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Furry Chat => Therian and Otherkin => Topic started by: Kittenthetigress on May 26, 2016, 08:46:03 AM
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So... this is my first time coming to terms with the fact that I feel like I have an alternate animal persona that for whatever reason I'm ultimately ashamed of. I've felt that I have the personality and mannerisms of a tiger since I was 14 years old. I've ultimately felt connected with the species for YEARS. I'm now 22 and I feel as though I do not belong. It first happened to me at the Oregon Zoo. Staring at the tiger i felt as though he were trying to speak to me. Like he wanted to communicate and so i sat and i listened for a while. Of course i never understood what he was trying to communicate. Later that night I had a dream that i had been transformed into a beautiful tigeress. And i felt at home in that body. I don't know how I should feel or react to this. I need advice from others to make me feel accepted and not like this isn't something that really happens. TIA for the help... I can use all I can get
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Well that's odd that nobody has replied. Maybe they haven't seen the topic... I'm not really sure what to say. How deep did that connection go? I don't really want to go into religion with this ,but. We were all once at peace with the animals of the earth, to what extent? I dunno I wasn't alive then. If it helps any... there are times I feel like my body is not the one I am in either. But the reality is we are both human, crazy? maybe (In my opinion everyone is a little ,crazy,stupid..... insert random insulting word here) Unfortunately I cannot help you ,but I hope this post gets the attentions of others.
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So... this is my first time coming to terms with the fact that I feel like I have an alternate animal persona that for whatever reason I'm ultimately ashamed of. I've felt that I have the personality and mannerisms of a tiger since I was 14 years old. I've ultimately felt connected with the species for YEARS. I'm now 22 and I feel as though I do not belong. It first happened to me at the Oregon Zoo. Staring at the tiger i felt as though he were trying to speak to me. Like he wanted to communicate and so i sat and i listened for a while. Of course i never understood what he was trying to communicate. Later that night I had a dream that i had been transformed into a beautiful tigeress. And i felt at home in that body. I don't know how I should feel or react to this. I need advice from others to make me feel accepted and not like this isn't something that really happens. TIA for the help... I can use all I can get
The only advice I have is embrace it. I had felt a similar connection to canines, wolves in particular, before I even knew what a therian was. And I feel that near communication too. I have three dogs, and we kind of have our own language. If you do decide to embrace your wild side (for lack of a better term, I'm still pretty new to this myself) you are going to feel your animal come out more often and stronger. For me, it's such a great feeling. A clear, powerful mind, urges which can range from run to let's go kill something (needless to say, I refused that last urge) and increased physical abilities. I can feel him just as I'm talking about it.
Now, since I'm a wolf and you appear to be a tiger, you will have different experiences. I wasn't sure about it when I was getting into it. I'm so glad I unleashed Kyr'am (what I named my wolf) now. It feels great.
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What I fear most is the rejection of my closest friends and family. Up to this point I have allowed myself to shift freely in private. I understand the instinct to want to kill, being tigerkin that rushes through me whenever I see something I consider to be prey but I supress those feelings. More or less I wish that I could wear a tail and have that be an okay thing because that's the part of myself that I'm missing. Well...minus fur and paws and whiskers and such. I'm trying my best to embrace my new found love for my tigerkin side of my personality. I just find it difficult to always hide her away. I've named her Kitten Marie. She's beautiful, majestic, strong, cunning, sexual and above all confident of her abilities. I just don't know how to bring her out more without giving myself away.
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I see a couple options. Just keep it secret, or slowly reveal a little at a time. I have four wolf shirts, and I wear them a ton. My family knows I absolutely love wolves. I've even said a couple times that I feel like I have the power of a wolf inside me, and I compare myself to wolves sometime. And they have seen firsthand my ability to communicate with dogs.
Just start getting tiger themed whatever so it's obvious you love them, which no one thinks is weird. And start making the occasional comparison between yourself and tigers. And just slowly show a little more every now and then. Much safer than one day walking up to someone and saying "Oh, and I feel like I'm actually a tiger". Just slowly let them make the connect between you and tigers, and things should move forward.
Oh, and for now, no one knows I'm a therian, and only one of the six other people in the house know I'm a furry, so keeping it secret while you slowly introduce the connection is quite possible.
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Well that's odd that nobody has replied. Maybe they haven't seen the topic... I'm not really sure what to say. How deep did that connection go? I don't really want to go into religion with this ,but. We were all once at peace with the animals of the earth, to what extent? I dunno I wasn't alive then. If it helps any... there are times I feel like my body is not the one I am in either. But the reality is we are both human, crazy? maybe (In my opinion everyone is a little ,crazy,stupid..... insert random insulting word here) Unfortunately I cannot help you ,but I hope this post gets the attentions of others.
It was a very spiritual connection with the Tigers. I felt as though they were calling out to me. I felt so bad seeing them there trapped in a cage. As I know tigers are predators they shouldn't be locked away, they should be allowed to hunt and live as tigers do.
