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Title: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Tylus on October 05, 2008, 04:49:41 AM
I'm really hoping that this thread hasn't been started, filled up, and died of old age.  So, if I'm gonna get in trouble for this, I'm sorry!  =) 

Anyway, I'm very curious to know as to how everyone originally knew that they were a Furry!  How did you all get here?  I suppose I'll start...

It all began when I was about 1 or 2 years old, I was hopelessly addicted to the Sonic the Hedgehog games, and I played them all the time.  The more I played it, the more I began to dream of being like them.  It started off simple, just pretending I was Sonic or Tails, and my mom, being the wonderful woman she is and was, would often humor me and make me little props like rings and such to play with.  My horizons soon broadened, spreading to games like StarFox, and animated movies like The Secret of Nimh and Walt Disney's Robin Hood, and I would always pretend to be foxes, cats, hedgehogs... anything, really.  My imagination had no boundaries!  Then at about 12, I settled on a Chinese Dragon named Zal.  Then about three years ago, I took a great liking to wolves, and decided that I wanted to be one.  Thus, Tylus was born.  And only a week ago, I discovered the Furry community, and I love it here! 

So there you have it!  That's how I came to be here.  Hope to hear all of your stories!  =)


(Changed thread title just to avoid confusion.)
WingedZephyr
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: Manual_automation on October 05, 2008, 05:04:32 AM
I loved animals and especally wearwolves, i used to play games with friends where we pretended to be animals, then i started wishing i was one, eventually i met someone who drew anthro art and that got me into the dirty side of furry's (you know it, it starts with a Y ) and eventually that lead me to forums like this and i finally accepted it and identified as a furry.
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: WingedZephyr on October 05, 2008, 06:28:01 AM
I've always loved animals/anthros, and felt more connected to them than people really, but I never actually heard of furries until I joined IMVU three years ago. I liked wearing the animal skins, and that eventually just led to where I am now.
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: Somebody on October 05, 2008, 08:15:48 AM
I've loved reptiles and dinosaurs my entire life, from when I could walk till now. When I was very young, about 20 or so years ago I formed a liking for one of my favorite raptor toys and I've been hooked ever since. Like you it started off as harmless child's play to the deep passion and love I have for them today. Wasn't till about a year ago I heard what a furry was, actually I was ill informed as I was told they were called yiffers. Imagine my fun looking on the net to find these yiffers only to find nothing but sexual content. My first opinion of yiffers (aka what I shouldve really been looking as furries) was that they were all extremely perverted. Not that it really was a big deal I am a adult.

When I finally came across the word furry it was like new doors opened up to me, I was no longer alone in the world and this site was my first social experiance labeled as one. But really I've had the passion my entire life, bearing the label doesn't change my love.
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: SeiRruf IS, FurryLAE. on October 06, 2008, 03:01:30 AM
loved anthropomorphic cartoons and um. well the rest is kinda private. then BOOM! im a furry o.o
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: Kipikipo on October 06, 2008, 03:05:56 AM
Google search clean furry chat.
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: SeiRruf IS, FurryLAE. on October 06, 2008, 03:08:03 AM
sooo, you became a furry by typing into google "clean furry chat?" interesting~
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: Kipikipo on October 06, 2008, 03:12:08 AM
What? Sorry I was too lazy to read the first comment. =p From the topic title I assumed it meant how did I find this site. XD

*ahem*

Lesse... happened this year... Uhmm... I dunno, it sorta just happened. I've been obsessive about moogles and moved on from there. Originally, my fursona was just a moogle, but I decided I wanted to be a little more original and made up the fursona I had... There were other things throughout my life that kinda hinted at my furriness, but I didn't actually embrace the idea until after my moogle-obsession. =p Again, sorry for not reading the first post.
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: Mr. Meerkat on October 06, 2008, 10:21:45 AM
Me to i really loved the sonic games and i play them all time, i love Tails he is my faveourte charatcer.
I have been a furry all the time i just did not know there was a woed for it until a friend of mine told me a few years ago and that is how i got here, i just searced a forum and here i am  :D :)
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: Scyler on October 06, 2008, 10:35:01 PM
Me to i really loved the sonic games and i play them all time, i love Tails he is my faveourte charatcer.
I have been a furry all the time i just did not know there was a woed for it until a friend of mine told me a few years ago and that is how i got here, i just searced a forum and here i am  :D :)

I hear you on that one.

I really don't know how it happened. It definately wasn't from CSI. I guess google. I overheard a few people in the hallways talking about anthromorphism. I decided I'd google it and one thing led to another. Then, I just typed furry forum in google and made my way here. Glad I did too!
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Thaddeus Q. Wolfe on October 07, 2008, 03:30:49 AM
Some of you already know this, other new members don't but here goes...

I've always thought that werewolves and stuff were just the coolest and all that blah blah blah.

During all of middleschool they were all i drew and i got picked on for it, because i drew exclsively men, much name calling and ponytail *mine) pulling ensued. For two years it depressed the h 3 one one out of me and i was even contemplating suicide by my dads guns.  Wel.... I get chased into a library one day and i stumble upon a brian Jaqcues book, his story lifted my spirits to the pont were i almost got a ticket for battery (it was self deffense, come on) long story short, my discovery of the fandom saved my life and put a junior sociopath behind bars (he was going to knife me the next day, btw and got cauht with the knife)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Scyler on October 07, 2008, 03:49:30 AM
*facepaw*
How could I forget those books?!! I started reading them in 5th grade. I completely forgot! Gahhh!!! Btw, I've read the entire series at least twice. Plus, the only book I'm missing is High Rhulain. Oh, another thing. My brother got me hooked on the series and is himself, yet he doesn't like furries. I laugh at him.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Kida Howlette on October 07, 2008, 03:28:50 PM
hmm...i dont really remember how i became a furry....it might of been that i love the starfox games, disneys robin hood, lion king, ect...then i found the art, clean an dirty lol an began to take a likeing to it....i also saw the different conventions an saw how much fun they were having...and after all of that, thats when i realized that i was a furry :D
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Bueller on October 07, 2008, 06:57:50 PM
I always loved diffrent kinds of animals when i was a kid. Dogs always ran up to me and liked me. I played games like Crash Bandicoot and Sonic the hedgehog and Punky Skunk. It led to me wanting to be them of course and role playing as them. I eventually found out a love for manga and read some like Fruits Basket and Wolf's rain. I LOVED it. I made up my own characters and role played as the. I had a few characters  like the skunk anthro Ynx and my favorite fursona Elk. I then one day was watching yu-Gi-Oh the abridged series and heard Joey calling himself a furry while ewaring a fursuit. I looked it up on google and then I saw EVERYTHINg related to fuuries and furry lifestyling. Hehe now I am a proud fur.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Tylus on October 08, 2008, 02:56:23 AM
Oh my heck, Redwall ALL THE WAY!  I would always role-play my own Redwall Abbey adventures with my friends hahaha, it was great fun!  =D  I totally forgot about those too!  The first one I ever read was Marlfox.  That got me hooked on the series.  I've read Martin the Warrior at least 20 times, and I think I'm gonna read it again!   :)  *picks up the book and starts reading*
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Scyler on October 08, 2008, 03:00:57 AM
First one I read was Redwall. I was so angry when I finished it because our library only had that book of the series. I finallyjust got most of the series for Christmas. Since then, I've been getting the new ones that come out and I'm still trying to find a few. Btw, my favorite one is Rakkety Tamm! Heh, Scottish accents...
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Thaddeus Q. Wolfe on October 08, 2008, 03:54:49 AM
I enjoyed "The Bellmaker" but "outcast of redwall" was pretty good to.

and just think, all the while I was slowly becoming a furfan without realizing it, welll... more so than i was. :snicker:
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Scyler on October 08, 2008, 04:25:36 AM
Yep, I love Brian Jaques!!! Speaking of him, you ever read the castaways of the Flying Dutchman series?
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Thaddeus Q. Wolfe on October 08, 2008, 04:28:04 AM
not yet, but we are now off topic.

OFF TOPIC!!!!!!!!

I'm getting a shirrt tommorrow that says furry pride on the back, no paw prints or anything like that, but I will put two big prints on it when i get it.  :D

is yellow and tye-dyed :th_Pyong-1:
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Scyler on October 08, 2008, 04:31:32 AM
Sounds awesome! I'd get one in blue but... People don't look too highly on us in New Braunfels.
Title: Re: How did YOU get here? =)
Post by: Dessum on October 11, 2008, 02:38:01 PM
I've always loved animals/anthros, and felt more connected to them than people really, but I never actually heard of furries until I joined IMVU three years ago. I liked wearing the animal skins, and that eventually just led to where I am now.

Im the same as Zephyr in this one :P
I was always obsessed with werewolves, but only the the transformation part, but stuck half way through changing (i.e Anthro)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Manual_automation on October 11, 2008, 06:10:25 PM
^ on that note, my D&D char. is a lychenthrope (ie, werewolf)  and my DM let me make him my fursona  = D
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Thaddeus Q. Wolfe on October 16, 2008, 05:13:42 AM
as i usually end up dm (best story writter) and a furry, i always allow anthro characters as long as they aren't overly powerful.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Kit Angel on October 16, 2008, 06:12:30 PM
how did i become a furry??? it might of been me playing all of the sonic games as well as others ^w^ but it started around the ninth grade when i met my older sis that adopted me into her group of friends they were usally the ones to get picked on all the time during the highschool years but we all were furrys and they gave me the pet anme shippo since i was skinny and had my hair like his all the time, but around lunch while i was a junior i seen that a freshman was getting picked on for his Y furry art by some jocks *Cringes* sorry i just hate those type of people who pick on the weak, anyways i seen that they were tossing his hand bag back and forth between eachother and i just got fed up with it my friend ari and Kurama told me to let it go its own way but i decided to take a stand for my family so i kinda got into a fight with the jocks and some how i don't know how but i won and everyone in the lunch room was surrounding me and my adopted lil bro Reno i pretty much blurted out "You just got you @$$ handed to you by a fellow Furry what now, oh by the way i'm gay people so deal with it!!!" and pretty much my friends well sisters ari and kurama glomped me since they were Y freaks and before i adopted Reno into the family we went out he was a fellow fox furry as well we went out for about two months until yeah he broke up with me but we still are friend thankfully ^w^ anyways yeah so i've been a furry for almost 7 to 8 years now but i still don't know that much about furrys sadly since i had to be a little secretive with my family but now they fully accept that fact that i am one which i told my grandmother first which i was well stunned when she said "Kit i will love you no matter what even if you are a furry and even your gay as well your still my first born and favorite grandson"  :th_PyongLlora: i just couldn't stop crying from her response to it it made me so happy ^w^

And that is pretty much how i became a furry ^w^
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Scyler on October 16, 2008, 07:49:29 PM
You must be one of the luckiest furs I know. You actually got your family to accept you being a furry AND gay? I wish I could pull that off(well, only the furry part)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Thaddeus Q. Wolfe on October 16, 2008, 08:30:11 PM
lucky!!!! o.O  my parents would kill me if they found out i'm gay.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Kit Angel on October 16, 2008, 09:34:36 PM
well i live with my grandmother well i lived with her since i was 11 and now since i haven't even met my real dad both of my biological parent are pretty much dead to me  :upupdi3: but i love that old woman with all my heart ecspecially my two lesbian aunts for teaching me to stick up for myself and others
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: CuriousFox420 on October 27, 2008, 01:58:04 AM
Hmm.  I only discovered Furries a few years ago and honestly until two weeks ago I was more of a supporter than an actual furry myself.  But if I had to name a time when I realized I liked animals (especially anthropomorphic ones) it was when I read the Redwall series by Brian Jacques (particularly Taggerung).  Loved the title character, and I meant I really wanted to fall in love with him.  So I guess that would be it.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Dessum on October 27, 2008, 10:45:12 AM
Yeah Kit, you is teh Lucky foxie :P
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: DarkBall on October 27, 2008, 01:02:50 PM
My girlfriend played Furcadia and I played it once, then I found out she was into furry art, which was fantastic, and got me interested into it, then i drew some and she liked it so much..*ahem* skip ahead..but later I found out she was dating a guy while she was drawing this stuff and she was pregnant.. So we broke up. Well anyway thats how I became one.. Been one since 2007 on february.

Why am I a snake instead of a wolf or fox? I once had a pet snake out in the backyard when I was 8, I named him Toad, he was a garden snake... after a few days I made him a house, then fed him, then I made a bigger house..then 2 weeks later he bit me.  :'(

Now dont like the snake story and my fursona? Well its alot better then being a cow furry.  :snicker:

 =s
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Sen on October 27, 2008, 01:07:10 PM
I think that I first caught the notion that I was a furry when I saw the movie "Dude, Where's My Car?".  In the scene where he took out the match book and it said the Kitty Cat Club, they then panned in on the scene.  When they showed an anthro catgirl, I felt something inside me awaken.  I wanted to see more like it.  Unfortunately, I was only 10 and I didn't know much about the internet.  Sadly, I was left alone, but then I remembered other places that I saw things like that.  Star Fox, Disney's Robin Hood, Animalympics, etc. etc...  Strange how a B movie with Asston Kutcher helped me discover my true identity at such a young age...

The snake story is pretty cool.  I have a snake that's about 6 years old and 6 feet long.  Also, it's strange you don't see many bovine furries.  Personally, I'd like to see more of them.  =^_^=
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: chad313 on October 27, 2008, 11:16:01 PM
for me.................................. i saw the cutest drawing of a tiger in chiense paper on devient art and wondered if there were more
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Doceser on October 29, 2008, 08:05:24 PM
Ahaha, Everyone has these nice stories. Mine is a little lame, but anyway, here we go..
I guess I have always been into animals, until this one person I dated came along and they was all like..'kill the animals' and stuff and I just kind of stopped caring. Some time after that person and I broke up I let one of my friends stay the summer with me, and we got to talking one night about Anthro-sex...
>.>
And Iz like.."what is that...?" So they showed me and I was really kind of disturbed by it at first...I quickly got over it though. -just another thing I suppose.
: )

And then I just started...to meet all these people that were really into it...and their outfits were all so cute and they were all so nice to me that I just found that I wanted to surround myself with them. Now I am seeing that it isn't all that bad at all! It looks like so much fun!
I guess I still just hold a bit of sceptisism.

I really like cats a lot. And those cute finnic foxes. Most of all male lions, though. They seem to be the best of all.

And...moths...  < 3
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: SpiritW0lf on October 30, 2008, 11:37:11 AM
How am I a furry?? Hmmmm *ponders*.

I have always been into the idea of anthro-animals. The very idea gets my mind and heart moving to a point where it hurts. It wasn't until 3 three years ago (I was 13 at that time) that I was searching "wolf" on Google and found the coolest pic. I practically fell in love with it and stayed with it. It wasn't until I was 14 when I accepted the fact that I was a furry. Although, I would like to state one thing: "Y" art is disgusting. I'm up for anthro art, but I myself, I don't like Y art.

So that's pretty much how I became a furry. Not really descriptive, but whatever >_<
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Eru on November 03, 2008, 09:30:23 PM
I've only recently learned there was a furry side to me. I realised after listening to 2 the ranting gryphon's radio show for a while. I remember think that i would like my own fursona, but because i had no idea what to pick and where to talk with other furs I just left it. Fast forward a year or so and i found out my mate was a bit of a fur! So i asked her what animal fits my personality. Long story short she started ticking off aspects of a wolf and said it would suit me perfectly, so i immediately pulled out a recent internet handle i was going by and decided to run with it! Ever since then i've slowly been building up my fursona, and eventually found this website. So i guess i owe my furriness to 2 the gryphon and my lovely mate :)

Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Sen on November 06, 2008, 04:59:17 PM
To be honest, I'm not really in the Fur stuff yet, but I might. Mostly I wanted to get away from normal life, I guess.

What exactly is normality?  It's hard for a line to be drawn today...
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: [D.E.M] zetsumei on November 06, 2008, 05:00:57 PM
To be honest, I'm not really in the Fur stuff yet, but I might. Mostly I wanted to get away from normal life, I guess.

What exactly is normality?  It's hard for a line to be drawn today...

i'm assuming he meant real life.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Doceser on November 06, 2008, 09:44:07 PM
Ahah. Corn.
: P

Anyway. It is nice to see another non-fur?
Hmm. Yeah, I can go with that.
: )
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Doceser on November 07, 2008, 11:42:51 AM
I was hoping so. I would hate to know a bunch of people who only talked about corn.
: P
I mean...it tastes good and stuff but....it's corn~
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: DaiRraito IS, FurryLAE. on November 11, 2008, 02:14:03 PM
............
I don't have a single idea what corn is, might be cr** or something, but I dunno.

Oh, jeez...
How did I become a furry?
Uhh........

I had always loved animals, like cats, rabbits, possums, etc.  I didn't like dogs, but it seemed they all liked me.
When I was 7 or 8, my Sis' discovered IMVU.  She showed me it.  I took a great liking to it.
So, 'bout maybe... a year or a half later, I search "Furry Forum", and don't find anything.
Then, I see something about a Furry Forum on IMVU and clicked the link.. Brang me here.

Afterwards, I saved up a lot of credits on IMVU to buy a furry outfit that matches Shinzui.... 'cept the hair.

I sorta forget how I got Shinzui.  I mainly gave him my favourite chracteristics, then threw in a few weaknesses here 'n' there.
I gave him my favourite hair colour - Black.
Made him sorta cocky.
Etc.
Etc.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: SeiRruf IS, FurryLAE. on November 11, 2008, 02:16:38 PM
^interesting =P
 i see how it is.
 hat'in on dogs now eh?


lol
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: DaiRraito IS, FurryLAE. on November 11, 2008, 02:19:43 PM
I liked little dogs... Just not big, vicious ones.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: SeiRruf IS, FurryLAE. on November 11, 2008, 02:20:24 PM
lol but we all know the big and vicious ones are the funnest ones in

*CRASH SIZZLE WHITE NOISE*

to play with!
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: ___ on November 11, 2008, 04:06:36 PM
I like big dogs, but corn with butter is delicious... Not that corn! Hmmm... Always was a fur, but I didn't know the word for it, until I read an article about some celebrity comedian going to a furry pride convention. That was what got me, and I searched Furry Forums, so yay!
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Golge on November 12, 2008, 04:54:45 AM
I shall tell you all a tale, a tale of mystery and wonder.

I was 5 years old, sitting in the living room floor reading my mothers college books(they were the only books left i hadn't read O_O), suddenly, I came across a picture in one of the textbooks, it was a chameleon, from the moment i laid eyes upon it i thought it was just the bees knees, but we didnt have luxuries like computers so there wasn't much i could do.

fast forward 5 years, it was christmas, there was one gift left, i opened it, it was a computer, i was overjoyed, as soon as we had internet i rushed online and searched for everything i could about these strange creatures, i had to know everything, what they ate, where they lived, everything. after that craze, my life went on until i played kingdom hearts, after one fateful boss fight, it was then that i knew, i wanted to be one of them, i began to retract into myself, depressed that i was born human and not chameleon, it took some psychiatric help to get me on my feet again, and now i am happy soul.

now i am here, i didnt know what fur was, or i pretended i didn't because i was trying to fit in again after a new move, then i ran into rose/yoruichi/sin forsaken, and he was all like hey you will joins dis forums or you will die, and so i have joined and now i couldn't be happier...unless i win lotteries...mmm money.

is good story ja? surpsingly its true
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: DaiRraito IS, FurryLAE. on November 12, 2008, 01:22:09 PM
....Stupid overprotective mum and her probably no allowances to go to ACon and FurCon...
ACon is in my STATE!
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Sen on November 12, 2008, 01:25:46 PM
It's in my state too. I just need to get a ride, and tell my parents that I'm gonna be visiting University of Pittsburgh...
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: DaiRraito IS, FurryLAE. on November 12, 2008, 01:26:23 PM
ACon is in Illinois.... Where are YOU?  o.0
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Sen on November 12, 2008, 01:33:33 PM
OOOOOHH!!!   I thought you meant AnthroCon...  I live in Pennsylvania, but on the wrong side of the state...  West Philadelphia can be fun, but not if there aren't any furries...    :'(
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Nikolai on November 15, 2008, 07:29:30 PM
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What exactly is normality?  It's hard for a line to be drawn today...

Well, we can talk about normality until the cows come home. But then again, what are cows?


Well, I suppose I got sucked in at a childhood state by Calvin and Hobbes. Been reading the comic since I was 2. I also owned at least 2 pets at any one time. Cat, or dog. But I loved the comic not for it's use of animals (Hobbes is a stuffed tiger, as well as being a living tiger that Calvin, a 6-year-old often has deep conversations, or silly childhood games with.) But simply because it was great. However, it got me into comics, which would lead me here.

Surprisingly, it was not me but my greatest friend that got sucked into Redwall at a young age. 'Furry' literature was never something I got into, save for the Narnia series.

Then, one day, I was posting a blog about friendship and searched online about it, looking for a google image to complement it. And in the end, I stumbled upon a great anology in the form of a comic page, from the comic 'Gene Catlow.' It was a furry anthro comic that's been around for a long time. And I greatly enjoyed it, and found the website itself. I read the archives, and thought it was great. About up until then, I was somewhat anti-furry, and thought it was downright weird, though I understood why people liked it.

It would take about a year or more before I came here, as I read more comics, such as 'Lackadaisy' and recently 'Jack'. All of which led to my inevitable search for a furry forum. About a month ago, I eventually decided on a Squirrel. I drew my avatar as I was registering on the board, then edited it a few times in paint and photoshop to get it to the right size and color levels.
Title: Uh, that is very Interesting
Post by: Raccoomotion on November 21, 2008, 01:42:00 PM
I became a furry before I know that that called a Furry.

Someday in the past the first step. I saw something like 2 years ago the movie "Brother Bear" (I love animation (or is this cartoon) for children!)
At this moment I hate a very big problem (can I say it I hope so) with my sexuality, :sick: ****** And this wasn't the normal kind of!
So I go away from the human-thinking-platform. And change to the Bear-thinking-platform. It works a little bit and I had can think easier.

Like a Half year later I change to a Raccoon. I always believe I was a Animal. The good thing was that I know that animals would watch TV and do something other like humans if they can^^.

****** ^^. :bubbles:
But what can I do it is the truth!
 O:)

Okay, tis is a realy cruel story but besides if I never have this depended, I'm really sure that makes no thing change. It only has come later!

If this thread is to dirty please write it in a other way sdmins. I'm sorry I even don't know enough worts to describe it in a other way. Already?
Thank you!


There are minors on this forum. If you cannot post a clean story, do not post it at all.
WingedZephyr
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Rai_Wolffur on November 26, 2008, 02:34:33 PM
My ex is paying for me to go to next year's Akon so ha! =D

And my furry-ness started when I was 5-6. I always loved animals and loved acting like them, and when I found out about the game "Habbo Hotel," I got to RP as one. (Don't laugh at my horrible choice of gaming.) Then one of my friends told be about a game called "Furcadia" where everyone was an animal. I suddenly got hooked, Playing everyday for about a year. During that time I found FF. And now here I am. =D

 :-*
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: firefox_b on December 09, 2008, 07:55:15 PM
I think that I always was furry, it was rather more a matter of realizing what I was.  I used to think that I was the only one heavily into animal identification until discovering via the internet that there were others like myself, and that gave me a name for what I was and a realization that it was OK to be furry...   omg
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Post by: ST-84 Sahelanthropus on December 09, 2008, 11:23:35 PM
{[cut]} now i am happy soul. {[cut]}

Did they kill the boss too?
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Post by: Golge on December 10, 2008, 12:28:31 AM
O_O references to the idiots of garry's mod? excellent
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Post by: ST-84 Sahelanthropus on December 10, 2008, 12:30:31 AM
Half-Life: Full-life Consequences 2: What Has Tobe Done
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Post by: Golge on December 10, 2008, 12:32:43 AM
lmao i live on the same street as the guy who made that, i was at his house not to long ago lmao
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Post by: PhantomStone on December 10, 2008, 01:44:02 AM
i play shadowrun with wolfgang and mr bro, and he showed us the ff and i made his cha. in SR like the ff so he showed me around and i jsut stuck
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Post by: Creeping Death on December 11, 2008, 12:46:23 AM
I got here because of my friend Sam who's my mate on here. She dragged me here and I wasn't sure if I was going to like the place or not. I wasn't going to just ignore her and not try it out at least though. So I came here and after a while I realized that animals are just my thing and that was probably why the RW series that a few people have mentioned is probably one of my favorite books/series.
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Post by: Yumé on December 11, 2008, 01:11:29 AM
I loved pretending to be animals when I was younger (I especially liked being Pokémon) though they would always be er.."feral".. or so I guess the word is...and I'd make up random little stories to play out. I started to forget about that stuff when I got into high school and then three years later I met Kuro_okami and she introduced the concept of anthropomorphic animals and I just had to get in on it. Plus it just looked like so much fun  =3
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Post by: Toboe13 on December 12, 2008, 10:44:38 PM
Well...I've loved animals my whole life and disney (especially with the animals) and i've loved anthro art, star fox, sonic, all that jazz. I didnt even know what a furry was until last week when i found pounced.org, then i started talking to a guy and i'm hooked! i want a fursuit so bad now....and a new tattoo, which i'll probably get first...so yeah...lol...anyway i love the atmosphere here and all the people i have met, i'm here to stay!!
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Post by: ST-84 Sahelanthropus on December 17, 2008, 05:57:50 AM
Well, it all started when I was playing an Online game called BlockLand, and I heard someone talking trash about something called "furries," so after that guy left the server, because I knew that you can't get good info from a hater of the subject in mind, I pop the question "What's a Furry?" and someone says it was a fandom of people who like to draw art of anthromorphic animals and Role-Play as them, I like to draw and look at art, and I LOVE Role-Playing, and she told me to go check it out, and I did. Lucky for me this is the first thing that came up in the search, or else I may have been reluctant to even get involved in it.

