Oh wow, that’s such an interesting theory! Out of everything I’ve seen, this one definitely makes the most sense, at least imo

I have a bit of gear! (Faux) fox ears and a fox tail. I also have a black cat tail and wanna get more ears (including some without matching tails) just because I like them. I wear collars but I wouldn’t consider them gear in my case, I’m just alt. Wearing my gear just makes me feel nice lol. I don’t usually wear it that in public, though.
I kind of want masks, but not completely in a gear sort of way; I just like to dress up & masks are fun to make and wear

(2021-03-03 8:33)OakLeaf Wrote:  I tryed it and it's actually quite fun. But I dislike seeing young therians post videos with music of them running on all 4rs with animal masks. It just looks a little cringe.

Eh. It isn't all that cringe. Some people make a true art of it. Just look at wildnettle_115. Their masks, and form are absolutely stunning. There are some truly talented people that do this.

I think that TWs and CWs are important in serious topics like SH. I personally like SH trigger warnings because the mention of it can sometimes bring SH urges that are hard to fight. I generally lose those battles... Another thing, having TWs for things that may cause negative shifts. Negative shifts don't generally go away because alterhumanity doesn't go away. Having negative shifts triggered is hard for the individual, and no matter how many times they have negative shifts triggered, they probably won't change based upon the experience of one's negative shifting. That means negative shifts don't heal because they don't go away. I had a negative shift triggered by the hunting of my theriotype. I was shaking whimpering, and hyperventilating. In serious content, put a CW or a TW.

Wow. This actually makes like so much sense. I really like this theory. It clicked somewhere inside me.

(2023-10-12 23:51)Edible_Emerald Wrote:  

(2023-10-11 22:55)Siris Wrote:  I feel like this ignores the experiences of spiritual therians and tries to force things into a clinical box. I've been through a lot of psych evaluations as I was part of the clinical study into ADD/ADHD and can say definitively while I am neurodivergent with ADD I am certainly not autistic. Secondly therianthropy does not itself impact the ability for a person to live a day to day life so it would be wrong to call or compare it to a disability in much the same way we would not consider transgender to be so for exactly the same reason.

ok, I was just saying

I'm reading that you're being very passive aggressive and it's confusing because this is a theory,

You're reading between the lines a bit too much on something I wrote at 4am and some of that is on me for probably not articulating too well. I was simply remarking on where I see flaws in the theory nothing more. I was just simply using myself and my expirences as an example.

(2023-10-11 22:55)Siris Wrote:  I feel like this ignores the experiences of spiritual therians and tries to force things into a clinical box. I've been through a lot of psych evaluations as I was part of the clinical study into ADD/ADHD and can say definitively while I am neurodivergent with ADD I am certainly not autistic. Secondly therianthropy does not itself impact the ability for a person to live a day to day life so it would be wrong to call or compare it to a disability in much the same way we would not consider transgender to be so for exactly the same reason.

ok, I was just saying

I'm reading that you're being very passive aggressive and it's confusing because this is a theory,

I feel like this ignores the experiences of spiritual therians and tries to force things into a clinical box. I've been through a lot of psych evaluations as I was part of the clinical study into ADD/ADHD and can say definitively while I am neurodivergent with ADD I am certainly not autistic. Secondly therianthropy does not itself impact the ability for a person to live a day to day life so it would be wrong to call or compare it to a disability in much the same way we would not consider transgender to be so for exactly the same reason.

Hi,

I hesitated to reply to this one, because it is essentially true, but it's also very easy to misunderstand.

So, essentially "neurodivergence" is having an atypical brain. Therianthropy is a condition of the mind aka the brain and it is atypical. So in essence, therianthropy is a neurodivergence.


But I think the more common-sense interpretation of the statement "therianthropy is a neurodivergence" kinda implies that therianthropy and autism are basically the same thing.

Even though in the eyes of science neither therianthropy or autism are particularly well understood, this comparison kinda points to a larger problem which causes this type of reasoning:

That is, that young people who are new to concepts like "autism" or "therianthropy", do not yet have a particularly profound understanding of the conditions, and therefore have no idea that they are, in fact, completely different things. It's the same story with otherkin and fictionkin and everything else that Alt+H tends to encompass, not to mention gender identity issues, mental disorders and so forth. Young people assume that because they do not understand these things that they are all the same and interchangeable.

They are not all the same, or interchangeable. As you spend more time in the community and your understanding of your own experiences and those of other people increases, you will be able to tell what the differences are.


Of course what exactly those differences are is super hard to talk about, so you might see a lot of people get angry and frustrated, with being unable to easily explain it to you.

LP,
Dusty

Alright, so a few things. I see your point, because like. A lot of us have autism, but here's the thing. Feeling like a animal is a symptom of autism. Because we don't feel like we can communicate normally with other beings around us. So there is a reason why many of us are autistic, however not all of us are autistic. For example, I do not know if I'm autistic or not (I was told at a young age I do not have autism but healthcare here sucks you're bound to get misdiagnosed sometimes), and I'm still Therian. Many of us are also neurotypical Therian's.