lol i hope not! Its hard enough to type some of the time with nails like mine!

Well, first of all, though it is a fun thought, I doubt you are changing into an entirely different species (I would link a video of that commercial where the guy eats nothing but chicken sandwiches and turns into a chicken after a few days here, but I couldn't find it on youtube for some odd reason)
As for Physical aspects of therianthropy, there is evidence that it has physical traits in the body, most likely through chemicals and psychological stuff.  I have long fingernails and toenails, but that's because I've always grown them long.  The fact that yours grow fast might just mean your body creates extra chitin or something, maybe it has something to do with chemicals though.  As for teeth, I know lots of people with fangs and such who aren't therians, and it may be that you just notice them differently at different times.

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My suggestion is self-actualization. Pick which way you want to go, or somewhere in-between, and go there. Know what you want and strive for it.

yea that sounds like it, the thing is the how, and the procedures on who to go about it

Perhaps it is a sort of odd late therian puberty?

Perhaps? For some?

Well, there's a difference in both physical and mental, it's just not that easy to distinguish. For instance, my example of African-American - there are certainly differences. The most evident is skin pigmentation but that isn't constant. There are African Americans with skin as light as mine (I'm very light skinned). Other things such as sickle-cell anemia (it doesn't always occur among African-Americans), diabetes (other races get it too - in fact, that's one of those things that are more common among Therians) and so forth.

I think the essential differences are in the way the temporal lobe connects to the rest of the brain, certain minor structural differences, and some hormonal differences that may, after all, be related to the way the brain manages the hormonal balance. All of these things would be hard to pick up by normal means - maybe a CT scan or SPECT image or some such. Laboratory tests might come up with something if the researcher knew what to look for. As many Therians that have been to the doctor, though, it wouldn't be anything that would show up and be quite evident right off the bat.

Oh yeah. In fact, after you've been exposed to Therians in RL for a while, you'll probably be able to pick up on them.

It's like family resemblances - in fact, I have a group Howl picture hanging in my office and people that come through often ask me if it's a family reunion picture. With family resemblances, there's not usually one thing that you can point at that makes you think that people are related, there's just an overall "relatedness" that it's hard to put your finger on - yet it's often quite clear that people are family.

Therians often walk on the balls of their feet. They're very "alert" in that they're always scanning their environment, picking up information. They get distracted easily by small motions in their visual field. They act do things that seem off-the-wall to Mainstreamers but that's because the Mainstreamer isn't picking up on some subtle nuance in their environment.

Most of what Therians notice that tells them that there's another Therians around isn't on a conscious level. Most Therians wouldn't be able to tell you what it is about another person that makes them think they're a Therian.

For instance, when I got up to the first SEHowl at Cloudland Canyon, I was the first there so I came back down the mountain for supplies. While I was in the grocery store wondering around, this huge guy walks up to me from out of nowhere and says, "Excuse me. Are you here for the Howl?" It was his first Howl and he'd never seen me before and he couldn't tell me why I looked like a Therian to him, "I just did."

oh and what about tast buds? What about certain hungers and cravings?

Hmmm....if Werelist is back up, it'd be your best bet for finding Howls in your area. Offhand I don't know of one in the Wisconsin area, but a bunch of the SEHowlers just moved up there so it wouldn't surprise me to find one starting up sometime (except they'll still be coming south for the big Howl).

Werelist.com

Well I found him useful quite often and most of the therian traits you described WVZ are in fact things that I do and things I have.

Generally from the therians I've known there seems to be many similarities.  It may or may not be as obvious to just anyone.



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