You guys are the best of friends anyone could have.
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Post by: Golge on December 17, 2008, 06:44:52 AM
thanks betrayer, i couldnt agree more in this respect :)
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Post by: ST-84 Sahelanthropus on December 17, 2008, 06:55:06 AM
:sparkle: I feel so welcome! :sniffle:
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Post by: Sen on December 17, 2008, 06:42:36 PM
 :peek:
Do I hear some adoration in this thread?
 :peek:
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Post by: ST-84 Sahelanthropus on December 17, 2008, 07:08:28 PM
What do you mean, "adoration?"
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Post by: Sen on December 17, 2008, 07:10:27 PM
Nuuuuuuuthinnnn.....     :snicker: :snicker:
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Post by: ST-84 Sahelanthropus on December 17, 2008, 07:13:39 PM
Whaaa ha ha! :th_PyongLlora:
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Post by: ___ on December 17, 2008, 09:50:14 PM
(Hugs Betrayer) Does anyone watch Yo Gabba Gabba? I love it because its so funny. ^^


Please stay on topic.
WingedZephyr
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Post by: Hale Laocon on December 18, 2008, 05:46:29 PM
I kinda knew ever since I was a kid, always interested in the anthropomorphic cartoons back then.

I never really knew the name of the fandom until the word "anthro" kept popping up, and then I misspelled it as "anthromorphic animals" for a while till someone pointed that out for me.

Anyway, back then I only spoke Spanish and didn't understand these things, but when I realized there was an entire group of people dedicated to this I couldn't help but get excited. >:D
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Post by: Arilys DuskFlare on December 23, 2008, 04:18:42 PM
Well.. i always liked pretending to be an animal, but only in 2008 summer i found out the furry fandom.
since then ive seen the world in a different way... and became a bit afraid of telling people im a furry (theres a lot of.. um.. ... "bad" information and furry-hater sites)
some weeks ago a friend of mine asked me what a furfag was and i just froze and told him to search "furry", but he didn't understand (not gonna get with details, dont wanna go offtopic..).

just hope he doesnt get the wrong idea about furrys. If he does ill explain it with more details. (and probably tell the first person im a furry)
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Post by: DeviantDarkWolf on January 14, 2009, 07:55:10 PM
It's always been a part of who I am. I'm not going to go all TL/DR on you, as it is quite a lengthy story, but it has always been a way to reflect on my own personality and experiences as a human. I believe in animal totems and such, so that's a big part of it. eh, maybe I'll elaborate on my reasons later, but you get the main idea.
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Post by: Akurai on January 21, 2009, 07:26:06 PM
wow...its been a while since last I was here uhmm...Well I haz a very ineresting story behind how I became a furry but thats for a different ime I just really love Foxes more then anything so..here I am.and if you want to know the story messege me :P
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Post by: Renaud Magicpaw on January 21, 2009, 07:32:48 PM
Dunno, just woke up on day and was like, you know what I'm a furry
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Post by: Ghost wolf on January 26, 2009, 05:33:34 AM
ive always been a furry cus i really love wolves but i didnt relize it till a friend on another forum pointed it out to me
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Post by: Mr. Anderfox on January 30, 2009, 12:48:08 AM
I can't remember exactly how I became furry, since I remember I always loved anthro, I recall when I was a kid I used to play with clay figures of digimons and stuff like that.

I think I entered the fandom by the Jab Archives (I'm not very proud of that :umm:), there I saw a link to the Jack Webcomic (that is a very good but gorey comic)  and became a member of their forums. I disappeared for some time 'cause my personal life, a few weeks ago I decided to try again that forum but it wasn't the same so I decided to start again and here I am. Happy times! =3
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Post by: Umber on February 19, 2009, 04:23:02 AM
Well I suppose it started when I watched my brother play sonic when I was 1-2, then actually playing the games when I was 4. I've always been drawn to most cartoons with anthros, I have plush animals that were completely real to me. I love pokemon and digimon. I wished that I was a cat from age 4-10 for my bday. I eventually figured out it would never truely happen.  :'( I had a fursona at around age 12 on a forum before I knew what a fursona was. I eventually abandoned the idea of furry for about 6yrs and am now back, with some thing truer to my nature. A squirrel, many have calle me that before having the fursona and it just fit so well. I may change, Im not sure if I am squirrel or rat.
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Post by: Aumbrella_Dude on February 20, 2009, 04:07:39 AM
I'm in it for the art. My other char is also based off pokemon, thats why species is set to ???. (OMG SPOILER)
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Post by: Sparky15756 on February 20, 2009, 08:29:03 PM
well, it was sometime last year. I waas talking to a furry on RPGN, we got talking about his avatar ... and after a few days ... i realised i was a furry

but i've actually had a fursona before i became a furry ... well my fursona was my character in my fan-ficts that i was writting, but never finished


And i have to say ... being a Furry has made me a better person, i now care for animals & i'm more open-minded!
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Post by: Vito on February 23, 2009, 05:43:17 PM
i became a furry when i was 12 years old...my family owns a lot of animals and i always loved them...i was on the internet one day just looking at pics of wolves for my desktop background and i seen a anthro pic of a wolf furry... i was interested in the pic so i started to drawl them even know im not good at it i made a anthro wolf as me...and i liked it so much i found myself wishing it could come true...so i looked in to the word anthro and found that it was furry so said that is so me dude ^^ and that is how a became a furry yay
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Post by: Noke on February 24, 2009, 07:08:09 PM
Well I was very young as well (Probably since I was born), and My family was very big on the Disney world and as most of you know the most famous disney character is Mickey Mouse. I really enjoyed the idea of a walking/talking animal. I've always been a big animal person as well, especially wolves and from there I was searching on the internet and came across an anthro picture which gave me a better term to search for.

After that I started doing research and found the playful name "Furry".  And from there here I am now! Proud furry for all 17 years of my life, serious furry since I was 11.  :D
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Post by: Traveler-Oni on February 28, 2009, 06:03:24 AM
I guess I've been a furry since I was really young.  Cartoons with anthropomorphic characters were a dime-a-dozen and it was just natural to think in anthro terms.  I never really had anyone to play with when I was a kid, excepting two busty blonde girls who lived next door.  They liked to play Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers and Sonic the Hedgehog.  Needless to say I've never been the same since.  ^^;  Though my parents don't know, I hope to one day tell them.  For the time being though they think I'm just a bit reclusive.  That's okay though.  They shall one day see my fox persona...if I ever get around to it.
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Post by: Vito on February 28, 2009, 06:09:53 AM
Thats how i am...Some of my friends and family know but not my mom or dad...and by family i mean my sister
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Post by: Traveler-Oni on February 28, 2009, 06:16:25 AM
My brother just thinks of it as an odd quirk.  I think he'd understand.  But my dad is a different story.  How do you tell the man who raised you and who thinks that, despite your apolitical and areligious attitude, you are still an American nineteen year old who is attracted to busty women leaning over cars of popular design that you are in fact a person who likes to visualize and act out his thoughts as a fox-like humanoid?  Doesn't sound good on paper OR spoken word.  ^^; 
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Post by: Vito on February 28, 2009, 06:43:03 AM
i know what you mean, its hard to tell ppl who dont know what it is
its very hard to explain...i have tryed to find an easy way to tell some1 but haven't been able to

for my mom and dad i am just gonna let them find out there selves
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Post by: Traveler-Oni on February 28, 2009, 06:46:22 AM
*nod*  That seems like a good idea to me.  I'll let my dad find out when I'm good and ready.  I'm really not too worried though.  If they find out, they find out.  I will just come clean if that happens.  I have no shame about being a furry.  I just don't want them to feel like I'm trying to strike out and be rebellious.  I'm a furry because it makes me happy.  For the longest time I thought I was alone when it came to feeling like this, it's good to see that I'm certainly not alone.
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Post by: Vito on February 28, 2009, 07:10:38 AM
yeap i agree
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Post by: Traveler-Oni on February 28, 2009, 07:16:24 AM
The only thing I really want to accomplish at the moment is to attend a convention.  I've always wanted to go to one but I can't really find any around here.
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Post by: Noke on February 28, 2009, 04:38:02 PM
i feel the same way bout how i though i was alone, and i as well want to attend a conventio, where u live i know where like every convention in the friggin world is. i may be able to help  :D
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Post by: WingedZephyr on February 28, 2009, 04:45:20 PM
Please stay on topic.
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Post by: Traveler-Oni on March 01, 2009, 07:56:02 AM
Oops.  It's so easy to get off topic when you're enjoying yourself.  I guess we should the conversation to it's own thread if we wish to discuss matters further.
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Post by: al-Kateb on March 03, 2009, 12:30:07 AM
While I'm not a furry, I DID really get a lot of inspiration from the Anubis warriors in The Mummy Returns...
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Post by: Traveler-Oni on March 03, 2009, 03:51:22 AM
I loved that movie.
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Post by: Dog Donovan on March 03, 2009, 03:56:09 AM
Well, I've always been a Furry based on everything a Furry is. But I joined the Fandom officially a few days after my mother (bless her soul) died. I knew about the Fandom since I was 11 years old, but was shy back then. Now I proudly (sometimes in a bull-headed way) embrace being a Furry, and love it!
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Post by: Traveler-Oni on March 03, 2009, 05:03:32 AM
Good to hear.  As long as you take pride in the things you do everything will be fine.
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Post by: Lyle Conner on March 08, 2009, 12:53:40 AM
Well...I have to say all dogs go to heaven one and two tempted me then road rovers had me hook but mainly became furry when I watch "Balto" who became my hero so ya I say balto made me the furry lover and wolf that I am now *Howl* :-*
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Post by: Traveler-Oni on March 08, 2009, 07:35:59 AM
I love Balto and Road Rovers.  Brings back memories.
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Post by: bigmanrob on March 19, 2009, 04:20:07 AM
Brother Bear...
It has done all sorts of weird **** to me....  :shcoked:
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Post by: The Bovine Rodent on March 19, 2009, 12:50:41 PM
I blame ancient Egypt and its animal-headed men entirely. I've been thinking of myself either as that or as an anthro since before I knew furries existed.
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Post by: bigmanrob on March 19, 2009, 04:16:09 PM
Hmmmm...

That's interesting. But it seems like everyone doesn't know they're furries for sometime after they start the fandom unknowingly.  ???
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Post by: WingedZephyr on March 19, 2009, 04:18:51 PM
Hmmmm...

That's interesting. But it seems like everyone doesn't know they're furries for sometime after they start the fandom unknowingly.  ???

Yes, that's often the way it works. Probably because there are a ton of anthropomorphic things that can influence people without actually being called a "furry" thing. (It's not like Disney goes out and calls Lion King a furry movie, even though it features talking animals.)
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Post by: NekoOtome on March 24, 2009, 01:28:23 AM
Lesse. It all kinda started when one of my best friends and I would constantly play a game we called 'Puma and Gavin' where she was a wolf named Gavin and I was a puma named...well... Puma. In seventh grade I decided that mountain lions were the coolest things ever. I took up some cat-like habits in response and began to develop anthro characters for myself in the shape of a puma. I found out this year that there were others like that in the furry fandom. It all developed from there
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Post by: Dog Donovan on March 24, 2009, 03:44:49 AM
Always loved anthros... That makes me Furry. Easy!
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Post by: Alter Insatiable on March 28, 2009, 06:46:26 PM
As a kid I had a sick bit of an obsession with wolves and dogs, particularly because we lived in my Grandmother's house and she has a deep hatred for all things not Super-Christian and human, so I always played with the neighbor's dogs. It was like my forbidden fruit. Then in about second grade I started to watch this early Saturday morning cartoon called Tama and Friends that was on the WB (Now CW). It featured cats and a dog running around and getting into adventures and some mischief. I always kinda just watch blankly until they had an episode where main character (Tama)'s owner fell ill and when he went to sleep a new cat would appear and play with all of the other animals. When he would wake up, the cat disappeared, and this happened over and over and then the kid recapped to his mother that he thought he heard Tama talk.

This brings me to the fourth grade. I'm a total pokemon nerd, watching the show, playing all of the games, I even had plushies of some of the pokemon, like charazard, venusaur, snorlax, those. And I was playing the trading card game and everything. At recess me and my friends would run around, a few would be trainers, others would be pokemon, (I was always GROWLITH or ARCANINE, no surprise there.) and it was all very fun. Later on in that year my teacher assigned a project on different kinds of animals. Everyone got to choose a top three and you were assigned one of them. I got wolves :3. I made a little clay model and wrote a three page paper on them, which got me into looking up pictures of wolves a lot. Just before the end of the fifth grade I found a photomorphic picture of two people morphed into anthro wolves sharing a bed, for lack of ability to be explicit. It was my first introduction to anthros and the fact that I was hitting puberty at the age of 9 meant raging hormones in me and a want to know more. I found the source of the photomorpher, and  needless to say, more anthros in mature ways, but I was kind of limited, and didn't know there was more to this kind of art than the sexual aspect.

Jump forward to the sixth grade and my infatuation with the animorphs books. I must have read every single volume of those books and they never seemed to get old or dull. I was enveloped in them and it had me almost jealous of the people in the story. I wanted to become a wolf so badly it almost made me sick when they turned into wolves.

Now to the summer between 6th and 7th grade. I was in summer camp and I was a hardcore DDR player. There were some other hardcore players in the grade above me so I fell in a crowd with them, specifically this one anime obsessed girl. We talked mostly of anime and stuff, telling eachother which were our favorites and at the time I had all of the Wolf's Rain DVDs in my DVD case. She went nuts, having been a fanatic herself. A few months later, school starts, and bam, we're a couple. It's great, except for the fact that all of my friends were now in 8th grade, they were graduating, I was in 7th and had no friends in my own grade.

Well we dated for a while and she also had a wolf obsession, and started showing me some really cool art. I had a party at my house later on that year and she asked me if I was a furry, since I seemed to exhibit a lot of the qualities one would. I replied that I didn't know what a furry was, so she gave me the basic layout, sure enough, I adopted the word into my identity.

And there's my story, sowwy for the length.
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Post by: ★Kuro★ on March 28, 2009, 09:21:12 PM
Well, I had a friend named Ezekiel on the adultswim.com message boards, and I saw he really liked wolves.
I saw something on his myspace one day that said he was a "furry" and I googled it.
Pretty soon, I began identifying myself as a furry. First, I was a wolf/husky. And in time, I began acquiring all these different breeds of animals I liked and could relate to. I've been a furry since childhood though, just didn't know what the fandom was.
I used to jump and crawl around like Simba from Lion King, and I was often a Pikachu.
In 6th grade, my friends and I were interested in an anime called Tokyo Mew Mew. This sparked alot more of my furry-ness.
I was Ichigo, the black cat girl. Soon, I began liking Zakuro the wolf girl more. And that was just ONE influence.
Back then, I also drew my anime-self with Tiger ears and a tail. My other friends would have animals I picked for them that suited them best. Most of my friends were puppy dogs or big cats like panthers or cougars.

I truly joined the fandom in the year 2007, and this was also one of my first Furry boards! ^_^
I've been a member here since '07, actually. At school, I run a Furry Club which consists of friends in my little group. Almost all have identified as a furry, now. XD  It's a private little group, but as soon as another person enters our little group of friends, they learn about the fandom, and end up also being a furry! And our group keeps on growing. It's an amazing thing. XD
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Post by: Petrie on March 28, 2009, 09:46:33 PM
Lol I actually only realized I was a furry a few weeks ago.  I had always wondered why I loved any animated movie with animals in it.  I can't even count how many times I've seen alvin and the chipmunks or happy feet.  One day my friend told me he wanted to show me something funny so he took me to banned site and showed me all of the absurd forums that were up there.  when i got to the furry forum; however, I finally understood why I had such a passion to animals lol.
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Post by: TheGreatMilenko on March 30, 2009, 09:38:02 PM
the TV show Weird True and Freaky, the episode called Humanimals, shown some humans who took their inner animals to the extreme, like Stalking Cat (cat man (the guy who has spent thousands in plastic surgery and tatoos to look like a tiger)), well anyway, number 2 were "Furries" and i was like, cool, theres many of these guys? So I googled it the next day, and within 3 days I knew all about the inner workings of Furry Fandom from Wolffeeddarkfang, to yiff, to the CSI episode. Now I am wanting to get a fursuit and go to anthrocon etc.
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Post by: KaptainKelly on April 01, 2009, 06:57:33 AM
I used to put my dad's work ties in the back of my pants, pretending it was a tail and that I was a wolf when I was like 5 haha I need to find a pic of it.. *gigglesnort* Plus at school my friends and I would run around on our hands and knees pretending we were animals. Plus my imaginary friend/some character I made up was an anthro wolf with wings, and that was when I was like 7 and older lol
I guess I've been one ever since I could remember, even though I never knew what it was until about 3 years ago. o.O
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Post by: Sen on April 01, 2009, 11:44:17 AM
*sneezes and feels his ears burning*  Was someone talking about me?  :P
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Post by: Jambles on April 01, 2009, 01:03:20 PM
I've always loved foxes and when I was younger I always used to pretend to be animals that could talk :P
Then when I found out about furries in a magazine I knew i was one straight away, so then i created Jambles the fox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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Post by: .: ♥ Kiniia ♥ :. on April 04, 2009, 03:41:06 AM
Well, my story is very long, so I will shorten it drastically:

Me and some friends used to make up games that involved talking animals and Rping as them
I have always liked animated animals and animals in general
I found the 'darker side' a few years ago on newgrounds, thought it was very hot and started looking more into it. found out more about it and eventually joined furcadia about 3 years ago
now I'm here
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Post by: Dog Donovan on April 04, 2009, 10:27:10 PM
I was never a heavy Furry before I found these forums. Thanks to friends on them, I'm now a dedicated Furry.
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Post by: Adura on April 05, 2009, 07:34:41 AM
well i had this friend, we both loved redwall and other such series, and one day he decided to be open about his furryness in our little group and i did some research and was interested immediately so i went up to him and essentially said "Ryan, teach me the way of the furry".

he looked so happy that i had asked that he asked me my favorite animal and i said fox, so he went home that night and made me a partial suit of a pair of jeans that had a fox tail (synthetic of course) and a hat/headband with ears that i still use today.  good times, good times....
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Post by: Eurydice on April 13, 2009, 01:32:46 AM
I've been into Anthros since a young age. Obsessed with TMNT, Sonic, Bugs Bunny, Animaniacs, Looney Toons, Street Sharks. Really wasn't very into anything that DIDN'T feature Anthrofurs.

I started playing Furcadia in 2004, hencemore exposure to furrydom.

I don't remember when I first officially started considering myself furry.
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Post by: ★Kuro★ on April 13, 2009, 07:16:57 PM
Another influence I want to add, is Sonic the hedgehog and Pokemon. Anything cute and fuzzy I saw on TV or played on my game systems, got me truly interested in the furry side of myself. Sometimes when I'm bored, I still pretend to be Rouge from Sonic. XD
It just depends on my mood.
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Post by: Renjiki on April 14, 2009, 06:13:47 PM
i guess i was always a furry i just didn't know it i always loved being animals playing little games with my friends i didn't know i was a furry until i came across a site about them and instantly i was interested i did everything i could i became Renjiki bluufurr the name and idea came from when i was a child there was this raccoon in our back yard that got into the trash the night my sister failed to die her hair blue well it got in the raccoons fur and i started calling him Renjiki the blue furred raccoon so when i became a furry i knew exactly who i was there was no doubt about it i was Renjiki Bluufurr of course my mother hates furs don't ask me why she just does so the day i came out and told everyone i was a furry well i got grounded yeah lame i know my mom thought i was doing it just to make her angry and on the side note i kind of was but i grew into my furry self and i am loving every minute of what i am and im dang proud to say that i am a furry.
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Post by: kayle on April 14, 2009, 06:35:41 PM
I've been a furry for about 7 or 8 months, and I love it!  I found the fandom while looking for.... stuff.... on the 'net.  I was hooked!  I'd written stories about anthros for years before I found the fandom, and I loved the Redwall series.  So, yeah.  Here i am. :P
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Post by: Matt Prower on April 18, 2009, 08:43:49 AM
I was always interested in things like sonic, pokemon and such for a while. I got to the age of 14 and got a sudden desire to get tails plushies [currently have 4]. Then a while after that one of my friends showed me an animation that had anthros in it [nothing rude]. I liked it, and then he said he was a furry, i asked him what it was. He told me, and then i got the fabled 'click' in my mind, in realising that i am a furry also. I'm planning on getting a partial of my fursona, if i can get enough money  :D
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Post by: Tyla on April 19, 2009, 11:18:42 AM
I think I've always been a furry. Just finding the Furry Fandom helped me feel more confident and discover more about what interests me. I've always been interested in physical transformation (I even remember back about 7 years ago, I made a story for English about DNA splicing and people turning into animals / gaining characteristics of those animals), and I found myself absolutely obsessed with Anthros in general playing Oblivion (my characters were always Argonians or Kahjit). Well, I can say DeviantArt partially found it for me through transformations... (woohoo, weres - also, nothing rude got me here)
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Post by: Dan Witty on April 25, 2009, 08:30:52 PM
I can't say I really know exactally when it dawned on me, but it took place over the last year, give or take. My whole life I have had a fascination bordering on awe with animals and nature, and I would often pretend to be one or another of them when I would play games as a child. Also, like many others, it seems, I was addicted to the Sonic games, with Tails and Knuckles being my favorites. I love cartoony anthro animals in general, for that matter, for whatever reason they strike a chord with me, and I feel like I can relate to them on some inner level. Gradually, this grew to be a part of who I am and just recently discovered that there is actually a community of people like me.
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Post by: Bueller on April 26, 2009, 12:31:36 AM
I was always into anthro and animalistic art and the like. I even bought anthro art at the renfaire and got many anthro and wolf/deer figurines. I read all the Redwall series, played Sonic, watched Pokemon and Digimon, and wrote about and drew anthro characters. A few years ago while looking at GoldenWolf's art I stumbles upon a furry naughty site and the people called furries. Ever since then I have developed my own fursona and have been a proud fur.
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Post by: Wolface on May 11, 2009, 11:12:22 AM
It might sound like Zoophile but it's not :umm:
It all start with my display picture that's preaw(It's a Thai name)
I just wanna be like her lol. and also I want to know what she's talking about all day.
So, my fursona is kind of like the real dog more than werewolf :-*
well... my reason is different from most of the ppl here.

ps. I'm new here, so if any1 have any suggestions please feel free to suggest me.

Any comments are welcome

sawasdee krub

Ode
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Post by: Gáire on May 13, 2009, 12:33:58 AM
Weeell.... I've always drawn animals my entire life. My favorite ones to draw were wolves, and eventually I started drawing anthro wolves. Also, I've always had dreams that I could control... And I loved turning into a wolf.

So, right now I'm thinking I might be a wolf furry... But I'm not sure. I'm still a new furry and unsure if everone would be like "Well, you just DECIDED to be one, then? That means you're really NOT one!"... So yeah. But I'm pretty sure I'm a furry.  :)
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Post by: Chrono Blackwyng on May 13, 2009, 12:37:14 AM
I had started acting like an animal, sometimes out of boredom, and other times just to roleplay as a wolf or dragon...and my size made it look a bit silly, but I got exposed to the "dark side" of furry art during middle-school, and that just finished it...
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Post by: White Wolf Guardian on May 15, 2009, 04:35:50 AM
Well... I don't really know when I "became" a furry, more like I've always been one actually  =s. I've always loved antromorphic figures, mostly vixen, canine, and felines. I also consider myself therian and otherkin for other reasons. I'm also a big shapeshifter researcher *I have my reasons* but I deem it completely possible from the things I have found and the people I have met. I have a lot of stories behind me in my journey on this research, if anyone is interested I will gladly share my stories. I feel better about being myself, for a long time I was bound to christianity and now I have never felt better in my life  :th_Pyong-1:
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Post by: Parsifal23 on May 22, 2009, 06:59:06 PM
I always liked Animals as a kid bugs, dinosaurs, various dog and cat breeds. Animals always seemed more relatable then people to me. I also live a lot in my own head books, movies, and music. I also used to study a lot on Shamanism, Totemism, and Vision Quests. As far as how I “became” a furry it’s really just learning that the community has many sides to it that caused me to become a furry because prior to discovering things like Wikifur or the forums here my only exposure was to the worst aspects of Furry Fandom. I didn’t want to be associated with something that at the time I thought seemed to be just another prurient subculture. I now know better and it’s that knowledge that has caused me to embrace being a furry.
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Post by: RosiWolf on June 06, 2009, 06:18:26 AM
Warning, this is a long story.

