I've been processing a lot of emotions recently and one of the most surprising things I've learned about myself is that my behavior very much resembles a dog's behavior. This keeps popping up in weird corners of my personality that I couldn't explain before and it took me a while to see the pattern.
For me the first mental domino that fell was when I realized: "I need a master". That thought alone explained so much about the way that I unconsciously approached friendships, romance, and my job.
Another revelation for me was that this explained one aspect of my personality that had puzzled me for a while: how my personality would turn on a dime between pleasing and aggressive. Thinking like a dog gave me a clearer glimpse of what was happening inside me emotionally: I just want to be a good girl 🥺 but I get extremely aggressive against anything that threatens my master.
I also stim like hell, especially when I focus or get excited, and one hypothesis of mine is that my stimming is analogous to a dog wagging its tail