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Therians are so ostracized that whenever people talk about them if you DONT actively bully them you're weird for supporting them. Unless youre a therian among therians, you either hide and watch people bully you indirectly or you dont hide and it comes for you harder.

Idk how to say it its just. Im an otherkin and sometimes people go "therians are weird" and i agree for social conventions and feel so icky about it

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I want people to stop tagging their general alterhuman posts with every single related tag. It makes it impossible to look for posts about specific experiences because the tags are full of general posts with a dozen alterhuman-related tags that don't actually have anything to do with the specific tag.

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I hate beings telling me or other beings that I “know I’m human” I don’t, because I’m not.

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The current way that non-humans refer to shifts confuses me. You had a cameo shift? That tells me nothing. Did you have a mental shift, phantom shift, or some other shift?

Y'all, start normalising having a long string of different levels of shifts to explain what you experienced. Like, yeah, I had an involuntary meridio mental shift when I was with my pack yesterday. You have an understanding of what I experienced now

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*me making a bunch of flags for my theriotypes/kintypes/kintypes which are also technically microlabels now ig but idc cause I just like designing things lol.*

but also I like the idea of having little hyperspecific labels for me cause idk I just like organizing. is that a bad mindset? tbh idk cause I've just always been like that (not just with labels, I just like organizing things)

...wait is that a sign of autism?

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I really wish that therians weren't as capitalized on as they were a few years ago. If you look up mask or animal mask in Amazon you'll find those blank cat masks with the words therian next to it. I feel like that this once again starts to conflate therianthropy with just cosplay. I'm also afraid of people's first time seeing the word therian with just well, arts and crafts? Not just talking about masks but even tails as well. If you look up animal tails you're bound to see therian with it. Like I'm glad it's becoming more well known? But I also kinda wish it wasn't like this

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Whenever I see kids wearing masks/tails in public or online, I get really happy. It feels like a part of me is healing. Healing from years and years of my own childhood, not having the words to describe why “human” *wasn’t what I was*. I’m so so happy they’re happy and that they can feel safe to experiment. Sure they might misinformed and maybe don’t have the right labels yet. But it’s like growing up queer. Who wasn’t using labels they wouldn’t identify with as an adult when you’re just figuring things out? It makes me so happy and feel all magical inside to see the marvelous facets of this life.

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i wish the therianthropy community was actually about therianthropy rather than discourse all the fucking time .

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is it weird that i don't...get shifts???

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"The community is fracturing because of micro labels and terms getting watered down!"

But I think the reason micro labels are even a thing is because the community doesn't accept therians without one, or without a 'community' of their own. And honestly both young and old therians can be super mean about you not fitting into their boxes (either being ableist, like TikTok therians are, or being condescending, like older therians are) so "rare" therians might feel they need a word for what they are to avoid being dog piled. Same with words being watered down, a lot of therians treat it either as a fun lighthearted thing with no seriousness attached or as a super duper serious thing that will get you attacked by the head therians if you don't behave. No wonder younger therians are making their own spaces.

So related confession, I'm happy for the fracturing if we can find our own spaces and keep out each other's hair.

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Lmao the people mad at me are the same people I was talking about. Ironic isn't it. But srsly those mad at me clearly didn't read my post when I stated that I knew that not all tiktok therians were bad, I just also know that everyone I have personally met were misinformed. I'm allowed to have my opinions.

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My only criticism toward the physical nonhumans community (as a technically maybe physical nonhuman? i don't use the word, bc its wishy washy sometimes i feel like i was born nonhuman sometimes not) is that there's a select few people who SAY that they're "fine with everyone believing whatever they want as long as they're left alone" and who then seem to obsessively look for people posting about not really buying into physical shapeshifting being scientifically possible to reblog or respond to it as aggressively as possible. I keep seeing them pop up even in completely untagged posts, and like, i get having a knee jerk reaction, but you need another hobby.

It's definitely not the majority, but these people make the physical nonhuman community look super mean because as soon as you make a personal post about your own beliefs they're the first to show up. It's rather easy to fix by blocking them, but i wonder how many people who have a super bad view of the community do bc they were first contact. I definitely know I was really hesitant to talk about my own experience and doubt on stuff due to them (and honestly half of why i don't use the word is bc im not sure if that would happen again if i posted in the tag).

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I wish more people talked about voluntarily shifting. All of my shifts are voluntary and sometimes it makes me feel like I'm just faking it or misinterpreting it

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Saw some talk about autumn J and I figured I would ask about this here since it’s been living in my head and I have really no other evidence but one person telling me about this.

Did Autumn J ever campaign for a “therian town”? does anyone recall this? I remember being told about it-and that they practically scammed a bunch of people before scrubbing anything about it online. Genuinely confused till this day how any of that happened, and if anyone can confirm its existence that honestly would be pretty great

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Everytime I see a minor (I'm talking specifically like 8-16) wearing a mask and tails I can't help but "not" take them seriously. My first thought Is always "yeah you're a tiktok therian aren't you" now yeah I know not all tiktok therians are bad, but a lot of them are misinformed minors. I can't help but to see myself distance from them because I know that they're the ones thinking therians are just "past lives" or "masks and tails". I won't say anything because of course they're just kids having fun, but for you to think you're the same as me is absurd. I don't want minors to think that I'm apart of their game when I'm just trying to find others with a similar identity.

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As a Physical Therian, I don't care if other therians support or believe in us. As long as they aren't harassing us, spreading hate, or rejecting us from the community entirely, then idc. I do not care about whether or not I am valid in their eyes, nor do I care if I'm valid in the eyes of other Physical Therians.

Physical alterhumanity is a really difficult topic to grasp, that takes so much energy, time, and resources to even begin to understand. It's reasonable that someone may not want to spend all that time getting to know us or understand us. After all, we're a community of identity, not fandom.

Of course I'd love a world where people do care to spend their time getting to understand and support us. But, we're so niche that half of the community doesn't even know we exist. And the way I see it, It's unfair to expect someone to be educated on us.

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I have a lot of complicated thoughts wrt humanity.

I'll perform it if I need to, I mean more that my little wolf self has accidentally built up a pack of humans. And they do their best for me, they care and they see my lupine side in a lot of little ways.

But I still find a lot of comfort in the trappings of a pet, which I am very much not. I like my collar (chose and designed my own in a little self-ownership ritual) one of my mates got me a dog bed I can sleep in, I've got toys I'll cling to to soothe my mood.

I have nothing but respect for the dog therians, I just feel weird that I've kind of accidentally made myself one of them. I feel like I'm doing this wrong because I'm not keeping myself wild.

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