Really everything started to piece together when I was seven and I first became aware of the existance of wolves and werewolves. I strove to draw wolves and master drawing/painting them-sadly I haven't completed this-and I found myself growing to love them more and more each day. As I grew more and more obsessed with wolves, I found myself venturing out more and more into the woods, avoiding being inside as much as possible. It's only been up until about 6 or 7 years ago that I truly began to act differently than I used to. Instead of obsessing over wolves and lycans, I began acting like one, in the manner of showing my teeth when I was angry, something I did often, and staring at the moon for long periods of time. About 2 years ago was when I first had thoughts of actually WANTING to howl or whimper at the moon, something that truly scared me. I believed that if people found out about my 'little secret' I would be shunned and pushed away. I still think of whimpering to the moon, but I try to avoid it because usually when I get the chance, there's always someone around or I would rather stare than whimper. Anywho, I became depressed for a short while. My mentality was 'Why couldn't I have been born a wolf?' But I  soon got over it. I met a friend who was just as obsessed with animals as I was, though she loved tigers. She was in a similar situation with her 'tigerness' and we became close friends. This led to me recovering from my depression and I began the new mentality 'If I can't have a tail and ears, I'll imagine it.' This is self explanitory...Then one day while I was watching Animal Planet's 'Most Extreme' I watched a guy explain about his being a furry and I began to wonder about myself and others like me. I was in denial, thinking I was a freak or that something was wrong with my head. Then, believe it or not, it was the New Moon trailer that really made me think, 'Am I a furry?' I was in a denial the whole afternoon as I studied and read up, but by the end of the day, I had calmed my fears, knowing I probably was a furry, and joined FF. Now here I am, still trying to convince myself entierly about this whole furry thing...

Kinda long, I know, but it's an elaborate story and this goes back a LONG way. Like 10 years back long.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Wolface on June 06, 2009, 09:29:17 AM
you have a good story Rosi  :D
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: [D.E.M] zetsumei on June 06, 2009, 04:54:52 PM
Weeell.... I've always drawn animals my entire life. My favorite ones to draw were wolves, and eventually I started drawing anthro wolves. Also, I've always had dreams that I could control... And I loved turning into a wolf.

So, right now I'm thinking I might be a wolf furry... But I'm not sure. I'm still a new furry and unsure if everone would be like "Well, you just DECIDED to be one, then? That means you're really NOT one!"... So yeah. But I'm pretty sure I'm a furry.  :)

that's just the thing, for as far as i know; being a furry is mostly as simple as having a interest in anthropomorphic animals, or simply relating to animals in some cases. loads of people in the fandom switch around their fursona until they find one that they find fitting.
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Post by: Jacen the Folf on June 06, 2009, 05:51:58 PM
It really started because of my expirences on Xbox Live.

Through a Halo 3 clan I joined I was introduced to two very good friends of mine. It turns out they were both Furrys. Curious as to what a "Furry" was I asked them and they told me. Admittedly at first I thought that the whole idea was wierd and it kinda creeped me out and I thought no more of it for a long time.

Fast forward to a Month ago where I had a project for my English class. In it our teacher asked us several questions in order to find out who we were. One of the questions he asked us was what would be our Spirit Animal. I had never thought of that before. Thinking through all the animals I knew of and their characteristics I found a Fox fit me the best for their cleverness, intellegence, and for relative lack of physical strength.

As I got home that day I couldn't get the idea of relating to a fox out of my mind. It reminded me so much about what my friends told me about being a furry. The weird thing for me was that I liked the idea! Doing a little more research I found a lot of things that I had in common with other furrys.

In the end I decided to join the Furry Fandom and my fursona changed into a Folf to match my mixed heritage......
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Armalite_ on June 16, 2009, 04:37:41 PM
I probably found out I was a furry when I was 6 or 7...maybe younger. I was really into werewolves, foxes, sharks, etc. I would always write about them, and wondered how awesome it would be to really be one. So I came here. :D
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Post by: KittKat chunky~ on June 16, 2009, 05:35:55 PM
Ha!... read my signature......  :D ........... Ive always loved the idea of being able to change into an animal or antropomorphic character......... (just read my signature)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Silver on June 27, 2009, 01:19:47 AM
I guess it started with being able to control my dreams, i had been drawn to wolves and canines all my life, then when i could control my dreams changing into one and running free just seemed perfect to me
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Post by: Moonraiser on June 27, 2009, 07:26:53 AM
well mine took a while to develop. As a kid i really liked animals but i never could decide which one was my favorite til about highschool where I took a huge fancy to the wolf. such great creatures i thought, they really fascinated me. For about a year or so i became a really big wolf fan, and before i knew it I started to want to be just like them. Also on top of that i have always had a big fascination of wererwolves, which drived my feelings forward. for a while i had to keep these feelings and fantasys a secret in fear that people would think of me as crazy. It wasn't until about a couple days ago i found out that there are many people just like me that also want to be like an animal of some sort. And so that is my story on how I became a furry.
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Post by: RosiWolf on July 01, 2009, 02:33:05 AM
Same here, same here...I just always had a fascination with werewolves, but I found myself disgusted by the cruel, red eyed demonic werewolves I saw on Google images and Photobucket. I always thought 'Werewolves should be shown as majestic, beautiful creatures; not these slavering, cruel animals.'
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Post by: Armalite_ on July 01, 2009, 02:55:03 AM
I dunno, I always liked the cruel demonic animal look. When I was in the tenth grade that was all I wanted to be. It was like you wanted something so badly to the point where you would die for it but then you remember: It's impossible :'( I was a huge werewolf fan myself not too long ago. But then I found my self taking a liking to foxes more. But hey, I still love wolves. I still chat on werewolf forums, join WOLF clans on PS3, join groups, etc. Demonic look FTW!
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Post by: Moonraiser on July 01, 2009, 03:02:10 AM
man i was so much like that. I too was almost to the point where I would die to be a werewolf but then I had to face it, its impossible, a fantasy/dream that will never come true. But I guess being a furry will help quench some of the desire to be a werewolf.
*howls a deep greeting to the moon*
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Armalite_ on July 01, 2009, 03:04:14 AM
Exactly *howls back*
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Post by: KittKat chunky~ on July 01, 2009, 09:53:19 AM
gives a miaow and looks embarresed.....
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Post by: Armalite_ on July 07, 2009, 05:36:02 AM
lawl XD
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: VampireShai™ on July 08, 2009, 01:48:28 AM
How I became a furry was when I was on IMVU, and everyone had these Customs and  I Absolutely LOVED Acts at the time being, so I started being a furry on there. [At age 11 and now 14 XD] But I quit it, then I started again [Because of mate Jad'Thor]
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Post by: FireFox on July 08, 2009, 04:49:29 AM
I started when i was little i always pretended to be a dog or a wolf, i loved to play with my dog more then anything i connected to animals more then i did other people earlier today(:D) i found this fourm and im still kinda nevrous about telling people im a furry
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Post by: Gabag on July 08, 2009, 05:39:00 AM
How Did I become a furry? I still havn't to be honest.

I'm just having a LOT of trouble choosing a fursona, because for me, it needs to be something that no one has so no wolves or foxes or dogs or a feline of sorts...
dangit I might be a penguin just to see what'll happen, but until then a furry I am not.
till then I guess im the infested human you all call friend
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Moonraiser on July 08, 2009, 05:43:46 AM
im still kinda nevrous about telling people im a furry
  yeah same here I was extremely nervous to tell anyone I was a furry but I just couldnt supress it in since it is such an important part of me. Alas I found out that not everyone will agree with your choice, like my sister who freaked out when she found out, but at least they know about your true feelings.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Armalite_ on July 08, 2009, 10:43:31 PM
Yeah, I probably won't ever tell my family (because once you tell them something, they never forget) so I only told my friends who I know don't really care.
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Post by: FireFox on July 09, 2009, 12:02:17 AM
also, what helped to develope my fursona was i went through some rough stuff awhile ago with my family and i had heavy thoughs of suicide i had it all planned out, but then i though back to my childhood self and i remembered what my childhood was all about, and that was being an animal, i wanted to be a fox more then anything i also had those dreams were i was a fox and i just laid there with my tail covering up my feet. it was nice finally i thought i dont need to kill my self and i soon starting playing video games again anyway a friend told me about the "Y" stuff and it also brought back memories then i found you guys and everything has just gotten alot better
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Post by: Armalite_ on July 09, 2009, 12:13:52 AM
I went through the same thing, lee. Before I found out I was a fur and found this place, I was into all the things people tell you not to get into. At times, I really felt like killing myself and even attempted once. I was able to put all that behind me with the help of my friends. I always wanted to be a wolf. I dreamt about it, thought about it all the time, etc. but somehow, I ended up being a fox XD.
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Post by: Asia Kali Yusufzai on July 09, 2009, 12:17:29 AM
My furry realisation came about well after any sort of suicide attempts. It's just part of finding myself. A great expedition to last a hundred years.
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Post by: Tyla on July 09, 2009, 12:55:00 AM
Minus the suicide... I like the idea of just being free my life. Look cute, get treats and such, sleeping and eating and that, and that's it! Maybe a couple of others, but I feel kinda jealous about pets in the way that they get so much freedon assuming the owner is a good one. But on the other hand, I wouldn't be talking to any of you guys, so I guess the best place to be is inbetween!
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Post by: Moonraiser on July 09, 2009, 01:58:00 AM
Yeah I really liked the idea of being an animal,because they are so free and majestic. I also like the fact that animals are not naturally evil, unlike us humans.
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Post by: Tyla on July 09, 2009, 02:10:49 AM
Personally, I think "evil" and "good" are determined by one's morals, and that a mixture of both is in nature as a whole, not just restricted to human beings - I'm assuming that it's mainly that humans are on a much higher level of intelligence and social understanding than any other organism on the planet (although I can't really back that up, but yeah, two assumtpions in one) that some people think about it that way.

But given the choice on everything about me, I guess I'd rather be more... "biologically animalistic" as opposed to "human", which is why I'm a furry. Part of this is because I'd rather be different in general too, because personally, being the same for so many years makes me think "I'm bored", which is why I'm a fan of transformation. I also believe that subconcious desires eventually release themselves and "expose" your true personality, which leads to some of the things I do that seem more like an animal's behaviour, to not only me but everyone.
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Post by: Aqua Wolf on July 09, 2009, 05:41:18 PM
About 3 years ago a friend of mine mentioned that he was a furry. So, I got curious and started looking it up. Of course that only led me to the dirty side of furries. Then 3 days ago I was just looking at various furry artworks  and ended up looking to see if there were any forums. And found the kind, tight-knit community of furtopia.com. Then after reading a few posts I joined Furtopia. Then after reading yet even more posts I realized "Hey, I'm very similar to these people". From then on I have considered myself a furry.  javascript:void(0);
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Post by: NewNerd on July 11, 2009, 01:45:40 PM
I was a giant fan of the StarFox Series back when it was on the SNES and N64. I always had a thing for shows that had anthro protagonists, and books.
It wasn't until I found Newgrounds did I know that there were other people like me, and Now i am publicly (read on the internet) a furry.
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Post by: Timmy Fox on July 13, 2009, 02:31:03 AM
I think it all started when i saw someone on a videogame forum having a furry picture as his avatar (which i thought was kinda cool hehe) Later on i found out what a furry was and i started researching about furies for a few days and found out about the furry fandom  :P
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Post by: tibaltfox on July 15, 2009, 02:43:17 AM
Oh my heck, Redwall ALL THE WAY!  I would always role-play my own Redwall Abbey adventures with my friends hahaha, it was great fun!  =D  I totally forgot about those too!  The first one I ever read was Marlfox.  That got me hooked on the series.  I've read Martin the Warrior at least 20 times, and I think I'm gonna read it again!   :)  *picks up the book and starts reading*

Another Redwall convert here!
Always been an animal\anthro lover. As a kid, my absolute FAVOURITE movies were The Junglebook, followed closely by The Lion King :D
Then I picked up the Redwall series when I was 12 or 13
Andd from there it all started : ]
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Post by: Gáire on July 16, 2009, 12:53:31 PM
I read the Warriors series and roleplayed them LONG before I knew about furries at all... Those books were amazing before they came out with the newer ones.
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Post by: kalafurr on July 16, 2009, 03:37:01 PM
I fell into a vatt of nuclear waste!!!!!             Not really. I just always  identified with Liono from the Thundercats. I also really love Aslan from the Narnia chronicles.
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Post by: Armalite_ on July 17, 2009, 02:14:01 AM
Probably the first Anthro show I saw I loved. Street Sharks in 1994 got me hooked and so that's probably when it began.
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Post by: Random Knowledge on July 20, 2009, 07:28:57 AM
This is kind of an odd thing for me to think about...  I guess I realized I was furry when I found the dirty side of furryism, but I guess I developed it from my natural love of animals and well like a lot of people on here, playing video games like crash, sonic, but I think the bigger one would be bloody roar, which for those of you that don't know, is a fighting game which has humans that can turn into animals, anthromorphic animals to be more specific.  So I guess that's how I became a furry.
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Post by: Cyrocco on July 24, 2009, 10:56:00 PM
to be honest I've always had the fascination from the artworks I've seen in various places and websites. The more I studied the muscles the skeletal system of these animals shaped and standing like humans it has always fascinated me. I've always wondered is being human it? is this our peak? no I said there must be something better, hopefully someday a nut will figure out how to biologically engineer our dreams and make them a reality. But that's me being a crazy nut myself. Another thing that contributed to it was I love RAVE and I was watching videos that consisted of anthro's raving with glowsticks and partying, which pretty much sold the deal lol
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Post by: Lone-Wolf on July 25, 2009, 03:12:45 AM
Starting from the age of seven I got a craving for meat and would howl at the moon when I fought nobody could hear... Yes that's actually true it's not role-play :)
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Post by: FireFox on July 25, 2009, 04:39:28 AM
its ok, who doesnt howl at the moon?
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Post by: Cyrocco on July 25, 2009, 04:41:13 AM
I don't howl at the moon persay, although I do have a fascination of staring at it for hours losing track of time. just staring at it makes me think a lot about life and stuffs
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Post by: Scautty on July 25, 2009, 05:26:20 AM
For me, I grew up on animated movies (My parents didn't want me to have a "bad start.") Everything was expected for me to just kinda learn the morals and lessons, but I took in more than that. Don Bluth movies definitely changed me. (All Dogs Go To Heaven, Secret Of Nimh, An American Tail...) and definitely the other goods like Fox and the Hound, Balto, We're Back, etc... Also, we moved to Korea when I was young and they had like 50 kids channels. o_O So I crammed on looney tunes and such. I didn't really know about furries back then, of course. I just always thought that animated movies were amazing. That hand-in-hand with epic movies like LotR and Harry Potter sparked my interest in cinematography, then wa-bam. I found a bunch of friends who had the same interest in those epic titles, and some animated classics, so we RP all the time - adventuring in woods, referring to each other by "name," (Mine is Dyle,) and just doing stuff like that. Then, I learned about furries slowly after making TheNepEcChannel, through a bunch of videos of people in some costumes. At first I was intimidated, but found out about the affectionate loving side everyone got to show at these meetings, and fell in love myself. So really, taking it a step at a time, my goal is to become known on YouTube as the cool variety vlogger-furry-dude-man-person. XD That made me think of a cool word... "furson"...  :P
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Post by: Lone-Wolf on July 25, 2009, 07:51:29 AM
I loved animals and especally wearwolves, i used to play games with friends where we pretended to be animals, then i started wishing i was one, eventually i met someone who drew anthro art and that got me into the dirty side of furry's (you know it, it starts with a Y ) and eventually that lead me to forums like this and i finally accepted it and identified as a furry.

The wishing to be a werewolf thing is something I can relate to but apart from that I just really like raw meat... and howling at the moon...  :$
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Post by: White Wolf Guardian on July 25, 2009, 07:10:22 PM
Yea me too I love the idea of werewolves, however I just stick with my wolf theriotype and fursona, because then I have more leeway for interpretation :D
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Post by: Moonraiser on July 25, 2009, 08:31:59 PM
*** so many people similar to me, I have really had a thing for werewolves and also have always wanted to be one.
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Post by: Scautty on July 25, 2009, 10:08:31 PM
At one point I wanted to be Itchy from All Dogs go to Heaven.  :$
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Post by: furninja on July 31, 2009, 11:57:46 PM
i became a furry when i decided to look it up and couldn't get it out of my head so i eventually gave in and here i am furry and proud
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Post by: RosiWolf on August 01, 2009, 04:06:42 PM
*** so many people similar to me, I have really had a thing for werewolves and also have always wanted to be one.
Same, same...
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Post by: kennyinu on August 02, 2009, 04:03:25 AM
Even though I haven't read everyone's post, I think mine is similar. ^_^;

Like a few have already said, I was into the whole werewolf thing and I was just fascinated with them. I was about 10 or 11 at the time. Yet, for some reason, I never expressed my fondness for werewolves because I thought people would think I was weird for some reason. I remember liking the idea of being either a dragon, or a cat, or a wolf, and the idea of having a tail really appealed to me.
Then, came that infamous CSI episode... My family and I used to watch CSI with each other and during that whole episode, the concept of dressing up as an animal seemed really cool to me. But of course, since my parents were there... that made me really shy away from expressing a liking of furries. Well, when I grew older, and was more exposed to the Internet, I learned more about furries and... voila. XD
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Post by: Cyrocco on August 02, 2009, 03:57:59 PM
very interesting... I watch CSI on occation but I really must have missed that episode... :o
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Post by: kennyinu on August 02, 2009, 08:56:51 PM
very interesting... I watch CSI on occation but I really must have missed that episode... :o

It's quite an old episode... o.o;
I'm sure it's somewhere on the Internet though. :3
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Post by: Scautty on August 02, 2009, 11:30:34 PM
It's so funny because at times people go crazy and hate furries for the preferences they have, and refer to that CSI episode, when Detective Grissom makes a wonderful statement in the middle of the episode:

"...the only unnatural sexual behavior was to have none at all, and after that, it's just a question of oppuritunity and preference.  And, evidently, many prefer the feel of fur to the texture of human skin."

So really, that episode almost proves out that furries are just like normal people. It's all a matter of preference, and no outside force can make you change that.
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Post by: kennyinu on August 03, 2009, 12:07:27 AM
It's so funny because at times people go crazy and hate furries for the preferences they have, and refer to that CSI episode, when Detective Grissom makes a wonderful statement in the middle of the episode:

"...the only unnatural sexual behavior was to have none at all, and after that, it's just a question of oppuritunity and preference.  And, evidently, many prefer the feel of fur to the texture of human skin."

So really, that episode almost proves out that furries are just like normal people. It's all a matter of preference, and no outside force can make you change that.

Normal people. Different preferences.
Of course, I don't mind if people may dislike certain preferences... but when it gets to the point of judging and hating a certain group of people...
And that is rather amusing; but I'm sure furry-haters who have seen that episode usually pay more attention to what the furries are doing rather than most of the script. :P
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Post by: Scautty on August 03, 2009, 12:41:02 AM
I don't deny that. People who yearn to bring down others different from them have a one track mind. It's a matter of what's really there instead of one side of the story. Ha, and it's CSI, we all know we're there to see bloodied up bodies anyway. That's about it. :P
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Post by: Tyla on August 03, 2009, 12:42:58 AM
Personally I think a T.V. programme... that is based around entertainment, of all things is easy to look at and think "wow, this is pretty exaggerated". I wouldn't hesitate to tell someone who takes it seriously to get a grip.

Though I believe that quote is actually quite true, I mean, I don't intend to overgeneralise (personally I have no interest in any sexual content much, or "done" stuff), but looking at a lot of my friends stuff... well, let's just say my friend has a pretty showey wallpaper on his phone.
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Post by: WingedZephyr on August 03, 2009, 01:24:15 AM
Please stay on topic.
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Post by: Entaru on August 03, 2009, 02:20:03 AM
Mine is probably extremely close to everyone else's.  When I was around two or three I discovered Sonic the Hedgehog and was instantly obsessed.  I would somersault across the living room yelling "look I'm Sonic".  Dr. Robotnik was my favorite.  Then when our SEGA Genesis broke, my obession faded into nothingness.  Then 10-13 years later (I can't remember exactly) Boomerang introduced me to the SwatKats.  And I then gained access to the newer Sonic games and that's when my affinty for fur exploded.
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Post by: White Wolf Guardian on August 04, 2009, 02:26:32 AM
Lol me too on Sonic the Hedgehog, I loved that whole anthropomorphic ideal of a human-animal hybrid combining intelligence and strengths *often super-human* which made me have a whole attraction to this up until i could finally find a name for such a liking which made me eventually find out about furries and come here. However, as I've noted before this, I like wolves a lot and I feel like I identify with their characteristics well, so that's how I decided on my wolf-fursona :P
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Post by: Lone-Wolf on August 04, 2009, 06:04:17 PM
Your siggy pet is sooooooooo funky :3
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Post by: Tobi-wan on August 16, 2009, 06:47:08 PM
Started out watching rave videos on youtube with furry slideshows, one thing led to another, then I find furaffinity and get told about this forum ^_^  I never realised there was such a large furry fanbase  :)
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Post by: Cyrocco on August 16, 2009, 07:42:13 PM
LOLZ OMG I watch them too lolz  :P
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Post by: Tobi-wan on August 16, 2009, 08:31:08 PM
Haha  B) Furries have the best taste in music ^_^
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Post by: KittKat chunky~ on August 16, 2009, 09:56:07 PM
that is pretty much how i came into it... i was watching some rave youtube clips.... and then in the related links there was "furry rave" and i was like, what? meh, its rave.... and then was like... oh... thats a furry.... checked on wikipedia, and read both some good things... and... some bad things about the fanbase.... and then checked furry forums on google and here i am!  ^_^
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Post by: Scautty on August 17, 2009, 04:20:29 AM
Haha, I googled for this site too. :P

I'm very curious though. So many people join this site, but is there such a rare occasion as only myself being the only furry in my town? That's the only thing keeping me from telling the world about myself. I want someone there with me in the process. As a friend of course, not in a weird furvert way, ew. Haha!

But I think another reason I became furry was because of the many girls I met... I compared them to animals. Like this one girl I knew was VERY pretty, and she reminded me of Jenna (Balto.) It's kinda weird, but yeah. :$
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Post by: FireFox on August 17, 2009, 04:37:47 AM
no way dude i remember balto man i grew up watching movies like that balto, lion king playing star fox on the 64 dang dude good times sorry if its off topic :D
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Post by: Scautty on August 17, 2009, 04:42:32 AM
Haha, it's all good man. That kinda stuff intrigued me as well when I was younger. Good times... I watched All Dogs Go To Heaven almost every day back then.  :)
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Post by: NekoOtome on August 17, 2009, 05:57:40 PM
I thought I was the only furry in my town, until my friend got me to tell her about furries, and when I described her to my best abilities, she said she was a furry too, she just didn't know the terminology...
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Post by: Tobi-wan on August 17, 2009, 06:13:34 PM
I'm happy for you!  ^_^ I don't know any other furries in RL, but if anyone from Nottingham is on here, let me know!
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Post by: FireFox on August 17, 2009, 07:12:00 PM
yeah i dont know any other furrys in real life here :(
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Post by: Tobi-wan on August 17, 2009, 07:36:11 PM
*Huggles Leeroy* We can be loners together  :3
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Post by: Moonraiser on August 17, 2009, 08:01:14 PM
dont worry i dont know any furries in my area either  :(
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Post by: Scautty on August 17, 2009, 08:04:53 PM
Furries are VERY confidential about their identity, so for all we know there are a few around us. I'm eyeing this girl that may be a furry... She's really pretty and draws animals... (Stalker much? :o)
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Post by: Timmy Fox on August 17, 2009, 08:54:02 PM
Furries are VERY confidential about their identity.
I guess so...
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Post by: Vee Katame: His Wolfy on August 17, 2009, 09:04:11 PM
Try to stay on topic.
Remember that this is about how you became a furry, not if you know any near you.
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Post by: Timmy Fox on August 17, 2009, 10:08:40 PM
Sorry, umm, i've always loved anime and that stuff, and then one day i found out about something called "furry fandom" and then not too long ago i decided to become a furry (more detailed version can be found in an earlier post in this thread)
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Post by: Rock Python on August 18, 2009, 02:36:48 PM
well i guess i just started seeing furry art last year and got interested in it and now here i am!
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Post by: KittKat chunky~ on August 18, 2009, 04:10:16 PM
well hello there!

hope you have a good time on these here forums  ^_^ ... dont worry most of use dont bite...
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Post by: Timmy Fox on August 18, 2009, 04:32:43 PM
well hello there!

hope you have a good time on these here forums  ^_^ ... dont worry most of use dont bite...
Yeah, hey!
Umm, no dont worry, most of us dont bite (exept for when we must :3)
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Post by: Zinc on August 18, 2009, 06:51:01 PM
I always loved dpawing and showing off my art. My art started out as anime, then I started putting animal noses on them. As time pasted I became better and my drawings became a mixture of manga and anthropomorphs. I guess I'm only a furry in the way of my art, but in time I would love to experience more of the furry life... ya know in time.   :S
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Post by: Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy on August 19, 2009, 03:26:15 PM
i grew up against furries, actually, because all i knew were furf*gs so i was against. but then my mate opened my eyes to it, and that's how i started. i've done anime drawings up until this year, when i started furry sketching in march....... i think.
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Post by: Vee Katame: His Wolfy on August 19, 2009, 03:30:41 PM
Yes...I converted my boyfriend. :3

You all should know by now why I'm one. I've loved animals my whole life and wondered what it would be like to be one. I found this forum through somebody on IMVU and yeah...that's the jist of it.
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Post by: Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy on August 19, 2009, 05:17:03 PM
yeppers!!!! 1
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Post by: Shadowhallow on August 22, 2009, 03:23:14 PM
Let's see.... heuh...


I've always liked wolves, for as long as I remember. It really elevated at the beginning of last year, when I started looking at pictures of wolves and writing stories about them.

Then... I saw it. One of my friends on deviantART linked to a Fur Affinity page in their journal, and when I saw one piece of artwork... dang.


That all happened a year ago. I've been a furry for not very long... I don't think anyone in my family knows.  ;)
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Post by: Death Voices on August 28, 2009, 06:27:32 PM
All I ever heard about furries were the bad stuff. CSI came up a lot (and even to this day, I still haven't seen that episode). I was reluctant to believe what I figured was obvious exaggeration, so I went on to find out for myself. So I started digging around, just checking out all the different aspects of the fandom as a whole. In a way, I was fascinated by the culture; I wanted to understand what it was about.

