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The original was posted on /r/therian by /u/AtticChildren on 2024-04-08 22:17:14.

I’m not gonna lie the whole “go in public with the goal of finding therian friends” disturbs me deeply like therianthropy is an involuntary identity creepy/super conservative/homophobic/racist and generally awful people can still be therians because it’s involuntary and while we as a community don’t accept them they still are therians so any therian you meet and decide to befriend you have no idea if they are a bad person or if they are even a good friend. You know nothing about them but still you go “yep we friends now” and this becomes more problematic as you realize this community is almost entirely minors. We shouldn’t encourage minors to go out and befriend people simply because you want to connect with other therians. Going out in public and friending someone just because they are a therian (involuntary identity) is like a cis afab seeing another cis afab in public and going “we are both cis women (involuntary identities) therefore we should be friends!” i don’t think a relationship based on “oh we both have this involuntary identity“ is going to develop into anything good- ik you might have had a relationship with someone just cuz they wore gear in public turn out fine but there’s a massive chance it just ends up toxic because it’s based on something neither of you can control. But idk what do you all thin? does it feel creepy to you or am I being paranoid?