Any one on TFF who knows ALOT about being a therian?

[Takarah Luna]

I am a therian... But I'm not sure about some aspects of therianthropy...  Help?

[White Wolf Guardian]

Refer to my section about therians and otherkin in this board here if you'd like to know the basics: http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?topic=12207.0

[Takarah Luna]

I know the basics, I actually wanted to know the difference between a young therian (like me) and those teen werewolf people...

[White Wolf Guardian]

"Teen werewolf" ? You mean people who form packs that wear wolf tails at school? That's more of a style than a belief, but I suppose some people are capable of taking it further than that.

[Takarah Luna]

I was just curious... And BTW what's the REAL difference between therians and otherkin, besides type association...

[White Wolf Guardian]

Otherkin have memories of past lives and the deaths that were apart of them and they also cover mythological creatures' spiritual relationship to a person, whereas therian relates to animals that were alive at one point or animals that are still around today.

[Takarah Luna]

Oh, okay... Thanks, you have helped me a lot!
I'm a black wolf therian by the way...

[White Wolf Guardian]

Oh nice! It's always cool to meet a therian c:, any more questions feel free to ask!

[Takarah Luna]

Okay... Will do... I actually am alpha of a small pack of canid therians...

[Takarah Luna]

I would like to add, how do you know when you have m-shifted... I think it's happened to me before.... But I'm not sure...

[White Wolf Guardian]

I've only gone through it a couple of times, it feels so real though like you feel quite feral in thought and cannot really focus that well as your mind isn't used to the thoughts and desires of this form. You can often feel phantom influences like claws, tail, ears, and maybe fur or in the case of avians, wings and feathers or scales for reptiles. It's generally comfortable or not comfortable to all that experience it, no inbetween at least from what I have heard. When it happened to me I was in the middle of a computer lab and I just was not ready for it, my hands felt like they were on fire x.x

[Takarah Luna]

Okay... By that def. it happens to me a lot... I get TONS of phantom ear shifts...

[Vosur Aekira]

I can't say that I am a therian, but I do know of a few people who are. Guess you can say that my main two characters, Vosur (the one you see me here as and my pen-name) and Loto (a lesser-known pen-name), are representations of me instead of those I feel affinity towards.

But all of that aside, guess White nailed it on the head for how therians are.

[Takarah Luna]

Does anyone know any good therian forums? (I wouldn't leave TFF though!) I'm just curious...

[White Wolf Guardian]

I used to know a really good one, but it's gone now x.x. Unfortunately I have to say I can't really name a single one that's particularly great, but there are plenty of "okay" ones that you can find on google.