I found a Team Fortress 2 server for furries (The Furry Pound), and after playing with them for a while, I started thinking "Hey, these guys aren't so bad, it's actually nice playing here." Every other server I played on was rather... strict, y'know? Like, it was always like "KEEEL OTHER TEAM, CAP INTEL GOGOGO", and the Furry Pound was just a lot more relaxed. Just a load of people having a laugh. I liked that.

I like the art, and I'd like to get to know the community better. I don't know if that alone makes me a furry, but that's why I'm here.

As far as fursonas go, I've got a rough idea of one in my head, but a fursona is something I don't quite understand yet. That's something that'll likely develop over time.
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Post by: Timmy Fox on August 28, 2009, 08:29:52 PM
All I ever heard about furries were the bad stuff. CSI came up a lot (and even to this day, I still haven't seen that episode). I was reluctant to believe what I figured was obvious exaggeration, so I went on to find out for myself. So I started digging around, just checking out all the different aspects of the fandom as a whole. In a way, I was fascinated by the culture; I wanted to understand what it was about.

I found a Team Fortress 2 server for furries (The Furry Pound), and after playing with them for a while, I started thinking "Hey, these guys aren't so bad, it's actually nice playing here." Every other server I played on was rather... strict, y'know? Like, it was always like "KEEEL OTHER TEAM, CAP INTEL GOGOGO", and the Furry Pound was just a lot more relaxed. Just a load of people having a laugh. I liked that.

I like the art, and I'd like to get to know the community better. I don't know if that alone makes me a furry, but that's why I'm here.

As far as fursonas go, I've got a rough idea of one in my head, but a fursona is something I don't quite understand yet. That's something that'll likely develop over time.
Umm, if you want to learn more about the furry fandom, do as i did and read This Page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry) You can also look around Here (http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/WikiFur_Furry_Central) for further information about furries.

Thats what i did when i had just joined the furry fandom ^_^
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Post by: Death Voices on August 28, 2009, 09:09:23 PM
Umm, if you want to learn more about the furry fandom, do as i did and read This Page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry) You can also look around Here (http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/WikiFur_Furry_Central) for further information about furries.

Thats what i did when i had just joined the furry fandom ^_^
Yeah, wikipedia and wikifur is something I look at every now and then.
But, there's only so much there I can understand. It's kinda hard to explain, but, to use an odd analogy, it's like learning an instrument; somebody could tell you how to play it, but until you've held the instrument and experimented with it, you won't truly understand it.
Which is why I'm here.  :)
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Post by: KittKat chunky~ on August 28, 2009, 09:31:22 PM
well welcome! hope you learn more about the fandom... of which im still actually a newbie, ive been a furry for what, a few months... and seriously im still sometimes in over my head!... just be yourself!  ^_^

and dont worry, most of us dont bite!

also you may want to post in the meet and greet thread, tell people a bit about yourself... people are always happy to greet new-comers!  :3
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Post by: JellyMuffins on September 06, 2009, 11:38:40 AM
Okay, time for a really long story:
*gasp*
I picked up a copy of PC Gamer magazine for the first time a few years ago, read it through, thought it was awesome. Got more, started listening to the podcasts.
At one point in the podcasts, they mention Manhunt 2 being banned left and right (and given the AO rating in the US).
Curious as to how violent such a game would have to be, I looked up 'Manhunt 2' on YouTube.
After watching a few crappy videos about the game, I came across a rant by Ember Komodog [who, it turns out, was a fur] about Manhunt 2 (in which he mentions how Mario's a pretty bad influence on kids too, as it tells them the take 'shrooms and stomp turtles)
Subscribed to his rants, thoroughly entertained.
A bunch of time he mentions something about 'furries', 'baby furs' (and his distaste of them), 'fur suits' - all that stuff. I, of course, had no idea what he was talking about.
From there I went looking for more rants, and inevitably stumbled across 2 the Ranting Gryphon's video rants.
I later discover that he has a podcast (2 Sense, to which I am now somewhat addicted  ^_^)
He talks about furries all the time on the show, I didn't understand for a long time, until a letter was sent in asking what exactly a furry was.
He explains.
I got curious and looked around online.
Now I've always liked animals and stuff, and the fandom seemed like a cool place.
So I chose to stay.  :P

And there you have it, the round-about and twisted tale of how I picked up a PC Gamer magazine one day and ended up a furry.
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Post by: RockerBunny on September 27, 2009, 11:48:18 PM
of any reason i saw this " fursuits " on the net in a age of 14 something, and then read about them and understood it was furries that wear them...and that's my story.
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Post by: xnotriggerx on October 04, 2009, 12:32:08 AM
well ive liked anthros my whole life, like when i saw Walt Disney's Robin Hood ( i thought robin hood was VERY attractive :* and yes im a guy , and i still do) then after being on youtube when i was 14 i came across furrys ( there were alot of attractive male anthro icons) so naturaly i got into it, learned about it and learned about yiff ^_^ and unfortunately the "youtube trolls" and ive been furry ever since. Now i even draw furrys :3
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Post by: Buddy on October 16, 2009, 03:05:31 AM
i was surfing around on the web around the age of sixteen when i saw a link for this place called kimono island. it was by a Dr. Comet and it was an 18+ site  (i didnt know at the time) what i saw both shocked and amazed me. despite the mature nature of his art it was amazingly beautiful and i have been a furry ever since.
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Post by: Flaafo on October 16, 2009, 11:32:23 PM
I've been on the petsite, Anatheria, for, like, years. I think five-ish?

Anyways. xD Four years ago (Or a year after I joined, at least), I became a staff member. Apparently they wanted a twelve/thirteen-year-old to be a staffie. I was like, "JUST AS PLANNED."

Then someone screwed everyone over and now there's an age limit to be a staff member (fifteen)

A year after the unnamed staff member was booted off the team, and the contest he held was dead as dust, I took it up.

I have to make newsposts for that, and to do so you needed a static picture. I chose a plushie for mine.

A year after THAT, I asked for a staff plushie because, hey, I was a super mod, I made news posts, and people probably don't want to stare at a blue, outdated art of a toy fox.


I was obsessed with marsupials at the time (Still am), and described myself being lolemu. But I snazzed it up to my own tastes.

My friend/artist Gabs drew it for me, and we were all like, "Omg"

Then I stuck with the quoll in a hoodie (Lol pocket = pouch pun) but made her black with neon/rainbow spots, a tail tuft, and little detached bat wings (I adore fruit bats, as well)

The end. :D
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Post by: Inky Vulpes on October 20, 2009, 09:28:27 AM
I have to say that my "furriness" came about when I realized I was bisexual. My first true exposure though was through Looney Toons and Disney movies such as "The Great Mouse Detective," and "The Sword And The Stone." For those of you who watched the movies before they got censored and remade, you know what I am talking about. However my true awareness of the furry fandom is when I when I discovered the artwork around the age of thirteen. I saw the well toned and muscled out wolves and equine Adonises of the internet, not to mention the slender and seductive vixens and felines, and just fell for it all. I kept thinking, a what a world it would be if I could just have those ears and in the woods and under the sun all day with my pack.
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Post by: ReyLeo0611 on October 21, 2009, 10:45:51 PM
I first became a furry about a year ago when i played starfox adventures on the gamecube and thought that Krystal was incredibly hot even though she was not a human, so i started searching on the net for more krystal pics and found furaffinity and that is how i became a furry!!!
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Post by: nightpanther_79 on October 27, 2009, 04:24:49 AM
Mashing my foot on the *Way Back* button,

I knew I always thought furries were attractive.  :P

One of my first cartoon crushes had to be Bunnie Rabbot, from sonic the hedgehog  :* I remember sitting literally GLUED to the television just to see if SHE would be on that weekends episode. Everything about her to me was just.....perfect.

As I got older and somehow came across FURNATION back in it's prime, I learned more about artists and the fandom. Then when VCL came around I was on that site every single day. After learning about the comic "Genus" I knew deep down, that I was a furry and always have been.

Ever since childhood I've always had all kinds of pets. And acting like them when I would play with them just seemed so NATURAL, and until furries came into my life, I never knew the reason why.

I'm so proud to be a furry.
*murrs*

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Post by: FoXTAlL on November 08, 2009, 09:59:40 PM
I've been unsure for years, I've always  been into anthro art and characters as long as I can remember (the first was probably the Crash Bandicoot games).I've known what a furry is for a few years, but never considered myself one. Until recently when I started wearing a Tail, so I looked up a furry forum, signed up and now I can proudly say I'm a furry.
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Post by: The Figure on November 10, 2009, 07:55:38 PM
Some of my fondest childhood memories are of watching old animated cartoons with animal stars. When I was little I used to pretend I was a dog or cat or a character in my cartoons(I love Disney, Don Bluth films and The Last Unicorn) and play with my friends. As I got older that sort of thing faded away, though I still love all those cartoons and collect plush animals, but I got into reading instead. I've been looking at the furry fandom for a few years on and off, until recently I was a bit put off and unsure. But here I am finally  :3 Its just a bit weird because almost everyone else is some sort of mammal and I'm a bird. Plus I can't draw and all the artists are so talented D:
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Post by: Mathais on November 15, 2009, 11:11:46 PM
Well Ive always just had an anthro for a conscience and anime characters that were 50/50 were always the ones i 'fell' for..
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Post by: Ociago on November 19, 2009, 09:13:16 AM
I remember way back when I was very young, my grandmother had a novelty raccoon tail (fake) that I would tie to my belt loops and run around with. Then I remember back when I was 12 or 13 when I stumbled across a mature sonic picture. I decided ultimately that it was hot, and devoted alot of time learning how to draw anthros, porn, and the like. It's now turned into a hobby as well as a lifestyle.
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Post by: Mathais on November 21, 2009, 12:33:25 AM
Thats awesome!!!
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Post by: Vver on November 21, 2009, 12:38:39 AM
Where I live, there is a lot of forested area, and raccoons would always come into our garage looking for food. I thought they were nifty little things, so I began drawing them, and this is what ultimately got me into art, as well as the furry fandom. I can't say I've ever stumbled across something quite as interesting as ociago, but I started seeing other anthro artists online, and I thought that they were all so neat looking and creative.
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Post by: Mathais on November 21, 2009, 01:15:07 AM
Thats kind of what happened with me and cats and a few other animals!
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Post by: Sync on November 21, 2009, 01:40:06 AM
I've always been a furry, I think... Always have had an affinity for anthro stuff since playing Sonic ( I was the one kid that would demand the 2nd Player Controller... GO TAILS. ) and running into Disney stuff. For a while I doodled anthro through 6th and 7th grade - but when 8th grade rolled around, EVERYBODY learned what a (Stereotypical) furry was, and I slid my little clipboard back into my desk. I honestly tried to forget that I liked furries so that I could fit in. I can't blame myself -  where I live, it's at the point where being a furry is more horrific to people than being gay. AAAANYWAYS, after consistently finding myself with friends watching videos of furries, and consistently having to hide my jealousy of those furries, I decided to find a decent forum and chill with people kinda like me. So, here I am - and it's time to let the good times roll.  B)

/end.QQlife.story
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Post by: Vver on November 21, 2009, 01:42:39 AM
:/ Haha, Tails WAS better than Sonic.
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Post by: Sync on November 21, 2009, 01:43:52 AM
Uhh, yeah. He can FLY.

Gentlemen, begin your A button mashing... GO.
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Post by: Vver on November 21, 2009, 01:50:02 AM
:/ Flight=way cooler than being able to run fast or having brute strength, neither of which are extraordinary talents any way.

*AAAAA*
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Post by: Mathais on November 21, 2009, 01:57:22 AM
Idk i always liked knuckles i mean i kno that hes the brute but he could climb and glide but i guess thats me (i am not saying tails its just hes 2nd for me)
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Post by: WingedZephyr on November 21, 2009, 02:13:31 AM
Please stay on topic.
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Post by: Mathais on November 21, 2009, 02:24:21 AM
Mkay btw also not entirely on topic but even closer i came out to more ppl today!!
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Post by: FoXTAlL on November 21, 2009, 02:27:15 AM
Great story Sync.
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Post by: WingedZephyr on November 21, 2009, 02:31:32 AM
"Stay on topic" doesn't mean "pick something else off-topic to talk about" you know. >.>
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Post by: Mathais on November 21, 2009, 04:33:35 AM
Im srry *comes closer for punishment*
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Post by: Frost on November 21, 2009, 12:19:43 PM
Well for myself it started when I was 11 when the thought of humanistic animals entered my mind. A long while later I  o.Owas still thinking about them and I soon learnd the name furry as what they were called. All this time I had been brewing up a back story of a so far nameless anamorphic wolf.  And that turned into frost . When I make a character I get inside there heads and they be come a part of me so here I am on a  great furry forum. :/
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Post by: Mathais on November 22, 2009, 12:44:16 AM
:P yea i think that most ppl start off way!
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Post by: Nyyrikkia Anikeria on November 25, 2009, 04:37:45 AM
I just recently became a furry a month ago. My mum showed me an article in a magazine about Furrys and in a subconcious part of my brain I knew instantly I was one. I always used to love to play with my friends and be an animal each time we'd play a game. Ever since I saw the article, I kept on thinking about Furrys and a few weeks ago it dawned on me that I have always been one. I was unsure telling my mum because she said that if I became one then she'd disown me  :S but shes fine with it
I told my friend the other day I was a furry and she says that it actully fits me  ^_^
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Post by: Mathais on November 26, 2009, 02:38:59 AM
Thats when you know who your true friends are!
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Post by: jakob_furreault on December 01, 2009, 11:12:16 PM
well, it is kinda awkward.... i started of with sonic games and my pet cat. eventually i started feeling a conection or bond that goes further than owner and pet. almost like i can tell what he was thinking. that was when my fursona started i guess, but i never really developed the idea. untill a week ago i had no idea what a furry was. i heard the word from some guy on the street asking iif i was a fur cause of the way i acted so i researched it and came upon wikifur.com. it told me what a fur nwas and from that moment i knew it was a fur. lol then i decided to get into the "fandom" and searched furry forums. this is the one i came upon. although i am still working on my fursona. here thats my life story!!!
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Post by: Adeliea on December 02, 2009, 03:27:25 AM
I've always been one.  ^_^ I just didn't always know the term. I always thought it was a glitch in my brain or something, until I discovered that there were kindred minds out there.
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Post by: Alice The Necrofox on December 02, 2009, 04:51:08 AM
Ok... time for my contribution.

i have allways been one, just i didn't know it then. Both my parents worked at disney, so i got alot of backround in disney movies (robin hood, rescuers to name some of my favorites). As i got older, i was drawn to anthro's constantly. Werewolves, Kitsune, Nezumi, you name it. My favorite Magic the Gathering deck when i was younger was entirely mad up of Kitsune and Nezumi. As art skills increased, i focused on Anthros.
Then i found out about the "Furry War" (youtube it. it is really funny), got up in arms, and joined my fellow furries to find that it was not really a big deal. But i guess i stuck.
Everyone needs more friends right?
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Post by: Garis Wolf on December 05, 2009, 09:34:37 PM
Well, when I was around 5 I got my first pet, a hamster. Growing attached to there animals, whenever one would pass away, I would get another one. For the past 10 years Ive had a pet. ever since i was in school, my sister would ride horses after school and I would have to follow. Again more animals to be around, I grew sort-of attached to them too, until one day some boys at the stable were playing sonic the hedgehog. Until I was 13 I played sonic the hedgehog. Then, I somewhat grew out of animals all together, then about 2 weeks ago I found out what a furry was, and i thought id give it a whirl. Ever since then Ive been happy!
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Plasma_Gecko on December 18, 2009, 12:22:38 AM
Become one? I'm sti...

Yeah, I've tried arguing that before. *Rubs forehead* Kinda slid into it slowly as more and more of my friends some how became furries, either by me not realizing it or otherwise. Didn't help my boyfriend for three years was one. Oh well. I'm happy with what I am and it's not hard to change if I'm ever not.
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Post by: Drako2k0 on December 19, 2009, 08:29:08 AM
I've always been a furry, always knew it too. Imagine to my joyful surprise that there was a community out there with similar interests. henceforth I knew where I belonged. I'll never change, not for anyone. to this day I await to discover my mate.
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Post by: Niala Ornitier on December 21, 2009, 11:11:46 AM
i myself took time to realise i was one. nyyrikkia told me about this place and how she realised her furryness. then i found an animal that suited my personality, the white tiger, yes its plain but i find the white extract in the fur is the purely enjoyable side of me and the happines i spread with people and fuzzies  ^_^ and the black stripes are the darker side of me :/ but i dont have many stripes ;)  and my life is balanced by the ying and yang of my colours and personalities, and niala, and now you guys...and i thank you kindran you made me happy too :P I LUV YOU GUYS SO MUCH
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Post by: Nyyrikkia Anikeria on December 22, 2009, 08:49:18 AM
And I was the one who introduced you to this place niala. So I think theres a big thank you in order.
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Post by: Niala Ornitier on December 23, 2009, 12:19:59 AM
*pouncethanks nyyrikkia* :D THANKSYOUUUU.... so yer thats how i became a furry (Y)
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Post by: Arrant on December 31, 2009, 10:10:56 PM
I don't know how it really began with me. I guess what started it was normal animals. I've always been great with animals. I had a cat that hated my guts not too long ago, nowadays it loves me. I remember spending much of my time with 7 dogs and 5 cats in my life (Dogs Mister, Buddy, Grizzly, Max, Bear, Zak, and Sonic, Cats Alisha, KC, Sam, Ty, and Sky). Another thing is when I started reading TwoKinds. I loved the story line, the art, the character, and am now an addict to the comic. Since I like wolves so much (my time spent with canines caused this?) and I also like furry art so much, I've started using a wolf furry as my avatar. I started growing fond of the furry culture, and after looking for a furry forum here I am.
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Post by: Niala Ornitier on January 01, 2010, 01:32:52 AM
dadadadaAAAAA welcome to the team  :D
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Post by: Lone-Wolf on January 03, 2010, 06:32:24 AM
Dogs are awesome, I have three at the moment but always get on well with my friends dogs etc.
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Post by: Ho'ne Diheart on January 07, 2010, 06:14:50 PM
I always love animals. My only favorite animal is the canine. I grew up with dogs and hopefully become dog owner one of these days. But what really inspired me to become it was this music video I love: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/466629
The art inspired me to draw anthro and eventually became a furry! The song added more fuel to the fire because it spoke to me. don't ask me about choosing wolves, it has a weird thing to why I choose it.
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Post by: Lone-Wolf on January 08, 2010, 12:08:12 AM
I got ma very own dog a few months ago ^_^
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Post by: Ho'ne Diheart on January 08, 2010, 01:42:33 AM
lucky...I do have dogs but they aren't mine though so technally I don't own any D':
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: WingedZephyr on January 08, 2010, 02:56:01 AM
Please stay on topic.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HowlTheGrayWolf on January 11, 2010, 02:03:06 AM
I have always had a deep love for wild animals, especially Wolves. Plus, house animals, no matter how mean, would always come to me for attention, while others would be barked or hissed at. It's a lot like other stories, just pretending to be an animal when I was longer, then I looked at wolf art all the time, then, I came across the word furry. With that, well....I think you know what happened at first. Yet, I found out the truth about them, and grew close to furries. I realized I was one once I started roleplaying, so it's been a couple months since my true furmenship. :P
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Post by: Arcc on January 12, 2010, 07:27:34 PM
I was actually porn surfing at the time (ah, for the follies of youth) and found some furry sites, then got involved in the community.
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Post by: Bane Darkwood on January 12, 2010, 11:59:30 PM
ive always felt a deep connection to dragons and have always loved them, when i wuz little i actually pretended to be one :P
so one day bout 3 years ago a friend asked me if i wuz a furry because of my obession with dragons, i didnt kno wut a furry wuz back then so i looked it up online AND BINGO i luckly found out wut a furry wuz from the right person on a forum and so here i am today a proud furry.
but i believe ive always been a furry :D
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Niala Ornitier on January 13, 2010, 12:43:55 AM
well said bane ^_^
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Berty on January 13, 2010, 01:13:22 AM
I stumbled upon the naughty side of the artwork years ago. First thought:
“Woah, hang on a minute here… this stuff isn’t right.” And didn’t touch it for the next year or so. At the time I didn’t know about all the clean artwork, the community and the cons, I just knew there was porn of it.
But over the next year random things just kept on pointing back to it… not the nudity, just the characters and concept of furries.
Looking back now, there were other things pointing towards furries before I stumbled upon it. That infamous CSI episode was one (luckily at that age I was more interested in the Gameboy in my hands as oppose to what was on the TV, but what I did overhear was that a bunch of people liked human-ish animals and one of them was killed).
So, all these things pointing towards the fandom caused me to hit Google with it. I knew to ignore all the rubbish small websites with Y IN HELL all over them because those people are obviously very subjective on the point. I wanted an objective view.
With Wiki hitting it’s peak in popularity back then I searched there and I found what I wanted to know… that the fandom are not all sexually frustrated perverts. (If I knew how unreliable Wiki can be sometimes back then I may not have been so believing. ;) )
So more hunting and I found clean artwork sites and communities and more…
But I definitely wouldn’t say I’ve always been a furry. I’m just love the artwork, reading the RPs and interested in what life would be like if everyone had tails, muzzles and massive ears on the top of their heads (strange, I know :P ).
And I’ve recently stumbled upon BBF’s con video archive and haven’t stopped watching them… really wanna go to ConFuzzled, it’s only an hour in the car away! Unlikely I get to go this year though.

Again sorry for the essay… I like to express myself.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Srgntcuddles on January 21, 2010, 08:39:05 PM
It happens to the best of us, Berty.
I honestly thought Tails from Sonic, was cute, no homo. I was like five or six and just loved watching Sonic, just for Tails. Though being a loner and shy from birth I hadn't told many. I had always loved animals and found more of a connection with them rather than humans, because it seemed most places I'd go animals would enjoy me as much as I enjoyed them. Through the years I never even heard of the word "Furry". I had stumbled across some "explicit" sites and thought "Interesting..." I delved into it more and searched for what they were called. My first time I wound up reading about Beastiality. I was like "Not it!" Later I found out what it REALLY was and decided "That's me..." Though I never displayed myself as a furry, it was a secret interest of mine. I never really told anyone I was a furry until they kinda found out...It was on an RP communities forum from Garry's mod. Known now as "RoleNation" I was discovered to be a furry. Noone despised me like I had feared.
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Post by: Self-sain on January 22, 2010, 05:04:31 AM
Hummm... a lot of things let up to this *takes deep breath* I always loved animals but never got into all the sonic stuff as some others I was a dino dude :P and I liked foxes, wolfs and bats. I was the kid that in second grade would be watching discovery Chanel while every one else is watching the magic school bus. I wasn't rely much of a loner but as I got older I gradually submerged my anger issues and loaned off. Then I started to read and Analise the way humans are and I can't stand how some people are so I like to study animals. Then about 3 or 4 years ago I was looking through the internet for nothing in particular and I came across a furry story site that was about gay furrys and what not and it kind of helped me come in turms with my self in that way and then I had a curiosity and kinda of wanted to see what all this "furry" no sense was about and I found some not so clean stuff with the y and then I grew to love anthro/furry art and not just for any y I liked the art and then I came in terms with myself that I was a furry and never thought twice about it being wrong or any thing (so are you. Allowed to say the y word?)
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Post by: Self-sain on January 23, 2010, 06:27:57 PM
I love vcl... not for that reason
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Dessum on January 30, 2010, 05:09:23 PM
If by the "y word" you mean "Yiff" then here is your answer from the rule descriptions:
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The word “yiff” is NOT allowed to be used as a verb (as in, “Let’s yiff”), but IS allowed to be used as a noun
(talking about art and the subject in general, although the discussion still must remain appropriate for minors).
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Post by: Self-sain on January 30, 2010, 05:13:24 PM
O  ok thanks
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Post by: Tehfoxboy on January 31, 2010, 12:24:43 AM
well ive always loved foxes. i always wanted on as a pet. then i started rping and i started as a cat anthro then i found gaia.com the use of avatar dress up merged my cat anthro fox fondness into a curiosity toward the furry world. i started as a fur friend until i set myself to my species. i dont go out in public wearing anything particular i normally go out looking like my ordinary self.
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Post by: ZeTigre on February 03, 2010, 02:29:00 AM
I became a furry by my brother was one so he sort of introduced it to me and my favorite animal is the snow tiger! so my bro told me all about the furry forums and I fell in love with it. I consider myself a nerd and a geek and NO DISRESPECT TO OTHER FURRIES i've found that furries tend to be kind of socially awkward like me. Anyway, back on my post!!! (I got distracted :3) I found that I'm not someone who's wanted to be a furry for a long time but :$ when I found out about them I wanted to be a furry! So I'm not super original, I'm kind of a wannabe. Tee-hee! Anyway I love being a furry and I like having a forum with other people who understand that liking furries is okay!!!  :)
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Post by: HowlTheGrayWolf on February 03, 2010, 05:15:26 AM
So I'm not super original, I'm kind of a wannabe.

Nobody is a furry wannabe, it's either you are one or not.

It doesn't really matter when you became one, as long as you believe and support the fact that you are part of the fandom, then your in. It doesn't matter if you like yiff, regular anthro art, anthro RP, whatever it may be, your still a furry. Everyone accepts you into the community with a smile, as do I. :)
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Post by: Quirl on February 03, 2010, 11:30:52 PM
I like having a forum with other people who understand that liking furries is okay!!!  :)

Of course it is :) a lot of people dont think that unfortunately and I really can't understand why.
A few days ago a friend of mine said furries were the evilest thing he could think of and I felt kinda sad, I didn't say anything though, maybe i should have.

