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I wish it were possible to achieve an entirely non-human body, but I don't think that's going to happen within any of our lifetimes.

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Make sure to read Daniel Dennett before you change too much, you might forget who you are and become someone else entirely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat

I have Dissociative Identity Disorder, so I already become someone else all the time...

In all seriousness, at times I do genuinely wish species transition were possible. Imagine gender dysphoria but for species, so species dysphoria. It may sound insane, but honestly so can the entire concept of dissociative identities.

I don't know if I'd want to change my brain, but the physical properties of the body definitely. I want the body to be a fluffy quadruped...

Thank you for the link though, that is very interesting. It is intuitive, but not something that normally comes to mind~

I remember the Therian and Were community, back in the day. Some overlap with the furry community, but not a perfect subset.

Yes, those are very similar. I occasionally use the term otherkin for myself, as a non-specific term for "one who identifies differently from the body", but I do tend to get along well with therians. (And queer people in general, I suppose.)

It is the very definition of insane. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have sympathy for it, but it's important to recognise when certain aspects of our psyche isn't sane or good and accept that.

I never meant to claim it's good or sane that I want an animal body, but it's something I can't really help. I don't have the delusion that it's ever actually going to happen, I just can't help but wish that it would.

you are what you are, there's no escape from that

Unfortunately.

I hope you're joking about wanting to become a "fluffy quadruped". Or, if not, I see why we had asylums.

I didn't feel like fully explaining. Still, foxes and wolves and cats and so on are all fluffy quadrupeds and something like that is what I feel I would rather the body be.

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