Sometimes when rational people read something, most will comment, “WTF, these individuals are crazy, looney tunes, out to lunch, etc.”
This from a 9/19/23 NY Post article:
An estimated 1,000 people who prefer to be recognized as not humans, but canines, organized a gathering at the Berlin Potsamer Platz railroad station in Germany, communicating only by howling or barking at one another.
The unorthodox canine convention follows the viral sensation of Toco the human collie — a man located in Japan who is fulfilling his life-long dream of becoming a pooch after purchasing a $14,000 hyperrealistic suit.
Other internet-famous hound-human hybrids include Tom Peters, a Brit who previously revealed he identified as a Dalmatian, and Toru Ueda, a Tokyo engineer who spent $23,000 on a custom wolf suit.
“When I wear my costume I feel I’m no longer human,” Ueda, 32, previously told the UK Times. “I’m free of human relationships. All kinds of troubles, related to work and other things — I can forget about them.”
Clinical lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is, an animal.
This is also known as Species Identity Disorder or Species Dysphoria (also see Dissociative Identity Disorder). Clinical Lycanthropy has been associated with the altered states of mind that accompany psychosis (the mental state that typically involves delusions and hallucinations) with the transformationonly seeming to happen in the mind and behavior of the affected person.
I would like to point out a few things with the above comments on ‘clinical lycanthropy’ Initially it is referred to as a psychiatric syndrome … with emphasis on ‘psychiatric.’ Then it is referred to as a ‘delusion’ with ‘the transformation only seeming to happen in the mind and behavior of the affected person.’
To those of us who are rational, a human is a human and cannot be a dog instead, just as a zebra can’t change its stripes.
Can someone who does not still live in Portland or San Francisco explain the difference between lycanthropy and a girl who thinks that she is really a boy or similarly a boy who thinks that he should be a girl? Hmmm!
9/21/23