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I Am A Real Werewolf

Does it not bother anyone else to see wrong information just slung all over the place on here? I see so much false crap with hardly any corrections to set the record straight. I might not be the best person to learn things from but I'm certainly not spouting garbage left and right.

I guess I'll start with all this "my inner wolf" junk. Your "wolf" does not talk to you, nor does it have any "powers" or "abilities". It also does not have another name, gender, or look aside from your own. If you're a werewolf, the wolf part of you is not a separate being. You are only one person, regardless of form and have full control when you shift, unless you happen to have some type of multiple personality disorder. In which case, you still probably aren't a werewolf, but rather suffer from clinical lycanthropy (I would recommend seeing a professional if you haven't already).

Now, when I say name, gender, and look, I'm referring to multiple contributing factors. Name, for instance. If your name is Austin, you don't suddenly become "Wolfmist" or some ridiculous name like that when you shift. If you name "your wolf" like a pet, you are not a werewolf. Its not a separate voice in your head talking to you. Then there's gender. If you are a girl, and your "wolf side" is male, you are not a werewolf. What you identify as is your business and yours alone, but if you identify as one gender as a human and another gender as a wolf, you are either role playing or in need of serious help. As for looks. You are not some mutant wolf with purple eyes and blue fur the size of a horse. You are exactly as you are now, just in another form.

Its like taking water and freezing it into ice, it is still H2O. If you have brown hair, then you will also have brown fur. If you have brown eyes as a human, then you will have brown eyes as a wolf. For example, I have naturally dark red hair, resembling burgundy, but I dye it black with artificial coloring. This is the only way you can even partly achieve unnaturally colored hair/fur. But even with the hair dye, when shifting occurs you have a mass growth of fur from the hair follicles along your entire body. New hair is not colored by the dye, making a majority of it your natural color and only spots of it the color you dyed it.

Another thing that annoys me to see immensely, this is not Twilight. You will not turn into a wolf the size of a horse. You will turn into a wolf equal to your size as a human.

The Law of Conservation of Mass states that all mass must remain constant over time, as system mass cannot change quantity unless it is added or removed. The law also states that mass can neither be created nor destroyed, although it may be rearranged or the entities associated with it may be changed in form. In other words, you cannot create something from nothing, nor can you destroy something to nothing.

The average weight for an adult male wolf is about 100 to 110 pounds while females average about 90 pounds. If you are a 150 pound grown adult, you will not turn into a 200 pound wolf, Its just not possible. Your wolf form will be equal and proportionate to your human form, even if it is larger than the average adult wolf.

I'm a rather small guy, I weigh roughly 130 pounds as a human, not particularly large. As a wolf, I also weigh roughly 130 pounds, which is larger than the average wolf.

There have been reports of wild wolves larger than the average wolf as well, not just werewolves. In 1939, Frank Glaser, a wolf professional, caught a 175 pound male wolf during the Summer. Craig Gardener, a wildlife biologist, captured a 140 pound male wolf in 1997. John Burch of the National Park Service caught a 148 pound male wolf and a 110 pound female wolf at the same time.

Even with some grown men weighing 200 pounds, they do not weigh nearly enough to be the size of a stallion. The average light horse can weigh between 840 to 1,210 pounds while larger riding horses will range between 1,100 to 1,300 pounds.

In short, this is not magic, this is science. You will not pass the physical limitations, it is not possible.

Yet another irritating problem is that shifting is NOT fun. All this talk about "can't wait to shift" and "shifting is fun, I like it" is about as accurate as shifting every full moon; it's complete bullshit.

Shifting is something that takes an enormous amount of energy and a tremendous amount of pain to accomplish. The pain is so intense, it would be like getting hit by a car and run over several times, then getting beaten with a baseball bat, and then having a house land on your mangled body, just further crushing your bones and moving your organs around. And in no way is that an over exaggeration. If anything, that still doesn't quite cover it. And one of the worst parts is that your mind does not lose consciousness. As much as you would like to black out, as much as you would like to not feel, what really may only be seconds feels like hours of agonizing pain. Its not impossible to black out, I've heard of a few rare cases, but it's about as likely as shifting too young, which can kill you.

