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Furry Chat => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Captain Mule on May 15, 2012, 06:43:29 PM
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Hello,
Please accept my traditional introductory furry greetings post.
I used to spend a lot of time online socially, meeting and chatting to new like-minded people, but I haven't much for the last few years. I've started to feel this need to connect to more people again recently, and I think that a furry forum is a good place to do this.
I say I think so because I'm not 100% sure what a furry is, so I can't be sure that I am a good fit for the furry community. There is a very large range of stuff described online, and I've never met anyone who claimed to be a furry, or hinted that they were furcurious, or even expressed any interest on the topic.
I've never really felt that I was the same species as everyone else. When I was younger social interactions confused the hell out of me, I didn't understand the whole social dishonesty thing at all, and as a result I was painfully shy. As I've gotten older I've learned all this stuff intellectually and am now actually quite good at interacting with people, but I still feel like its something that just doesn't come naturally to me.
My mental image of myself is covered in fur. And I definitely have a tail because I often wag it. And ears. Because I like to prick them up when something interests me.
Inside my head I refer to myself as Captain Mule, or Hoofy, or even The Iron Hoof. I also generally do this in the third person. I know that this sounds very silly. This is because I am in fact very silly, although I very seldom let this show to anyone except my husband. I’m not sure why people take themselves so seriously.
I however don’t actually think I am a mule. Or any other specific kind of creature. Sometimes my hooves are paws. Sometimes I’m a Velociraptor. I am The Mule, not a Mule if that makes sense.
But, I’m not interested in furrydom as a fetish. I don’t role-play or want to start role-playing. I don’t have a fursona and can’t join some kind of species driven group. I'm sure I would enjoy wearing an animal suit, but don't own one and have never worn one unless you count a chicken suit I wore in a grade 2 play. And I’ve just hit 30 and want to engage with like minded grown-ups, not trying to be age-ist, I’m just looking for discussions with people experiencing in a similar way to me. (I also will totally accept that one can be a grown-up or not at all a large range of ages).
That was a bit of a long post, so thanks for reading :)
Hoofy.
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Welcome to the forum Hoofy!
I'm Timmy, the one and only Royal Cutefox. I hope you'll enjoy your time here ^_^
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Welcome Capt. Mule ^^
If you have any questions, you may PM me, I'll gladly answer :)
Also, I too am sometimes a velociraptor. I have a couple of 'main' fursonas, they all represent me in a way.
Once again welcome :)
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Welcome to the forum, we are a friendly bunch so you should fit in fine.
Hope you enjoy your stay.
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Welcome aboard. :)
We have a post explaining what it means to be a furry here, if you'd like to read over it: http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?topic=16042.0 (http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?topic=16042.0)
Although people may define "furry" as being many different things to them personally, there are some basic points that apply to all furries, and those are explained in the post I just linked to.
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Thanks for the welcome everyone :)
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Well, I may be a bit late in saying but welcome to the forum. It's a great environment for all sorts of people, from the intellectualist, to those who are 'silly' to the just plain mad! Anyway I hope you enjoy yourself here.
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i welcome you to this forum :) i am in the same boat as you :) when i was little i shy as and i hardly ever talked to any one and i not that long ago found out what a furry was ether. i have been looking at furry art work for the past year almost and i didnt know what a furry was so i did some reserch and i came across this forum so i could lurn more about the fandom. i sometimes wish i was like an animal when i was little so i can shed my human skin and be free from all of the bull in the world but that didnt last long coz my mom thought i was mentaly sick and then i forgot about how beying an animal was like and i had depresion back once i was 15 lol yeah i know every one gets it round bout that age :P. iwhen i final got rid of my depresion the first time i had to lituraly run in to a wall and slam my head but it did work for a time and when i got my depresion back bout 3-4 months ago it was the worst thing ever and when i did find this forum i had a dream *short version* i got turnd in to a wolf and when i came out of that dream and my intrest in to furys that mutch more stronger and now im here :).
i hope you will enjoy your stay here :0 .
wow i went on for ages lol im sorry. i will leave you to it and hi from australia :)
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Well, I may be a bit late in saying but welcome to the forum. It's a great environment for all sorts of people, from the intellectualist, to those who are 'silly' to the just plain mad! Anyway I hope you enjoy yourself here.
I'm pretty sure I'm an insane silly intellectual if that helps ;P
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Hai there ^_^
I'm Wolfy, welcome to the forum :P if there is anything you need don't doubt on sending me a PM ^_^ i'll gladly help on what i can