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Title: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 04, 2010, 05:24:52 PM
ok...when i became a fur i had these strange feelings for a few months, it felt like something deep down inside me trying to change or changing or wanting to change....i have been asking a lot of furs if they had those sort of feelings when they got into the furry fandom and most of them said they had those feelings, its strange....i still have those feelings when i do something furry like put on my collar or my tail....it makes me wonder if the furry fandom is more than a fan club for furries
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: pheonixrebirth on May 04, 2010, 06:58:34 PM
TO me, it's a way of life. people see us as different, and it CAN become a dangerous place if you're not careful. it feels more natural than i felt before being a furry. ifeel more at ease here. more appreciated. and that's my take on it all.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 04, 2010, 07:00:49 PM
i want to know why we feel that way when we become furs...its has been bugging me for awhile
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: pheonixrebirth on May 04, 2010, 07:04:50 PM
everyone and everything fears change. that's a fact. when we convert our mentality, we go through a change, and that's probably what makes us feel odd. it's like going from a hot tub to a warm pool. when you get in the pool, normally it would feel warm as well, but you're a different temp than normal. so it's basically getting to a new environment.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Alice The Necrofox on May 04, 2010, 07:07:36 PM
:D
it does feel a little different. I feel more confident now i am a furry, and i feel like i want to be different. Partially it is probably me being a teen, but hey :D.
still, it is true, that I felt different after I became officially a furry. It gave me something to really enjoy and to strive for. I guess i was a furry before this too, but i just didn't know what it was.

I am happy i am furry tho :P
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 04, 2010, 07:09:20 PM
i get what you are saying but i want to know what changes our mental state of mind, i want to under stand what changes our standard of normal
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: pheonixrebirth on May 04, 2010, 07:21:39 PM
it's getting used to stuff. if you live in squalor for a long time, it becomes your standard. if you're in a hot area, it becomes standard to know: "it's hot". if you live in a cold area, it's "it's cold" if you're in a constant place where there's rain, rain is expected to be common. it's a mental adjustment over time.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 04, 2010, 08:02:16 PM
 -.-I'm unsure, maybe furs are a gift from whatever greater being is true if there even is one (don't like putting much about faith here, but I do believe something). Or more darwinistic, maybe we're more in touch with our animal side. Our instincts are biting half the time and we have much simpler and better emotions. We love our friends and hate our enemies, were as the average person doesn't understand emotions very well. So you've probably been just trying to think your insane (well, I like to think I am still, but thats me) as an explenation and suppressing yourself so letting yourself go is something you've gotta get used to. I didn't feel to much different, but I already did a lot of furry things and didn't care much. I thought that I was probably one of the only ones that did crap like that and *tada* I found a community of people like me. Of course a lot of people try to keep themselves feeling normal and now that you have a better explanation of it its just not the same, but trust me, its better. So since your asking for psychiatry here, its the part of the brain that keeps you timid, now that your letting yourself go that part of the mind "tingles" (just means it feels weird). No you know that that feeling is more normal and you're adjusting to letting your furrified self out. This happens with a lot of things, whenever you try to change yourself in any way you usually feel this way. Like trying to make yourself do riskier things, your nature from before says no but you're saying yeah. So after a while this will be your nature.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 04, 2010, 08:59:50 PM
yah i like that tingly feeling, but yah i know what you are saying, i do express my furryness side, witch i see just about everything furry normal now i think being a furry gives you a spiritual  link to animals because my mom and my other 2 sisters pets stay around me more and listen to me now (they never did that until i became a furry...strange)
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Armalite_ on May 04, 2010, 09:04:30 PM
Yes, I felt different when I joined the fandom. I felt great and I still do. I only wish I could be MORE furry than I am now. I want to get a fursuit and do crazy stuff in public (but I was always like that). I feel like I have an identity that I can't express in the real world. I feel like I belong somewhere and it's making me so relieved that there are so many others like me.

For me, the fandom is essentially giving me a reason to live. You can call it whatever you want but without the fandom, I honestly see nothing else to look forward to when I wake up in the morning or come home. My life consists of my girlfriend and the fandom. Nothing more. I don't take joy in doing anything else. But that's life. It's meant to suck and you're supposed to deal with it without trying to go crazy or kill yourself. I love creating the art, I love the fursuits, and I love the idea of everything just being a huge game. Yeah, people might think I'm kind of weird when I talk about this kind of thing but like phoenix said, it's a way of life...and a fantastic one too.

Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Packedsnack on May 04, 2010, 09:06:11 PM
The admittance alone usually unlocks a strange feeling... Like a mixture of peace and guilt. To me, the fandom is more than a fandom, more a desire to be closer to my mother planet.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 04, 2010, 09:20:10 PM
yah same here i want to be more furryer and i want to be closer to nature
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 04, 2010, 09:25:53 PM
yah i like that tingly feeling, but yah i know what you are saying, i do express my furryness side, witch i see just about everything furry normal now i think being a furry gives you a spiritual  link to animals because my mom and my other 2 sisters pets stay around me more and listen to me now (they never did that until i became a furry...strange)
     
Yeah, I understand. My pets here stay around me and show more affection and all, sometimes I feel like they understand me more than a normal person to. They always did but my personality didn't change much becoming furry. The bond feels stronger now. Also I handle animals better to, sometimes people will say something like "don't go near that dog, he's vicious", yet I go up and pet him and he seems to me perfectly tame.
*Funny Semi-Related True Story* Okay, I was in the kitchen and my pet cat was sitting there, I just said "Hey what's up?" and then my cat looked up towards the ceiling and looked back at me. Maybe cats don't understand colloquial phrases the same.

P.S. Wow, people saying "I want to be closer to nature" and stuff sounds so zen....
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 04, 2010, 09:45:01 PM
ah it may sound zen but when i am not in my house or at school i am in the woods enjoying nature, but i love every thing about the furry fandom
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 04, 2010, 10:11:57 PM
That sounds righteous. I live in a horrible urbanized area, no nature to enjoy except for rabid dogs in the alleys....
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 04, 2010, 10:41:15 PM
but yah i love that feeling.....but  i want to become more furry...yah that feeling we get most of the time when you get that feeling you never want to stop being a fur


Post Merge: May 04, 2010, 11:00:09 PM
what if this felling we have means more than we give it credit for
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 04, 2010, 11:41:56 PM
I sincerely believe that the feeling sorta means more, there's something different to us, and its a great thing, we understand so much better. But the feeling you're talking about is natural to everyone, whenever you try to change a habit when you do something out of your ordinary then that feeling comes. But there is something more. But of course after your a furry (well technically all of a furs life, just strengthens upon admittance.) there is something different.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 04, 2010, 11:58:37 PM
yah each tome i had that feeling i felt confident and somewhat safe but mostly relaxed .......but i feel 100% positive that there is much much more to that feeling  than what we are getting
but that is what i think
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 05, 2010, 12:04:52 AM
Well its a great way to think about things! Everything has more to it somewhere usually, like transformers once said "more than meets the eye"
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 05, 2010, 12:17:31 AM
lol true....there is just something we are not getting i just know it!
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 05, 2010, 12:29:41 AM
Well obviously what where not getting is something more spiritual. It might not be something mortals can comprehend. But then again, we're not very average mortals, I'll brainstorm for a bit.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 05, 2010, 12:35:10 AM
eh you never know... if you think about it furries are modern Indianans
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 05, 2010, 12:38:00 AM
Indianans? You mean like from the U.S. state Indiana? If you mean Indians do you mean real Indians from India or Native Americans.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Packedsnack on May 05, 2010, 03:49:50 AM
P.S. Wow, people saying "I want to be closer to nature" and stuff sounds so zen....

I get that a lot ^-^ I spend my free time talking people off rooftops over the net and meditating, so I guess I'll just say something about how people can come to me for their problems.

