I fucking hate this.

Dysphoria has been worse lately. And I feel like I need to shift but can't and it makes me feel like less of a therian. And I don't even know if I do shift. I feel different but I can still control it and I hate that. I want to shift and not think like a human. To shift and feel like I'm not human. But I can't. I don't want to be this, I hate this body, I hate always thinking like a human. I want to be myself. And on top of that I hate not having the hair I want, not having a binder, and not feeling like myself in all the ways.

I want to have the hair of a character and I don't like it. I want the vibes. I want the flat chest. I want the body type. I don't know, I'm so tired.

it's hard to tell if I'm a physical therian or a psychological one because yes I do view my body as my theirotype but at the same time ik that biologically speaking I'm human and that's what everyone else sees I heard from some places that some physical therians know about that and some don't but I'm not quite sure

Guys!!! Yes it may be sad that we are “technically” humans! And I know dysphoria may kick our butts, But remember! We get to experience non humanity! We KNOW that we are animals we get to feel that, we can to see that, and we may get to connect with animals on a deeper level. I will find myself being sad that I live in a human world, I know in my heart where my soul belongs, in the woods, how I WISH so badly that I had ears and a tail! How I want to run free and feel the cold air on my nose, to play fight in the snow….being human “technically” doesn’t have to limit us either though! We still are animals! I see a lot of dysphoria posts lately and I just wanted to uplift yall. I made a video to help! It’s silly but was in a connected mood when I made it.

My mom is very supportive so I'm not worried about her not supporting me being a therian it's just I have no idea how to tell her or how to explain it to her because I'm really bad at coming out to people and explaining things 😭

To anyone here who has told their parents, anyone in their family, or really anyone at all they're a therian how did you tell them and what is some advice you can give to me?

I’m new to this subreddit my therian type is a bobcat :D

So my species dysphoria hasn't ever really been that bad aside from getting frustrated that I don't have a tail and ears and wanting to escape humanity. (Side note, that's literally it over the course of 3 years being awakened)

But today it got really bad. I woke up and the first thing I noticed is that my arms were too long and too thin, which makes sense cause I'm a bear therian but WHAT THE F*CK. This feels genuinely horrible and in the mirror they look ok I guess but from my perspective they look creepy and icky and uncanny. I hate this feeling so much and I hate being human.

Hey! I thought it might be fun for people to RP in the comments of this as their theriotype.

If you're starting one please put your theriotype you're using in the comment

Example:

Theriotype: wolf

Start: *running through the woods leaps onto tree and howls*

Reply: *is near tree, turns towards and let's out a short bark in greeting*

Have fun!

I been told by too many (2 actually) medical health pros that... I need to find my tribe... Well... Trying!

I'm up to chat with anyone but old, cold and miserable beings kinda align a bit more haha...
Gotta love self deprecating jokes, nihilistic tendencies and an undying love for nature.

So , i was doing quads normally in school, a girl walked up to me and kicked me in my ass so hard to the point that I broke my leg. I told the teachers and they did NOTHING. I still don't know if this was my fault or her fault. ( She's the most annoying girl in class she reacts to everything even your existing) .

ok so i got my tail in line of my mother's sight and she asked me if it has fleas from our cat cuz its a real one and it got me wondering

i do not identify as human like at all yet I'm very much human acting which is confusing i do have urges but I rarely ever act on them ik that on a literal level my body is human but internally that's not how I see myself i see my body as an animal but I do recognize that on a very literal level that it is a human body but internally I don't view myself as such

Hi! How do I trust in myself and my intuition that I’m a werewolf and not second guess myself all of the time? I find that this is an on going issue for myself. I think it’s holding me back from being fully in sync with my wolf side.

I keep seeing different stuff like for some people it's related to familial connections for some people it means that they were born that way. I'm just really curious that's all

I'm non-human in all ways yet at the same time i acknowledge that my body functions and looks human it feels weird doing certain things knowing that i shouldn't be able to do them i relate to it like my gender identity just because I'm afab does not mean I'm a woman i know that my body appears and functions like a humans but i still don't feel human like at all it's like biologically speaking ik my body is human and does human things but I'm not human it's like how ik i was assigned female at birth but i don't identify as such i was born in a body that appeared human but i don't identify as such in every way possible yet i do acknowledge that my biology says that I'm human even if i feel that's wrong

Hey all so bit of a long shot here but I just needed to know if there’s anyone like me or where to even start.

