Every once in a while, usually when I'm stressed out about IRL stuff, I feel like a fraud in my alterthing identity when I get flashes of a 'type that isn't one of the ones I've already awakened to. They'll happen kind of randomly or be connected to certain songs I listen to/activities that I crave doing, and even though I've gotten used to this happening it always makes me question things.
Then I have to remind myself, my original form could shapeshift!
Yes, I had a pretty definitive favorite-form, I kept it fairly consistent in a day-to-day sort of way but I could definitely change form and have taken over many in my souls' time on earth. I shouldn't feel like a fraud for shapeshifting, no matter how briefly, and identifying with amazing creatures even if I don't feel like I've physically been them in my previous lives.
Maybe I wasn't a strictly coyote-formed cryptid in my past, but they connect heavily with my cryptid identity now, so feeling those impulses when in that mindset shouldn't mean I have to re-evaluate myself once again. Am I a coyote therian? No, I'm a shapeshifting cryptid, and coyotes happen to resonate very strongly with that life for me. They remind me of my hearthome, almost as much as grey foxes do; they sometimes feel like kin. This is natural, for me, and I get to experience what my true normal is, away from others thoughts and the thought police I've let infiltrate my head.
They will be cast out, and I will truly know myself, even the brief flashes of radiant color that seem foreign to me. I love being me; I love being an alterthing; I love rediscovering me.