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I think my story for this is kinda interesting so here we go!

Since I was a kid I have always not really related to people, me and dogs just kinda clicked. I would always act like a dog, research dogs, etc… Of course I thought nothing of this growing up because i was like “well all kids did that right? It was just playing pretend!” But even growing up, thinking that I was human made me so sad(?) like it just didn’t feel right at all… If I talked about humans I would always say “them” I’d have to remind myself to say us lol-

When I was 10 I found the furry fandom and it just clicked, finally people that also loved and related to animals like I did!! I’m still a furry now but as we all know furries and therians are not the same so there was still something that felt missing… I’d look in the mirror and be so sad not to see the ears and tail I felt like were there (phantom shifts)

I forget when but I did at some point learn about therians, I tried to ignore it for a long while to be honest. I knew that if I did more research that I would definitely know I was one but thinking that I’d have another thing to be made fun of for I hid it from myself the best I could. But it got to a point that it was really difficult, the idea that I wasn’t crazy or alone in how I felt was so tempting to look into but I kept biting my tongue.

Then during April of this year I was casually bringing up my childhood to one of my friends, talking about how much I would relate to dogs, only play as a dog, dressed as a dog, heavily related to them, etc… and sure enough after school they text me and popped the question “are you a therian?”

I couldn’t even lie at this point, I replied with something along the lines of “probably but I’m too scared to admit it to myself” so we had a whole conversation about therians and otherkins and it really helped me come to terms with it all. That day I actually officially identified with the label therian!

Sorry that that was kinda long, I just thought it was important to share because it shows how therianthropy is involuntary and no matter how hard you try to hide it from yourself, it doesn’t go away and stays with you. I have never been happier being honest with myself and my identity, don’t like the idea of what other people think scare you from being your true self!!!

How did you found out you're an alterhuman?? Asking every alterhuman like therian, otherkin, otherhearted, animalhearted etc.