(To my knowledge) Psychological therianthropy is the belief that critters are therians because of a psycological factor (eg neurodiversity), correct?

What im saying is that my theory is that (becuse everyone has nom-human past lives, its impossible not to except for like a 1 in 1000000 chance) therianthropy is simply a neurodivergency that causes the memories/feelings/thoughts/other stuff to leak from the past lives into the mind of the present “life”.

Does this make more sense? Sorry if this one isnt clear either/ you still dont think ive included pschologoicl therians.

Also if anyone has already put a theory on here that is similar/ the same as this, it was not my intention to and i genuinely thought it was an original idea, just notify me and i will remove it!

A known theory for spiritual therianthropy, but what about us psychological therians?

(to give backstory, i believe in reincarnation of animal, human and plant spirits)

So basically ive been thinking for a while about why critters are therians, and I thought “if alterhumans are reincarnated nom-human spirits/souls in human bodys, why arent there more therians? There are trillions of insects alone, with billions more of other species (not even counting micro-organisms and single-celled macro-organisms)”

So, why is that? I think it could be because basicqlly each soul has innumerable past “lives”, memorys, feelings, sensory thingys, or even just general emotions transferring into the current live’s conciousness, but (heres the important part)

What if you can only access those transfers with some form of neurodivergency?

Im not talking about having adhd/asd/bpd or stuff like that

(but i have seen a disproportionately large amount of therians with neurodivergences, but that might be unrelated, just because critters with those conditions are used to being marginalised, and it helps them with realising what those transfers are and interpreting them)

What i Am saying though, is that (in my opinion/experience) therianthropy is a combination of having a neurodivergency, and having past non-human lives (and i think therianthropy is just the presence of this neurodivergency, like how people can be neurodivergent but not therians)

I know its not a very well developed theory (imo), but does anyone have any questions / this lines up with anyone else’s experiences or opinions?

Also apologies if i got anything wront/offended anyone, just notify me and ill try nd fix it!

(2025-12-04 21:52)Pinepieee Wrote:  

(2023-11-27 7:48)DustWolf Wrote:  Hey guys,

Happy therianthropy day!

As is our historic custom, therianthropy day is celebrated on the first full moon in November, which is today on the 27th .

To quote @BearX who posted this back in 2017:

(2017-11-04 14:44)BearX Wrote:  Today is the first full moon of November, 2017. The first full moon of November has been a sort of de facto "Therianthropy Day" since the mid 1990s. It was when, 23 years ago, on the weekend of November 19 & 20, 1994, the first official AHWW howl was held.

I was unable to attend it, although I did make the two that followed. I was a broke college student and had no transportation at the time. It was fun reading the post-howl reports on the newsgroup, though.

I always felt it was a good time to have an official celebration of therianthropy, since the AHWW newsgroup itself was created in November, 1992. Very momentous for therians, November is.

It was first proposed as a sort of holiday in March of 1996, in this thread on AHWW, should you want to investigate the history. Ultimately, AHWW decided to use it, and it stuck. It went through a few iterations of names, "International Werewolf Day", and then the less species-specific "Awereness Day" (since were is the older term for therian), and after the term therianthropy caught on, "Therianthropy Day".

So, happy "Therianthropy Day". Hope it's a good one.

We never quite figured out what we were going to do for Therianthropy Day. Maybe bake a cake. Maybe be proud and celebrate your therianthropy online by bragging about your animal traits. Maybe just chill out and have that one day in a year when you let your animal side out a bit more than usual. There are no rules on what must be done for therianthropy day.

If nothing else, it's a day to be true to ourselves and remember what all this is all about.

Take care.

LP,
Dusty

We should have a special item for this that's only available on Therianthropy Day! I feel it should be free of charge, jst something to use to celebrate!

Like a special smiley or something

For me, doing research means to spend ample time looking things up, rather that be scrolling through forums such as this one, websites, reading books, articles, watching informational videos/documentaries, etc.
To me the best thing you can do is experience. Talk to other therians, or even trusted friends and loved ones. Live out your therianthropy through expression, physically and emotionally, experiment with labels, etc.

Of course you'll need to be careful with those last two sentences. I'm not recommending that you tell others about your therianthropy if you deem it to be unsafe, just for clarifaction! Also, try to stick with what your gut is telling you.