I kind of drifted into furriness if that makes sense, I love nature and furry artwork but it's hard to tell people that without them immediately thinking of all the *ahem* adult images.
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Post by: Self-sain on February 04, 2010, 04:19:12 AM
but then people don't freak out with other "adult images" with other fandoms so it makes no sense to me
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Post by: HowlTheGrayWolf on February 04, 2010, 09:30:34 PM
Yea, they have came up with some of the weirdest fetish's I've ever seen.

I guess most people love being hypocrites or something?
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Post by: WingedZephyr on February 04, 2010, 11:40:13 PM
Please stay on topic.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Buddywolf on February 09, 2010, 03:53:17 AM
When I was first introduced, I thought it was awesome. I wasn't going to become a furry until I started hanging with furries. It was like a party every second for weeks with out end.

Sadly, 2 out of 3 of my dogs died in one day. That tore me apart. I loved thinking about furries and being with furries so I wasn't to torn for long. Still, I wish they were here now.  I was open to ideas on getting me happy again. Becoming a furry was the first thing that came up so I became a furry. Now, I haven't been a furry for long so I am fairly new to everything. I must admit, I am feeling much better now than when I did on new years. I also now have things I can do on my free time other than play video games and watch TV. I am no sports player or fan so I don't play sports or watch sports. I have never really had many friends until last November. Now I have many awesome friends and I am almost never home because I like to be with my friends.

So my fursona is known as buddywolf. Buddy is the last dog I have now so I used his name. I also love wolfs and I was going to think of a wolfish name but none came to mind so I threw wolf after buddy and buddywolf was born.

So in a shortend sentence, I was influenced into becoming a furry from friends and events. Thank you for reading.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Bantos on February 11, 2010, 06:17:54 AM
I believe it all started when i saw Disney's Robin Hood, I literally fell in love with the princess!!! She is sooo cute, and ever since then it kinda paired up with my sexual preferences  :$
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Post by: Self-sain on February 11, 2010, 06:33:47 AM
Nothing wrong with that no need to embarrassed
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Post by: Felix Rush on February 11, 2010, 11:42:34 PM
At some point in my early teens or pre-teens, I realized that I was really into stories that involved people transforming into animals.  I was always a fan of the Animorph books and also became fascinated by Northern Lights because of the animal dæmons.  Then at some point I discovered the furry community, don't remember the specifics, and they seemed like a nice tolerant bunch of people to join, if a little eccentric.
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Post by: Resa F on February 17, 2010, 08:51:08 PM
I've always loved Redwall but that didn't get me into the fandom (though I suppose it helped), that was the Y-word, but I was always unsure about whether or not that actually constituted being a furry. Then randomly there was a thread about Las Lindas on /v/ (for reasons I still don't quite understand. A troll, presumably) which I started reading & then a while after that I decided to stop beating around the bush & jump into the forums & RPing. Only been here a day but I'm already glad I did.
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Post by: Bantos on February 19, 2010, 04:58:28 AM
Awwwww thanks Self-sain.  Im actually really glad i got ino this forum at last :D
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Post by: Alice The Necrofox on February 19, 2010, 04:37:33 PM
*Agree's with Bantos...*
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Post by: Sky Striker on February 20, 2010, 03:50:21 PM
Honestly, I'm not really sure. I mean I've always loved animals, but I think that I was furry even before I knew what it was. I didn't call myself a furry then because I didn't know about it. When I discovered furry I realized how much of a furry I already was. I, unfortunately, tried to deny it at first, but I later realized that it was stupid to deny it because being a furry is great!
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Post by: Rex on February 22, 2010, 04:50:23 AM
I feel embarressed to say that a long while ago, and this is the most major of ways that i can attribute to being furry... I used to pray, yes pray, that i would wake up and be a pokemon.... like in the game..... literally every night..... but that was a while ago, and then more than a month ago i discovered, furryism, and i am so happy i did!
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Post by: HowlTheGrayWolf on February 22, 2010, 09:03:37 PM
Well, I've prayed that I'd wake up to be a wolf, but then that changed considering how many more possibilities I would have as an intelligent and outspoken human.

It's still fun to pretend to be a wolf, though, but I'll always be human inside.
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Post by: Alice The Necrofox on February 22, 2010, 09:04:26 PM
yeah
me too
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Post by: Self-sain on February 22, 2010, 09:48:08 PM
I wouldn't mind being a mixture like in my fursona
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Post by: HowlTheGrayWolf on February 22, 2010, 09:51:01 PM
Yes, I would LOVE the idea. Still being able to keep my complex mind and way of life, but at the same time be in the body of something completely new.
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Post by: Rex on February 23, 2010, 02:41:33 AM
Yeah, now i wish i could be an animal-person mix.... preferably a fox... working on an avi... but for now it will remain as the band members of nirvana.....
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Post by: Alice The Necrofox on February 26, 2010, 05:25:19 AM
WOAH!
Just remembered my first experience with the fandom.
I was playing D&D with a bunch of my friends (star wars, so maybe it wasn't TECHNICALLY D&D, but hey...) and this guy's art gallery showed these anthropomorphic characters. I loved them, and asked them where he got them. Then I went home and looked up what he told me... Furry and Anthro art. Fell in love, found the harassment, then came on the forum. And BOOM here I am.

I remember loving Anthro art at a younger age, but I had no clue there was a fandom for it!
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Post by: Niala Ornitier on February 27, 2010, 08:42:22 AM
i felt like i had a connection with animals also and i loved all the shows that had anthro's in them and animals that talked! =O lol....my favourite was simba and the fox vershun of robin hood to me they are both jesus :3
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Post by: Twilightkitten on February 27, 2010, 02:00:53 PM
My furryness started ,when I was in basic school, second class I think. Some other kids removed a piece of very fibred bark from a tree. They also removed the not so fibred pieces from the bark and gained something that they used as a tail for playing horse. I joined them as long as they did it but soon they lost the interest on it. I didn't.
I didn't run around with that bark tail anymore but thought about things like "What would it be like to be an animal?", meaning a not-monkey-animal of course. :p

Years later, in 1989, during the "Wende", the time when the Berlin Wall fell and the GDR was dissolved, we moved to another home. Another school, another (though much nicer) environment, other people - all this kept me too busy until ninth class, I think. I went to school one day, when we had an Informatics class. Someone changed the background on the computer I used. Now there was a cat girl smiling at me, anime style, clad into shorts, tank-top and fluffy gaiters. This picture switched something within me, I wanted more. The following weeks, I spend some of my allowance to use a computer in the library of my town. This one was connected to the internet and I began lurking stories and pictures.
The "Catgirl Paradise" was one of my favourite sources. The drawer and author Ken Stone (He now has a DA account (http://otherunicorn.deviantart.com/)) was the reason that I sank deeper into the Furdome, even though his stories concentrated more on the cyberpunk genre.
From human people with just animal ears and tails, it was just a little step towards anthros, weres and whatnot.

My own character's species swapped to and fro during my life, was blurry, unclear, but finally (it happened sometime in 2006) it settled down being a cat.
So, my furry self began as simple fun and slowly I grew into it, while it changed. I am a full time furry now.  :D
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Post by: Kodakk on March 02, 2010, 10:19:12 PM
im pretty new to it. i remeber have strange dreams where i was a different kind of animal/human hybrid, weird i know. it all started i guess when i bought footie sock monkey pajamas a few years back. i used to wear them out alot untill i got my teletubbie costume. i know a teletubbie isnt an animal, but i love it anyways.

it wasnt untill my friend said "dude, youre a furry" that i started to realize it. i laughed at first, but then i thought about it. now that i ahve talked to a few people on camp feral! and here, i can definitely see it.


i would like a full bear suit, but for now im just waiting for my bear ears to come in  :3
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Post by: Perquoi on March 04, 2010, 03:19:27 AM
I used to be really into learning about animals and drawing weird canine type things (even anthro-ish ones at times); I got a bit older and learned about the furry fandom and was like, "Oh. Hey, I kinda fit in with these guys."
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Post by: theBigBadWolf on March 05, 2010, 03:58:21 PM
my furry story is  a long one, so here goes......... i was always around animals and the woods where i used to live and i was always out there .playing and running on all fours  in no time at all people started sayin i was a wild animal. even now i growl when im mad i pant when im exited and i always sniff things to get familiar with them. the animal i was litterally obsessed with is the wolf . like yours. i also dreamed of being  sonic the hedgehog i was always tails when my sis and i played. but furrys also help with my uhhhhh how can i say this........ shyness not like regular shyness but kind of sexual shyness too my friends at school are also furry and i have alot in common with  them we are all wolves and one lion.. we have all been in relashionships and have been mates so we are all really close. furrys are my life my band is even influenced by them we are called the nature of the beast. thts how i became furry :P :3 ^_^ :*
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Post by: Rex on March 10, 2010, 04:58:48 AM
my furry story is  a long one, so here goes......... i was always around animals and the woods where i used to live and i was always out there .playing and running on all fours  in no time at all people started sayin i was a wild animal. even now i growl when im mad i pant when im exited and i always sniff things to get familiar with them. the animal i was litterally obsessed with is the wolf . like yours. i also dreamed of being  sonic the hedgehog i was always tails when my sis and i played. but furrys also help with my uhhhhh how can i say this........ shyness not like regular shyness but kind of sexual shyness too my friends at school are also furry and i have alot in common with  them we are all wolves and one lion.. we have all been in relashionships and have been mates so we are all really close. furrys are my life my band is even influenced by them we are called the nature of the beast. thts how i became furry :P :3 ^_^
*eyes glisten, inspiring story...... Mine was way more plain than that, i guess besides wanting to be an animal for much of my life, ive always loved the forest too, i go there alone a lot...... Ive already said some other stuff too, anyways i can see now that furry fandom will never leave me, its always gonna be a huge part of my life :)
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Post by: Blaze redwolf on March 11, 2010, 12:51:09 AM
Well i was 13 and im not sure really what triggered me becoming a furry. I really didnt even know furries existed till last year so i don't really know how to explain who i was or what i was thinking. I really havent met any other furries till about 3 or 2 days ago. I just knew i was a wolf thats pretty much it.
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Post by: Radio 2 on March 11, 2010, 01:27:01 AM
Ive pretty much always been fascinated by the concept of an animal/human crossover type character. Never knew really what a furry was until like five years ago when I found out about sites like these. A site called Furlisophical is mainly what filled me in on the whole 'furry' scene.
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Post by: Moongaze on March 12, 2010, 02:57:18 AM
Well...  I like to think everything I've done that involved animals grew in my subconscious.  I too played A LOT of Sonic the Hedgehog but I'm not 100% sure if that contributed at all...  I have always loved wildlife and nature (that probably has a lot to do with it).  Where I'm an east coaster I'm no stranger to wolves, foxes, and coyotes.  Which I have seen all three (both still living and road kill sadly  :'()  Then all that compiled in the back of my head, still unaware that furry fandom existed.  THEN I saw the episode of CSI where there was a fur convention and two of the people who attended the convention ended up dead (this was about a year and a half ago).  The way they portrayed the fandom was that the people that thought this way were screwed up in the head.  Me...  In my infinite wisdom thought it was a pretty entertaining episode and didn't discard it (I still know who done it!).  And again in my infinite wisdom I thought to myself no one group of people can that weird (except for pedophiles and PETA of course), then that's when I found the artwork and me...  I have very high appreciation for artistic vision.  I was astounded by the detail, creativity, and uniqueness (I still am!).  That's a talent I really wish I had, but I can't draw to save my life.  

Then of course I can't leave out that the native red fox is my favorite animal.  That most likely had the biggest impact over everything.  I have always been fascinated by that particular animal.  It's beautiful, majestic, and has very articulate vocalizations.  If you've never heard a fox it is such a. unique sound.  Words can't describe...

So all ^^this^^ sandwiched together to make me furry ^_^

I'm no stranger to furdom...  I've known what it is, it just took me a while to get 100% into it.  The internet and social networks definitely helped.  You can't be into something and have no one to talk to about it.  That's not healthy.

And that's my story B)
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Post by: Lone-Wolf on March 14, 2010, 11:54:58 PM
THEGRUNGE, Nirvana are possibly the coolest most awesome band ever! Whatever, nevermind
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Post by: vancouversarah on March 15, 2010, 02:53:46 AM
I've always loved animals and animation. Furry fandom just seemed like a good fit! However, I was put off for many years after I first heard of it when I was 16 (13 years ago...yikes). Like a lot of people outside the fandom I had many misconceptions about it. For instance, I didn't know that it was okay to just be a fan of furry without having a deep, meaningful connection to a particular animal or animals. Furry is not something I became, it's something that I like. I'm also a Trekkie; again, not something that I became, something that I like. I'm also a Mistie.  ;)

And that ignorance I was talking about before? The ignorance I used to share? It has never been so frustrating to me as it is now! Some people have been nasty about furs in my company not knowing that I'm a fan. It seems so dumb to me that I should have to defend something that I like to my friends; best not get into it at this point I think though.
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Post by: Blaze redwolf on March 15, 2010, 03:02:53 AM
ok i finally remember what made me a furry. 3 years ago like i do now i was majorly into the environment and animals. I watch  animal planet alot. Wolves were my favorite animals. I studyed them a lot and even had dreames of being one. But it wasn't till last year that i knew about furries. All i knew was that deep in me i was a wolf. At that time i didn't know anything about anthropomorph or furries or any of that. You could say that i was lost. When i tryed to study about people like me i kept getting results that people believe that they are an animals soul trapped in the wrong body. That was me at the time. It still is me now. I found out about furries whill watching animal planets show weird true and freaky and they were talking about humanimals. Furrys were number one so then i knew who i was. I was a furry.
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Post by: Kodakk on March 15, 2010, 05:34:29 AM
^ha, ive had anthro dreams too, but i didnt know what they meant at that time. my all time favorite was a dream i had where i was an anthro penguine. i was a penguine, but i still had arms and legs. i thought it was the craziest thing, but now realize it was just me telling myself i am a furry. :)
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Post by: Blaze redwolf on March 15, 2010, 10:16:09 PM
i once had a dream that my brother was being beaten up and i turned into an anthro wolf and tore them up
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Post by: Kodakk on March 16, 2010, 04:48:41 AM
theres truth in dreams...
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Post by: Blaze redwolf on March 16, 2010, 11:01:12 PM
true. But they are normally influenced by what you have done in the past.
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Post by: WingedZephyr on March 17, 2010, 12:11:43 AM
Please stay on topic.
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Post by: Xavier on March 22, 2010, 10:38:22 PM
Heh sorry if five days is reviving a dead topic but I think it is still a livley time. Anyways mines a bit odd on how I became one...But here it goes and please DUN HATE MEH.

I was originally a SA member and actually used to troll Furs a LOT but after weeks of studing exactlly what I was backing up I realized that infact the trolls were the dumb side of this (Although that Anna with Furries thing kind of scared me...) (<---That was my brainwash treatment.) But I looked into it and not everyone is bad I mean I even found out a few of my friends are furries (No names sorry.) And after all the long hard thinking I wanted to be accepted by a group of people who might understand me and my love of animals. (22 cats, 5 dogs, used to have a hamster, Rabbit and lizard and even two birds when I was super young.) It took me until now to realize I was practically mocking myself. I am sorry guys for offending  :'( Best to stop looking in the past eh? Anyways thats a simple version of my story It would take forever to make the full story (only left out a few of the reasons my hate of fur back then but there silly and I grew over them.)

Thanks for reading!  :3 Time for a better tommorow!  :P
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Post by: Self-sain on March 23, 2010, 06:14:41 PM
I just dont get why ppl would do it in the first place
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Post by: Xavier on March 23, 2010, 10:07:05 PM
I just dont get why ppl would do it in the first place

Because of stupidity really.
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Post by: Resa F on March 23, 2010, 10:11:25 PM
Welcome to humanity I'm afraid. Everybody picks on someone who is different. Gods know I do it, though I don't mean it maliciously (usually). Minorities get picked on, simple fact of life
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Post by: Blaze redwolf on March 23, 2010, 10:12:30 PM
keep in mind this shows people can change.
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Post by: Resa F on March 23, 2010, 10:34:03 PM
Never denied that. But you can't change human nature as a whole. Or maybe I just need a more upbeat view of humanity (which makes no sense as I'm usually well disposed to people in general. I suppose it's the difference between people & The People I suppose...)
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Post by: Self-sain on March 23, 2010, 11:59:43 PM
I don't pick on people for soul enjoyment but that wont stop me form laughing if you fail epicly at something but I wont pick in you its odd I'm a "kind person" but with a twisted sense of humor
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Post by: vancouversarah on March 24, 2010, 12:57:18 AM
Have we wandered off topic?
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Post by: WingedZephyr on March 24, 2010, 01:05:38 AM
Please stay on topic.

And if you think a thread is going off topic in the future, Sarah, please let a moderator know so it can be corrected.
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Post by: Kommando on March 24, 2010, 07:14:42 PM
How did I become furry?  It's a funny story, actually.  I've been intrested in the fandom for a few years before after my cousin showed me fchan, but I never met any furs IRL (cept for my cousin, who's just in it for the pr0n), until about 5 months ago when a certain ringtail came into my shop looking for ammunition (I work in a gun store, turns out I sold him his M59 and PT24/7 earlier without even knowing he was a fur).  He had a MFF shirt on and I just started talking to him.  He invited me to the next furmeet where I met some awesome people and had alot of fun.  Was gonna go to anthrocon with him, but unfortunately my family is making me go to a wedding :(
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Post by: Howlinger on March 25, 2010, 12:20:21 AM
Well, I wouldent say I became one, but rather I just stumbled across a few sites and read through them, and found a few things interesting that are tied to my native american back ground, which upon read further I found better grounds on how to express that part of me that is a spirit. *Shrugs* I want go to far into my reason simply because we all have ower reasons to being with in the furry community. Even with in the community we all are subjected to judgment to how and why we are fur's, so it's best to keep such reason to my self unless you get o know me as a person first.

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Post by: Cat Jordan on March 31, 2010, 01:56:10 AM
Heh, I've allways liked animals ever since i was younger...as for how i came into the fandom well i was on the internet one day when i was...10 or so and i decided to look up the lion king >< heh yeah call me immature if you want but i don't really care i still watch the movie at least 3 times a year. So anyways i looked up the lion king and found some drawings of the cast upright and walking...dressed in clothes and so on, so i kept searching on and found that it wasn't only of the lion king but of other animals as well... after that i was slowly sucked into the fandom, developed my own fursona, and began drawing, Rping, and writing brief stories.  ^_^
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Post by: Jack on April 03, 2010, 07:26:17 PM
hmm... i found it on gaiaonline actually. after about a week of debating with myself i decided, what the heck! and here i am today. a three year old furry. it looks so long ago. ^_^
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Post by: Packedsnack on April 03, 2010, 09:57:48 PM
Me and my brother used to play like, a pseudo LARP when I was seven in which we could transform into two metre tall anthropomorphs. When he stopped I continued playing with my friend and a fetish developed.... (There was a particularly cute cat in the cast)
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Post by: Righteousbro on April 06, 2010, 12:53:50 AM
I always was and didn't know. I found it on a web comic, it mentions furries so I looked it up and then I looked up some forums for it.
And that is how babies are made, wait... oops, I think I ended the story wrong....
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Post by: DeviantDave on April 07, 2010, 12:52:48 PM
Started playing wow as a Tauren, Liked the idea of being  strong and having a tail, oh and the horns, then I go and look for a good tauren backround image for my comp and...well my filter may have been off so I ended up getting a Very good female [pic, she was so cute, so here I am. Dull yes, Original no, But hey it could be worse.
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Post by: Spirit Hamaski on April 08, 2010, 08:47:54 PM
Well, I was found out that I fall in loves all animals till I watched movie where most furry come from. and I was white with blue stripes Tiger like as Siberia Tiger but White. and In few month later I met my ex who is Black wolf and I found out again because white wolf with ice blue eyes and anything went so far..I think about 5-7 year. and I can drawing anthros and feral. And Stick with my 3 fursona (Werewolf, Snowmew, Dragonwolf) those I found more in the future as meet Hexidimentional. And Grow to find more animal to see inside my body what I will be.

~Spirit
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Post by: Kohax on April 15, 2010, 11:30:51 AM
I was looking on google images for epic matrix pictures and funnily enough I found a picture of a star wars sith furry, I was like "... Wtf is that?? O___o" clicked on it, searched the website, t'was a furry art site, saw a title which said "Furry fandom"... Google then wiki, and yea got interested in it after that.
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Post by: Dawnwind on May 06, 2010, 12:11:02 AM
I'm not sure if I'm going to draw some hate from this, but here goes.

When I was with my ex-partner, we had a mutual friend whom we spoke to via the internet - where me and my ex met, he was a furry. Eventually, my ex-partner came closer and closer to their first fursona, I simply smiled and went along with it as one who is enamored does. My ex went to stay with aforementioned friend over one Easter, as my grandmother was going to be around, and was off with me when we were re-united, apart from one lovemaking session, which was unusually tender and gentle. After a week, I snuck a look at my ex's diary.

They had slept together. At this point I started to lose sleep, spending hours awake while my ex slept soundly, in our bed. I somehow got it into my head to create a fursona for myself, I don't know why. Perhaps to try and understand what was going on. Perhaps it was to compete with the now former friend, eventually I confronted my partner, who left within a few weeks, after pleading with me to forgive them. The fursona I had developed just seemed to stick, over the next couple of years, I formed a small online circle of furry friends, even getting back into contact with my ex without realising, until they revealed themself.

After a while, I lost everything due to some stupid mistakes, and went for a few more years effectively shutting away my fursona in the closet. My fiancée thinks it was a fad, and doesn't know that the fursona I created for myself, about five years ago, has become as much a part of me as my outer self since my heart was broken all those years ago.

For about two months now, I've been feeling empty, like something was missing. I decided this morning, after much thought last night to unlock the closet, at least online, so I can have that little piece of me out there, and not locked away from the world.

So, basically fabricated a fursona when my partner cheated with a furry, and found that it wasn't as fabricated as I thought.
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Post by: Ninjalion on May 06, 2010, 12:13:09 AM
Always was, always will be. Haven't been in the fandom for long, but I was always down with furry.
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Post by: Strawbearry_PANDA on May 20, 2010, 02:51:26 PM
Well, mine will sound a bit odd. When I was growing up I had a rough life and I kind of detached from reality. I felt hollow. And for my 11th birthday, my grandad got me a panda plushie. I didn't feel so hollow anymore, I felt like maybe the panda was a part of me. So that's the way I look at it now, is that I have his body, and he has my soul. I'm never without him, for six long years, I've always had him by my side. And slowly, I started to make more friends who were into furry. They told me about it and it felt really right. I mean, I'm much happier now than as a child, don't get me wrong! I don't want it to seem like "Oh, that's a depressing way to get into it." It's just I think my panda really helped me out, you know? I've only come out of the kennel yesterday, but that is how I'm a furry.   >:3
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Post by: Karma Moonshadow on May 26, 2010, 05:51:24 PM
Ever since I could walk, I had a passion I didn't understand. My friends would have to pretend to be animals with me, because that's the only way I liked to play. I never played with dolls, but I loved to use rocks as my eggs and protect them in my nest. I had a wild streak that ran so deep it confused me. The only use I had for Barbie clothes was on my TY beanie animals, which I dressed to look anthropomorphic. Usually I would make their clothes out of scrap fabric. My imagination ran wild with animals in somewhat human forms. My imaginary friend was a kangaroo named Stella, who understood me when no one else could. I loved to draw and was pretty good at it even before I was in kindergarten, but I only drew animals. Often they were in story form, as I couldn't write yet. As I got a little older, I developed passions for certain animals at different times. When I got too old to openly pretend to be an animal, I would simply daydream about it or imagine myself as one. It went from cats, to horses, to wolves. Each one hadsomething about it that triggered something in me I couldn't understand.

And yet, I had never heard of a furry. When I finally did, it all clicked. That was what I'd been all my life, and I hadn't even known it.
Now, after all these years, I'm coming out of my closet, online for now. Now that I've told my mate and he has found a furry side of himself as well, I can come out of the closet when I'm alone with him. I'm hoping I'll get to meet some other furries in real life one day.
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Post by: DarkHorse_Steele on May 31, 2010, 04:34:27 PM
I'm not exactly sure how I became a furry... As I wrote in my intro,I have been aware of furries for several years but I have only been a furry since Friday or Saturday.  I stumbled across some pics of a fursuiter dressed as a character from one of my favorite "old" WB cartoon series. I thought that it would be a cool idea if I could pull off something like that for Otakon. I looked on the con forums to see if there were any more furries planning to attend and found only two or three people posting their attendance.  My original Otakon costume idea is now back in my closet as I construct my fursuit. I know I won't be alone...
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Post by: immortal_wolf on June 02, 2010, 03:00:03 PM
Well I've been attached to animals since before I could walk. When I was younger I would always "pretend" to be a dog or another canine. I had and still have a stuffed wolf that I used to carry around everywhere. I would growl at anyone that tried to take him from me. So I've been a furry since before I even knew what it was called. :P
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Post by: Aklaya on June 02, 2010, 06:02:11 PM
I always knew I was different exspecially when all my friends would play house i wanted to be the dog only once has anyone ever wanted to be a pet with me (he was a guinipig) As i got older i had an interest in wolves and werewolves i used to pretend to be one but it never felt quite right well one day i was about 10 maybe 11 and my brother did this trick with a lighter and was like look im a dragon i felt different but it was whatever at first but i took an immidiate liking to dragons and the more i studied them the more i could feel that i was one i already had my name i had it sense i was six so i looked at who i was and thus at about 13 Ashleigh the outcast human became Aklaya the weredragon
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Post by: RakJak on June 03, 2010, 06:09:29 PM
I think I became aware that I was a furry at some point in my late-teens. Somehow I came across some lewd (see: awesome) pictures of some furry women wearing no clothes. I wasn't on a porn hunt at the time, I honestly can't remember the reason I came across these pictures, but I remember thinking very clearly "This is not normal. I don't know what this is, but it's not normal....and I'm fine with that. In fact, I think I'm more than fine with that."

