A mum has taken to a parenting platform to ask for advice after her nine-year-old daughter told her she identified as a ‘therian’ and wanted to be treated as such. Unsure of what to do ...

As Dr. Elizabeth Fein, associate professor of psychology at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University, explains it, a therian "might, for example, believe that they are a cat soul reincarnated into a human ...

“Therian” is a shortened form of “therianthrope ... foxes and dogs, followed by big cats (tigers, lions and snow leopards), dragons and domestic cats. A similar study from the University ...

The term therian refers to people who identify as non ... Some TikTok users express their identities by adopting a cat mask or wolf mask, depending on which animal they feel an affinity with.

“My nine-year-old daughter says she identifies as a therian,” Natalie posted on Reddit ... “And my own kid loved to play pretend as a cat and had an elaborate and engrossing mythology ...