I was here for less than a year, and even then I’m not the best at socializing. I made mistakes, I had trouble reaching out, I was overcome with anxiety and awkwardness. Even still, this place was my best experience ever with social media. The people and art here helped me become myself. Seriously. I didn’t know shit about my own species before I came here, and when I discovered the therian community it started a domino chain that scared me and threatened my tearful, miserable, desperate-to-stay-together self image. The people and animals here are what helped me become more comfortable with being weird, being a creature, being me. I’m scared and confused about a lot of things, but I’m also happy and healthy for the first time in my life about something I didn’t even know I was blind to. @TuxedoDragon ‘s autism awareness comic was the first thing to really teach me about myself and my disability, which genuinely made me the person I am today. And then, when I looked into it further, I just kept learning more and more. Things I was scared to confront, happiness that hurt to embrace, smiles I longed to wear. I’m now proud to say that I love being an amphimorpho. I love being a creature. I love being a therian, or maybe some other label that I like more idk-

Basically you guys didn’t infect me with the theta delta virus. You guys helped me overcome the shame and anxiety I was blind to. You guys showed me the mirror.

I have some regrets, but ultimately they’re just depression and anxiety talking. I wish I could’ve been more normal about it, that I could’ve properly made friends with yall instead of lurking anxiously. I wish that I was more recognized, that people would send me asks and follow me for me the way they did for others. I wish that I didn’t make so many mistakes, and that I was able to figure out how to make myself and the people I talked to happy instead of uncomfortable. But ultimately, I don’t wish I could do it again, nor do I wish I hadn’t taken the risk. It didn’t work out perfectly, but it was still really, really nice.

I'm on discord. That's about the only place I go. Don't really do any other social media anymore. Not since cohost. Same name as here.

If you thought there was something fun here, feel free to add me. I'll try to do the same/generally follow folks I vibed with.

It's been an honour.