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6 | As a child, I spent a lot of time imagining what being a bird would be like. | 6 | As a child, I frequently imagined I was a bird. |
7 | I 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. | ||
8 | The idea of being an animal, but especially a bird, resonated with me. | ||
7 | How would it feel to experience and interact with the world through such a completely different body? | 9 | How would it feel to experience and interact with the world through such a completely different body? |
8 | To have the ability to fly and feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? | 10 | To feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? |
9 | To be treated and perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird? | 11 | To be perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird? |
12 | As I grew up, I explored this concept further and further and my fantasies became increasingly detailed and immersive. | ||
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11 | This fascination was sparked when I was 6 years old. | 14 | When I was 13 years old, dragons took over the role of birds after I got introduced to fantasy novels. |
12 | I 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. | ||
13 | One of these transformation involves Arthur being turned into a yellow sparrow. | ||
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19 | The idea of possessing a nonhuman body fascinated me immediately, especially that of a bird. | ||
20 | What 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? | ||
21 | As 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. | ||
22 | I 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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24 | Nothing 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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27 | By then, I had | 18 | By then, I had |
28 | I 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. | 19 | I 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. |
29 | 20 | ||