Answer #2

[vakkotaur]

Q: What is it about horses that makes you identify so strongly with them - or what horse attributes of a centaur?

A: This post might explain some of it. There's probably also an element of wishful thinking that is common to role-play and such. Horses are big and I'm not. Horses are fast and I'm not. Horses are strong and I'm not. And I do just plain like how they look. I'm not around them all that much and I didn't grow up around horses. If I had, maybe I'd see things rather differently.

I suppose, also, that I often have felt misunderstood. Sometimes cut off before finishing a sentence or thought and the wrong ending put in place ("Dammit, let me finish!"), which I find exasperating - usually as the person incorrectly filling in the blank goes on to explain why I'm wrong when I never said what they substituted and know very well what they substituted was wrong and why it's wrong and could they please spare me the lecture I don't need and actually listen? Sometimes it's just a complete miss. More than one horse trainer has stated that problems with horses tend to be communication problems of people not understanding them to start and if the communication problems aren't taken care of then things get worse. I've had similar experiences, and unlike a horse, I can talk and yet the same thing can happen anyway. So there is some.. is it sympathy or empathy? There is some identification with that, at least.