From that point on I went deeper into the rabbit hole. Pretty much the same minute I learned what a furry even was, I was aware that I was also one.
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Post by: ƒyreblue ƒox on June 04, 2010, 04:13:04 AM
I have always felt an interest in anthro's, and until recently i didn't know that furries/furry fandom existed (except for renamon, and the only reason i knew about Renamon was through G-Mod idiot box on youtube, which definitely did NOT give a good view of furries). Like many of the bio's i read in this thread so far, as a kid i wished i was like the lions, foxes, and other furries in Disney movies. I used to pretend to be anthros, making believe i was one...i almost wish my imagination from my childhood still existed in me (btw im 14...lol). Now, onto the other side of the story. I am, what i consider myself to be, an emerging artist. i have always loved drawing, it's one of my favorite pastimes. I became interested in drawing furries, and am currently working on making my own fursona. I am trying to move on to digital art, but my birthday seems to be moving in on me slowly. i plan on purchasig a graphic tablet so that i will be able to start my journey as a graphic/digital artist. anyways, that is my story up until this point, and it is great reading all of yours.
~Crimson
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Post by: Leogon7 Coleo on June 12, 2010, 12:23:55 PM
I became a furry at heart when I was around 4 , i had a dinosaur toy that i reely loved , even after a now x-step bro broke it .
I liked the usual games (sonic,timestalkers,marioworld,ect) and as a result became very attached to games. The next 9 years of my life developed my imagination and by 13 i was a total gamer freak , up until now i had no idea what "Furry" meant.

As laim as it sounds I was pushed over the edge by a pokemon, Lucario  :* After meeting it i was determined to possess it and shortly after I managed to get one. After seeing "Lucyo" which was the nickname i gave it, my imagination was overloaded with adventures that included us together, All i ever did was call it a phase and push the thoughts away, i knew it wasn't normal ...
I kept rejecting it until i was starting to dream about it, in the dreams we lived out many hardships and the dream that ill remember forever...
It was a dream about an alternate futer, i was living on a secluded island with her as a wife and 8 children, 4 were like a halfway between riolu and lucario, the notable differences being that their hands were human shape and they had wings ? When thinking about it all of us did, all of our wings were the same light blue feathers too , the other children 4 were argonians with wings ? and yet i found them so perfect :*

The image that i remember most vividly was my reflection in a wall made of mirror :o I saw my true form, i was a slim and handsome argonian with the same beatiful blue wings as everyone else and i knew then and thee that was who i wanted to be.

over the next few years up until now all ive ever done is plan how i will live out my dream  and during that time i also learned that the speicies i dreamt about was called a draconian.

I found this site when i tried to see if I had a mental condition, was i a freak ? was there anyone like me ?
I couldn't talk to anyone about it it was too awkward and i was afaid ...

So thats why im here, to share my insane fantasy without fear or shame.
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Post by: Kyriin on June 14, 2010, 04:47:45 PM
i read fur-piled and i just loved it. ive ways wanted to be more animal-like. ive just thought its pretty cool,
 and when i figured out i could become a furry i was all like YES TOTALLY.
lol.
i just like to be in touch woth my animal side. after all, we are animals anyway. 
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Post by: Self-sain on June 14, 2010, 08:11:30 PM
Fur-piled yes ftw ^^ that definitely helped me fall in love with the fandom
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Post by: Kyriin on June 14, 2010, 10:10:52 PM
Fur-piled yes ftw ^^ that definitely helped me fall in love with the fandom

i love fur-piled xD
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Post by: Righteousbro on June 16, 2010, 03:43:53 AM
Something I remembered that I hadn't put in my original post, I started feeling furrier after reading the Twilight Saga (A good bit before the movies came out and ruined them). After hearing this stuff about Jacob, and because I'm part Native from a tribe near to the one he's in, I just felt how awesome it would be to be an animal, then I started acting more animalistic and drawing were creatures, so I started drawing anthros way before I discovered the fandom. I just realized how glad I am for Stephenie Meyer's existence now......
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Post by: Crevan Fox on June 19, 2010, 05:12:59 PM
Well I found out about this fandom from a furry bashing T.V show (CSI: Las Vegas) so I looked at WikiFur and it turned out that I have always meant to be a furry but never realised it  :3
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Post by: Defensivefurthewin on June 27, 2010, 09:10:08 PM
Well, I have always been a fan of anthro type character ans as a small child i would always lie in bed thinking about being in a world of human like animals and then I heard about the... 'Adult side of it all which interested me and then i landed here :)
Fun times xD
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Post by: Seko on June 28, 2010, 02:54:07 PM
in short i became a furry because:

1.i wanted a tail
2. i always feel like i have fox ears (but like astral invisible ones lol)
3.im quite passionate about animal rights issues

all in all it landed me here  ^_^
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Post by: codbarley on June 30, 2010, 04:01:39 AM
Well, I was 7, and I loved Disney movies. yup thats right, Disney furrys hooked me. [removed] I becaome introduced to the actual fandom by a friend I met on the internet. before I met him, I used google images XD. It kind suprised me that I'd never been linked to FA or anthrocon or the likes. I wanted to get into the fandom, because, to this day, 4 years later, I've never gotten harassed by anyone on FA. It really suprised me because I found out the hard way when I signed up for my  forum, that the internet is full of grade A A-Holes :P I love the fandm because the fandom seems to love me :)
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Post by: Packedsnack on June 30, 2010, 06:43:55 AM
Wow Blarney o.o

That sounds nice... But the mods are going to tear you up >.<
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Post by: WingedZephyr on June 30, 2010, 07:04:12 AM
That sounds nice... But the mods are going to tear you up >.<

We don't "tear people up"... Only trolls. And next time you see something you know is against the rules, take the time to report it instead of commenting on it please.
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Post by: kayle on June 30, 2010, 01:47:54 PM
*Superman theme music plays*  Zephyr comes to save the day!!!!  lol


I found the fandom while I was just boppin' around on the 'net.  I've always loved anthro characters, and had even written a couple of stories with anthros before I ever found the fandom.  The first stuff I found was... a bit questionable, to say the least, but I kept digging and found quite a few respectable sites (such as this one) and joined.  (Not that I don't enjoy a bit of questionable material on occasion... lol)  My parents kinda shut me down for a bit last year, but I'm back in full force now!  FURRIES RULE!
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Post by: codbarley on June 30, 2010, 05:13:04 PM
oh sorry. didn't know that "sexy" was inappropriate for minors. /shrug
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Post by: Ares the Ram on June 30, 2010, 06:17:20 PM
i like animals more than humans for all my life. if only I could really be one *sigh* :/
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Post by: Crevan Fox on June 30, 2010, 06:18:09 PM
i like animals more than humans for all my life. if only I could really be one *sigh* :/

Same, Same
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Post by: Leogon7 Coleo on June 30, 2010, 06:26:17 PM
I hear that  :/
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Post by: yuuva on July 01, 2010, 05:44:02 PM
I connect really well with animals, better than with humans. Oh, and because furry girls are just too dang sexy and cuddly not to love~!~!
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Post by: Seko on July 01, 2010, 06:42:12 PM
hehehe.... :3

...i second that....

not being a perv but...still hot lol
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Post by: Crevan Fox on July 01, 2010, 06:43:26 PM
Lol, Third in motion
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Post by: Leogon7 Coleo on July 01, 2010, 07:38:37 PM
4TH lol smexy can be a non perve way of sayin i agree!
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Post by: Seko on July 01, 2010, 08:16:03 PM
always thought smexy was worse...

anyway on topic: another way i new that i was a furry was because i always have had a connection to foxes, for example at the age of 7 they terrified me until i saw a fox corpse  :(. This made me think...in retrospect we are all gonna die sometime so why be scared when you can devote your life to making other lives better. then at age 10 i discovered silver foxes and wanted to get one but was denied by a sudden price raise due to the recession (prbbly why i hate politics). now at age 13 im a furry, am passionate about animal rights and one day want to get a silver fox, as this has become my dream  ^_^
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Post by: Leogon7 Coleo on July 01, 2010, 08:27:00 PM
always thought smexy was worse...

This made me think...in retrospect we are all gonna die

My reasons for being a furry involve refusing to die!
I draw hope and strength from furries as a reminder to keep promises that i made.
Believing that death is inevitable doesn't offer hope for anything, I can understand the reasoning in that doing what makes you happy in the time you get is important, I just don't like to here people who take hope away and leave only death behind.
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Post by: Kitt_R_Beesley on July 12, 2010, 12:38:05 PM
nah death is just a stepping stone to somthing better. but back to topic, I knew i was a furry realy young when im pissed i growl even when i was little my mom called my her little fox shiz half my family calls me fox. and ive alway felt a kin ship with them hell i look in the mirror and still swear some one has forced me to wear a costume that i cant take off.
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Post by: TheBuffaloChicken on July 13, 2010, 09:14:31 AM
I was 4or5 and saw a movie called "Stroker Ace" with Burt renaylds. He wore a Chicken suit in the movie. Ever since then I knew I was a Chicken! I bought a Chicken suit about 18 months ago and The Buffalo Chicken was born. Some of you may have read my rant "any ideas". All the things hold true to furies. I spent years dressing as a Fairy(pixie) and got the same exact [removed] I do for being my true self. Society hates anyone who is an individual!
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Post by: DarkHorse_Steele on July 13, 2010, 03:24:47 PM
I was 4or5 and saw a movie called "Stroker Ace" with Burt renaylds. He wore a Chicken suit in the movie. Ever since then I knew I was a Chicken! I bought a Chicken suit about 18 months ago and The Buffalo Chicken was born. Some of you may have read my rant "any ideas". All the things hold true to furies. I spent years dressing as a Fairy(pixie) and got the same exact [removed] I do for being my true self. Society hates anyone who is an individual!

Well, you're certainly not a chicken for being who you really are.  :D  I've always gotten a lot of flack for being me (not following the main stream) and I really, really don't care what other people think!!!  :/   I am who I am and proud of it!  B)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Crevan Fox on July 18, 2010, 10:35:16 PM
Another reason i became a furry was, well this may sound dumb, but it was that CSI episode. It got me researching and well i just loved this fandom, and this forum
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Blaiiine on July 19, 2010, 06:13:44 PM
I've always loved the abnormal and things that weren't really apart of the social standard. For instance, I'm a socialist and I'm called a red or a commie at school. But my friend got me into furry when she showed me some of her artwork. Then I found some fur webcomics and that set it straight forward. I'm also watch over (you can't own an animal) a dog which got me into pbeing apart of the ASPCA and some animal rescues.
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Post by: Leogon7 Coleo on July 19, 2010, 08:54:44 PM
I know how im becoming more Scalie, I am going to make a Scalie outfit myself from scratch, I will make each scale individually and sow them together, alot of work but it will be worth it, Im going to make my 7th form, an argonian, it is going to be awesome!
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Post by: Sealion on July 22, 2010, 07:22:35 AM
How did I become Furry...

I noticed at a young age that I felt a sort of emotional connection when watching movies that involved anthropomorphic animals such as the Disney flicks.  I felt as though I could really feel the emotions they showed more so than when I watched human actors.  This actually prompt me to ask my younger brother if he felt the same, you know, just to see if it was common.  He told me that he didnt really feel a difference if anything at all.  Then again we were like 6-7 age group.  Time past I guess and I kinda just grew accustomed to me having a more emotional connection with talking animals and began to watch more movies with them in it when they came out and playing videogames centered around anthro characters like Star Fox, and Spyro.  I just thought it was my personal taste. 
I drew many pictures and made tons of character designs involving anthro features.  To the point that later in my life, around the age of 17 my friends began to take it as the normal for me to draw that stuff.  I became a Yoshi fan, feeling that my inner optimism and youthful personality was presented through Yoshi.  So I began to draw him a lot too.  I was given the nickname Yoshi since my friends took notice in my sudden fandom.  Being a videogamer I played as Yoshi in Brawl and found out I was a furry while browsing a forum dedicated to Brawl.
I saw the word "Furry" as a description for people who like to play as Fox who I also played as.  I knew I had heard the word before but could only conjure up images of fursuits so I looked up the word on the internet.  Found bunch of stuff, but was directed to Wikipedia by another Furry who felt it had the best simple description.  Feeling that the description matched me surprisingly closely I began to look around more and found out that I was a Furry myself.  Now I've known for around eight months, so I'm still new but I have really taken a liking to it, though not much a fan of the adult stuff.  Watching videos of conventions, and drawing my own Furry art.  Hoping to one day go to a few conventions, maybe get a fursuit since that looks like fun.

Long, but I like to tell stories.  Not too great with grammar though.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Atomic Mothy on August 09, 2010, 03:31:14 PM
I've always liked the "Talking Animal" movies as a kid. Everything was animals this, and animals that.
My mom was always, "She's going to work with animals when she grows up."

I was also a big Yoshi/Mario Bros. Fan as a kid, so I wondered onto the interbutts and found a artist on DA that I really liked so I got into drawing. Said person drew not only Yoshi's but anthros, so it was sort of cool.

Then one thing happiend: Oekaki
When I started to get older I joined Oekaki (Online Drawing Boards for those who don't know) since I was old enough, and started talking and drawing with other users.
They all created fursonas, and me not knowing what a fursona was created one for myself. XD I picked a werewolf, because at the time I was going though some changes with my PCOS condition, and thought a werewolf changing against it will was a perfect metaphor for that.

So I joined DA, many other oekakis, and pretty much skirted on the outside of the fandom.
Then I discovered there WAS A WHOLE FANDOM based on this stuff from a few artists on DA.
I also heard many bad things about it, so I was a closest furry until recently.
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Post by: Takarah Luna on August 12, 2010, 04:50:54 PM
I got bored and looked for the forums... I had known I was a furry for a while... I also wish I had enough money to buy a fursuit...
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Post by: lindsbunny on August 19, 2010, 11:09:45 PM
I was lucky enough to be pretty much raised in it. My family--my mom, my dad, my siblings--we're all furries, and we've always shared this part of our lives together. It definitely makes things more comfortable, and I've always loved and appreciated it. I think I would have found it on my own anyway though. It's just such a big part of my identity, and it always will be :)
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Post by: DatFox Coleo on August 20, 2010, 03:31:41 AM
Kinda funny, I became a furry by watchin a furry hate video. I decided to look a furry up after I saw the video..
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Hijiku on August 25, 2010, 10:07:20 PM
Okay, here goes nothing..

I began writing at a very young age, about 14 or 15. My first stories were about people living in remote areas like the rain forest who were trying to get closer to nature and animals. As i grew so did my interests in many different animals, and I almost went to Veterinarian school. I found myself obsessed with this image in my head of a tall anthropomorphic lion who was wearing a doctors lab coat, blue jeans, and dark boots.

I personified this character in a short story called "Anthro?" where his name was Hijiku. The name just came to me, out of nowhere. I continued writing until I had over 300 pages of random short stories which I am currently collecting into one big book, I just could not stop writing. As the days and the story progressed, I found myself dreaming about being the character, and even found myself falling into his mannerisms in real life and online. I knew that there was a connection between Hijiku and myself, so I began searching online for answers.

Many things came to me through Google, words like "Otherkin". However, two months ago, the word Furry found it's way into my browser, and immediately I knew that I wanted to be a part of this ever-expanding community. I wanted to meet others that shared my.. *blushes* ...obsession.

And thus, I came to this site.

^_^
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Post by: FurryDreamer on August 26, 2010, 07:30:14 AM
In my primary school years i like playing and pretending to be superheros and what not, and became fascinated at transformation, mostly into animals. It got me thinking what it would be like to be one but i never really thought about it much. Then when i became seriosly addicted to pokemon (about...a year ago?) i looked up some art and eventually found anthro pics. I looked it up more and more and found out its the furry community. I liked it and continue to enjoy the awesome trend.
I also like animals.  ;)
So i just sorta became one naturally you could say. When i think about it, even when i was little i showed signs of becoming a furry.
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Post by: Groo on August 27, 2010, 02:52:50 AM
To tell you the truth, at first I thought it would be silly. I thought I would not like anthro-animals. It seemed childish. Even going through a anti-fur phase. But That I met a furry on the website youtube. She was so awesome and fun! Than for her I gave the furry fandom a try. When I joined the furry fandom, youtube was going through its youtube furry war ( http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/YouTube_Furry_War ) So when I was a furry, I took a ton of hate from trolls, and through all that hate mY PRIDE GREW STRONGER. I added all the furs i could find on youtube, every single one was so kind and loving! I felt like they were family. I felt so loved. But than 2 years later, a troll i recently made quit, hacked my youtube and changed my password. After that I did not want to go through everything again. So I guess you could say i left the fandom. Ever sense I felt like something was missing. I was not enjoying life as much. I was getting depressed, I even started to cut myself while crying. Well about 8 months I got my password back for youtube. Sadly many of my old furfriends quit during the war. But many old friends were still on :), Right now I am starting to get into role-play, also plan on getting a fursuit, And am making new friends on youtube :D I feel a hole in my life is now patched.  ^_^ Thank you for reading my story!
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Post by: mojo on August 28, 2010, 04:17:48 AM
hahahahha, im actually a relatively new furry, Im 15 and i discovered the fandom about a year ago, but until a few months back i just saw them as more people there were in the world. I was ( and still am) a big webcomic reader, so there being so many furry comics I was bound to stumble upon one. I did. My first furry comic was "Better Days" written by Jay Naylor. It remains my favorite webcomic. from there on I looked into the fandom further to see what furries were all about. I liked the idea :3
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Post by: alvarofer0020 on August 28, 2010, 10:58:49 AM
loving furrys since i a lot of time also i have a friend who is a furry too and well he helpmed me and oter small thing what i cannot say becouse people will call me crazy :)
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Post by: KibaTajiniuno on August 29, 2010, 11:53:10 PM
 :P while i question that anyone will ever read my post ... i became a furry oh nice topic by the way !! :3 I became a furry when yes i was 7 when i was nine all the time i always had a love for wolves and my curiosty aways has had it out for me anyways i decided to  look more into furrys still not knowing what yiff,murr and other terms were i was happy as could be to see these beautiful drawings and things so i about 10 i bought my first furry costume i didn't use till i was 13 to go to a rave XD omg that was fun XD Any way and 14 was the age i hit TRUE FURRY so ever since then... _ kiba

FOREVER AND ALWAYS A WOLF FURRY...
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Post by: Takarah Luna on August 31, 2010, 02:25:30 AM
I guess, rethinking it... I've probably been a furry for longer than I remember... I've always liked talking animals and 'dressed up'  animals and things like that... It wasn't until last year or so that I found out what anthro was... And also began to draw anime wolves... Which got me interested in animating and digital art... And ever since I can remember I've been coming up with crazy stories about my stuffed animals... Giving them histories... And sometimes the ability to talk... And  after showing evern more interest in animals, my mom told me that I've loved dogs since I was two years old...
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Post by: Fletcher on September 02, 2010, 02:40:50 AM
Always loved Walt Disney's Robin Hood and I've been a big fan of Redwall. Once in a zoo I followed a wolf back and forth while it paced for over an hour (I blame that wolf whenever my mom yells at me for pacing lol) Always sorta had a fascination with werewolves and such.

Basically I've been a furry as long as I can remember but never really knew it and in fact despised furries for a while. Then I forgot the fandom for a few years till I was reading xkcd recently and saw mention of them. So I googled "furry" and it came up with a bunch of stuff that overall sounded down right nasty. Then I found a link that took me to a website that was actually rather informative (guess what, the webpage was written by a furry) and decided to find out more. A dozen searches later it occurred to me that this was all sounding like something I would enjoy overall and after I got past the part of my brain saying "Everyone you know will hate you!!!!" I registered to the forum and here I am.
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Post by: Random User on September 02, 2010, 02:37:29 PM
I played tons of Sonic, Starfox, and Crash Bandicoot as a kid. I thought the idea of anthropomorphic animals was the best idea in the world. Looking back on that, I'm not suprised I inched my way toward the fandom since.
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Post by: Takarah Luna on September 02, 2010, 10:16:05 PM
    Off subject... :o crash bandicoot is awsome!!! And so is starfox!!!
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Post by: Kodachi Devil on September 02, 2010, 11:00:28 PM
Well since I was like maybe......4? 5? I always really loved sonic the hedgehog games, and drew the sonic characters alot (my favs were amy and knuckles, for whatever reason, i still dont even know why they're my favs 0-o)
And of course I loved the disney movies. And cats. I love cats.
My family always thought I was gonna work with animals some day (they still do), and I just might. Anyways since the time I was like 5, I've read lots and LOTS of manga (not all of it great for my age, I read Negima at age 8!)
Speaking of Negima, I would have to say that's what really got me interested in talking-animal characters, because up until that point, I thought that animals that talked and stuff in manga were virtually non-exsistent (save for Keroberos from cardcaptors. But he's not an animal. Just a mythical beast O_o. That counts though I think). I absolutely loved the......thing.....from negima. I still don't know what it is. Looks like a ferret though. And so I started looking at alot more manga, looking for cute characters like that. (beleive me I went through TONS of stuff. At the time, google was a mystery to me, so I just took what i could find XD) I drew some of those characters (cause i love my fanart ^-^), and around the time I was 10, I started drawing Nekos. LOTS OF NEKOS! Nekos with yarn, Nekos with Fish, just as many Nekos as I could O_O. Looking back I gotta say I became furry when I took my neko drawings a step further and made a very basic sketch of Dante (my tiger anthro, drawn at age 11). From there I worked on alot of anthro stuff, and then for a time I though furry was.........baaaaaaad . (thank the internet drilling that into my skull). Then I looked into it and i'm like "Hey......this is the stuff that I Like. Cool."
And so I made a few friends on some games, and we talked alot. ALOT. one time I was chattin with this dude for 3 hours. Ah the things boredom can do. Then he brought up this site ^-^ And now I'm here  :3
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Post by: Zanethewolf on September 09, 2010, 06:33:56 PM
This is how I became a furry, I was typing on google furry out of nowhere so I learned all about it. This is how I became a furry.
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Post by: Halopromise on September 27, 2010, 12:23:56 AM
Well depends. I didn't know what a furry was till I had gotten the internet, which was about 2 years ago. But, I have been drawing anthro since 3-4 and still am. I began to role play ferals, like on WQ or IT. I love movies and games to do with animals, for example: lion king, balto, felidae, wolfs rain, sonic, star fox, spyro etc etc. I've always studied animals and I am owner of a cat and many reptiles. After I got youtube, is actually when I heard of furries, thats when I searched it up, in several places, and I fit the bill I guess.
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Post by: Kodachi Devil on September 28, 2010, 10:31:35 PM
What's felidae? Just asking.

and wolf's rain is absolutely LOVELY!
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Post by: Kodachi Devil on September 28, 2010, 11:22:35 PM
what? i dont get it.
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Post by: Halopromise on September 29, 2010, 03:54:24 PM
Felidae is a really gorey cat movie XD It's good though
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Post by: josh_down on September 29, 2010, 09:01:05 PM
wow... i haven't replied here?  :? fairy-nuff... no better time that the present.

throughout my entire life i've loved both animals and fantasy (not fantasy as in the image of dragons and knights and dark dungeons filled with hoards of gold... fantasy as in non-reality), and so when i was 12 and nintendo (or rather rare) released "starfox adventures", a game where these two elements were fused (along with a neon blue vixen wearing very little... enough to entice any 12 year old who's beginning to discover his own sexuality). obviously when you google "krystal" (with the word starfox... just krystal on it's own will get you similar results, just with real people), you get a few slightly raunchy things which made me realise that i wasn't the only one. which was fairly comforting as a 12 year old, now however i sometimes wish i am the only one... but that's another topic.

obviously that lead into the furry fandom as a whole, and then obviously that lead me to my lion. since those times i've calmed down on the raunchy side of life now (at least a bit), and i'm now much more interested in the social perspective of the fandom. though a fur-con isn't my scene, i still aim to go to one while i'm still of somewhat average age for a fur, but i do attend whatever meets i can around my area, and have drunk with many a fur one-2-one.

it really is a good life, and a real nice place to be.
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Post by: Flyin' on September 30, 2010, 04:35:11 PM
I've always loved animals, and anthro's seem to have always been with me, I had my first fursona at 9, and it sort of evolved from there.

Realising I am a furry has made me feel more content with who and what I am, and has helped stabilize what has been a very hectic life up to now...
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Post by: Takoto on October 03, 2010, 10:33:07 PM
Well, I've always been into Pokémon since I was young, and... a few years back I started looking at some quite questionable Pokémon art... hah, it was about the same time I was dating my current best friend (she was my girlfriend for like a year~) and she is a furry... I told her about liking Pokémon and she introduced me into the furry community (read: FurAffinity xD) and I got into it all, "created" my fursona (though really it's just me as a cat) and started hanging out on a furry sub-section of another forum- and that's pretty much the whole of it~
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Post by: Redclaw on October 16, 2010, 06:12:40 AM
Ever since I saw the first few pictures floating around the internet, I wondered about these mysterious "furries". I've always really liked animals, and used to pretend to be one all the time. I think it mainly started when I joined a... shall we say, "naughty" roleplay site about 2 years ago. The site involved RPing as wolves and I met some friends on there that I still have today.

