Bleh, it's musty.

We are who we are, nobody has the right answer for that. Therianthropy is all about your personal identity, try not to let it grab you and take you into an existential crisis. It's easy to lose your sense of self when you're only still figuring it out. I went down this path at least three times during my journey, and the last time I'd say wasn't even a year ago.

I am a human, a Therian, I was chosen by mother nature to have a canine heart and be a friend to the earth in a time where it doesn't have many. Therianthropy to me means that I am unintentionally and naturally animalistic, and that I have deeply rooted and intense ties to nature. why? I don't have the answers. We can make theories and speculate, we can say 'there has to be more to it's but we can never know for certain.

Take your time to figure out your identity, you've got your whole lifetime to do it. Nobody is rushing you. Consider what you feel and how you think and react, don't jump to conclusions too fast. Keep a list of the possibilities you think you could identify as/with, and just take your time with it. Self discovery isn't easy for anyone

It's complicated, as I'm just not good at expressing or writing about my personal experiences. I used to only identify as a dog, not long after though I started identifying as a cat as well because though my canine traits were prominent and natural there was another part of me that was animalistic in almost the opposite direction of that makes sense. A little bit of early would searching pointed me in the direction of feline though I'm unsure now I am a feline. However I won't lie latching onto this identity for the time being helped me a lot to understand myself further, even if I knew subconsciously I wasn't one. I'm still unsure at this point If I am or not, I still regularly get involuntary vocal shifts towards cats. I also identify as a coyote which might be where some of the traits I previously attributed to felines came from. I'll likely make a separate post about it when I'm more sure talking about my experiences

Yes Kiko, as said Bloeien, it's kinda hard to reply to all of your questions.
Only you can really understand who you are, but if you need help I am here for you too. :3

So you hase so many questions. And I think I am not able to answer all of them. But you can try to PM me I and I will try at least. Ok? But everyone of us has different meaning about theriantropy, differnt opinions. So I guess you need to find your own way but I will be glad to help you. You are always welcome.

(2025-05-11 14:48)WanderingForests Wrote:  @winged

I really like this explanation! I've always loved hearing about why people are therians because the experience itself is so bizarre and interesting.

I have another little theory about why you're an angel to put out there: oftentimes children, if they spend enough time around something, it will rub off on them and they'll subconsciously adapt that identity/experience/behavior. Maybe you're an angel in some sense because angelic beings (or whatever you believe in) saw the struggle you were going through, recognized it, and tried to protect you or help. And somehow that influenced how your identity developed. Angels are such powerful, energy-charged beings that it would make sense that even the slightest interaction would alter your mind/spirit.

Thoughts?

I never thought about that, but I really like that theory! it makes a lot of sense.

@winged

I really like this explanation! I've always loved hearing about why people are therians because the experience itself is so bizarre and interesting.

I have another little theory about why you're an angel to put out there: oftentimes children, if they spend enough time around something, it will rub off on them and they'll subconsciously adapt that identity/experience/behavior. Maybe you're an angel in some sense because angelic beings (or whatever you believe in) saw the struggle you were going through, recognized it, and tried to protect you or help. And somehow that influenced how your identity developed. Angels are such powerful, energy-charged beings that it would make sense that even the slightest interaction would alter your mind/spirit.

Thoughts?


*I'd also like to tack on at the end here: I'm sorry for you loss, I just lost someone very important to me a few days ago as well. I hope you're doing okay, let me know if there's anything I can do to support you. <3

I am not a human, I do not understand people... Who am I? I do not know who I am... Maybe I am an angel? Or a demon? So many questions.... And no answers. Help me understand why we are not like people.... Who are we?Therians. But could it be that we are some kind of aliens with a human body? Or elves? Dragons? Kitsune? Demons? Help me understand all this... I don't understand anything...

(2025-05-11 7:21)winged Wrote:  My personal explanation to my therianthropy,

I believe that at birth, I was born as a human. As I grew up in a household surrounded by abuse and violence, something about my humanity disappeared, as if it was “ripped” from me or taken.

This is likely because when I was young and my household was undergoing issues, my human survival instincts weren’t working to keep me safe, therefore animal spirits somehow altered my subconscious, making my instincts more animalistic in order to keep me safe.

(Personally, my spiritual belief is that I do not understand how the otherworld works and will not until I die, but I do think that angels/spirits/ghosts/energies exist in some way, shape, or form.)

