How do you know you’re a Therian without shifts?

Helloooo everyone! Silver here

So this post will have a bit of a story on why I’m asking this question if you want to skip the whole thing, look for the colour red!

I’ve been questioning being a Therian for well over a year or two now, I’ve done a lot of research of alterhumanity as a whole and mostly Therianthropy. After lots and lots of research and analyzing my behaviors, attitudes and just general personality,

I said to myself (and others) that I didn’t identify with being a Therian, because even if I had involuntary animalistic behavior, I didn’t connect to any animals in particular, so I just put the thought aside and tried to ignore the thoughts of all this.

Recently While making a fursona, I was looking for an animal to be my truesona, basically an animal that truly felt like me, most people described me as a cat of some kind, so I looked into that for a while but never truly connected with house cats etc, 

No animal seemed to connect with me, until I found the snow leopard, and everything started to click? If that makes sense? all the behaviors and attitudes these animals, lined up perfectly with how I felt, my behaviors and personality 

And soon after when I thought of snow leopard, I thought of them as…me

All this to say, I don’t experience shifts, at least I don’t think so? When looking at shifts, I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything like that before, but the involuntary behaviors and attitudes are still present

For the people that skipped the story!!

Sooooo in short, I’m still kind of questioning mostly because I have no shifts, are there other Therians here who don’t have them? And if you don’t, how did you awaken as a Therian? 

Thank you so much for reading my rant etc, I just really wanted to make my point clear etc, and thank you if you do answer to this post ^^’