Here’s some advice to new or questioning therians:
Find what your identity means to you before comparing it to a ‘community standard.’ How exactly do you experience your animality? And what does it mean to you?
Exploring your inner self before looking at what it means to be a ‘true’ therian will help you down the road. If you see the definition first and read all about the experiences, it will be harder for you to distinguish between genuine experiences you have and things your brain has fabricated out of desire to be a therian.
My advice is to write down everything you feel before doing research on therianthropy. That way, you’ll be able to see if what you feel truly falls under the label of therian.
