“1. I may be a wolf but I will not bite anyone and use my wolfness as an excuse, nor will I growl at everyone in school when they are mean to me. […]
“3. I am not entitled to hate ‘humans’ just because I don’t always feel like one.
“4. Being a jaguar in the corner and isolated is all well and good but I will not use it as an excuse to not do my homework or to doodle in class and not pay attention. […]
“9. Being a cat is not an excuse to sleep in class. […]
“12. Being a were is not an excuse to act stupid. Just because wolves or hawks or tigers or whatever aren’t champion intellects doesn’t mean I get to neglect my primate brain and map my future career as ‘hunter/gatherer’. […]
“17. I do not need to wear t-shirts, pins, sweatshirts, etc. of ‘my animal’ every day to prove I am a certain animal. Animals in the wild do not need to wear pictures of themselves to prove anything, nor are they impressed if I do.”
– Excerpts from Excuses for the High School Therian, by Swiftpaw, Synnabar and CriticalCat
