Op i want to hug you rn you just basically described my experience to a point.
I own two cats, and I adore them, hell I display dog like behaviors and nudge against them with my snout or curl around them and lay in the sun by the window.
But real dogs? I don't hate them, but they're overstimulating often. I don't really find them actually all that cute, especially in comparison to cats, and when i see a picture of my theriotype, the joyful feeling i get isn't from the cuteness of the dogs its like.... "Wow thats me!" "That really looks like me!". And the idea of being with other dog therians or dogkins makes me feel excited, but not the idea of being with real dogs.
Being called a cat, the idea of being a cat, makes me so so so uncomfortable.
Something I wanted to share about my feelings with therianthropy...
I am a dog.
I don't like dogs, I don't like being around real life dogs that much, they kinda tend to annoy me most of the time. I don't really feel myself having any affinity for dogs in general, even fictional dogs are just sort of "okay" to me. There are some cartoon dogs I can think "yeah he's cool or chill" but it doesn't really go any further than that.
I dont even see myself in dogs, but I see myself AS A DOG.
And I've never been able to change this.
I prefer cats, I feel more affinity for cats, I communicate better with them IRL, I've lived with cats all my life (my family never had dogs as pets) and in general I think cats are aesthetically more pleasing to look at than dogs, not that that's the dog's fault or anything.
I wish I could be a cat sometimes, I even tried to call myself a cat, draw myself as a cat, mimic cat behaviour, all that stuff where you try it on and see if it fits, makes you feel comfortable...
But I still feel like I'm a dog.
I've talked about this occasionally with friends and in some furry fandom spaces, which all of them said about the same thing. "Well why don't you just BE a cat then?"
To which my answer, with sadness and longing, is only "I don't know."
This is a meteorite that has fallen from a clearly superior part of the galaxy.
Shouldn't do shrooms anymore because the body dysmorphia I get while on it is to much to bear, I whined for like 40 minutes trying to feel my paws and tail, and even when I could I felt so sick and deathly. I'm not a good dog right now. Need pets so so so bad... my body isn't right for anything..
bites u
oh sorry pls don't be mad at me i'm teething see?
Sincere question, what is a tiktok therian? I am new to this and idk what that means, apologies if that's a rude question
Not at all!! TikTok Therian, at least to me, are the people on TikTok who claim to be Therians but put ‘limits’ on who is allowed to be one based on actions they do or don’t agree with. Most of them shun packers, species dysphoria, objectkin/nonanimalkins, etc. People like that ofc aren’t always on TikTok, and not every therian on TikTok is like that, but just in my brief dip into the therian community on TikTok, it’s very very miserable. That’s where I first learned/heard about being a therian, but the community behind it made me feel so uncomfortable! It felt like there were so many unspoken rules, and I when I didn’t relate to people’s posts I felt isolated. when I decided to start being open about it and exploring my therian side I created this tumblr account instead, and it’s been 1000x better. I’ve met more people with similar experiences and feelings and it’s helped my anxiety around this a lot.
They suck up to normies most of the time with stuff like “us therians KNOW we’re human!” When, that just defeats the purpose of being therian entirely, the point is we’re NOT human mentally and/or physically, either fully, partially, or any other amount. They tainted the word therian with their hatred, to the point I see people saying they are uncomfortable using the term now, and that just seriously pisses me off.
I get the argument most of them are uneducated, but the problem is that we sadly live in the world where uneducated people typically have no interest in learning otherwise. People like being ignorant if it means getting to continue hating people, even if those people are literally also the same thing as you.
Basically DNI Tik-tok therians is just DNI bigoted/exclusionary therians. You don’t really have to be from TikTok to be one, it’s just my term for all of them. Hope this explanation helps :3!! Also again, no hate to regular therians on TikTok who just genuinely be doing their own thing, or the ones who are trying to reeducate others on the platform, I couldn’t do what y’all do I hate that platform already in general, it made my mental health so shit, but y’all are epic! Have a good day :3!!
My boyfriend talked me out of it, he's so supportive of me. Even though this is all weird and I acknowledge it. We both do. It's not usual to be dating a dog. But he just scitches my head and tells me l'm soooo good. That l've been a brave dog who survived a week. I did it. I can rest my paws.
Shouldn't do shrooms anymore because the body dysmorphia I get while on it is to much to bear, I whined for like 40 minutes trying to feel my paws and tail, and even when I could I felt so sick and deathly. I'm not a good dog right now. Need pets so so so bad... my body isn't right for anything..
I am a dog in a trauma way.
I am a dog in the way that I have been cast out, shunned, and expected to find my way back.
I am a dog because of what I've experienced.
I am a dog because being a dog is how I survived.
I am a dog because I was loyal, forgiving, nice, despite what you did to me.
I am a dog because I'd whine at the door, wanting to be let out, even if it ended the same way it always did.
I am dog because of what you did to me.
I am a dog.
the world is very big and very scary and i'm just a little puppy
made a dogcrooked flag, teehee :3
loved the term ‘physcrooked’ (coined by @sevvys) so much! it means when your physical self does not align with your internal appearance, causing you to feel as if you have/are certain traits.
so: here is dogcrooked! a physcrooked subterm for when your physical self does not align with your internal appearance, which is a dog or dog-like in some way, causing you to feel as if you have doglike traits or are a dog.
as a dog therian, this term is just me, so much. internally, my perception of myself is a dog. sometimes fully a dog, but often more doglike, with ears & a tail. my species dysphoria stems from this misalignment between what i am and what my body looks like, so i like this term a lot.
brb trying this
Hi I’m Lex, casual Therian & furry, Hyena & golden retriever theriotype, alien-cat fursona, 19 years old, they/she. Kandi maker and very occasional raver in CA. This used to just be my therian account but now it’s for all my interests because I abandoned my old cringe tumblr account I’ve had since 2014. My freak(ier) account is @Lexington29
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