Well, if I'm right, if you are a Werewolf, you were born that way.

Well, the fact that you identify yourself as a nonhuman creature is sorta a strong hint, and I don't mean you wake up one day and say, "I'll be a bat." I mean you've always considered yourself nonhuman and you begin to see youself as a specific kind of nonhuman. "See" as when you look at yourself in the mirror, your brain says, "Wolf."

There has actually been a brain imaging study done  shows that clinical lycanthropes have the same mody morphology "problems" that anorexics have.

This "phantom body" effect varies among Therians but the self identification is there in all of them.

When I say, "I'm a Wolf," I mean a lot more than, "I've decided sometime in my past that I'm going to start imulating wolves" or that I have a wolf totem or any such allegorical thing. I mean that in some deep, significant, substantive way, I am a wolf.

hey everyone. im just wondering how someone such as myself becomes a werewolf. basically ive had strong feelings to wolves and nature. also sometimes in my dreams i feel like a wof running thru fields and the woods but still retaining some of my human form.

Because alot of folks who want to be werewolves wanna actually physically turn into a wolf or hybrid man-wolf ala the movies. They're not thinking of turning into a 'therian'.

You're right, Vargr. People are at their best, in my opinion, when they are being what they are. If they're a human trying to be a Werewolf, then they're ignoring their inate gifts of humaness. A Therian that's afraid to be different negates their gifts of THerianess.

The reason that many Therians come off as holier than thou (they're actually being territorial - what would you expect from a Werewolf    ) is that when someone talks about being a Werewolf in a way that makes it a mere personal choice of lifestyle, it trivializes their life experiences. There are people that were born "that way". They had no choose - it's hardwired into them. It's their essential nature. If anybody can be a Werewolf just by wanting to bad enough, where does that leave them? They would have to be something else. Of course, if they made up a new word to describe them (like Therian) people would start trying to usurp that label.

Fortunately, Therians that get uptight about labels are in the minority and just about all of them are on the Internet. The reason for that is that the need for formal labels sorta disappears in face-to-face interaction. The only place we really need labels is on a word-rich media like the Internet.

Actually, the Wikipedia has several Therian related articles.

I've always felt I was a "werewolf".   I don't know why?  I've always been confused about how I am and the way other people were and why I have to do things that others do when in school or a work.  I never felt I fit in and I still don't but I seem to adjust well when told to do stuff.

I feel much better now since I understand that what I believe I am is a Therianthrope/ lcanthrope or werewolf.
I feel more conformed to my true self now that I understand it better.  Therianthropy seems to relate a lot to every aspect of my personality and being and answers a lot of questions I have had on my mind for years.

My first word that came out of my mouth when I was a toddler was "dog"! 
Yes, I liked dogs. 
What's a dog?
I must be a dog like the other.
I can understand them better.  He, He.

I hate it when strange people come in my neck of the woods.  I will groowwlll at them and show my teeth but they think it's funny!  I'm not being funny.  I'm really mad.  Go away!!!


Noo Dad, I don't want to go to the doctor.  If they take x-rays or something they might think I am alien!  From another world.



Siverwolf.

Oh..     What was he trying to say?       



Siverwolf.

That's the "problem" with empathic language. Youput it in print and it doesn't mean much. "Woof" means ..... well, "Woof.

If you read "Awoooooooo" you think "There's a wolf." If a mainstreamer heard it they might think, "There's a wolf over on that ridge and he sounds sad," butthey would be wong. A Wolf Therian might here it and get part of the truth, "There's a wolf on that ridge and he's okay." Another wolf would hear more, "There's another wolf on that ridge and he's okay but he's not of my pack." A wolf from his pack would know most of the message,"My packmate is on that ridge and things are okay but he hasn't found game and he's continuing to the other side of the mountain so he probably won't be back tomorrow."

You can't put the inflections, rhythm, context, harmonics, etc. in print.

I always felt very wolflike in my life and dreams.  When my g/f and me played the White Wolf game I always liked that this spoke to me and my feelings but chaffed under the limits the game places on you.

Many times I dream about running in the steppes of my home (Russia) and have woken up outside and had to sneak home cause I lost my clothes.

Mmmm...how can someone own your body?

Would/could you explain?