Therianthropy
My Experiences & Whys
I am a psychological therian, I believe my therianthropy is connected directly to my neurodivergence and trauma growing up. I do however believe I would be a therian regardless of these things, I have a very slight spiritual connection for reasons I don't understand as a person of science. I feel as if I would be a cat in any life I live, in any form. I don't have any specific spiritual or religious beliefs, so I'm unsure why this is.
My theriotype is a brown tabby house-cat. I've been awakened for a very long time.
I don't remember when I was introduced to the therian community, or when I was even aware of the idea of it. Yet, when I found it, I immediately knew what I was, a therian.
As far back as I can remember, I exhibited strong mirroring behaviors with my mothers pet cat. I felt kinship towards the odd feline, I had seen her as a guardian figure similar to my own parents. She was just an old gray cat with an adorable bob tail, but I liked her greatly. Over time, I gained an extreme interest in cats. I spent my young formative years studying them with every-growing curiosity. During this time I also constantly imitated the behavior unintentionally. I would like to emphasize this is all occurring before I was even 10 years old and my mothers cat died when I was around 5 or 6.
I constantly felt like a cat as well, falling back to acting like one whenever and wherever I could. I experiences feeling as if I could twitch my non-existent whiskers, or flick a tail that was never there. I trained myself to move my ears from a young age simply to satisfy this odd gnawing instinct.
My being neurodivergent (ADHD + Autism) heavily influenced my connection towards animals as opposed to humans.
- Growing up with cats constantly surrounding me likely imprinted on me.
- My parents found my behavior cute and encouraged it quite often, albeit jokingly.
- I believe all of these things combined why I was so strongly influenced into therianthropy.