Date: 2006-12-03 03:29 am (UTC)
Thanks for sharing this, it was an interesing read! :) Though I don't relate much with the point that we may deal better with spirit animal because we share the shifting aspect: I am a non-shifting animal person myself. I'm not sure either that just "being an animal" would help more than "being a non-therian", because I do not believe in the binary system "animal VS human". To me "human VS wolf" is as different as "wolf VS deer" and such as. I don't consider human beings as a very different animal.

On the other hand, what speaks more to me is the idea that simply having aspects of ourselves differing from "the norm" may help, a bit like I feel being an animal person gives me the same introspective experience/tools as I need for dealing with being gender-variant. It's not the same thing but both are identity-related and makes you look deeper in yourself.
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