The prospect of being an animal though fascinated me. I always admired animals for their innate senses, and incredible complexity, and I've always found myself not really fitting in with humans. Sure I had/have friends, but as far as modern society goes (Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, rap in general, the whole "bad boy" thing) I never really liked it.

Then I read a wikipedia article about furries and the thought occupied my mind for a long time. Could I really be one of these great people? A group where hate and dominance isn't as important as fun and expressing yourself. I was very interested, and did some digging to find a forum that would let me get to meet other furries. I still wasn't 100% sure what a furry was, but as far as I was concerned I was one. Ever since I finally figured out that, yes, I am in fact a furry, (My definition being 1. someone who actually feels they are an animal trapped inside a human body. 2, someone who feels a strong connection to nature and the animal world around them, or what I was, 3, someone who just really wanted to be an animal! I am now a bit of all three of these.)

So yeah, bout a week ago I found this site and the rest is yet to come!

Hope you enjoyed getting to know a bit more about me!

-Redclaw
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Post by: Lucky on October 17, 2010, 05:09:55 AM
college years in the UK,  came across it after awesome party that had just ended, some guys were fooling around with some costumes and it look sort of fun, they explained it to me and showed me some of there art work (i was very very buzzed after the party, so just about everything was awesome to me) that morning i started to look up everything i could about the fur fandom, just couldn't get it out of my head, the art work and costumes just looks so fun.
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Post by: Hiiro on October 29, 2010, 12:44:21 AM
 I've been a scalie long as I remember, but I didn't know there was a name for it, or other people who were like me until I was about 11. (I'm 16 now)

 Since I was 4, I would collect all sorts of shiny objects, like bottlecaps, plastic jewlery, old coins, ect, and put em all in a bag and hide it in mah closet. This was before I knew dragons had hoards, and it didn't occur to me until a long time later.

 Whenever I watched cartoons or movies that had reptiles, especially dragons, I felt a wierd feeling, like a wierd envy. Then I figured out that I really wanted to be one.

 Since then I been a scalie   ^_^
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Post by: on October 29, 2010, 04:30:18 AM
I was always that "different" child and my favourite movies were always the ones with talking animals/any other kinds of anthros. I also live in a community full of foxes, coyotes, the likes, so I feel an affinity with how they think/feel and admire them. I need a way to express my secret self and here it is. Now I'm more content with who I am and like Hiiro said, I feel a weird envy for anthros:)
And trust me, that myth that Disney movies being shown to children create furries is bull....I think...
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Post by: on October 29, 2010, 05:03:26 AM
And trust me, that myth that Disney movies being shown to children create furries is bull....I think...

Not true. I got interested also because of Disney.

of course, I apologize:)
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Post by: Self-sain on November 02, 2010, 12:24:39 PM
I wouldn't say they create, probably just manerate

And hiiro, preparing for fallout? Lol
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Post by: Kodachi Devil on November 02, 2010, 06:30:19 PM
Man.Er.Ate.
Okay first I mispronounced that Marinate.

Manerate.

MAAAAANEEEEEERAAAAAAATE.



what does that mean?
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Post by: Dessum on November 04, 2010, 11:23:06 AM
Please stay on topic :P
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Post by: og on November 06, 2010, 05:54:34 PM
i become furry whent i find out you existent in wikipedia and watching fursuiter videos
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Post by: Narke on November 07, 2010, 02:43:13 PM
I always was one, but I didn't know it until march or april, when I found this person's animations of her fursona. Then I just googled it and found out about the fandom. So far, Ive gone through 4 names and 7 designs before settling on Null. :3
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Post by: shadowfox on November 08, 2010, 12:49:55 AM
I didn't really "become" a furry... i just was... even as a little kid i would growl and bare my teeth when i was mad... my ears would twitch when i heard sounds... whimper when i'm sad or saddened by something or in pain... basically always acted like a k9.. including licking my wounds... yeah i know disgusting (to most people anyway), but i swear cuts tend to hurt less and heal better when i lick them...

then one day a couple years ago i bared my teeth at a friend that was annoying me and she said something along the lines of "what are you, a furry?" when i didn't understand she told me about it and showed me some stuff online about it, even showed me her ears, tail, and paws that she made for herself... guess that's when i started looking into it a bit further...
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Post by: Sly-Meerkat on November 08, 2010, 11:57:53 AM
Well i was 15 when a friend told me about the furry fandom and i guess i have always been one but i did not actually know there was a name for it untill then and thats when i was searching it up all the time and joined some awesome sites like this one and other things furry fandom related.
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Post by: skywulf on November 13, 2010, 07:43:55 PM
lets see i was 13 and recently got my very own pc a windows 98 lol it was crap but it was good for what i needed like other posters it started with sonic games i spent hours on the pc looking at sonic codes music art i even bought a comic or two then i stumbled on a web site called the chakats den it hosted stories from a writer called bernard doove i read a story called tales of the foxtuar clan its been published called lifes dream anyway i read it and i then searched for more related to anthromorphic creatures  i then found an art site called VCL i saw lots of fursonas and i realized i was a furry 5 years later my friend Drake told me about here so i joined.
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Post by: Buzzie on November 15, 2010, 02:16:22 AM
I've always admired rabbits for being curious but at the same time aware of the dangers, and how cute they generally are.

Since I was 4 I had over 6 bunnies, and I love watching their behaviour, like watch them run around, sniff each other, love each other, get excited when I feed them, be lazy bunnies, run up to me to be held. (All of my rabbits loved being held, a lot of people tell me that it's not normal, but okay. xD) and a lot of other things I've always found amazing. Simplicity is one of lifes greatest things, right?

From watching bunnies at a young age, I have become a bit like them. Afraid but eager to explore the world, be kind to everybody no matter who they are (unless it's a fox!) and that kind of stuff.

And I guess, I just really want to share their lives...
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Post by: on November 15, 2010, 02:17:12 AM
unless it's a fox?
*lowers ears in sadness*
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Post by: Buzzie on November 15, 2010, 03:09:07 AM
unless it's a fox?
*lowers ears in sadness*

Foxes eat bunnies!  :S
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Post by: Aoren Deringer on November 18, 2010, 02:21:45 AM
Well... It was an interesting process. When I was young (Like, fourth grade  o.O), my school had this field. Me and some buddies (Who may now, at this point, also be furries. I lost contact many years ago) started this group in this back lot... It was kind of... I'll admit it. It was a gang, lol. But anyhow, we called ourselves the 'Raptors' and we did this deep, guteral hiss when we were on a chase. I guess this scalie-esk beginning led to where I am now, although I am a bit more furry  :D
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Post by: drexylp on November 21, 2010, 04:01:53 PM
Weeeell
It came to me in a dream ^^
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Post by: Kodachi Devil on November 21, 2010, 11:04:56 PM
i love that picture, drexy....0-0
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Post by: drexylp on November 21, 2010, 11:36:10 PM
thanks babe :D I love it too
she's just so..mm
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Post by: on November 22, 2010, 01:10:36 AM
On a side note I absolutely adore your avi drex
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Post by: drexylp on November 22, 2010, 01:29:19 AM
:D So do I! it's by WolfyNail *making sure she doesn't get miffed at me for sharing*
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Post by: WingedZephyr on November 22, 2010, 02:28:23 AM
Please stay on topic.
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Post by: Mr. Chriddof on November 25, 2010, 04:48:08 AM
Wikipedia. Don't remember how I found the "Furry Fandom" page, but I did.
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Post by: Z1FF on November 26, 2010, 05:04:28 PM
hu... Starfox. I loved everything, i started playing adventure for the first time and i was thinking it was more than awesome a little time after i found out Starfox-Online.net wich i pass a lot of time theire... 3 years...maybe more, not sure.... then i checked out some stuff, reading, and.... tralalalala i find out FA and here, at last! you know what? keep the best for last? i'm sure it is! =P
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Post by: beaglebuddy5 on November 26, 2010, 05:26:43 PM
I used to act like a puppy around my girlfriend at the time -- she's a furry too. Little things, like I'd tilt my head when she'd ask me a question, or I'd stick my head out the window when we were driving. These unintentional behaviors, once they were pointed out to me, were complemented with some intentional things like the occasional bark or turning around before I went to bed, and referring to myself as "a happy puppy" sometimes.

Then, after a Halloween party thrown by a mutual friend of ours, at which there were many furries in attendance, I wondered if I might also be a furry. Turns out that I am.
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Post by: Z1FF on November 26, 2010, 05:36:42 PM
pretty sweet goody story
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Post by: Jimmy Jinx on November 28, 2010, 09:04:39 PM
Like some of us , it begins on the internet i guess.
, i had problems whit my dad wen i was younger . he's still in prison .
so i grow up white my mom . she always baud me ''yes indeed''  Wald Disney video's .
Yep . the fox and the hound . i always cried the fox and the dog were going apart  :'(.  and sins then ''i was 5 ' liked drawn animals  .
Wen i was 13/14 i found that interesting , Toonporn . there was a picture of Starfox ,naked. it turned me on i guess .   
sins then i found furry really interesting , now i don't really jerk of to fur porn , but i stil find it better then watching  bimbo's in a playboy magazine.
now i really like furry , the ''No''nude art wel nude sometime cant hurt . the comics the suits , eds. love it .  ^_^


         
 
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Post by: fishtank on November 28, 2010, 09:19:25 PM
tbh my first contact with the fanom was the ED page at that point i hated the 'fur faggots' but as time went on (and found out kitty0706 was furry) my inner artic wolf shone through. and well here I amrock you like a hurricaine
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Post by: Coaster on November 29, 2010, 07:13:14 AM
 I met this furry at my school and we became friends

Not to mention furrys are the only peaple I can stand at my school.
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Post by: lordskelzor on November 30, 2010, 02:06:19 PM
i never really felt comfortable around people when i was younger but in my exposure to the furry community (what small part of it i interacted with) i met some people who were really nice and helped me to feel more at ease with people. however i've only recently acknowledged the part of me that is furry.
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Post by: Alexei on December 03, 2010, 12:03:20 AM
I first found out about the fandom when i read about it in the Guinness world record book 2008 and I didn't really pay much attention to the article, but just a month ago I came across a video on youtube that was made by a furry hate-group and it intrigued me to learn about furries and why they were so hated, so after a day of floating around furry websites i realized that this was something i could enjoy too.
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Post by: Ho'ne Diheart on December 03, 2010, 12:09:18 AM
I remember there was a document on people fantasizing that they are werewolves and how there are forums about it. I got interested and looked into it more. Then I end up liking furries more and more. Still some what new to some sites and conventions.
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Post by: wolf tre on December 03, 2010, 03:44:56 AM
always had been
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Post by: Aoren Deringer on December 03, 2010, 06:05:54 AM
Always will be. I started young, and I think that at a very young age you are furry or not, whether you know it is arbitrary.
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Post by: ExiledDreamer on December 03, 2010, 03:00:10 PM
I was always watching those anthro animated movies as a child and that paired with an highly overactive imagination created my furry self. It has always felt more comfortable than being like everyone else.
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Post by: Vinny Raccoon on December 05, 2010, 02:41:50 AM
basically: anthropomorphic characters, sonic games and comics, jest basically all of the above. then did some sol searching, and vha-la, a raccoon i came to be :3
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Post by: icy wolf on December 05, 2010, 03:37:21 AM
How i beacme one was that i always liked anaimals when i was younger when ever some one talked about super powers i said i would have one to morph in to aniamls, i always liked movies with humanoid animals and games (rpgs action adventurer ect...) i also though about alternate realities where we are our flavorit animal but still had human aspects  it wasn't until a week a go i found out that there were other ppl like this and i chose to be  a furry.
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Post by: Z1FF on December 05, 2010, 03:44:50 AM
How i beacme one was that i always liked anaimals when i was younger when ever some one talked about super powers i said i would have one to morph in to aniamls, i always liked movies with humanoid animals and games (rpgs action adventurer ect...) i also though about alternate realities where we are our flavorit animal but still had human aspects  it wasn't until a week a go i found out that there were other ppl like this and i chose to be  a furry.

yo know, its almost the same to me, but this part is so so so long ago i didn,t remembered it! but i feel the same
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Post by: icy wolf on December 05, 2010, 03:51:16 AM
How i beacme one was that i always liked anaimals when i was younger when ever some one talked about super powers i said i would have one to morph in to aniamls, i always liked movies with humanoid animals and games (rpgs action adventurer ect...) i also though about alternate realities where we are our flavorit animal but still had human aspects  it wasn't until a week a go i found out that there were other ppl like this and i chose to be  a furry.

yo know, its almost the same to me, but this part is so so so long ago i didn,t remembered it! but i feel the same

cool  :)
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Post by: Nrein on December 05, 2010, 04:14:32 AM
To be honest, I don't know when I started or how I became one.
I just remember stumbling upon FA back when I was, jeez, 13 or so, and had been into it ever since. Though I really grew into it starting last year, and most recently finally came up with my 'sona.
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Post by: on December 05, 2010, 04:26:03 AM
I do remember, that as a child I had an overactive imagination (still do) and my mind hooks onto stuff really easily and stays hooked. I ran into anthros, and I've been hooked on 'em ever since
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Post by: Nrein on December 05, 2010, 04:28:40 AM
Yeah, I would say that that was essentially what happened to me.
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Post by: on December 05, 2010, 04:36:04 AM
I've always been a daydreamer
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Post by: Nrein on December 05, 2010, 05:11:49 AM
Yeah, I now exactly what you mean
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Post by: Fletcher on December 05, 2010, 06:01:32 AM
For some reason I just remembered a dream I had many years ago *flashback sound* In this dream I was surrounded by a pack of wolves in a room that I remember rather vividly but couldn't describe if my life depended on it. Then suddenly I turned into a wolf and started sing something that sounded like Elvis wrote it or something.

I think that was the earliest that I showed any furry like interest. Who thinks thats weird? *raises paw*
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Post by: on December 05, 2010, 06:02:28 AM
pfft blackwolf, in my dreams I have wolves and bats telling me the solutions to all my problems, go figure
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Post by: WingedZephyr on December 05, 2010, 06:05:11 AM
Please stay on topic.
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Post by: icy wolf on December 05, 2010, 03:19:02 PM
i was a furry all my life as well  liiked a lot of stuff to do with humanoid animals ect...but i didn't know what we where called or if there where other ppl like me until a week a go i found out that we where called furrys
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Post by: Twice-Bitten on December 10, 2010, 05:47:00 AM
Well I've always been surrounded by anthro characters and the like when i was a kid. What with spyro the dragon, pokemon etc it just grew on me. When i started hearing about furry it was from... Haters i guess i should say, and it started to scare me. Didnt want to be something that seemed so bad. But I finally decided to research myself about the fandom and i love it! Cant believe everything you here I suppose
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Post by: Aoren Deringer on December 10, 2010, 06:18:34 AM
Oddly enough I found the fandom via Guiness.

Then, like two years later, (after completely forgetting about it) I found it again without the haters :]
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Post by: icy wolf on December 10, 2010, 04:53:55 PM
i also hered about this from h8ers and the 1000 ways to die video ( dont think its real its hard to belive ppl will goin in the dessert and y---) i did some reashuch as well and then i diesided to call my self a furry and get a fursonia and call my self icy the wolf or icy wolf
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Post by: Jimmy Jinx on December 15, 2010, 06:58:32 PM
I was Born furry
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Post by: unicorn on December 20, 2010, 01:28:50 AM
I've always felt very animal like, and very close to animals. It was prominent through my childhood and still is. I've known about the furry fandom since I was about 12, never really considered myself one though. Until just recently have I started to really get more into it, I believe it was because of a cruel thing a friend said to me about furries. I took the insult towards me and realized that I am very much furry like, so I embraced it. And I lovelovelove it.
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Post by: Vinny Raccoon on December 20, 2010, 06:45:31 AM
*gives unicorn a hug*
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Post by: Twice-Bitten on December 20, 2010, 08:40:35 PM
I've always felt very animal like, and very close to animals. It was prominent through my childhood and still is. I've known about the furry fandom since I was about 12, never really considered myself one though. Until just recently have I started to really get more into it, I believe it was because of a cruel thing a friend said to me about furries. I took the insult towards me and realized that I am very much furry like, so I embraced it. And I lovelovelove it.

I actually used to have a friend who would constantly tease and troll furries. He would always show something "idiotic" or "disgusting" a furry did and then wait for me to say something like "Oh yeah... they are soooo horrible :/ " Eventually I just stopped being friends with him.
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Post by: icy wolf on December 20, 2010, 09:02:43 PM
I've always felt very animal like, and very close to animals. It was prominent through my childhood and still is. I've known about the furry fandom since I was about 12, never really considered myself one though. Until just recently have I started to really get more into it, I believe it was because of a cruel thing a friend said to me about furries. I took the insult towards me and realized that I am very much furry like, so I embraced it. And I lovelovelove it.

I actually used to have a friend who would constantly tease and troll furries. He would always show something "idiotic" or "disgusting" a furry did and then wait for me to say something like "Oh yeah... they are soooo horrible :/ " Eventually I just stopped being friends with him.

so did he bug u when or if he found out your r a furry?
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Post by: unicorn on December 20, 2010, 11:43:41 PM
I've always felt very animal like, and very close to animals. It was prominent through my childhood and still is. I've known about the furry fandom since I was about 12, never really considered myself one though. Until just recently have I started to really get more into it, I believe it was because of a cruel thing a friend said to me about furries. I took the insult towards me and realized that I am very much furry like, so I embraced it. And I lovelovelove it.

I actually used to have a friend who would constantly tease and troll furries. He would always show something "idiotic" or "disgusting" a furry did and then wait for me to say something like "Oh yeah... they are soooo horrible :/ " Eventually I just stopped being friends with him.
That's where I'm heading in my relationship with them, unless they get a clue and stop ;__;
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Post by: Twice-Bitten on December 21, 2010, 04:33:34 AM
I've always felt very animal like, and very close to animals. It was prominent through my childhood and still is. I've known about the furry fandom since I was about 12, never really considered myself one though. Until just recently have I started to really get more into it, I believe it was because of a cruel thing a friend said to me about furries. I took the insult towards me and realized that I am very much furry like, so I embraced it. And I lovelovelove it.

I actually used to have a friend who would constantly tease and troll furries. He would always show something "idiotic" or "disgusting" a furry did and then wait for me to say something like "Oh yeah... they are soooo horrible :/ " Eventually I just stopped being friends with him.

so did he bug u when or if he found out your r a furry?

I stopped being his friend and he didn't know. I honestly don't care if he knows or not because I don't talk to him.
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Post by: icy wolf on December 21, 2010, 04:39:33 AM
I've always felt very animal like, and very close to animals. It was prominent through my childhood and still is. I've known about the furry fandom since I was about 12, never really considered myself one though. Until just recently have I started to really get more into it, I believe it was because of a cruel thing a friend said to me about furries. I took the insult towards me and realized that I am very much furry like, so I embraced it. And I lovelovelove it.

I actually used to have a friend who would constantly tease and troll furries. He would always show something "idiotic" or "disgusting" a furry did and then wait for me to say something like "Oh yeah... they are soooo horrible :/ " Eventually I just stopped being friends with him.

so did he bug u when or if he found out your r a furry?

I stopped being his friend and he didn't know. I honestly don't care if he knows or not because I don't talk to him.

i see. my friend knows iam a furry he some time makes fun ( ie want to put a leash on my collar) but idk hes still a good friend  have your friends that u still talk to make fun of u?


Please stay on topic. Take it to PMs.
WingedZephyr
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Post by: Puncia on December 26, 2010, 09:36:46 PM
Ever since being a cub, finding humans and the human nature so incredibly boring and upright, no real variation and everyone wants to be, look at act the same. Endless boredom.
Desires like running freely or nuzzling whatever you feel attracted to or interested in. Even the way I sleep at night by curling up and suddenly turning my torso around, arms out. Suddenly hearing random classmates way back and friends today, tell me I remind them of a cat and taking me completely off guard with it. Like how I pick up something I've dropped, carry a bag, just randomly smile at someone. It surprises me. "Ohh you're just like a kitty!" or "Ha ha you're acting like a cat."
Just little things that needed to be tied together somehow. Slowly dawned at me.
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Post by: JoeTheNoob on January 02, 2011, 03:05:16 AM
Well, i think at least part of me, has always been one, I just didn't know what it was!

I've always been in love with animals and pets and such (Not the dirty versions, you pervs!). And the first time I saw furry art, I went "D'awwwwwwwwww!" and I was completely fascinated. I wanted to be that. Forget humans, that's much better! But, it didn't go much further than that, until I met my new best friend, who was infact, a furry. And he told me about it, and I knew, that was for me.

And here I am!
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Post by: on January 02, 2011, 05:08:48 AM
^
:O another fox! I'm excited!!
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Post by: JoeTheNoob on January 03, 2011, 05:50:33 AM
^
:O another fox! I'm excited!!

hehe <3
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Post by: GigitheGoat on January 03, 2011, 02:28:47 PM
I've always liked to pretend I was an animal since I was little, where I even took on an alter ego that was an animal. I created my first fursona 6 years ago, and I joined the furry community not long after that. Though I dropped out of the fandom for a year, but I eventually came back.
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Post by: SimbaTheLion on January 03, 2011, 05:46:20 PM
It kind of happened to me in the Teen age years. Then i watched Lion King and I knew I liked furry - I just didn't know how it was called then. Then google brought some light to the subject.
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Post by: Vinny Raccoon on January 03, 2011, 06:07:23 PM
i have to admit, i always thoughts there where alternate dimensions where there is a world like ours. only difference is in the alternate dimension, are beings like us, only anthropomorhic like.
i believe there is a dimension somewhere where it ruled by people like us, only with fur.
like in da sonic comics, only more civilised.
i believe there is a dimension, where its completely ruled by furrys by blood.
that one of da reason why i became furry in da first place.
i know ive put a post here in tis form somewhere, but i will say tis it needed to be sead.

Vinny Raccoon :3
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Post by: icy wolf on January 03, 2011, 06:48:48 PM
i have to admit, i always thoughts there where alternate dimensions where there is a world like ours. only difference is in the alternate dimension, are beings like us, only anthropomorhic like.
i believe there is a dimension somewhere where it ruled by people like us, only with fur.
like in da sonic comics, only more civilised.
i believe there is a dimension, where its completely ruled by furrys by blood.
that one of da reason why i became furry in da first place.
i know ive put a post here in tis form somewhere, but i will say tis it needed to be sead.

Vinny Raccoon :3

i agree with u Vinny
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Post by: Count of Cutesy on January 03, 2011, 07:45:06 PM
I always say it's because I dislike all the bad rep furries get, but it's also because I find that non-humans can fit to most visual personalities better than humans can. When it comes to tinkering with the design of something, humans are about the most limited. Non humans can be altered any way you like, but there's just so much you can do to a human while still making it look human. (For example, there's this one children's book where I couldn't figure out what the characters were supposed to be, and I eventually realized they were supposed to be people, but they sure didn't LOOK like people.) This is mostly an opinion, but in my opinion, there's just so much more you can do to non-humans than you can with humans. And that's pretty much why I draw mostly non-humans. (Usually if I DO draw humans, I have to draw them with a non-human to make them more interesting to draw.)
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Post by: Vinny Raccoon on January 03, 2011, 08:32:12 PM
@icy :3
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Post by: Tatter on January 16, 2011, 05:13:14 AM
I got into anime at an extremly young age, plenty of furries from japan, but my furry fandom came about thanks to breath of fire, followed by breath of fire 2, 2 games with mostly all anthro characters.

I became a hardcore furry after The Lion king cemented by obsession ^.^ sorry jack sparrow, still my fav disney movie!
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Post by: TheLazyFur on January 19, 2011, 12:54:08 AM
I personally have a passion for animals and i found the art and everything sorta started to change. I do this for fun for the art and to meet new people. (I Just hope this doesnt interfere with my religious beliefs) :D
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Post by: Alexei on January 19, 2011, 01:03:59 AM
^
I don't see why it should have to.
Being a furry is just another hobby, it's not a lifestyle choice.
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Post by: TheLazyFur on January 19, 2011, 03:18:01 AM
^ I agree it isnt a lifestyle to me its just expressing myself and having some fun
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Post by: Gelidus on January 19, 2011, 05:31:40 AM
Just realized I haven't posted on this yet lol

Basically I just started browsing deviant art, liked alot of animal picks and drawings. From there I realized I started liking anthro. Gave it a shot at drawing and so I became a furry!!
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Post by: Kizzy on January 25, 2011, 04:35:33 AM
I've known what furries were for a long time...Can't really remember. At least a few years, I imagine.

About a year ago, a friend of mine joined the furry fandom. I was just considered "furry-friendly", and he introduced me to the local furry community.
They make up a large majority of my friends now, and a few of my closest friends are furries. They've done some great things for me...

