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| 2 | title: I Am Not a Fox | 2 | title: I Am Not a Fox |
| 3 | unlisted: true | 3 | last_update: 2021-12-03 |
| 4 | unlisted: true | ||
| 4 | --- | 5 | --- |
| 5 | 6 | ||
| 6 | As a child, I wanted to be a bird. | 7 | As a child, I wanted to be a bird. |
| 7 | I 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. | 8 | I 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. |
| 8 | Merlin 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. | 9 | Merlin 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. |
| 9 | The idea of being an animal, and specially a bird, was incredibly fascinating to me. | 10 | The idea of being an animal, and specially a bird, was incredibly fascinating to me. |
| 10 | How would it feel to experience and interact with the world through such a completely different body? | 11 | How would it feel to have such a completely different body? |
| 11 | To feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? | 12 | To feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? |
| 12 | To be perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird? | 13 | To be perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird? |
| 14 | I 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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| 16 | As I got older, it became clear to me that my experience was far from usual. | ||
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| 13 | 18 | ||
| 14 | Nowadays, I don't want to be a bird anymore, of course. | ||
| 15 | I want to be a fox. | ||
| 16 | 19 | ||
| 17 | I can't explain why I'm feeling this way | ||
| 18 | 20 | ||
| 19 | 21 | ||
| 20 | Therians are individuals who believe they are an animal on some level, either spiritually -- such as past lives or souls -- or psychologically. | 22 | Therians are individuals who believe they are an animal on some level, either spiritually -- such as past lives or souls -- or psychologically. |
| 21 | It sounds like the perfect answer to my question, but after looking into them it didn't resonate with me. | 23 | It sounds like the perfect answer to my question, but after looking into them it didn't resonate with me. |
| 22 | |||
| 23 | 24 | ||
| 24 | I am not a fox. | 25 | I can't bring myself to say "I *am* a fox" in any serious context because I know I'm not one. |
| 25 | It would be ridiculous to claim otherwise. | 26 | A fox wouldn't be able to type on a keyboard or come up with this text in the first place. |
| 26 | A fox wouldn't be able to type on a keyboard, not to mention come up with this text in the first place. | ||
| 27 | A fox couldn't have a job as a software developer. | 27 | A fox couldn't have a job as a software developer. |
| 28 | A fox wouldn't look in the mirror and see a human. | 28 | A fox wouldn't look in the mirror and see a human. |
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