Thats really interesting!

Personally it's really hard for me to tell why i feel what i feel, but i don't think i had a past life. I have two main theories.

1. It's just how i was born. for no reason. I was just born with part of an animal in me. I experience animalistic urges and feelings that happen to match up with an animal.

2. As a child i played so many games as animals, and i grew up around pets, that eventually it just became a part of me. other things came into play like how it made me feel safe and happy, but thats the gist.

I have other small parts of theories but nothing big. I don't really personally believe my therianthropy was really caused by anything, its just how i am.

I'm not. I may have been a wolf in a previous incarnation (figurately speaking), and then my love and life was taken from me. I was rendered a disembodied spirit existing in torment. Over decades I came to realize I have to inhabit the body to "reincarnate." The body is a neural network attached to a bunch of smart machinery. Flesh and blood. I don't like it but I can live with it.

What makes me believe that I'm therian?
The predisposition of consciousness to shifts, sometimes dog behavior, admiration for dogs and their bodies...
In fact, although I know that my therianthropy is psychological, I cannot give an answer why I have it. Until the age of 18, I thought that I was a man; after the awakening, I cannot consider myself that way. If earlier I doubted whether I was therian, now I understand that I am one. It's a part of me and it won't leave me.
It can be suppressed, it can be denied, but it is unlikely to leave us. Because it is part of each of us. And I don't know how or why she came into my life. But I am proud that I got a new path for development, a new meaning and a new impetus. A new plane where I want to evolve.

i know im a therian because ive been a dog since i was young. a young kid hiding in the corner like a scared animal, running outside at night, and just being "abnormal" in general. its definitely partly to do with my trauma and schizophrenia, and i just feel the animal inside me, being me. i am a dog, i just am.... idk if this is just the ramblings of a mad man XD

(2023-06-26 12:22)Lupus Ferox Wrote:  

(2023-06-24 5:44)Alliana Wrote:  Otherkin beings to me are like elves and dragons for instance that have a community.

What do you mean, humanoids?

I mean those who are sapient, don't have to be humanoid. Just those who don't act wild or anything, that would apply to therians.

Sorry if I don't make sense. But that's what I believe.

(2023-06-07 15:05)indoraptor Wrote:  but I would not consider those the source of my therianthropy; rather, I consider them external factors that led me to discovering my therianthropy.

I believe that my therian identity has spiritual roots and a psychological stem.

As an autistic kid, I was often put to the side in human settings, so I spent a lot of time with animals. Additionally, I often felt that whenever I showed emotion, I was treated like a wild animal rather than a person. As a result, I preferred the company of animals and felt more like an animal. I don't think these things originated my therian identity, but I think they made me more likely to realize it later on.
In short, I think this was always a part of me, but I might not have fully realized it if it weren't for the factors that made me feel so fundamentally different.

In that sense, my animal soul is the root and my life experiences are the stem that allowed my therian identity to grow from it. In the absence of either, the flower wouldn't have ever come to be ^^

(2023-06-24 5:44)Alliana Wrote:  Otherkin beings to me are like elves and dragons for instance that have a community.

What do you mean, humanoids?

I don't think I'm otherkin, in fact, I don't think I know what it all entails.

Therianthropy seems more familiar to me. There was a certain click with wolves I didn't understand at first, yet it did change the whole outlook on life from that point on. There wasn't even a name for it at the time, even though I knew about the lycanthropy as seen in movies but didn't expect there would be other individuals who had similar experiences like my own. Revelation, the moment I entered "real werewolves" on the internet! I don't think therianthropy just goes poof, and it's there, like so many young are inclined to believe. You don't go about saying you're a wolf or anything else the moment or after you enter your query. Therianthropy to me nowadays, is just like an additional fragment existing in the back of my mind and not paid much attention to. I just know that looking up wolves or seeing them by accident triggers homesickness and longing. They can even make me happy in some cases. It varies depending on what's happened during the day and moment. Aside from that, I am practically emotionally constipated as is.

Therianthropy just seems to be the best label I have. My internal self image has always been nonhuman to some degree. Not always consistant on species but always there and impossible to ignore. It describes my experiences with feeling and behaving in an animalistic way, which started from young enough that I can't remember feeling any differently.

Idk where it came from, or why I'm like this, and there's definitely been experiences in my life that have both contributed to it and subdued it. It's something that seems to have been there from the start in some way, but also developed into what it is now by things outside my control.

I believe that my past experiences, especially with my m-shifts of my werewolf side have led me to believe I am a werewolf therian. I am also dissociative with it and I feel this way because of how I perceive myself. That and when I see werewolf movies or literature, I just go: "OMG That's me!". For Jaguar therioside, it's the same deal here, it just clicked. Now people here probably think I am a werewolf therian because they are so big and bad. But really, I would rather not be one because of the strong m-shifts when I get stressed, plus the whole wanting to eat others which is prominent in werewolf movies.

You are probably wondering why I don't call myself otherkin because of my mythical werewolf side. The reason is: I believe that animals that are wild or feral are akin to therianthropy. The beastly side of it. Otherkin beings to me are like elves and dragons for instance that have a community. In other words, not really wild or feral, but just used as an example.

But yeah, that is why.

In general, is it usual for us to not know what we feel? I agree to the battling going in my head, as well as to my therianthropy being based on my past. Cheers to the people who wrote this.