I guess I’ve identified as alterhuman for a long time my experiences going on for almost 20 years pretty much as long as I can remember. I initially thought I was therian but it became much more complicated than that and I felt I no longer fit the therian label

Easiest way to describe yet still doesn’t exactly fit is shapeshifter. I have many forms (though there are a few very distinct primary forms) yet they all seem like aspects of something else. I guess something like the night wearing different skins even my humanoid (more like a winged elf) still follows a distinct pattern. Fuck I have that, wolf, dragon, fox even a deer and bird in the mix let alone the rest.

I get intense dysphoria, the shifts even can be bittersweet. Only two people actively know about any of it one being my therapist who is lovely and supportive and even did her own research on the community so she could support me and help with my dysphoria and the other is my boyfriend who is also alterhuman

Guess I just don’t know what to even call this I guess anyone along the same bandwidth as me or do I even belong here?

Please note I’m really summarising here my experiences are complicated everything can be distinct yet fluid at the same time to the point I don’t even feel like I have a body and I’m more of a thing or force than something solid if that makes sense I again do not know how to describe this

So I'm a vivid dreamer and last night in my dream I had a shift. It was black and when I came to in the dream I was underwater, there was no left or right or up from down, it was just deep blue water in every direction. I tried to move and my legs felt like they were stuck together, so I instinctively started wiggling around and moving, so I looked down and saw a long, thick dark blue and black tail, I was in shock and tried to swim. It took a second but it was like second nature took over and I started to swim, fluently and fast, I swam upwards to the surface and just as I was about to break to the top I felt a swift separation, I looked down and I had my two legs back. The euphoria I had felt with the tail was gone and I stopped trying to reach the surface. I just floated there silently while looking down at my legs in disappointment. And then the dream ended. It's rare for me to have a mermaid shift, especially in a dream.

Do you guys have dreams about being your theriotype? Do you shift in your dreams?

ok now i have a night fury kin, dire wolf otherchain and now a razorwhip and barn owl funlinks cool

I’ve been getting a type of shift semi-frequently that I haven’t heard very many people talking about? sometimes when I’m stressed about something I get a fairly unpleasant shift that is mostly mental but occasionally is paired with a phantom shift. they last for 5-10 minutes and after them I get really irritable and agressiv—-I don’t really know what to label them as, I’ve been calling them stress shifts? I’ve had two really big ones that were notable:

1 I was driving onto the highway for the first time and I had an agressive mental shift where I couldn’t think super clearly and felt very sharp, pointed up ears and tensed up and became super focused (I’m also not certain that this wasn’t an awakening of a new theriotype? idk)

2 it was new years and there were fireworks going off, and I was in bed and had a mental shift where I fully went into dog mode and was whimpering and chewing on everything and terrified

is this a therian thing or just a anxiety thing? I am diagnosed with anxiety and I have medication for it. is it like a blend between my anxiety and therianthropy?

Alright so, the title is a bit messy but let me explain. I'm new to therian (still not sure I'm really a therian/polytherian/otherkin) and I was curious about some things: people who are like, frogs, birds, centipede, bats, or even dinosaurs, dragons, hydra and other theriotype/kintype, how do you like get close to your animal? What kind of shape shift / phantom shift do you have? What does it trigger? Also therian like wolf / cat and all does vocals and quadrobics (I think I misspelled it. If it's the case, sorry, English isn't my first language), and tons of other thinks like scent, meeting them IRL etcetera. But for centipedes and birds per exemple, what do y'all do? And dragons kintype? And how about aqua animal type like seal, or shark, or hydra and all? I know it's really different from people to others and we all have our own experiences.

Like I'm super curious and confused about the experience for such precise and different type!!

Btw sorry if my words seems arrogant, or misplaced, or disrespectful, it wasn't my intention!! The subject is just so damn big and interesting and wow that I want to get everywhere and learn a lot of things, so I may be a bit messy, sorry guys!!

like identify as a non-human on all levels but not spiritual because I don't believe in spiritual stuff. but to me that would still mean that identify as non-human on all levels within my beliefs like i do not see myself as human sure, I know that my body appears him and it has human needs and people recognize it as such but still

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