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sensory engagement, climbing, touching, running, balancing, imagining…. psychologists talk about ‘healing our inner child’, occupational therapists talk about sensory regulation, and suddenly there are adult playgrounds and climbing gyms and foam pots built for grown people who were told their whole lives to sit still and behave!!! but why is it such an issue to act animal? are we not that already? who is teaching us that it’s shameful?

i don’t think everyone should, like, acquire a fursona and wear ears and tails (that would be fun, though). but i do really dream of a world where people just act animal for funsies sometimes. or for liberation, for self-exploration, to just TRY something and see if you love it or hate it. you could swim and pretend you’re a dolphin again like you did when you were a kid.. or you could choke back the contempt when THAT coworker walks by and remind yourself of how owls bristle and puff up.. we anthropomorphize animals so much and plaster human characteristics onto them but hardly ever allow ourselves to do the same inwards. i’m just saying… you look an awful lot like a cat when you wake up and stretch so languidly

take it from someone who has been acting like an animal for upwards of the two decades i’ve spent on this orb! you don’t have to buy anything, or join any special circles, or pick up labels, or tell anyone anything you don’t want to.. i don’t think you have to believe anything except the simple fact that you are capable of play, and relaxation, and seeing the beauty in this world that so many people are trying to hide from you

i promise you it is enough to just allow yourself permission to have fun. pretend to be something you’re not for a little while! go out and get your hands dirty!

or your hooves or talons or tendrils or fins

Burning On the Inside