Furries in the playground

[SiuiS]

I want the real me from me, not some stupid me that made poor decisions or whatever.

I have some bad news for you about the human condition...

More seriously, I completely understand. I think it's important to separate our idea of "phases" – an implicitly static adult construct, looking back at growth and rationalizing it all as not real – from, well, growth.

Much as my baby girl needs more iron and less calcium and more milk and certain vitamins that I don't, much as when she hits puberty her iron needs will skyrocket and her calcium and protein needs will change to accommodate hormone shifts, we all have spiritual needs which change as we grow. There isn't – or, there should not be – any shame in going throw a period of growth where what your mind and self needs right now to survive is not something your mind and soul will need later.

It's why I'm not as bitter as I could be. I needed to grow up as a boy. If I didn't have that safety net of male privilege I would be a much worse person, because I would have been shaped by pretty craptacular social forces. (Quick fist pump over my phone recognizing craptacular! Yes!) It's possible that the need for femininity is a legitimate one, that will only be considered "temporary" or a "phase" in hindsight. Perhaps you just need balance? Much like a career change, you need to stop your old job and learn the new one completely before you start combining them, one would need to fully immerse in femininity (or fur!) before being able to really make the decision that it's not a permanent thing.

Plus, there is always that it could be a permanent thing, and it sucks to hold off on something just because maybe you won't like it later. It being a growth phase is likely the least possible option. :)

but thats a complete aside. the idea of a....catfolk werewolf is just weird to me, because while a human werewolf somehow makes sense, a catfolk werewolf is just one furry turning into a different furry, y'know?

Well, lycanthropy is a sort of violation of the self; the idea that the preened and civilized veneer falls away because man is a savage and that animal is repressed and dark and everything bad about his visceral nature; rape, murder, savagery.

A cat folk wouldn't have that same association. So this would be a cat changing to a dog; changing to a dog that's too brutal, too wild to just say "well it's only a dog" about. Would this e a cat folk devolving into savagery? A cat folk changing tribes? Maybe this is less like a tale of werewolves and more an exploratory fiction like when there's a movie about a guy who wakes up gay or wakes up female and has to learn that his conceptions were all wrong? A cat folk waking up after a lupine bender has a lot to sort through.

No worries. For me at least, you did not come across as justifying it. Simply explaining why it happens. I was more aiming that at the comments implying that it is a "furry" thing when it isn't (by showing that it isn't a furry thing. Comic cons, gaming cons and even scout "cons" are places where you can suddenly find yourself being touched on by some stranger), and who made it seem like a joke (by throwing out random smileys and lols). Personal barriers aren't something to laugh about.

Indeed. I missed a lot, I suppose; everything was scrubbed by the time I got here. <_<