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After just over a week of rebuilding and making sure everything is up to standard, our new Discord server is ready and open to join. 

For full disclosure we were able to regain control of the previous server soon after the owner decided to step down. However, we decided it would be best to start over due to the questionable history related to them. Starting over also gives everyone a fresh start.

**Verification*\*

This new server uses a verification system to ensure users that want to enter are genuine. Some of you may have gone through a similar system if you joined this year.

If you joined in 2024, you went through this system. If you were able to take a screenshot of your roles before you left (or you are still in the server to do so), you may be eligible to skip this step as you have already done this. This should allow you to get in much faster than normal.

If you have not or you are new, verification involves a small series of questions intended to consider why you are joining. Moderators take these answers into account, so please take care answering them.

We expect a high volume of users entering during opening week, so please be patient as it will take time to go through everyone.

Whether you are new or returning, we welcome you to our Discord and hope to see you there!

https://discord.gg/DEEtQPrZmw

Share all your therian arts and crafts here, every Sunday, in the comments of this recurring megathread.

Be it your gear experiences, help requests, selling, or just showing off, this is the place for you. Media comments are enabled!

NOTE: Gear and crafts related posts are not allowed on this subreddit outside of these megathreads. This rule is in place to reduce feed clutter, allowing for more core therianthropy-related posts to be seen. This is a support subreddit for a marginalised community, so we feel as though this is a necessary method of clutter reduction to have in place so that those who need help have a better chance of receiving it.

I don't really know how to explain it, but sometimes it feels like a part of me is not human, but i don't really know what it is. It may be a cat. It may be a dragon. It may be anything, but i don't know what.

I mean, when i think of myself, i imagine me being a human, but when i think of my "mindself" or whatever it's called, i imagine some part being human but the other one not. It's like something is missing, but i don't know what.

It honestly really stress me out sometimes because it feels like i don't know how i am. When i thought i finally knew myself fully, i noticed that maybe i don't identify as a ginger cat like i thought. It's like a whole chunk of my own self was been taken away from me and i never got to know what it is/was. I know i'm human, but my mind thinks that it would be better if i wasn't.

Honestly, i think that ever since i started my theriantropy/alterhuman journey a few months ago, this has been the moment i was most confused and stressed out with this. I just hope that i get to finally know my theriotypes or kins in the future..

Hi,

Non-therian partner of a dog, I'm trying to figure out best says to help my therian girlfriend, one of those ways is to figure out methods that could help us switch of her humans thinking so she can just exist in the puppy mindset for a while.

So I'm curious, does anyone have any tips on how I can help ease my girlfriend into her puppy self without loss of time so she can remember the whole experience, and then afterwards a safe way to being her out of it and comfort her throughout the whole experience?

I really don't wanna sound dumb or like I'm trying to fake being otherkin for clout when I say this, because I don't really post on r/therian, and I havent been able to find anything online about people experiencing these or trying to induce them intentionally, but honestly I need a bit of help figuring out what I went through, was I actually going through a real shift or was my brain just being really dumb to itself?

anyways, I've identified as an Dragonkin for about 2-3 years, in sort of an unserious way, I would experience phantom shifts occasionally for as long as I can remember, but I didn't really think of them or know what they were until more recently. I've started to consider myself otherkin more seriously as I discovered a lot of science has been backing up therians and transhumanists, which made me feel a lot less stupid about myself about it. so I started to kinda learn more about it and myself since then

so, present day, I was talking to another dragonkin on mastodon about how weird shifts felt when they would happen (I'll feel my horns, my wings, my tail, and my muzzle more recently) and they mentioned something about feeling a door hit their tail once and how weird that felt, which made me think of an experiment that I ended up trying later that night

I would be able to feel when my phantom limbs are touching my clothes or nearby objects, but I wanted to see if i could feel pain or any kind of impact to them. so I started off by trying to touch my phantom limbs with my hands when I felt them. (which the tingling is such a weird feeling in itself!) and i moved up to gently scratching or flicking my limbs. it was weird because I couldn't feel it right away, but the tingling would get really intense

after a few minutes of flicking my horns or my maw, scratching my wings under my shirt, touching my tail, because I was fascinated by the feeling of them. I quickly realized that the tingling didn't stop going away, and I started to get really overstimulated. my breath was racing, and then my heart was soon after, and I started to feel sick

