In the therian community I prefer to be called Ashlei. I'm a sixteen year old wolf therianthrope from Slovenia, Europe. I've discovered the term therianthropy back in 2011, that's the time I awakened, although I knew I wasn't ordinary since I was a toddler. Like many therians, I walked on all fours, howled, and acted like a canine.
My 'first year' of being a therian was a mess, I wanted to buy real tails, I howled and growled a lot, was determined to become well-known (a Greymuzzle, I suppose) in the community when older, and watched every series or movie there is involving wolves or werewolves. But I'm past that phase and learned that therianthropy isn't how we dress or what we watch, how we act, it's an identity (spiritual,