Do you tend to relate to wild animals more than people?

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I dont know why but sometimes I tend to relate more to wild animals more than people and even pets! Im not sure why though I can understand their terretoris and distance and sometimes even handle some wild animals without getting bit or being threatened by them or threatening them as well. Anyone else relate to this?

I totally relate. Animals seem to act differently with me than others.
People say that about their pets when they are around me.
Shy pets are friendly with me and aggressive pets are tame and gentle.
When I sit in a field outdoors, birds land right next to me, chipmunks crawl
on my legs and sit in my lap. It's like we understand each other.

Not really, I prefer beings I can hold a conversation with.

Definitely not, though animals do seem to attract to me in a similar way to Ezra. My mum calls me the 'Puss magnet' because our cats almost always prefer to sleep/sit with me. >.>

I need to be with my own species to feel satisfied. I'd say that I'm actually too dependent on 4-5 people. My two best friends are especially important for my happiness, as despite being guys we hug a lot, sleep together, talk about everything. There are no pressures, and I feel like I lucked out by having them as friends. There's no need to say #nohomo or anything like that. I'm not diagnosed, but I seem to want to smother my friends in comparison to everyone else I've met, which failed until now.

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I don't relate to wild animals more than people (in fact, I'm scared of wild animals) but I do care about wild animals a lot. Wild animals seem to love me. One time when I was camping with my family when I was a little kid, it was night time and we were sitting around the camp fire, and all of a sudden a raccoon comes out of the woods and no joke, comes up to me and tries to sit on my lap. I was paralyzed with fear. He put his front paws up on my lap and I kept trying to shake him off, eventually he gave up and went back into the woods. I never went camping again after that.

Another story, my family has an inside joke that all the wild animals want to cross the street when I'm driving because EVERY time I drive, a wild animal of some sort decides to cross the road in front of me (turtles, mice, coyotes, foxes, deer, squirrels are the normal ones I see cross in front of me) they are lucky I watch for them because it happens so often. Animals never cross in front of my parents cars, only me! Its so strange!

I never encounter any wild animals ... so how would I know? I don't like dogs, though ... so my guess is: no.

I feed and talk to the wildlife in my backyard, I also practice martial arts and meditate back there too. In short, to answer the question, yes.

They poop in my hand a lot.

I handle interaction with ANIMALS better than with people. I feel more free for some reason. WILD animals? Ummm....I'd love it but they have a tendency to want to run away or, if you persist (and sometimes even if you don't), to stomp, bite, or even eat you.

I'd say I'll pass on the wild ones, unless it's a squirrel that's semi-friendly and will let me offer it peanuts. Deer, moose, even raccoons, I'd rather not get involved. The first two can be dangerous, and the last one might even be rabid. Around here, there aren't likely to be any other kind of wild animals. Canids (wolves, coyotes, or coy-wolves), maybe, but they could also be dangerous and I'd rather not get bitten or have my throat torn, thank you.

Yes. I relate to wild animals.

I can relate to them sometimes I think they think like i do when it comes to interacting with others in an apprehensive and cautious manner. I am like that with other people I dont trust them and am nervous around them I dont like being touched out of the blue like a wild animal doesn't like being touched! Over long periods of time with interaction slowly I trust others.

I don't really empathise with wild animals, as they are just as intolerant towards members of their species who have difficulties with social skills as humans are. As difficult as it is fitting in with human society, I'm glad to be of this species, because I can reason with other humans, and don't have to rely on non-verbal skills to communicate.