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2title: I Am Not a Fox 2title: I Am Not a Fox
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6As a child, I wanted to be a bird. 7As a child, I wanted to be a bird.
7I had watched Disney's *The Sword in the Stone*, an animated film set in medieval England about an orphan called Arthur who meets Merlin, a wizard. 8I had watched Disney's *The Sword in the Stone*, an animated film set in medieval England about an orphan called Arthur who meets Merlin, a wizard.
8Merlin decides to become Arthur's tutor and teaches him various lessons in a quite unconventional way -- by turning him into a fish, a squirrel, and eventually a sparrow. 9Merlin decides to become Arthur's tutor and teaches him various lessons in a quite unconventional way -- by turning him into a fish, a squirrel, and eventually a sparrow.
9The idea of being an animal, and specially a bird, was incredibly fascinating to me. 10The idea of being an animal, and specially a bird, was incredibly fascinating to me.
10How would it feel to experience and interact with the world through such a completely different body? 11How would it feel to have such a completely different body?
11To feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? 12To feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky?
12To be perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird? 13To be perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird?
14I was 6 years old at that time and to this day, the desire to be an animal never left me alone again.
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16As I got older, it became clear to me that my experience was far from usual.
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14Nowadays, I don't want to be a bird anymore, of course.
15I want to be a fox.
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17I can't explain why I'm feeling this way
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20Therians are individuals who believe they are an animal on some level, either spiritually -- such as past lives or souls -- or psychologically. 22Therians are individuals who believe they are an animal on some level, either spiritually -- such as past lives or souls -- or psychologically.
21It sounds like the perfect answer to my question, but after looking into them it didn't resonate with me. 23It sounds like the perfect answer to my question, but after looking into them it didn't resonate with me.
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24I am not a fox. 25I can't bring myself to say "I *am* a fox" in any serious context because I know I'm not one.
25It would be ridiculous to claim otherwise. 26A fox wouldn't be able to type on a keyboard or come up with this text in the first place.
26A fox wouldn't be able to type on a keyboard, not to mention come up with this text in the first place.
27A fox couldn't have a job as a software developer. 27A fox couldn't have a job as a software developer.
28A fox wouldn't look in the mirror and see a human. 28A fox wouldn't look in the mirror and see a human.
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