#phantom limbs

[vanillayoteart]

The Real You

To be an animal in a human vessel. To be true.  To be you. ΘΔ Something for doctorf. from my weekly streams!

[interstellarchaosss]

Phantom limbs.

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[frameacloud]

The purpose of this survey is to collect data about the experiences of people who feel sensations of nonhuman body parts, for example, wings or a tail. Some call these supernumerary phantom limbs, phantom shifts, otherlimbs, or astral limbs, though you may have other preferences for the words you use for your own experiences. If you haven't had those experiences, you can participate in this survey too. This survey was made for people who call themselves otherkin, therianthrope, furry, or any other potentially alterhuman or nonhuman identity. If you don't describe yourself with any of those words, you can participate in this survey too.

The survey will take you about 6 to 15 minutes. Everyone age 18 and up is welcome to fill out the survey at the below link, until it closes on July 6, 2024:

Survey Link

Who is running this survey and why: The person running this survey is Orion Scribner (they/them), an otherkin/therianthrope who has been making projects about these communities since 2005. I will use the results in my panel at an Internet-based convention later this year (OtherCon 2024), and in other future research projects.

[liz-freemen]

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[incognitopolls]

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[angel-with-a-tummy-ache]

phantom limbs are so fucking ANNOYING. it feels, i guess, “itchy” is the best word to describe it? something between itchy and an ache. It’s neither of those, but that’s the closest I got. The biggest feeling though is ANNOYING. I can’t do anything about it, and it’s not exactly a nice feeling, so it just sits there. bugging me.

pros of preening fics: I relate to it on an otherkin level cons: my wings are so fucking vivid and right in my goddamn face MAKE IT STOP!!!!!

[irreverententity]

I was meant to have wings

[thatqueersteer]

I find it greatly ironic when I see people say to therians/otherkin or even furries that we need to bring back bullying cause for me personally that did NOT work 😆

I was not humbled at all,I've been open about my theriothropy since I truly discovered it at 12 I was openly therian in public middle school long before 2021 (obviously people aren't all accepting now but at that time it was truly unheard of in society) the students and the teachers bullied tf out of me the teachers encouraged the students to mock me and harass me and when I would try to go to them for help they essentially said I'm weird so it's my own fault 😀

I was surrounded,grabbed,pushed,laughed at and of course barked at amoung other things and guess what I still never kept it secret and I'm still very much a therian I didn't really have shame as a child I simply don't have any now as an adult

Not saying to endure and be open in the way I did no matter what obviously cause that'd be ridiculous I'm simply sharing my personal experience because again I find it so ironic,the bullying is what helped me create such a incredibly thick skin and frankly care free nature about it all haha

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[vulpecular-draconic]

lashing my scaley tail back and forth as a stim (it hits the wall)

[bearwithextrapickles]

Bear in a supermarket? Would cause mass panic.

Me in a supermarket? The sneakiest bear around :0

[amorphous-creature]

I don't hate this human morph, but without my abilities, I can definitely tell I've been stuck in this form for way too long. My body is begging to grow anything like fangs, claws, wings, tails, ears, horns, antlers, scales, fur, feathers, etc. Anything to significantly alter my appearance. I need to feel my bone structure change.

[lethargic-lagomorph]

Are there meditations I can do to experience phantom limbs please please guys please

[vixyz-aac-hoard]

Remade these because didn't like them

Therian Phantom/Ghost Limbs

Wings (feathered), Ears

Tail Feline, Tail Canine

[rareblackcat]

What are shifts?

This is all speculation and not a fact that I am presenting. I am not a medical professional nor do I claim to be

When watching Othercon's panel on phantom shifts by Orion Scribner it got me thinking about what shifts are on a neurological level. Phantom shifts are shifts were you actually feel the body or limbs of your theriotype. In the panel they talk about how in amputees their brain is sending signals to the missing limb causing the brain to believe that it's still there. You can cause this to happen in non amputees too. If you put a fake hand next to someones wrist and have them focus on it and smash the fake hand the person will flinch. I think phantom limbs work the same way. We talk about internal images of self a lot in the community so phantom shifts are our brains trying to fix the incongruence of the body and mind. Since I believe that my body should look like a werecat my brain tries to send signals to my body in a way that reflects that but since I don't have thoes limbs they show up as phantom limbs. I heard somone answer neuro plasticity and how therians might have higher brain plastucity. When looking this up it sounds plausible as our brains might be able to adapt to our internal images a lot faster.

I think I've always seen my phantom limbs as a product of my imagination. My imagination making up from what I'm physically lacking but now I want to know if there is a more neurological answer to this. Brain scans are the best option to test this theory out.

[sardonic-decay]

curse of stupidly large phantom limbs be upon ye

[irreverententity]

just tried to scratch my nonexistent ears