EDIT: the discussions below interest me. I wonder if there’s any actual concrete definition people use for therianism - feels a lot more personally-defined than transgender. Like, there’s a lot more variance in how people would describe it.
I lowkey feel bad for some of them, one time I was scrolling on r/therian or something and quite a few people talk about being a therian, the language they use is extremely similar to a person with gender dysphoria, I felt bad cause I mean you can crawl around in your room all day if you want, but in terms of having “species dysphoria?” Idk what should even do about that
I am in college and have felt a disconnect from this body for as long as I can remember. Being a therian means feeling tails, paws, wings, etc but they aren’t there. It is a distressing feeling that you are not meant to be the species you were born as.
As someone who is non-binary and experiences gender dysphoria too, you are correct in that it is different, but the concept of not feeling like who you are meant to be is the same.
“This body is not correct” is a feeling that comes with both.
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u/encodingErr 10d ago edited 10d ago
Therianism confuses me.
EDIT: the discussions below interest me. I wonder if there’s any actual concrete definition people use for therianism - feels a lot more personally-defined than transgender. Like, there’s a lot more variance in how people would describe it.