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If it’s a thin, fast-food style burger, I usually eat it crown down.

If it’s a thicker restaurant or home-make burger, I usually eat it heel up.

I have no idea why I do it this way, but this is my main pattern.

In my case it almost feels like my body’s reaction to heat has a screwed-up sense of how hot things are. I can’t take hot showers, for example, which are objectively not dangerous, because they genuinely feel like they are going to burn me - normal-hot-shower temperature water feels like like a wet hot pan, it’s like my cap is just lower. Ambient heat in the air and light doesn’t do that in the same way, but it can make walls and stuff feel like that, naturally.

I hadn’t thought of it from the overstimulation angle before, though, but now that I think about it I think you’re right, that is at least part of why I hate ambient heat and particularly sweating. Thank you for that insight.

No, they do not, and most of them aren’t willing to understand, either.

People, or at least NT people, with higher temperature tolerance are almost always assholes about it - I have weird heat sensitivity, I suspect on account of my Autism, and I only stopped getting constant shit for it once I basically entirely stopped talking to NTs.

The people in this thread are just seizing on an excuse to shit on people they perceive as weaker, or an excuse to shit on the English as if they are actually inherently evil just by existing. Or both.

Hey - I haven’t posted on this webbed site in years but this post motivated me to crawl out of my lurk-cave.

I am not a Therian, but I am certainly an adjacent thing - I tend to just use the term ‘transspecies’ instead of therian because my particular form of species dysphoria has nothing to do with being an animal. If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask me them, even if they seem insensitive or something.

In contrast to the other commentator, I will say that there are a surprising amount of ‘based weirdo adults’ who are into this - it definitely is the kind of thing that is a phase for some folks, I won’t deny that, but for just as many it’s not. And I do have to wonder how many of those for whom it ended up being a phase only left such identification behind because it’s broadly socially viewed as completely non-serious and mocked by… basically every demographic.

Regarding your worries of your child ‘beginning to experience alienation from their own identity because of this’, while I do not know your child’s personal situation obviously, from my personal experience I would suggest that if they have come to identify as a Therian at all - some degree of alienation from their own identity probably already exists.

That’s how it was for me - I have always felt alienated from the concept of ‘humanity’ and of being a ‘human’, and coming upon the idea of being transspecies made that make sense, it provided an explanation, a label, a piece of identity in and of itself. If anything, it helped with the alienation, in the same way that realizing that I could be transgender helped with the dysphoria I had around that - it gave it a name, a reason, and once it had that, I could begin to process it and figure out how to really deal with it instead of just feeling ambiently Wrong and Alien for no clear reason.

For concrete advice, above anything else I would be supportive, but you seem to already understand that. As I said - if you have any specific questions of your own, feel free to ask - I would not mind answering at all.