Being a nonhuman can be great, but it can also be absolutely dreadful.
I'm unable to look at pictures of hares anymore.
For me, photos that resemble how I perceive myself can trigger shifts. This is most often the case for European hares though, as it's my least "fluid" theriotype (for example with canines, I will often switch from feeling more like a wolf to feeling like a dog to a coyote to a jackal to a wolfdog, etc.)
Now, I've come to find shifts uncomfortable, as they often come to me when I feel very intense emotions, and since I'm going through a rough patch in my life, those emotions are mostly negative and so I get shifty when I'm under a lot of distress, therefore I associate shifts with that distress. Even when I do feel very happy and excited, I'm not allowed to express it in the way that I want/need to, since of course being perceived as human means you need to be damn good at pretending to be one and suppress everything you feel even when you're meant to be happy.
I realized lately that whenever I come across a picture of a hare, I will try to stop looking at it or scroll away quickly, hoping it doesn't get to me too much.
It is crazy to think that that's basically me avoiding pictures of what I think resembles myself, so I wouldn't "accidentally feel like myself". It's sad.
Whenever I complain about species dysphoria or struggles like this to the only people in my life who know about my nonhumanity, it gets treated like it's absolutely nothing. It even gets straight up ignored like it's not a big deal.
Yes, it does tend to show up as "Man, I wish I had a tail, that'd be so rad" or "I wish I was outside rn lol" but it can also be things like this. It can be feeling uncomfortable seeing YOURSELF because you think you aren't allowed to be that. Because you're ashamed.
Because you bottle up absolutely everything to the point where the only times when you do feel a tiny bit of your true self is when you let go completely, when you're sobbing and throwing up from anxiety.