Then again, maybe its a delusion and I'm not zen at all, I just like to think so  :3
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 05, 2010, 05:49:19 AM
i am not zen at all i am just used to being outside when i was young me and my family went camping every weekend.....but  theirs more to us furs when it comes to that feeling , but this is my best guess  it is your spearit longing for its anthro body
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Timmy Fox on May 05, 2010, 10:06:53 AM
TO me, it's a way of life. people see us as different, and it CAN become a dangerous place if you're not careful. it feels more natural than i felt before being a furry. ifeel more at ease here. more appreciated. and that's my take on it all.
I kinda say the same, I also see at the fandom as a lifestyle.
Before i found the fandom i used to be very depressed and found no meaning in life... but ever since found the fandom i've felt that i finally found my meaning in life, as if im meant to be a furry ^_^
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 05, 2010, 05:23:56 PM
yah same here i used to be depressed but then i found what was missing...the furry fandom
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 05, 2010, 08:20:42 PM
Similarly, I was depressed until I discovered nerdfighters, they're like furs but they don't have to be furry, its like, imagine all of the things about furs other than the furry part (like the niceness, more spiritual, crap like that) but there not all furs. When I found out I was furry I became even happier. I guess it just helps finding others like you to help you with that stuff.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 05, 2010, 08:47:14 PM
i am going to buy some furry stuff to express myself with...i will be buying a furry collar (a collar with the rainbow rings on it) and fox ears and a tail and maybe a cyber gas mask
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 05, 2010, 08:57:35 PM
Sounds awesome bro, I'm try gonna get crap like that too eventually...
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Gabag on May 06, 2010, 12:48:19 AM
i get what you are saying but i want to know what changes our mental state of mind, i want to under stand what changes our standard of normal
It's the feeling of

"Oh hey, I found something I feel I belong to, and I feel good about myself, I am the best'

or better put as

"I'm a furry now... SWEEEET!"
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: pheonixrebirth on May 06, 2010, 01:02:05 AM
agreed. It's the best feeling for me... and one compleetly new. Acceptance.... how odd... never have fit in anywhere.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Gabag on May 06, 2010, 01:02:52 AM
you might be wondering

"Gabag aint a furry, why's he here"

There's a reason, still trying to figure out why... but theres a reason somewhere over the rainbow
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 06, 2010, 01:06:53 AM
Yeah, you know where blue birds fly.... and a giant Decepticon robot is devouring the land with its giant anti-enviromental non - EPA approved nature destroyer! wait..... no its supprisingly calm actually.....
P.S. Thanks for dumbing down the psychological mumbo-jumbo.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 06, 2010, 01:15:02 AM
yah it does feel good to be accepted....and i love how the furry famdom is like a clan (the old meaning of clan where there is no leader) its so free ^_^
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 06, 2010, 01:16:58 AM
Yep, now we just need and anarchy.... Then we will be free.....
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 06, 2010, 01:22:31 AM
and i make a good troll spy they would never expect me to be a furry
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 06, 2010, 01:25:10 AM
I make a bad troll spy, my grammar stays to good.....
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 06, 2010, 06:19:58 PM
yah i am prod to be a furrry but not as much as rebirth lol.....but yah i always loved being a furry, that reminds me of something funny i found this furry  test and i got my nonfur friend to take it and it said he was somewhat furry he got soo pissed lol XD........but as i was saying i want to be more furryer
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Ninjalion on May 06, 2010, 06:28:33 PM
Furry Pride, its a lifestyle. I don't really understand you want to being "More Furrier" But, I'll support you, just be yourself :)
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 06, 2010, 06:35:35 PM
yah i know its a lifestyle, i think the world would would be better if there where more furries, but that is what i think.....but i wish there was some furrys where i live because the only fur i know is rebirth and i am the one who made him furry
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Ninjalion on May 06, 2010, 06:46:39 PM
I'm in a similar area as well. I think my friends that I've been hanging around allot might be furry, I can see it in them sometimes ^.^
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: milenko on May 06, 2010, 06:50:41 PM
mine do not minde me being furry but when i told them i was gay then that was too much they dont like it  but we still are friends....i wish one of my close friends became furry
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Righteousbro on May 06, 2010, 07:33:05 PM
I think I might have a furry friend, not like in the fandom, but who would make an ideal member, he's real similar to me other than the fact he gets hyper and is not as smart. But otherwise he seems furry.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: Silence the Splicer on May 10, 2010, 06:25:24 AM
I make a bad troll spy, my grammar stays to good.....
Well, trolling is a art.


I also have a friend I thought might be a furry but when he found out I was, I found out he wasn't, nor was he interested.
Title: Re: strange feelings when becoming a furry
Post by: WingedZephyr on May 10, 2010, 02:45:54 PM
I think the original topic of this thread was lost a page or two ago.

Locked.