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Sounds fun. Mild trauma rambling below

For me it was almost certainly trauma. And the fact that I was raised by my house cats at least half the time probably was a strong contributing factor.

I also remember for some reason believing that humans were one of the worst things to have happened, and that being human isn't something to be proud of. I have no idea why I believed this. Maybe because my mother didn't really hold anything back when we'd ask her questions about things. She was very passionate about a lot of social and environmental issues, I guess. I don't remember much.

I've also always just related to animals more than humans. I've always felt much more "me" when looking at a cat or a wolf or a snake than I ever did looking at another human being. Maybe it's because I was deeply interested in the natural world from a young age, and constantly drifting in and out of the foster system for the first decade of my life before adoption made me feel like an abandoned pet dog. It all blends together and I really don't remember much.

Anyway. Raised by cats + guilt about the awful things humans are capable of + never really getting to just exist peacefully ever = me identifying as an animal in every way possible. Or something like that, idk.

Is it only me who hates when people say “ask me anything” and give short answers to “why are you a therian?” I always see “well it’s involuntary” while YES it’s involuntary I wanna know WHY it formed! Trauma? Dehumanization? Metaphysical beliefs? Mental illness? Imprinting? Cultural beliefs? Supernatural beliefs? Stress? Need to escape? Neurodivergence? TELL ME PLEASE! Especially how your physical Therianthropy formed! For me it was dehumanization, trauma, and a bit of neurodivergence! ANY CREATURE ELSE READY TO SHARE?

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Sorry I'm not super active. It's hard to be on the internet with paws.

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A comment i just saw

Look, i know they mean this in a 'conspiracy' type way, but reading this as an Alterhuman is hilarious 😭

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Money fucking sucks. It distorts everything: relationships, decisions, timelines, who gets to feel safe and who doesn’t. It turns something like “home” into a math problem. That’s brutal, and unfair, and I hate it so much.

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Climbable trees in every recess area is my addition. Gotta have at least one nice tree to hide in!

“theyre making kids think their dogs and wanting to put litterboxes in the classroom” actually im a seal and i want every classroom to have a mandatory saltwater pool. please get more creative next time start thinking outside the box

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and we always will be

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"You're not a real therian if you-"

"You're not valid as a therian if you-"

"You're faking if you-"

Chill. Chill. Go eat a banana and sit in the sun for a bit. This obsession with other people's identities is super weird.

We're all just a bunch of silly creatures doing our best 🐾

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currently working on a whole ass SCRIPT for a lokg form youtube video about physical therianthropy and physical shifting. send me an ask or comment smth you feel like you would like to be included and if you would like me to have you credited, desperately trying to clear up miss info 💔 /nf

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hey bro can i ask you a question that will reveal a deep and fundamental gap in my knowledge of the world

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"If you are --- your faking"

"If you do --- your faking"

Can we just not fakeclaim

Like be a decent human, nonhuman, etc. whatever your species is

Let's just NOT fakeclaim yk?

Let's just like make that a norm pretty please /lh

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i see a lot of posts along the lines of “i want to wear collars” “i want people to refer to/treat me as a dog” followed by:

“BUT I DONT WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE IT THE WRONG WAY!”

“BUT NOT IN A SEXUAL WAY!”

and what i will say in response is, why are you ashamed of sexuality? why are you ashamed of instinct? why are you ashamed to potentially associate with kink?

it is true there are people who might treat you weirdly if they suspect it’s sexual, but at the end of the day those people likely hate you already for some other reason (ie: if you’re not white, able bodied, or cishet).

provided you are physically safe, should you care about the opinions of others? NO.

you are allowed to personally not like sex or even find it repulsive. but you don’t need to tack a disclaimer that you’re not an icky sex freak onto your objectively tame statements of wanting to be treated as your species.

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I'm sick of human gender concepts, I hate how theres a divide between masc and femme. It doesn't matter where I go, nonhuman, queer, every space has it. Its so weird to treat one gender as 'pure' and the other as 'evil', folks should be judged by their actions, not their identity. As someone who has lived life perceived both as male and as female, gender, sex, whatever doesn't matter, people are shitty regardless. Stop trying to pin the blame on eachother and actually work together to fix the issue

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I'm feeling more laid back than usual.

So, who wants to create a pile and lay out in the sun?

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im having another fucking gender crisis so screw it i'm an "it" in the way a town refers to a beast that they've never been able to identify. i'm a "he" in the way people try to track me refer to a feral predator that's been breaking into livestock pens. i'm a "she" in the way a hunter compliments my beauty in fear while recounting his experience at a bar. i'm a "they" in the way people think i'm no longer one beast, but many trapped in one singular form. my neos are dat ouppy in me =3

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Alterhuman Neurodivergence Survey

We've been aware of overlaps between the neurodivergent and alterhuman communities. The purpose of this survey is to get a rough estimate of how big that overlap is (at least in online spaces). The purpose of this survey is NOT to make claims about the relationship between neurodivergence and alterhumanity.

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Submissions are open until August 31st 2025, results will be posted after all submissions have been analyzed.

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Can't sleep at night cause I wanna fly so bad holy fuck GIVE ME MY WINGS BACK

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