)

I never really thought about how much I missed my animal body before I got a dog. I know I am a therian and really always have been, I never really had spices dysphoria until I got a large dog and now I realize how much I miss being a wolf. We play together and it feels like I’m playing with a pack mate but I can’t play like I want to because of my human body. I feel like I understand her and she understands me better than anyone else. It’s odd having animalistic side because there is always that human side of this that still thinks that this is crazy but knows it’s not. Lately it feels like I’m more animal then human and in someways I always have been and always will be but now it’s getting harder to hide from others and I honestly don’t know how to feel about it 🥲. Does anyone have any tips with what is going on?

Hello! I am a cross fox Therian, but I live in an extremely hot place (my theriotype is used to the cold rainforests). Due to that, for months on end I’m not as connected to my theriotype. Temperature has been dropping for the past few days and I’ve had stronger urges to do quads, phantom shifts and in general I want to act more like my fox self. Does anyone else have similar experiences? Also, is there any tips for what I should do? It’s been months since I’ve felt like this so I’ve forgotten.

some days I'm fine, other days, everything is just wrong, my body feels wrong, my thoughts don't make sense, I try doing things to make myself feel more like my theriotypes, but it just makes it worse, I don't understand why I can't just feel normal, I try to swing on the swing set, yk feel more connected to my otherkin/theriotypes, but it just makes me sad, because I know it'll never be the same, I can't wear gear of any kind because of my family, but if I could, I don't think it would help.

rephraing this shit since it was TAKEN DOWN GOD DAMNIT.: Every day, I grapple with the thought: why was I born into this prison called a human body? I don't want to be this being; I belong in the woods with wolves. I am a wolf at heart, destined to be one, but the world had other plans for me. They made me human, and I feel trapped without paws, a tail, or the ability to be with my wolf family. Why must I exist as a two-legged creature that can barely think for itself?

In my mind, I often imagine a different version of myself—one who has escaped the confines of humanity. I envision being a wild animal, moving on all fours, communicating only through growls, bites, hisses, and barks. I no longer eat human food, instead consuming what nature provides. In this fantasy, I am finally me—the authentic version of myself that I can never truly be. (i used chatgpt to rephrase it but u get the idea 💀)

Yesterday I had a strong fox shift, after it ended, and I was lost. I went to bed, and then I had a phantom shift. I just sat there, daydreaming, but then the thought came to me. I'll never be a fox. I suddenly started crying. When I cry, I whimper. It was confusing, I still felt like a fox, but I knew I wasn't. I couldn't stop. It lasted about 15 minutes, until i was starting to calm down. I went to sleep. When i woke up the next day I was confused. Like it never happened but it did. Has anyone had this happen? If yes then any help would be appreciated.

One of my theriotypes in which i feel a very strong connection is my maine coon theriotype, and it hit me like a train when i realized i couldnt be a cat, i wasnt a cat, and im still not a cat, i do everything, cat toys, make masks, etc. I hate quads, they hurt my body. I can feel my tail wagging against the cold chair im sitting on while writing this, my ears perked up, listening for any noise. Im sick at the time of writing this, so im not at school, but my tail is always hitting the side of this chair. It wont stop. Ever.

hi! just a quick question. so i have this group chat sort of thing with many therians. some of them, instead of saying theriotypes say therian types. is this just as acceptable or is it only used by people who don't really research? i just would like to know before correcting someone just in case its normal to use! thanks!

So, you all read the title, you know the drill, i think i might have awoken some time febuary this year (2024) , i was playing with my dog , tug a war, and all of a sudden i didnt like feel human? Like i obviously felt human but my mind was thinking like a dog would , its hard to explain, like i was play growling and tugging the toy away from my dog, it felt insane but so free , and then it ended when she finally got the toy away from me (like three or four minutes). It was scary as hell but dang it felt GOOD like i was who i was supposed to be but then it ended and i felt weird like "what the heck just happened?" Anyways that was how i got awoken as a therian.

Ok so I know that therianthropy has NOTHING to do with gender but I relate some parts of my gender to being nonhuman. I am a transgender woman, I am most comfortable with the social aspects of being a woman, I am NOT a man and I'm NOT nonbinary. I feel like my gender just doesn't exist inside my head but I am most comfortable performing as a woman. My internal sense of gender is just indifferent,it feels like I have no concept of gender the same way animals have no concept of it, but I am not comfortable with the terms nonbinary or agender, I hate that humans felt the need to box people into different categories, idk why we can't just live how we want without needing to explain ourselves.

In 2022, I had extreme species dysphoria and would have phantom shifts and mental shifts daily for months and would constantly have to leave the classroom to do laps around the school that I saw as " patrolling the territory ". I wouldn't be able to go outside without wearing either my collar or my tail, but around the end of 2023, it all stopped. I stopped feeling the need to wear anything i used to see as species affirming, and my shifts completely stopped. For a while I even questioned if I was even a therian or not. Cut to about a day ago, and I've out of the blue been having phantom shifts and been feeling species dysphoric again. I didn't realize until I had to stop myself from talking about humans in 3rd person yesterday.