Then, even if you do succeed in the entire shift, the amount of energy it costs you is so severe, it can render you unable to move. Not only do you require a massive amount of energy to shift, but you require the same amount to shift back. If you lack that amount of energy to shift back, then you won't be able to. You will be stuck in that form until you are able to build up the energy needed to shift back.
Haylani · 26-30
[i]"You are only one person, regardless of form and have full control when you shift, unless you happen to have some type of multiple personality disorder. In which case, you still probably aren't a werewolf, but rather suffer from clinical lycanthropy (I would recommend seeing a professional if you haven't already)."[/i]

Those are two separate conditions. Clinical lycanthropy is more along the lines of a delusional disorder, with it's own markers (such as belief that their lycanthropy was caused by outside forces, and that becoming an animal is a punishment or representation of evil). "Multiple personalities" is just that and that alone- there's no linkage to any delusional disorders. In fact the clinical versions of the disorders are categorized differently. It'd be like saying you can't shift with an anxiety disorder and that it is linked to schizophrenia (which, it isn't.)

[i]"Then there's gender. If you are a girl, and your "wolf side" is male, you are not a werewolf. What you identify as is your business and yours alone, but if you identify as one gender as a human and another gender as a wolf, you are either role playing or in need of serious help."[/i]

I'm just curious about what specifically you mean by this, since the wording is kind of fuzzy.

The rest of the passage I can agree with.
Haylani · 26-30
[i]"If you are a girl, and your "wolf side" is male, you are not a werewolf. What you identify as is your business and yours alone, but if you identify as one gender as a human and another gender as a wolf, you are either role playing or in need of serious help."[/i]

I guess what confuses me is the way you phrased it. Are you saying the person would not be a werewolf because each "side" has a distinct gender (similar to the naming convention you discussed earlier, in which the wolf side should not have a separate name to the human side)? Do you mean this in a non-physical sense (like the wolf side shouldn't be able to have another gender identity subjectively because it's not a separate part of you), or physically? Are you saying that the gender should be the same across the board so that, for example, even if the human is physically one gender (in this case female) and the wolf is another gender, there shouldn't be a distinction between the two?

I'm just curious as to which you're referring to, since I was seeing several different things it could mean, and I didn't want to get the wrong idea.
DyanWerewolf · 26-30, M
Yes, I am saying the person would not be a werewolf because each "side" has a distinct gender, similar to the naming situation I mentioned earlier, in which the wolf side should not have a separate name to the human side. But I also meant it in a physical and non-physical sense. The wolf side shouldn't be able to have another gender identity subjectively because it's not a separate part of you, as you said. As I'm sure most are aware, there are some individuals that do not identify their gender with the sex they were assigned at birth, which was the physical sense. If someone that is physically male who identifies as a female were to shift, she would still have a physically male body irregardless of how she identifies. Shifting is a science, not a magic. Hope this helped.
Haylani · 26-30
Yes, it cleared things up for me. Thank you.
Drachona · 31-35, M
I agree for the most part. I have only a few criticisms. Firstly, just a minor point: Clinical Lycanthropy is a joke. Aside from the definition being incongruent with the name, it is very rare. There have been only a handful of confirmed instances of CL in history, and the research surrounding it is either irrelevant (like the impact of cannabis use on a patient) or based on misconceptions about werewolves. It is an embarrassment of science. These few people clearly have legitimate problems (typically because of other disorders), but the fact that some hold up Clinical Lycanthropy as an explanation for werewolves is shockingly moronic. Secondly, and more importantly, it may be difficult initially to shift, but this idea that it's unimaginably painful every time is ridiculous. It is a natural process for us; something we've easily done for a very long time. This would be akin to claiming that a cheetah experiences great pain whenever they run or a shark whenever they swim. It's an exercise, sure, and it gets easier the more you do it, but this isn't An American Werewolf in London. It would be both inefficient and dangerous for an animal to require that amount of time and to experience such pain to accomplish something they are biologically equipped to do. It's not like giving birth. In the past, we just went in and out of it. We didn't even call it anything or think of it as a transition. The same way many therians treat the "mental shift" almost like a ceremony, many people nowadays treat the physical shift like a ceremony. It's not rigid and dichotomous. It's just something we do.
SheAngel19 · 36-40, F
I feel like the torch is passing....
Pherick · 41-45, M
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The main reason I want to shift asap is to be done with the preparation pains already. It would be about time they stop... It has been going on for pretty much a whole year.

 
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