Furry community question!

Do people make unjustified assumptions about your personality/traits based on your species?

Conversely, do people make accurate assumptions about your personality based on species?

The whole "foxes are incredibly libidinous" thing is a complicated one for me. A lot of the time it's accurate, and a big part of me kind of resents that it is. Other times in my life it's been extremely not correct. For a while I was also dating an ace fox, so that makes it feel a bit more irritating.

There's also a whole thing here where I've noticed that species archetypes are often pretty different for folks who are on the more casual side of species identification versus folks who are more therian or otherkin.

(Wolves are kind of an index case for that.)

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