This affected my ability to function within social settings, and how I reacted to certain events. My brain gained a “survival” perspective onto mundane tasks, and everyday events.

I felt like my life would be better if i was born an animal, my human body felt wrong and was unable to do the things I wanted it to.

Um, I don't really know how to finish this, but that's why I consider myself a therian

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A few important notes -

* Many of the negative experiences with therianthropy I have are also symptoms of the conditions C-PTSD or BPD. I may get a diagnosis soon of one for these soon from my therapist.

* This explains my theriotype because it was not one animal species that my instincts are inlined with, rather it was many species of animals all becoming one with me. My subconscious clinged onto cats or cat-like creatures as my theriotype, because I was already enamored with them from childhood, so that's what I label my theriotype as despite having traits of other animals.

* This also explains my angel kintype, because my subconscious was changed by animal spirits, so of course my theriotypes are also animal spirits. I’ve also considered that my angel kintype is because I’ve been exposed to trauma that felt like life or death, and maybe because of that I spiritually died, but not physically, but I’m not sure about this.

* This is not the only explanation I believe is possible for therianthropy. I think that what creates therianthropy is another part of you that is an animal, that became aligned with your humanself in some way. Some are born with it (maybe due to past lives, alternate universes, or just because that's how they were born), others acquiring it through, as I described, trauma or something else spiritually/neurologically.

* I am young and somewhat recently (two years ago) discovered my therianthropy. I’m learning more about it everyday, so this theory might change as I find out more about myself.

* This is all what I personally think! I try to keep my views about spirituality as general and open as possible because in the end, there's no way I can know anything about this for sure. Feel free to share your own thoughts!

Hopefully that makes sense, I am writing this as I am going through a (hypomanic) bipolar episode AND trying to distract myself from a loss, so forgive me if its messy :,3

I am like that too, my kitsune is dual, I am not a demon and not quite an angel, I am looking for myself, I am not a person, I do not know who I am......

My personal explanation to my therianthropy,

I believe that at birth, I was born as a human. As I grew up in a household surrounded by abuse and violence, something about my humanity disappeared, as if it was “ripped” from me or taken.

This is likely because when I was young and my household was undergoing issues, my human survival instincts weren’t working to keep me safe, therefore animal spirits somehow altered my subconscious, making my instincts more animalistic in order to keep me safe.

(Personally, my spiritual belief is that I do not understand how the otherworld works and will not until I die, but I do think that angels/spirits/ghosts/energies exist in some way, shape, or form.)

This affected my ability to function within social settings, and how I reacted to certain events. My brain gained a “survival” perspective onto mundane tasks, and everyday events.

I felt like my life would be better if i was born an animal, my human body felt wrong and was unable to do the things I wanted it to.

Um, I don't really know how to finish this, but that's why I consider myself a therian

-

A few important notes -

* Many of the negative experiences with therianthropy I have are also symptoms of the conditions C-PTSD or BPD. I may get a diagnosis soon of one for these soon from my therapist.

* This explains my theriotype because it was not one animal species that my instincts are inlined with, rather it was many species of animals all becoming one with me. My subconscious clinged onto cats or cat-like creatures as my theriotype, because I was already enamored with them from childhood, so that's what I label my theriotype as despite having traits of other animals.

* This also explains my angel kintype, because my subconscious was changed by animal spirits, so of course my theriotypes are also animal spirits. I’ve also considered that my angel kintype is because I’ve been exposed to trauma that felt like life or death, and maybe because of that I spiritually died, but not physically, but I’m not sure about this.

* This is not the only explanation I believe is possible for therianthropy. I think that what creates therianthropy is another part of you that is an animal, that became aligned with your humanself in some way. Some are born with it (maybe due to past lives, alternate universes, or just because that's how they were born), others acquiring it through, as I described, trauma or something else spiritually/neurologically.

* I am young and somewhat recently (two years ago) discovered my therianthropy. I’m learning more about it everyday, so this theory might change as I find out more about myself.

* This is all what I personally think! I try to keep my views about spirituality as general and open as possible because in the end, there's no way I can know anything about this for sure. Feel free to share your own thoughts!

Hopefully that makes sense, I am writing this as I am going through a (hypomanic) bipolar episode AND trying to distract myself from a loss, so forgive me if its messy :,3