i personally love microlabels! i love seeing people coining and using hyper specific labels to best explain how they feel! we use lots of microlabels because of out autism and OCD and we get super excited when we find a new label that fits us!

ALL HAIL THE GREAT FEATHERED ONE PEEKO

Haven't read what others have said yet, so hopefully I'm not just repeating what someone else has already spoken about, but;

In my opinion microlabels are more harmful than they are good.

With my expirience, most microlabels are simply created for one individual to put their expiriences into words perfectly, for either ease of use or to find others with alike expiriences.
In the end, they are very constricting and have a lot of gatekeeping surrounding them due to how specific they are.

Finding your identity is hard enough, and trying to find the perfect box to fit yourself into is next to impossible. I've had this happen to me before and it gave me such stress and anxiety, and the feeling of not belonging and constant instability in how I felt.

I have found myself being happiest by using vague and broad labels. These labels leave room for change and flexibility in my identity but still describe my main experience. Instead of being omnisexual/a lesbian I now most often go by sapphic, instead of being a suntherian I go by just therian, etc. Identity changes, so why restrict ourselves by microlabels?
If someone's confused by your identity because your label is too vague, just explain your expirience! On top of that, your own explanation could let the other person know way more about you than a one word label can.

In the end, I will support and respect all labels, vague or not. I know that feeling of wanting to fit perfectly into a label, I'm a perfectionist, I get it. But sometimes giving up on that is best for your mental health.
(But anyways, label yourself however you wish! This was my experience and my opinion, take it or leave it. I'll refer to you however you'd like! :3)

I am in a country where it is not convenient to access the English Internet. So when therian spread to China, four-legged crawling and masks became the focus.Although many popular science workers have emerged in the follow-up to correct children's ideas, it is most important to self-identify with their animal type.But it is an inevitable trend for equipment to become the mainstream.Do I want to be similar on Tik Tok?

(2026-04-20 11:54)Lupita Wrote:  I am in a country where it is not convenient to access the English Internet. So when therian spread to China, four-legged crawling and masks became the focus.Although many popular science workers have emerged in the follow-up to correct children's ideas, it is most important to self-identify with their animal type.But it is an inevitable trend for equipment to become the mainstream.Do I want to be similar on Tik Tok?

I hope everyone can understand this terrible translator.

Is @Senna ok?

Peeko thanks everyone for the sacrifices made in her name. She has been sated enough to be placed back into containment... for now.

Sorry i think we ate all the berries. Will start running

(2026-03-25 10:21)DyadDryad Wrote:  I wasn't sure whether this was agreed on in the community and I just wanted to ask for some clarity as I've seen the term 'Therianthropy' used in both contexts!

Basically, do you think that:

- "Therianthropy is a term which describes my set of experiences as my theriotype (such as shifts)"

or

- "Therianthropy is an innate quality that I have which is the source of my therian experiences (such as shifts)"

It's a bit of a "chicken and the egg" scenario. Do therian experiences make a therian? Or does therianthropy cause therian experiences? The way we discover our own theriotypes suggests the former - i.e. "I am a wolf therian because I experience wolf like qualities in shifts", but I've also heard it talked about as something innate too, as the mechanisms by which our experiences occur.

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quick edit because apparently i didn't proofread lmao-

I've had a strong feeling of yearning towards the mentality of my theriotype since I was a kid - whenever I saw it in media, textbooks or just the animals themselves, there was this kind of aching pull. I've had experiences that I would now describe as "shifts" since I was a kid too - and have continued having experiences with the same characteristics since. Experiences that get triggered by the same things, such as nature at night and such. Here's the problem with the "chicken or the egg" thing: To me, therianthropy is both the source and the descriptor of those experiences. Why is it the source? Because there's a specific kind of neurodivergence in my head that does not belong to the category "autism", that is not strictly a result of coping mechanisms for C-PTSD, and has always been there. Why is it the descriptor? Because this neurodivergence doesn't have another name, and so I call it and retrospectively apply the label "therianthropy" to those experiences. Could it have been called something else if my life had led me down a very different route? Sure, but that's not how things went in this life. Throughout history, identity has retrospectively been applied to (groups of) people all the time - and often times, people will try to invalidate idenitites by saying "Well, you could also just be this or that." But this can be done with literally every identity label. And there's a reason the ones we have now stuck.

@Bagera I am sorry for what I did please I am really sorry for speaking bad about Peeko I did not mean to offend you Peeko pleas ei am truly sorry *gives sunflwere seeds and blackberries* please forgive me I hope you forgive me soon

I am sorry Peeko I am really sorry please forgive