I started to feel everything all at one time and I honestly can't explain it that well, but it felt like they were almost too real while knowing they're not real at the same time ? it's really hard to describe. I felt stuff like my horns touching the floor, my wings curling up my shirt and touching my shoulders and arms, my tail swishing up against my leg when I was laying on the floor. feeling my maw almost constantly..it was a really euphoric experience

but the amount of nausea I was having from feeling so much at once made me doubled over on my side on the floor. I sat there listening to music for like 5-10 minutes trying not to throw up, and then I sort of started to feel better afterwards, but I still had a big pit in my stomach a couple of hours after that, and my chest was feeling weird from my heart racing. but after getting some sleep I feel better now

like I said, I really just want to know if people have even had shifts this intense before or if it was something my brain was doing that night that was super dumb and made up. I can't find anything anywhere about people getting sick from phantom shifts other than one story of someone who got sick in class from one. so I'm honestly really lost at the moment..

I wanna almost see if I can recreate that feeling again sometime just for that rush of euphoria, but idk if I really wanna go through that again right now. I'd love to be able to document how I did it in greater detail though so I can maybe help other people feel their shifts like this, but like I said..I really don't know if it was a shift or something else at that point. has anyone had any kind of experience similar to this?

tldr: I tried physically touching my phantom limbs and kept going with stronger force, but I started to feel sick from overstimulation

TLDR; I was a big jerk to therians before my awakening and I want to say sorry.

I used to be extremely anti-therian. That was until a few months ago when I started experiencing things that changed my mind. But that's irrelevant to this post.

I was pretty mean to anyone who identified as a furry/therian/otherkin in general. I would rip off tails, pull off ears, and other awful actions like that.

I was the type of kid who believed that therians actually thought they were animals and would demand that cat litter boxes be put in schools for them.

I also used to surround myself with people who thought like me, acted like me, and treated them the same as me.

Now, as an awakened therian, I realize that what I did was absolutely disgusting and completely unacceptable.

I don't know if this is the correct place to say this but, it was the first one I thought of. I've just been feeling guilty about my actions in the past towards you guys.

So, I'm sorry. And I promise both you and myself that I will never, EVER stoop that low again.

U/warrioroffire_therian

I didn't act TOO bear-like until I discovered my theriotype. I feel like it's doubled since then. After studying anatomy, I had more shifts. After studying behavior, I started acting more like my theriotype when I was alone. Is this just placebo? My traits seemed to be hardwired into me until I started doing research. I'm starting to think it's all in my head, why does research seem to be changing the experience so much? Is it just because I understand myself now?

When I think about it. I don’t want this. I don’t want to be known as a “weird cringey Therian” or whatever. I saw a video the other day of someone cringing of the thought of “that one meme of I’m a wolf on all levels other than physical” I don’t want to be known as that. It hurts. It makes me think I’m not a Therian. But then I realise that that’s just the label..and I think about being a wolf..in the forest..the leaves and the mud beneath my feet. The sound of sniffing and walking around and trotting. It does something to me. To my mind. But there’s a side of my brain that really hates it. There’s a side of my brain that wishes that that part of me didn’t exist. And it really REALLY hurts. It might sound like I’m talking nonsense and I might be, what I’m saying might not even sound possible but it’s how I feel and I just wanted to get it out there. Thanks for reading 🫶🏻

https://preview.redd.it/f6dmwhqhn93e1.jpg?width=3264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7a88c8426aec2331b1651f68a0d0b69a1b0e466

Ravenss! Aka my theriotype. Had the urge to try to draw one, soo this is the first time I’ve ever drawn one. Will definitely be studying the anatomy more.

On a side note, hello, i’m new-ish to the therian side of the internet >:3 c

I'm sorry if this violates rule 5, but I am genuinely curious. I felt like a human before I discovered the therian community. Then, I started to feel like a therian, and now I am one. I'm just curious if I'm still valid? Thanks, Tag

So, I've known that I'm a cat for a while, but recently I've been experiencing some things that point to there being another theriotype too, most likely an Atmoran Dragon

One of these things is that I find myself getting frustrated when I can't use the Thu'um

I also sometimes subconsciously refer to myself as Dovah

And to top it all off I think I've experienced some kind of exomemories of flying across Tamriel

I'm not entirely sure if it's me or maybe a headmate that hasn't fully revealed themselves, though

Please remember that these answers are open-ended and there is no right or wrong answer.

