bearfools

hey guys! I'm Tom, im an ursidae cladotherian! This means that instead of kinning a specific bear, I kin simply everyone in the ursidae family! So I kin polar bears, brown bears, black bears (american and asiatic), pandas, andean bears, sun bears and sloth bears!

I use he/him pronouns, preferably no they them unless you dont know me/my pronouns!

I'm 17, turning 18 in July 2024, if this makes you uncomfortable you do not need to interact.

not directed at anyone in particular, but ive received multiple messages (some deleted, some not) from people and i think ill make a post about some stuff i wanna clear up as a therian.

i am aware that im bodily human, im aware that this will not change.

i am aware that acting wild (or as someone said, "gross" and "ill mannered") does not make me an animal

no, i am not a little kid discovering new terms on the internet and using them for clout. i am an 18 year old man who had been questioning therianthropy for a very long time

no, i am not offended by people saying silly hateful things, ive seen about every basic piece of therian hate (directed at me and also other people) and none of it bothers me

no, i am not in any way attracted to animals and i do not partake in any kind of animal abuse. its weird that people assume that right after saying "youre human!!" like am i a beast or not make up your mind lmao?

no, i dont mind if you ask "silly" questions, in a community as misunderstood as therians/alterhumans i am always happy to help people understand

yes, i believe in past lives. though i do not believe theyre fully to blame for my therianthropy and i dont think every kintype of mine has a detailed backstory. i was likely many animals before i was human and i dont kin anything but bears

i had like one person ask if this was a religious thing, its not, idk how common of a misconception that is but i wanted to put it out there. im not outwardly religious, im agnostic but unbothered by any other beliefs

yes, im aware that animals live outside in the cold with diseases and predators, i am grateful for the things i am given that wild animals are not.

no, you cant hunt me (and also, what the hell? again, if youre arguing that im human then why would you hunt me?)

"how do you know your beliefs are real?" i dont. im simply a person on this earth, same as you, i dont know what lies after death, i dont know what lies before birth, but i prefer my "weird" beliefs over never believing in anything.

after i made that post about young therians (thank you all for the love by the way!) i had a few comments along the lines of "messy eating is human/making faces and acting like an animal doesnt make you an animal" i know, i know that im not a bear, i know that what i do is not limited to therians. I know kids play as animals all the time! but at the end of the day i'm happy. are you? does leaving spiteful messages make you happy?

thank you for the question!

i believe i felt similarly to you, learning about therians pretty late but always being animalistic. For me i had a friend who talked about his experiences, and they resonated with me deeply. I found myself euphoric when thinking of myself as an animal, i found myself becoming more and more bear-like the more i thought about it.

Mostly its whether the label feels right to you, and ofc theres no time limit on figuring it out. I started identifying with the cladotherian label after a while because it made sense to me. I know many people who went by "therian" for a while but shifted to a different alterhuman term over time.

no i dont think they should be on the internet making videos (for safety reasons) but i dont think theres anything wrong with identifying with therianthropy at that age

i was always a therian. i didnt know what the label was until i was 17 but as a kid id always known i was a bear. i used to get told to "stop eating like an animal" and wrinkle my nose up in a snarl and bare my teeth. Or id be told to stop running around on all fours because id hurt myself, i was told to act "normal"