Apparently the thread I thought I had already replied to on this subject is not the same as this one.

Basically what I said last time was "labels are meant to be used to help explain a part of someone, either to an outsider or to themself. If it isn't doing either, I don't particularly see the point, but it's not hurting anyone so I could care less."

This is still pretty much how I feel. I still think MOGAI and LIOM labels are community building and fun, even if they might not be particularly useful otherwise, which, honestly, they often are quite useful. Just in a more introspective sort of way.

I used to put more stock in microlabels, but as time has gone on, I've become more and more annoyed by them. At this point, with seemingly everyone wanting to bandwagon onto creating yet more niche terms that no one else will innately understand, the microlabeling craze in therian communities has bloated to the point of hindering discussion rather than helping it.

(2023-11-27 7:48)DustWolf Wrote:  Hey guys,

Happy therianthropy day!

As is our historic custom, therianthropy day is celebrated on the first full moon in November, which is today on the 27th .

To quote @BearX who posted this back in 2017:

(2017-11-04 14:44)BearX Wrote:  Today is the first full moon of November, 2017. The first full moon of November has been a sort of de facto "Therianthropy Day" since the mid 1990s. It was when, 23 years ago, on the weekend of November 19 & 20, 1994, the first official AHWW howl was held.

I was unable to attend it, although I did make the two that followed. I was a broke college student and had no transportation at the time. It was fun reading the post-howl reports on the newsgroup, though.

I always felt it was a good time to have an official celebration of therianthropy, since the AHWW newsgroup itself was created in November, 1992. Very momentous for therians, November is.

It was first proposed as a sort of holiday in March of 1996, in this thread on AHWW, should you want to investigate the history. Ultimately, AHWW decided to use it, and it stuck. It went through a few iterations of names, "International Werewolf Day", and then the less species-specific "Awereness Day" (since were is the older term for therian), and after the term therianthropy caught on, "Therianthropy Day".

So, happy "Therianthropy Day". Hope it's a good one.

We never quite figured out what we were going to do for Therianthropy Day. Maybe bake a cake. Maybe be proud and celebrate your therianthropy online by bragging about your animal traits. Maybe just chill out and have that one day in a year when you let your animal side out a bit more than usual. There are no rules on what must be done for therianthropy day.

If nothing else, it's a day to be true to ourselves and remember what all this is all about.

Take care.

LP,
Dusty

We should have a special item for this that's only available on Therianthropy Day! I feel it should be free of charge, jst something to use to celebrate!

(2025-12-03 22:53)Lopori Wrote:  Can't be doing with them. Just explain in real words what you mean damnit, microlabels don't communicate anything that can be understood by the uninitiated.

This.

People often defend microlabels by saying that it's like a shortcut when talking about these things, not just in the context of therianthropy but also a lot in the LGBTQ context. These "shortcuts" don't mean anything and don't help because not only can people misunderstand the meaning or apply it to themselves differently than how it was "originally intended", but also because of the expectation that people will just magically know what they're talking about just because it's a single word now. I personally have no clue what any of these microlabels mean, especially in the LGBTQ community. In the therian community there's at least just a handful...

What's the need for shortcuts anyway? Why won't people just have real discussions anymore?

(2025-11-26 23:33)FernFox Wrote:  The way it's presented makes it sound like an offshoot of the otherkin community (prefix other-, likening it to otherkin, and suffix -paw, random and non-descriptive). It goes along with my chief complaint that these labels aren't intelligible, and without googling it, it's entirely unclear what it's meant to represent.

I guess we can't be choosers since we didn't make it, but if creating a label for animal cosplay was a necessity, I wish that a different term had caught on. Quadrobist was already right there.
Maybe I'm also just picky with linguistics.

I forgot I wanted to reply to you as well so apologies for the double post!

I agree and share the frustration. Aren't animal cosplayers just called... furries? I mean they literally are just a subgroup of the furry fandom and have nothing to do with therianthropy. Why not make the label "quadrofur" or something? The -fur suffix is already common for subgroups of the fandom and that name would make way more sense and be more easily understood by the general population.

Can't be doing with them. Just explain in real words what you mean damnit, microlabels don't communicate anything that can be understood by the uninitiated.