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/!\ Tw for caps, and topics like dysphoria /!\ Long rant because I feel like Therian is used differently for different people and also I don’t really have anything better to do As we all know, everybody is different. So when I say I’m a therian, what does that mean? Well, it actually doesn’t affect me 24/7 thankfully, there can be weeks where I’ll forget and then BOOM. Maybe I’m a goofy lil guy, or maybe… DYSPHORIA. I’ll feel icky in my own skin, phantom limbs, extreme disassociation and the inability to express how I’m feeling in general. On a couple occasions even hearing my own human thoughts in my head are painful and I can’t talk. I don’t go physically nonverbal, but I just don’t want to talk. Now, this is extreme dysphoria, other times it will just be phantom limbs like a tail, ears, wings, maybe paws. The wings are probably the worst. The worst kin type I’ve ever had was ghostkin, and ik a lot of ppl probably have a lot of different ideas of what a ghost was, this mainly stemmed from me being clingy and feeling alone. I hated having a reflection. Didn’t like seeing a face in the mirror, felt like I just kind of floated around, invisible. Definitely an involuntary identity. Anyone who chooses to be an otherkin please get out, you can be a furry or a quadrobist or an artist but this isn’t all fun and masks. I also try to do quads, as I don’t always have dysphoric ‘shifts’. I’ve never FULLY shifted, just felt very animalistic. Usually when I’m a more canine animal, like a coyote or lab, some cats, I feel extremely playful and silly. These kinds of shifts are very hard in school because like, what can I do? Any shift at school is hard. But when I’m more playful, I like to do quads and jump around, wearing a mask helps sometimes, and I just goof off. I’m very lucky to have irl friends who understand and I can tell when I feel icky, but sometimes I just don’t know how to communicate stuff like that. If I were to try and name every animal or thing I’ve looked at and been genuinely like ‘yeah that’s me’ I’d have a very long list. One time I think I had an actual fictionkin shift and I had a whole identity crisis after that(you can ask if u want, idk). Anyway, being a therian can be fun, it can be scary or sad, but overall I’m just trying to make it through life. Lmk if anyone else relates lol :P Also I’m not out to many people bc u never know who u can trust, but there’s a chance my parents know bc they used to go through my phone. So. Idk [edit: thankful a lot of ppl are seeing this :) anyways, I just wanna add smth not necessarily related to therianthropy but still me- I do this one thing that’s mainly used as a coping mechanism but it’s not allowed to be discussed on scratch and I got my old main blocked for saying it which is really stupid because it’s not bad but if u know what im talking about can we please make a codeword because I still want to be able to tell someone about it? Ty thats all]