Apologies for the delay on this, my wifi decided to disappear when I went to share and decided to delete everything i wrote ._. I was going to add a cringe warning here, but I’m honestly so done with being labeled as ‘cringe’ for my abnormal identity and expression Anyways :D -walked on all fours just for fun for around at year at age 5-6, only stopped because my grandpa yelled at me and told me to act human -would sprint around the backyard because “I’m a cheetah so I have to run around!! :3” (around ages 5-7) -told my entire kindergarten class that I was a cat -loved the smell of wet cat food -would have frequent and intense phantom muzzle shifts and told me family I had the superpower of feeling something before it hit my nose (years later I questioned if this was nerve damage because I busted my nose on a swing around the time and still sometimes feel the sensation now, but it never matched with nerve damage symptoms so… :3) -would meow at everyone (around ages 5 again) -I used to climb up this bar on the playground (like eight feet high, had to press my back and feet against the sides to climb), and just watch the other kids play -would knead stuff with my hands -desperately wanted to play in a woods area, but had none around my house :/ -would wrestle friends (playfully) -went from thinking being an animal would be fun (5), to longing to be an animal (8), to crying over wanting to be an animal (10), to where I am now where my species dysphoria can be bad enough that it causes other mental health problems :3 (so I lowk always had it lol, it just got worse over time) -always called myself a furry (because it was the closest term I knew to how I felt), but referred to myself as ‘the kind of furry that wanted to be an animal’ (again, early dysphoria :/, also this earned me many passive aggressive comments from my ex 4nti-therian friend… who was also a furry…) -Would bite stuff/carry things in my mouth (lost a tooth chomping down on a toy once) -loved walking around barefoot + would have meltdowns if forced to wear shoes while outside
There’s prolly more stuff I did that I just can’t remember rn, that’s the main stuffs tho! Do note, you might’ve done some of these things and not be a therian, these don’t ‘make’ you a therian, it’s just stuff I notice from my childhood that relate to me identity lolz :3
