Over the last few years, a fair bit of attention has been called to therians and otherkin, including negative attention. Many people believe that therians/otherkin are just fooling themselves, or trying to escape reality. If it was somehow proven that therianthropes/otherkin are a falsity, and we're all just lying to ourselves, how would you feel? How much would it affect you? How would you cope? (Question submitted by :devmagoo-tora: and expanded by :devgestaltze:)