Never knew contherian and suntherian were "outdated", just less frequently used. I guess some terms just fall into obscurity over time. Theriomythic is not used as often in the community from what I've seen.
I used to use suntherian but as it was also stated earlier here,I began feeling that many therians felt shifted in some way or another and the only thing that will change with that was the intensity of the shift.

However at a baseline, I never feel 100% human. I'm just thrown into human situations lol.

(2023-06-21 23:26)indoraptor Wrote:  This is a great point of reference to have — with some very valuable commentary on the necessity of syntactical separation. I have a very difficult time remembering subcategories / sublabels; I’m sure I’ll have to revisit this.

Haha same! from time to time I do check this thread because I cant remember the definitions exactly, si I get cha! X3

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.

(2023-08-11 15:50)Lupus Ferox Wrote:  What's TikTok got to do with one's personal growth and evolution? Why nitpick on TikTok alone? There are so many who don't grasp us completely or make a fool out of themselves in other areas, as well... Let them be and don't pay any attention to them. How hard can that be?

@Alliana has a point, you know. There is such a thing like dissociative therianthropy.

Why bicker on things you can't control? After us, there's certainly going to be more TikToks or related, or worse. It's not like it's going to disappear by complaining over it.

I know it's not going to go away by complaining about it, that's not why this thread was started. This thread was started to get the opinions of other therians about this topic.

Also the reason they are mainly talking about TikTok is because that is certainly the most popular young therian platform and is where most other people are getting their information about therians.

What's TikTok got to do with one's personal growth and evolution? Why nitpick on TikTok alone? There are so many who don't grasp us completely or make a fool out of themselves in other areas, as well... Let them be and don't pay any attention to them. How hard can that be?

@Alliana has a point, you know. There is such a thing like dissociative therianthropy.

Why bicker on things you can't control? After us, there's certainly going to be more TikToks or related, or worse. It's not like it's going to disappear by complaining over it.

I think any platform where the youngest members of the therian community are left to represent us all alone is a place where confusion and misinformation will fester.

Misunderstandings get spread and go without clarification, resulting in a community of people that call themselves therian but aren't. The identity tends to get sensationalized a bit by people that are quite new to it, and anything that's new and exciting and involves animals will be attractive to kids that like animals.

If it wasn't TikTok, it would probably be some other platform. The problem isn't the app itself, but misinformed people who don't understand the identity they are claiming, which is something that will exist probably forever if the therian community stays so largely unknown.

How I discovered what the term therian, Was on youtube tik tok computations about therian. And when I saw that for the first time, I was like "Huh that sounds like me." (because I was fucking LUCKY, It was an informational video about Therians, BEcause if it was one of those quad videos, and or the obviously fake past life videos, I would have thought it was a huge RP group I missed. Because I love to RP X3)

So I took it upon myself to research more about it, Because I know you can't trust most stuff on the internet. Especially from tik tok, Because, Tik tok is such a harmful, and cruel app. It's terrible Because it's just a huge ass nest to get tangled into for bullying. (I used to have tik tok and was, horribly bullied online because I used to be a furry, and my drawings weren't the best) But it can be also a good space to find others like you. But I believe there are better Apps for that.
(and tik tok is hella addictive.)

So without the tik tok competition, I doubt I would be here. (I would probably stumble onto the term sometimes though. Im pretty much the outcast of the "normal" world. So-, But who knows)

But, the question is, "Is tik tok harming Therians?" Depends. Whichever side you look at it, Because there's always good or bad. Heads and tails, etc. But the majority speak. Yeah. It's harming therians. Because of the massive misinformation. Which is just easily prey for assholes. It's not even the quads or the masks that's the bad part. (Man I even do quads sometimes, and I have masks of my theriotypes) But, they will learn someday. Ether will move on, Or learn what the actual meaning of therian is. Everyone has their own path of self-discovery!

(2023-08-04 19:26)WanderingForests Wrote:  I also see people saying that you can't control what you are doing during a shift(you always have control to some degree) It's so aggravating to see people doing this.

I must be the exception to this "rule" because I can count on more than one occasion that my werewolf side took over, it's called dissociation which some Therians experience.

TikTok is definitely harming the therian community. Don't get me wrong, I love Opal(the first quadrobist on TikTok) from the TikTok account 5tinky.cat and their content is just AMAZING but I feel like they accidently hurt to community to now have this reputation that all therians are animals in their past lives, do quadrobics, make masks and etc, etc.

I think that everyone thinks being a therian is the next cool thing that gets you attention which is why so many people pretend they are one. I think a lot of people are just really really want to be a therian so they're looking for things to make themselves think they're a therian.

Also there are a lot of misconceptions about shifts, I see videos like, "I shifted on camera" and they pretend they were hallucinating their paws and tail and completely forgot what a camera was. I also see people saying that you can't control what you are doing during a shift(you always have control to some degree) It's so aggravating to see people doing this.