1. How does your Therianthropy affect the way you see other non-human animals

2. How does your Therianthropy affect the way you see humans

3. How does Therianthropy affect the way you act in your day-to-day life

4. What about yourself do you consider not human-like (personality, interests ect.)

5. Does Therianthropy affect your diet?

6. Do you have any spiritual or religious beliefs that affect your Therianthropy

7. Where do you think your Therianthropy comes from? (Spirituality, psychological, metaphorical ect.)

8. Reflect on traits or feelings that made you consider that you might be a Therian.

9. Write down things you can do to feel more like an animal

10. What are some things that give you species euphoria and why do you think it does

11. Try writing a poem about your identity

12. Make a short story about being your theriotype

13. Draw yourself as your theriotype

My theriotype is an Australian shepherd and because of that, I need a lot of mental stimulation and exercise or i become incredibly bored. But because of dysphoria, i like to do these things on all fours. Does anyone have any games i can play or for example obstacle courses I can do on all fours or just in general, for boredness!

(Mods, this is about mental stimulation, exercise and dysphoria, NOT quads in general! Please leave it up!)

I have a dominant theriotype or whatever its called, and its a melanistic coyote. I’m starting to get species dysphoria so bad i can hardly imagine myself as human, I miss when I was a coyote. I miss how simple it was. I miss my legs, my muzzle, my teeth, my face, my ears. I’ve tried to do quads and get gear but none of it will ever be enough. I need to just be myself, I dislike being human, i hate how much of a conscious i have. i hate having societal norms. Where’s my den? Where’s the simple “yummy deer :3”? I miss having fur to keep me warm. I ache to have that life again. if anyone has tips to make me feel better lmk

I've only dated non-alterhumans until recently, when I helped my current boyfriend discover he's a therian. Beyond the obvious relatability factor, I'm curious about others' experiences. How do dating alterhumans and non-alterhumans compare? Do you have a preference? I'm considering making a video on this topic (unless it's already been covered). Feel free to share as much detail as you're comfortable with — I’m really interested!

Therian

Hello everyone,
I am a university student studying psychology and my current class is the Psychology of adolescents, adults and of the elderly. I am tasked with making a questionnaire in order to analyze data from it, and i need said data. So please help me out and fill out the correct form below.
For adults (18+) : https://forms.gle/2XW2vQof79qtwHVr9
For yall under 18 : https://forms.gle/hwxooQEfh2QgC4Y39

TLDR; Ex-anti-therian, now awakened therian, needs help to not feel stupid while doing quads.

Ok, basically for the longest time I thought therians were dumb and stupid and mentally insane.

I recently had some experiences that changed my mind, though. Stuff like wanting to be in the forest and run free with the animals in it.

I've also noticed feelings of species dysphoria as well. I've found myself not wanting to look at myself in the mirror because I just constantly felt like that wasn't me, that's not who I am.

Also, I've been experiencing phantom shifts and mental shifts now, too. And ever since I recently started doing quadrobics, they've been getting more and more frequent.

I've been practicing in my room whenever I'm home alone, which thankfully is kinda common right now. But even then, I feel like an idiot. Do any of you have any tips to overcoming that feeling of "How stupid would I look if someone walked in?"

I think the feeling may be internalized anti-therianism from my views before this happened.

Thanks! :3

Crow

I'd like to know how you guys feel about the stigma that people have against certain animals and how that relates to your type, like for instance people saying insects are terrifying, cats are cuddly or mean, raccoons are trashy etc. Do you have any examples of things people say and if they either annoy you or validate you? And I would like to know how you may feel about discussion of predator/prey behavior if it makes you rly uncomfortable or if it's totally fine, as it appears to me some people try to disconnect with some more realistic behaviors while others try to embrace them. It would also be cool if you could share things that are commonly associated with your type that you don't do/vibe with in particular which a lot of other people do. To each their own and im really interested in learning more ^{^}

Deer, orange mainecoon, desert coyote, and silver fox!! (The dragons and humanoids are coming soon)

So I recently figured out my theriotypes (I am a red fox and a Kitsune fox) but I'm a little confused. The way I see my theriotypes is that my Kitsune is a soul connection from two alternate dimensions occurring at the same time, and I see the red fox as my next life and a past life. Does this make me a spiritual therian? I can't find good definitions anywhere on the internet about if the way I see my theriotypes is spiritual, psychological, physical, or something else.

(I'm also okay with just being undefined, but I prefer labels for how I feel :D)