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6As a child, I spent a lot of time imagining what being a bird would be like. 6As a child, I frequently imagined I was a bird.
7I had watched Disney's "The Sword in the Stone", an animated film about a boy called Arthur who is transformed into various animals by Merlin the wizard in order to educate him.
8The idea of being an animal, but especially a bird, resonated with me.
7How would it feel to experience and interact with the world through such a completely different body? 9How would it feel to experience and interact with the world through such a completely different body?
8To have the ability to fly and feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? 10To feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky?
9To be treated and perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird? 11To be perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird?
12As I grew up, I explored this concept further and further and my fantasies became increasingly detailed and immersive.
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11This fascination was sparked when I was 6 years old. 14When I was 13 years old, dragons took over the role of birds after I got introduced to fantasy novels.
12I was watching "The Sword in the Stone" by Disney, an animated film about a boy called Arthur who is transformed into various animals by Merlin the wizard in order to teach him different things about life.
13One of these transformation involves Arthur being turned into a yellow sparrow.
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19The idea of possessing a nonhuman body fascinated me immediately, especially that of a bird.
20What would it feel like to experience and interact with the world, to be covered in feathers that are bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky?
21As I imagined myself in this situation, something inside of my mind awakened; something that rejected my humanity and longed for the life I was supposed to have.
22I didn't lose sight of the fact that I was a human, but I started to imagine what being a bird would be like frequently.
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24Nothing exciting happened for a while, until I got introduced to fantasy novels 7 years later and felt I was supposed to be a dragon.
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28I had realized by then that my experience was far from normal and I finally decided to do research on the internet, where I stumbled across the furry fandom and found therians. 19I had realized by then that my experience was far from normal and I finally decided to do research on the internet, where I stumbled across the furry fandom and found therians.
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