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I'm not sure how exactly to describe my wolf connection. However, it really, REALLY ticks me off when I see someone who has killed a wolf. Like I want to at least scream in their face (my family calls me the drill sergeant, so they would NOT like me in their face) or even physically attack them. It's almost like they messaged with a part of my or my family.
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I'm not sure how exactly to describe my wolf connection. However, it really, REALLY ticks me off when I see someone who has killed a wolf. Like I want to at least scream in their face (my family calls me the drill sergeant, so they would NOT like me in their face) or even physically attack them. It's almost like they messaged with a part of my or my family.
I feel this way when I see things about poachers. It enrages me. I wish the same fate upon the poachers to be hunted and skinned so that they can see what it's like to live in fear. Twisted I know but I mean life is sacred and people just don't give a rats patoot
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I'm not sure how exactly to describe my wolf connection. However, it really, REALLY ticks me off when I see someone who has killed a wolf. Like I want to at least scream in their face (my family calls me the drill sergeant, so they would NOT like me in their face) or even physically attack them. It's almost like they messaged with a part of my or my family.
There was something recently about a girl getting hurt by a coyote... I'm betting the coyote didn't do anything unprovoked I bet the child tried something Animals are generally afraid of 'bigger' humans, so what do we do? We hunt them down... I wonder what would happen if the tables had been reversed that the coyotes moved into our territory built buildings and things in our home..... we built our cities and towns on THEIR LAND! If you can't share it move someplace without animals I dunno say Antarctica?
Yeah I hate poachers too and I strongly dislike Taxidermy ,but... it's better than poaching (If it's not a hunting trophey)
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I'm not sure how exactly to describe my wolf connection. However, it really, REALLY ticks me off when I see someone who has killed a wolf. Like I want to at least scream in their face (my family calls me the drill sergeant, so they would NOT like me in their face) or even physically attack them. It's almost like they messaged with a part of my or my family.
There was something recently about a girl getting hurt by a coyote... I'm betting the coyote didn't do anything unprovoked I bet the child tried something Animals are generally afraid of 'bigger' humans, so what do we do? We hunt them down... I wonder what would happen if the tables had been reversed that the coyotes moved into our territory built buildings and things in our home..... we built our cities and towns on THEIR LAND! If you can't share it move someplace without animals I dunno say Antarctica?
Yeah I hate poachers too and I strongly dislike Taxidermy ,but... it's better than poaching (If it's not a hunting trophey)
I love animals. it hurts me to see animals hurt
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I don't know what good it'll do since this topic is a little old but I've experienced the same feelings but with foxes, hence my fursona being a fox, I've just felt this sort of conection with foxes that I can't explain or even really understand, but I don't know if it would be an appropriate leap to conclude that I'm an otherkin
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Otherkin are not real animals. Serials, dragons, elves, vampires, werewolves, etc. You, if you are, would be a therian. Therians are real animals. Wolves, tigers, foxes s, etc.
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Oh, didn't know that, thank you for that information
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Happy to help. And trust me, when you go start looking on therian sites, you are going to suffer from information overload. Take your journey slowly
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^.^ thanks for the warning
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KittentheTigress,
As a newly awakened Therian (wolf obviously) I totally understand what you are going through. I've known I had 'another me' for many years, but only in the last year or so has the Wolf really made himself known. Once I made that connection it explained so much of what had been going on in my life, why I felt like I was sharing myself with another, why my emotions sometimes moved the way they did (sometimes inappropriately.. :( ), etc.
Coming to grips with it has opened the door to a new way of thinking and living my life. I am able to ask my wolf, Naake ni, for strength when I am weak, for guidance, when I am unsure, and have even asked him to take over when my energy was too low for me to carry on (I'm also an empath and an energy source). My FB is filled with wolves, messages of strength and power, and of love that comes freely and from the heart and soul.
My mate/wife was unsure how to deal with it all at first, She has seen the beast, but also the good that Naake ni brings, but, when my energy was depleted and Naake ni was actually running things She realized how strong the link was and all She asked was that Naake ni not take over completely. I have felt, seen, heard, and smelled things in ways I never have before, and I have had a profound spiritual grounding event that recharged me when I was depleted, where I saw things that I feel were for my eyes and spirit only.
I have a wolf tail attached to my grey fleece house pants, and even when I don't have my tail on I catch myself moving in ways to keep from sitting on it. I've had friends stop over when I had my tail on, and they made comments, but also accepted it as a part of who I am.
I guess what I am saying is this: Trust yourself and your Tigress, as said by the other posters, start building a collection of things that speak to you, that connect you to you/her, adn do your research, both into Therian and tigers. Know your subject, and know yourself. There is a reason YOU have been chosen by this spirit, do all you can to be what is needed.
And most of all, don't eat the neighborhood kids!!! LOL
Good luck,
Naake ni
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