7:How long have you known?
I learned the term when I was 15, so properly I have know for... five and a half years now or so. I always identified with and as an animal more than I did people. I acted like an animal. I understood them better than I did people (still do), and I felt more at home doing things more... animal-like I suppose. Like, eating food off the bone? Wonderful. Using fingers over forks? Yes. Running or walking on all fours? Felt great. Digging? Hooboy, lemme dig a burrow yes please. Talking in "animal speak"? (Meowing, hissing, woofing, and other things) I did a lot of. Stopped when the kids in school called me weird but it felt right to do those things. So I always leaned towards thinking I was an animal, especially since I had shifts, memories, and dreams of being one. I feared it was just an overactive imagination and me being just a bit of a headcase until I found the community.
12:Any foods that remind you of your type?
Oooh, yes. I get shifty whenever I eat meat, especially if it's ribs or a drumstick because of the bone aspect. Or rare meat. Yum. And even though it's the wrong badger type, I do feel badgery whenever I eat one of those mud pie pudding cups with the gummy worms in them because it means I can "dig" for my food. Wrong food type but good feels digging. (Can you tell that I like to dig and do stuff with my hands to simulate it?)
Leafy greens remind me of being a rabbit. Crunchy foods can remind me of being a bat since my bat theriotype is an insectivore.