Back To My Roots - A Therian Story

Long Introduction Thing, Sorry

Ok so this is just going to be me explaining how I found out I was a Therian, and if you skip it it might make a FEW things not make sense, but you should be fine if you wanna skip!

My name is Jake. For as long as I can remember I've always been fascinated with nature and the outdoors. I have a memory of when I was little, probably 6 or 7, where there was one day where I just refused to go inside. I clung as hard as my little kid muscles could, to the railing of our front steps, until I was eventually forced back inside. 

As a kid, I've always enjoyed "running on all fours" in fields, and just having fun. I'd also "pretend I have a tail" and wag it, but I literally just stood there and imagined the feeling of a tail wagging that I could actually feel along side ears which at the time I didn't realize were "Phantom Shifts". (That still happen btw.) Also at the time, I didn't know what Quadrobics were or anything about Therians. 

I also remember when I was younger, going to the forest / on a ravine walk this one time, and something about that spoke to me. It spoke to my soul that I was a Therian. Well... It spoke to me and I felt this like odd connection. At the time I didn't know what Therians were still. (If that makes sense? Sorry I'm bad at explaining things!) I also felt like I had a connection with wolves and coyotes, and people always used to say I had an obsession with Wolves and coyotes. (Well... Wolves coyotes and foxes, but...) I would always get so excited when I heard one out camping or on a nature walk too. And, when I looked at them I'd sort of feel free / one with them? (I'm still bad at explaining things here, sorry...)

As time went on, I got on the internet more. Watching videos on YouTube, and just browsing whatever I could think of to browse. As more time went on, an old online friend of mine from Roblox who I haven't heard from in a while suggested I download this app that he had, called, "Musically." When I went to search for it in the app store, it lead me to "Tik Tok," which I later found out used to be Musically, so I installed it and made an account. To keep things shorter, I eventually switched accounts after getting a new phone and forgetting the login, and started to upload and watch on that one. (Which eventually got banned because, y'know... Haters... But I made a new one.) 

At the time, I watched a lot of Furry videos and such, because I was, and still am, a Furry. (I'd even wear my Furry tail sometimes just to wear it and make it wag.) I remember seeing this one video that was on my For You Page, of someone doing Quads, and a big jump. I thought it was pretty impressive, so I gave it a like. Eventually, more and more stuff came up on my FYP about Therians. I noticed that all those type of videos with people running and jumping like cats or wolves or whatever all mentioned something about "Therians" so I decided to look it up on Tik Tok. 

I remember seeing this one video of someone explaining their Theriotype, and that got me thinking. "I used to run on all fours like most of these people! Sure, I didn't do the jumps. But... And I've always had a connection with nature!" So I looked up "How to tell if you are a Therian" So I clicked on one of the links that took me to a random quiz website and started answering some questions. Stuff like, "Out of these four, where would you rather live? - The city. I love the lights and crowd! - On a farm. - Just a tad quieter. - Anywhere is fine. I'm not picky. - In a forested type area. I wanna live close to nature and hear the birds chirp." So after the quiz telling me I was a bonified Therian, I looked up more things about Therians to try to see if I relate to any of those things. I remember learning about Shifts and Phantom Shifts, and thought that I didn't really shift I don't think, but then remembered when I used to feel like I actually had a tail and ears and Thought, "So that wasn't just me pretending really well to a point that I could actually feel it then? I was Phantom Shifting? Ohh!" Then after that, I just basically left it at that while doing some research in secret from time to time. 

I didn't post Tik Tok's about it, or tell my family. (although I'm pretty sure my mum knew about when I would "pretend to have a tail and ears" because I remember this one weird conversation I had with her once... heh...) I thought it would be weird to just go up to my mum and say, "Heeeyyyy, mum! So um. Before I was a human, I was an animal. And basically I died, so I'm your kid now." Or, something like that. Either way. My parents were already kind of weirded out by me being a furry, and didn't understand how I found it fun to dress in a sweaty mascot costume, so I'm sure if I told them that I think I was an animal in a past life, that they might think I was crazy or something. So I just kept it to myself and one friend from highschool that I was really best friends with. (But me telling her about that is a whole other story hun.) 

Somewhere down the line, as I watched more Therian videos on Tik Tok, I thought to myself, "So um... I'm a Therian. What is my Theriotype then? I've seen other people explaining theirs, but... How exactly DO I find MINE? I at least know I have ears and a tail, but... Literally almost EVERY animal has those, so..?" So I thought, if I could look up a quiz to see if I'm a Therian and look up more information and stuff about Therians, then I could look up a quiz to FIND my Theriotype and look up more info on how to find out as well! So I did. And the results said, "Greenland Wolf." Which is what I decided I would say my Theriotype was, until I found my actual one by doing more research and stuff online and whatnot, or found that I WAS a Greenland Wolf. 

I eventually made the decision to tell my mum. Back in 2022 / near the end of 2021, Roughly when we started packing up to move, (and leave my dad behind, because when I came out as Non-Binary, I'm Enby btw, we kinda just fell apart. We were also moving for other reasons too, but... Not important.) I just kinda grabbed my Dino Mask, (I didn't have Therian gear or a mask at the time...) and asked my mum to help me record a video of me practicing Quads! Although, I just told her to hold the camera while I ran on my fours. She thought it was cool, and brought up the fact that I used to do that as a kid. 

I told her that I didn't know what it meant at the time, and she asked me what WHAT meant. So then I told her about Quadrobics and Therians and how I'm really sure that I was an animal in a past life. I remember her making a little joke about how if I was an animal, that she would adopt me. 

So anyways time skip sorry because sometimes explaining is hard for me and nothing else really interesting happens, except me using a neon coloured wolf mask as it was all I had. But I stopped using that one for Therian videos and stuff when recently a few days ago I made a Greenland Wolf mask, and started doing more Therian videos because of it! (You don't need gear to be a Therian or to do Quadrobics! Just saying! It's also ok if you're not the best at Quads! I still can't do jumps that well because it hurts my wrists sometimes when I hit the ground from too high a jump!) So that pretty much brings us up to date! I may have left some of the more boring or hard to explain stuff out, but, we're pretty much up to speed now!