I did some thinking and realized the sole reason that I wasn't a furry was because I'm stubborn..About a month ago, I decided I would start trying to come up with a fursona. I've pretty much got it down at this point, just need to hammer out the details and draw it up. :]
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Post by: Vinny Raccoon on January 25, 2011, 09:57:55 AM
welcome to da fandom ^_^
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Post by: jazziiwooff on January 25, 2011, 03:23:05 PM
When I was really young (toddler years) i would run around like a canine and bark like one, as kids do, but I did it almost constantly. I always made dog tails and then wear them. As i got older, I play fought with my dogs (A German shepherd and a Whippet X who have since passed away) I now play fight with my little Carine terrier and Staffy, although my staffy doesn't like it, he gets scared  0:)
When I got into about 5th grade my fascination with wolves started, and I actually believe that I'm a wolf at heart/spirit.
I've known about the furry community for a few years now, although I didn't get involved because I was rather quiet about being a furry, because I go to a very judgmental, discriminating school, plus I've had to deal with being different in other ways. Only until recently I've been more open about my furriness.
I also have very canine like characteristics...Some of a domestic, some of a wild. And unexpectedly i sometimes come out with canine like sounds, it just happens.
I've never really liked humans much, and recently because of personal reasons, I dislike them even more, not all though, obviously. It's the reason why I'm more open about being a furry now, it's nothing to be ashamed of, more something to be proud of.
I can also now, properly bark, growl and howl like a dog, it is indeed a privilege to of been able to teach myself :3
And yeah, this is my first furry forum I've been on, although I've been a furry on IMVU for years ^w^

Overall, I am a proud furry for life :DD
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Post by: Vinny Raccoon on January 25, 2011, 06:40:17 PM
i read some examples of why some people are furry. and i pondered why i chose to join da fandom, and hears why.

it all started when i was in grade 1, people would tease and harass me. people at school did not know how to handle me, savage a beast i was, locked, in a confined room, kicking and screamin, scratch'en and bitting, i did not know what i was. was i human, or best? i was caged like a tiger! a lone wolf i was, only a cub! my mother, a single parent she was, overwhelmed with grief! the comics i read where sonic editions, when i read through them, i felt i endured what they endured! the games I've played, where also anthro! even to this day, i feel da beast inside! this beast i have, matches to my characteristics. nocturnal i am stayed up all night. enjoys fine goods, almost eats anything! picky about germs when it comes to food! smart as i am, i can figure thing out! when I'm searching for something, i search high and low! and when i make like bandits, you bet i make like bandits!
so when i look back to myself tell now, a raccoon i see in the mirror image to my self! a raccoon i am, i came to be!

so that's how i came to be what i came to be. thx for readen :3
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Post by: rsteele1113 on February 02, 2011, 02:28:41 AM
I was 13 or 14, somewhere around there, like a year after Final Fantasy X came out.  I finally got the game, and found I felt attracted to the legendary Kimahri Ronso....so I got on the ol' dial up net, and searched for adult pics of him...and I didn't find any right off the bat, but I found others, many many many others, and from that day forward, it has been the #1 thing on my mind...I don't know if that makes me a true furry or not, but I feel at least a little like one.  My story isn't very long or interesting, but I guess I just felt like sharing something with somebody who won't judge me for it.
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Post by: WhiteTiger89 on February 02, 2011, 02:39:07 AM
I was 13 or 14, somewhere around there, like a year after Final Fantasy X came out.  I finally got the game, and found I felt attracted to the legendary Kimahri Ronso....so I got on the ol' dial up net, and searched for adult pics of him...and I didn't find any right off the bat, but I found others, many many many others, and from that day forward, it has been the #1 thing on my mind...I don't know if that makes me a true furry or not, but I feel at least a little like one.  My story isn't very long or interesting, but I guess I just felt like sharing something with somebody who won't judge me for it.

The big thing that clued me in to my Furryness was that I enjoyed Fchan. :P
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Post by: rsteele1113 on February 02, 2011, 02:44:43 AM
Whatever the case may be, I'm still very glad I have such a powerful mind-altering tool to use at my discretion.  I can overcome any stressful situation I encounter by thinking of a vast number of scenarios that are nothing more than just futile attempts at writings, but they still work wonders to ease my mind into a calmer state.  My imagination expanded a huge amount all at the click of a mouse....pretty awesome if you ask me.
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Post by: WhiteTiger89 on February 02, 2011, 05:09:35 AM
Whatever the case may be, I'm still very glad I have such a powerful mind-altering tool to use at my discretion.  I can overcome any stressful situation I encounter by thinking of a vast number of scenarios that are nothing more than just futile attempts at writings, but they still work wonders to ease my mind into a calmer state.  My imagination expanded a huge amount all at the click of a mouse....pretty awesome if you ask me.

Even though I didn't (:P) I still think it is in fact, awesome. :)
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Post by: Drago Strega on February 06, 2011, 05:58:42 AM
Eversince I was a young kid I was always more interested and connected to animals than I was to people. I think my affiliation with dragons began when I was in junior high school and I was into the show Gargoyles by Disney. From there to the now it was just an emotional rollercoaster and a matter of admitting to a certain inner spirit that possesses me that I am just one child to a planet of wonders and that life is too short for me to let silly people stand between me and my happiness. And I believe there is no better wish or accomplishment greater achieved than a persons wellness of health, safety, and happiness. ^_^
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Post by: on February 06, 2011, 06:18:36 AM
off topic, I happen to LOVE the show Gargoyles :3
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Post by: Drago Strega on February 06, 2011, 06:26:47 AM
off topic, I happen to LOVE the show Gargoyles :3
^_^ Yah...it was a very awesome tv series and was very sad when they ended the show with the Goliath cronicals on a sadly lame note.
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Post by: on February 06, 2011, 06:47:01 AM
gargoyles was actually before my time, I just watched it post-cancellation. yeah I thought the last part wasn't so good :/
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Post by: Vinny Raccoon on February 06, 2011, 09:22:47 PM
i was 8 when it waz on
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Post by: WingedZephyr on February 08, 2011, 02:18:04 AM
Please stay on topic.
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Post by: Desmondfur on February 12, 2011, 07:46:21 AM
I Started to look at furry art, and i was just like "Wow thats amazing". So over the past years i have been getting deeper into it.
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Post by: SweetBunnyXD on February 13, 2011, 04:33:23 AM
I Can Happily lay the blame on two things

An addiction to Pokemon Snap (I still have an awsome pic of charmander XD)

And the Movie oliver and company XD EEEK that is sutch an adorable movie *Cough* Sorry i get a little Zelious sometimes

So I then spent most of my "Furry time" for the absense of a better phrase. Fawning over drawings by my fav Artists,  and creating Half-Human Half-Animal Races In D & D
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Post by: Rayane on February 16, 2011, 09:02:18 AM
I just loved Beast from Disney's Beauty and The Beast. All my friends were so glad over the "happy ending", I got devastated when he turned into a human. I think he just looked tons better as Beast.
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Post by: Vee Katame: His Wolfy on February 16, 2011, 04:46:43 PM
I totally agree with you, Rayane. That's how I've always felt. Haha.
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Post by: HansVonWelz on February 17, 2011, 09:40:19 PM
I loved animals, cartoons with furry characters, I drew them. So, 3 years ago when I gave access to Internet I became communication in socialnetworls. There I met one guy who had nick "furry" This word was interesting for me (I don't know why) and I found this word in google. I thought "hah, interesting subculture, It's realy for me"
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Post by: The_GMan on March 04, 2011, 09:56:08 PM
Hmm, nice question. Well I started earing sometimes the word "furfag" on the Internet and IRCs, I am a very curious guy (very :P ) so I started searching furfag, later I searched "furry games" and "furry animations". After some months of seeing Furry *cough* porn (yeah, bad start but don't judge me for that :( ) I started looking for furry forums and furry related websites but I officially became a furry when I read 3 comics, one called "Motion of the Ocean" by Fluke, "Dog's days of summer" by Blotch and "Circles" by Rabbit Valley. Funny thing is that I felt the same emotional joy in reading those as I felt when played "Sly 2 & 3" - A game that has lots of anthropomorphic characters - and when I watched the movie "Avatar".
By this time I got hooked and joined the furry fandom and later this forum.

So I am now addicted not only to comic books and furry porn (again guys, please don't judge me for that) but for the art work and also like to search for other furries, fursuits and etc.

Not planning to buy any kind of furry thing (except for comics when I haz money) as I'm still young to use it (even though I'm already 1.8 meters high) and I really don't see any interest on it -YET- .

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Post by: mulchardude on March 06, 2011, 12:13:39 AM
I happened upon a webcomic by accident, when searching for an Anime Character.  The webcomic artist liked the same character, and I got interested in their comic.
Then in their links section, there was this roleplay forum.  I checked it out, it looked really cool, so I created a character.  It mentioned that it was "not made specifically for furries, but expect there to be plenty of them", and I'd never heard of furry before then.  Honestly I took anthropomorphics for granted in stuff like webcomics, they were just cool characters to me.  ^_^

So my character was part-time furry, and later I discovered MUCKs and other furry stuff, and really got into it.
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Post by: KJOokami on March 12, 2011, 01:35:28 AM
Started with Lion King. I was a Nalaholic. Lol.

I watched it for the first time in, like, 10 years, when I was 14. Became obsessed, but couldn't quite place why. Eventually I realized that I was just obsessed with all the female characters (I've since come to appreciate it and other films like it for other reasons, but this was then), especially Nala. I thought they were all beautiful creatures; not just majestic, but straight-up beautiful.

After joining a forum or two, I discovered that there was a whole community with similar interests in anthropomorphic animals, and I said, "Hey, this is cool." This is actually the first specifically "furry" forum that I've joined since then, but I've become well acquainted with the genre of anthropomorphism. To this day, I often wonder what it'd be like if I could really take part in one of the many furry worlds that fans of the genre have created over the years.

Some webcomics that particularly pique my interest, both in reading and imagining, are Sabrina Online (Eric Schwartz), Better Days (Jay Naylor), and, more recently, Housepets! (Rick Griffin).
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Post by: Azure-Flame on March 16, 2011, 12:42:21 AM
I've always loved dragons, my whole life. I drew tons of anthro dragons before I knew what the word "anthro" meant. I began associating myself with charactaristics of dragons. At the time, I didn't think anyone else felt this way, so I didn't want to tell anyone, cuz I thought they would think I was crazy for feeling this way. Later in my teens, I actually began becoming attracted to dragons. They were just so strong and dignified and beautiful all at once. I didn't know what furries were until one of the guys that used to be a friend told me they were the one thing he hated. His description was very unkind, and usually when I hear stuff like that I like to investigate to see what the people themselves have to say. So I did, and it felt like an epifiniy (wrong spelling?). I suddenly knew what I had been a part of all along. It took me a while and a lot of thought, but I finally created a fursona. I am a Dragon whos name cannot be pronounced with human vocal cords, but the best translation is "Azure Fire-Storm of Great Winds." I've shortened this to Azure Flame. It's great to be able to express who I always have been at last.
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Post by: Quiran on March 18, 2011, 08:47:18 AM
animals are my life, i work with them, relax with then, and well, are a huge part of my life.

i know of the fandom quite allot of years, i just loved the art, but calling myself furry is something i did do 1 year ago, tho my family thinks me being furry longer.
my family totaly supports me in this, they like it and find it funny when i pad around in suit.

as i come from the larp field, i found the animal suits always funny, but i got into the fandom because of art, i just love art.
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Post by: Sagastrina on March 21, 2011, 01:00:20 PM
oh oh.. good topic :D

I found out about furryfandom, from my friend... He watched pictures, and I questioned what is this. XD So, he needed to explain for me, what furry is... When he finished, I grinned, and say " Well, that's fit me... I was a furry all the time, just don't know how to name it..." :D
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Post by: bones2oo21 on March 25, 2011, 02:53:43 AM
Never really fit in with mainstream society and i found out about the fandom via internet and that just kinda fit me to a T. even when i was younger when i seen the cartoons with anthros (namely lion king LOL) in them i would fantasize about becoming one. then when i was older i found books like Lifes Dream by Bernard Doove and the His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman only allowed my fascination too grow more and more
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Post by: CormacCoyotecraft on March 26, 2011, 01:31:39 AM
I supposed I found out during my years as a big Star Fox fan in middle school (still am, but not quite as avid). As such, I went online in search of Star Fox info and art (some results of the latter kind of ruined my innocence; google safe search isn't as effective as one would think x_x). Anywho, in the course of my websurfing I eventually found out about the fandom. Other than the plethora of starfox-esque anthropomorphic creatures, I was impressed by the creative energy within the fandom, and was subsequently inspired to begin writing furry fiction. B)
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Post by: PixieFace on March 27, 2011, 11:20:39 PM
They're just so appealing to me. >>

I really dont know what it is, I mean if I told anyone I know irl they'd be freaked out.
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Post by: Zhono on March 31, 2011, 04:02:45 PM
Well, I guess I got my start in the fandom with video games. I've always been a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog (though the latest games leave something to be desired) and I loved the fan art. This, of course, ended up being a gateway to the rest of the fandom. I started looking through the various pieces of art and literature, both clean and yiffy, and I found that it appealed to me.

About 2 months later, I was talking on one of my earlier forums, and someone mentioned that they were a "furry". Being the curious type, I googled the word, and I came to a site known as "Wikifur". There, I found the definition and I was like "There's a word for that?!  o.O ". From there I accessed a furry community known as "Furtopia" and here I am, 3 years later.
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Post by: Mathais on March 31, 2011, 07:45:07 PM
*hugs the well educated fur* We're all glad that you are a fur!  ;)
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Post by: Fly Boy on March 31, 2011, 08:07:13 PM
Star Fox started it all. Played Star Fox 64 and I love The Lion King so eventually I found furrys when looking up more information on Star Fox and their storyline. Read up about my furries and decided that I would like to be one. More or less in a nutshell.
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Post by: Kodachi Devil on April 02, 2011, 02:36:11 PM
Sorry to get off topic here, but *high fives fly_boy*
star fox 64 rocks!
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Post by: Fly Boy on April 02, 2011, 07:15:27 PM
Never had a Nintendo 64. Used an Emulator. And yes, great game.
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Post by: NJMike on April 09, 2011, 01:15:18 AM
Well, to be honest, it's all thanks to my fetishes; I have myriads of very weird and unorthodox fetishes that look better on anthro characters, and that's what ultimately caused me to discover the furdom. I joined FA in April 2010 but stayed in denial until February 18th of this year when I realized that I really was a fur.
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Post by: Pea on April 09, 2011, 03:09:56 PM
I think I may have always been a Furry, but never knew there was a name or a fandom for it. If I would have known about this a few years ago my life would be soo different.

I think my first Furry Fantasy was when I randomly thought up a story of some furries and played around with that in my head for a year or so. My imagination was wild back then but it usually stemmed off from things I had seen or experienced. Like for instance, I watched dothack and a day later I had randomly thought up an idea for my own MMO that me and my friends would reenact during recess. I'm not sure what may have lead to my first imagination of Furries.

Later on in life, around freshman year I think, someone introduced me to Redwall. I hated reading until that book. Then I checked out Redwall series books as often as the library would allow. One of my favorite parts of the series was how well they described food!

Then a year later or more, I went to a friends house and they had Furry posters all over their room. That was the first time I had actually seen a picture of a Furry. I never once asked about them though because I sort of thought they were weird. Well, weird to see them hanging around all over the room.

Then, the moment of truth! Just this year my cousin had introduced me to some very interesting pictures of Furries. Some of a very artistic nature which I enjoyed. And some others of a less than good moralled nature, which I equally enjoyed.  0:)

Something just sort of popped once he showed me those drawings and told me the name Furries. I was instantly hooked. Then some time later I got tired of keeping my new found interest to myself. I end up introducing my best friend to furries. He thinks they are weird and has no interest in them.

So I then turned to the internet where not only is judgement something to not worry about, there is a whole world of people with whom to talk!

That's how I ended up here.
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Post by: Nightpup on April 27, 2011, 02:38:52 AM
Hmm, I've always loved nature, and felt a stronger bond towards all the animals of this world besides humans. Humans just...didn't seem natural to me. I don't know why exactly. But eventually I ended up unconsciously aquiring a fursona. I looked into this sort of thing and found it wasn't uncommon. The rest is obvious.
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Post by: Alison Marie on April 28, 2011, 09:06:49 PM
well i stumbled acrosst it on youtube. after a week of debate i declaird my self as a furry!! yay  :o
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Post by: NJMike on April 28, 2011, 11:28:47 PM
Well, to be honest, it's all thanks to my fetishes; I have myriads of very weird and unorthodox fetishes that look better on anthro characters, and that's what ultimately caused me to discover the furdom. I joined FA in April 2010 but stayed in denial until February 18th of this year when I realized that I really was a fur.

Also, I find humans boring and furries more interesting and cute.
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Post by: Spink on April 29, 2011, 11:05:00 PM
I became furry, probably before I knew there was a fandom for it. Ever since I watched Disney's adaptation of Robin Hood, I found a general appeal towards anthropomorphic art and movies, particularly done in the 2-D style because the colors always seem more vibrant in a 2-D drawing versus a 3-D model. Plus, from people I know/met, the members of this particular fandom are a lot more open-minded, and tolerant of other people and other ideas and are just generally more fun to talk to. I've never written a furry piece, mostly because I'm more paranoid of someone finding it and making all sorts of comments, though I've recently started to try drawing my fursona. I've only ever done the head so far, having botched the first two with the third needing a little less of a human quality to it.

In the end, I'm pretty sure it was the liveliness of the community and the art that drew me in. This fandom probably covers more art than many other fandoms out there, from plushies, to sketches, to paintings, to comics, to stories, to 3-D models and sculptures/figures, to the fursuits (some of them are really amazing in design), to just about anything else. And even though I suck at art, I do appreciate it. XP
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Post by: Kite on May 12, 2011, 02:47:20 PM
Like most've said, I was probably a furry many, many years before I even realised it. I always loved reading books, especially about animal characters and whenever I watched TV, the furry characters appealed to me miles more than human characters. On top of that, one of my favourite characters is Tails and I loved the Sonic franchise in general. :P

On the playground when we used to play those silly games ('back in the day' flashback nostalgia there :O) I always wanted to be the two-legged animal, probably because I love animals. My dog was probably also an influence, I loved playing around with her and her puppies when she had some, and there's probably some form of influence down that line aswell.

A few years back, I was browsing through random art and stumbled across furry and neko stuff. It really seemed to appeal to me instantly, I loved the whole human-like animal thing, and it wasn't long before I was drawing them myself, without realising there was a fandom for it - all I knew was it was called "anthropomorphic". I also found on DeviantArt that one of the options for being there was to meet other furries, which back then I had no idea what it was, but it sounded interesting. After that, I found out what a furry actually was and a little while after found out there was a whole fandom for it. Needless to say, I seen it and instantly thought "wow, this is perfect!"

I also found out what yiff meant before I even knew about the fandom, which must be a bit worrying. Curiosity got the better of me at the time and I had to find out what it was all about  0:)
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Post by: Daemon on May 12, 2011, 08:08:34 PM
I originally was into Dungeons and Dragons, waaaaaay in the beginning. Through that, I almost literally fell in love with half-dragons. Through that, I got curious and look up art with it. And found articles on "scalies". I investigated that, and learned of another form, known as Furries. But I was still unsure. My brain is cloudy right now, so I dont remember much next, but thats how I became a fur.
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Post by: simsal on May 24, 2011, 09:55:20 AM
Well i had always been a fan of the art of furrys but i never really classed myself as one for just looking at the art that people had made. One day i was playing with a random person and we became close friends and after a while he said he was a furry. At first i thought he wont be happy im not one so i said i look at some of the pictures and from there he helped me find that im a wolf and that i have always been a furry i just hid it but now i realise i should have never hid it because of how great being a furry is =D and how awsome and freindly the community is. :D
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Post by: ArcticSkyWolf on May 26, 2011, 07:58:07 PM
When I watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi6eelbXGG0 , well it was actually first aired on g4tv. When I watched it, I was like wow, all of that looked like fun. Then I searched up the whole thing on the Internet and learned all about it.

Prior to all of this, I seem to notice that I have a strong connection with dogs, like whenever I walk in the park, dogs always bark and jump on my, licking me and everything. I enjoyed it and I was always able to like talk to them. It was a lot of fun.

After watching the video, I found my way here where I first lurked onto the IRC and eventually found out that being a furry is a personal choice and before I knew it, I was a furry.

After watching it, I seem to have a even stronger connection with animals, not just dogs but now birds. Blue jays and other birds and even crows follow behind me. I felt that it was right to feed them some bread and stuff. I later found out that they always chill in my backyard. Now I have a bird feeder there  XD

And that's my story.
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Post by: Bags thirtysecond on May 31, 2011, 04:42:35 AM
Hmm, I've always loved nature, and felt a stronger bond towards all the animals of this world besides humans. Humans just...didn't seem natural to me. I don't know why exactly. But eventually I ended up unconsciously aquiring a fursona. I looked into this sort of thing and found it wasn't uncommon. The rest is obvious.

Ok, so I know I'm not alone now  :P. Well, my story is similar to that; I could not explain my feelings any better than that, but there are a few more interesting experiences that lead me to pursue fur-fandom. (what? you think I wasnt going to write a lengthy explination ;))

So I have always felt a personal, deep connection to nature, my pets, and basically any animal that crosses my path (especially mammals because I can relate). My favorite activity has always been just running in the woods, especially when I'm having a rough day, and as a kid my dog would run along the trails with me, I felt like he was as close to me as a big brother would be. And ya, I felt as if that wasnt quite normal, So I just never told anyone of my feelings.

  I had not even known of fur-fandom, until my senior year in High school. One of my friends (who moved from Seattle) told me about them one day (he had run into a convention once), and I just thought that was kinda weird, and that I should avoid those people, because he had only told me that they were weird and they harassed him. I had no idea the term meant a fandom of anthros. I had always treid to find what type of animal fits my friends' personalities, and I guess I had developed fursonas for all of them, but I never really did anything about it. Then I met a girl at school who I became very close to, I saw her posters around school, with anthros giving safety tips, but i didnt think much of it. Then I saw her devientart gallery on her computer, and she had drawn characters for all of her friends, even me, and I thought it was pretty cool. I never really knew thats what furries did though, so I didnt ask her about it. That did peak my interest however. and I obsessed over her drawings, I was crushed when we had a falling out.
  Then me and a group of friends went to my friend's summer home two summers ago, and we decided to go bowling, so we did. And after a few minutes of bowling, a group of people in fur-suits came strolling in, and bowled in the lane right next to ours. I thought, "hmmm, thats strange", but my eyes lit up. The entire time my friends laughed and jeered at them, I played along. The fursuiters were hootin' and howlin' when they came in, but after a while they just bowled and talked with thier suites on the entire time. They were actually quite friendly, and we exchanged hellos a few times. The entire time I wanted to just go over and bowl and talk with them, to be one of them, but I didnt. I just played along with my friends. At this point all of my friends told me about furries, because I didnt really know, but they just thought they were freaks who had the same fetish. So they were creeped out, but my interest was further peaked. I kind-of looked into the dirtier side of furries, but I dropped it for a while, and thought I needed to get it out of my system.
  I was in denial for a while, until me and one of my friends saw a fursuiter walking around Providence in March. He just laughed and said she was probably a RISD student, then we walked in the other direction because he was creeped out. From then I actually did some research, and I found out about actual fur-fandom. I was hooked, I knew that was me, but I told no one, and remained in denial. I found this forum, and looked around it for a while. Something clicked, I decided this wasnt going away, and I joined this forum. the rest is history...
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Post by: Rappy on June 16, 2011, 02:31:10 PM
I was in a website family thing with some friends and I inquired about their art and stuff like that. My friend told me he was a furry, explained it all, and asked me about it myself. After a couple of weeks of looking around at anthro art, and being coaxed everyday-I decided that there is no harm in becoming a furry!
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Post by: Ray Furr on June 16, 2011, 10:50:23 PM
I lisned to music by lapfoxtrax and liked the art and followed the links to the furry fandom  :)
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Post by: Døvu on June 18, 2011, 12:37:58 AM
i think I started to become a furry when I was 8 or 9. Me and my cousin would pretend that we could transform into animals and we would crawl and run around growling and howling at each other and get into silly situations. That was our favorite game to play for years until we grew up. So i guess that second personality I pretended to have as a kid stuck and grew on me. 
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Post by: Sawyer on June 19, 2011, 08:20:39 PM
I've always had a big interest in shapeshifters, animals, and the like. So becoming a furry was a natural extension of that. I found out about the fandom through the internet, initially, but I didn't  identify with it for some time because I was afraid of the stigma. Then I decided, screw it, I'm a furry :D
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Post by: Kyaine on June 20, 2011, 12:42:46 AM
When i was 15 my brother told me about it and i started researching it on the internet then i got into the fandom.
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Post by: vsnlollipop on June 26, 2011, 08:45:25 PM
I always liked cartoons where people turned into animals, partially or completely. Not a long time ago I just searched for some random things and then i found this, seemed interesting  :). then after reading I realised that this fits for me so i became a furry, no. I was a furry allready, I just didn't know it XD.
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Post by: Alicia-Korean-Soviet on June 27, 2011, 11:25:19 PM
I became a furry when I was about 11. I had a serious addiction to the Spyro games, and wished I was a dragon. Thus, my first character named Laycira was born. It was fun, until some dork began making fun of my character. I was angered and so I discontinued Laycira. Finally, I decided on my current character who is a dragon/leopard/peacock mix. I added peacock and leopard DNA in honor of my best friends whose fursonas are a leopard and a peacock. Coincidentally, those are also my favorite real-life animals. :D

Well, that's m' story.
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Post by: mulchardude on June 28, 2011, 05:47:36 AM
Neat story and amazing hybrid...definitely unique!

What was so wrong with Laycira?  I haven't played the Spyro games, so I dunno if it was referenced...but still, I doubt people had any reason to make fun.

I've made decisions like that and gone back later.  Letting people mess with you...well, messes with you.  x_x
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Post by: Kaprika on June 28, 2011, 07:21:49 AM
WHELP...i was a furry for a while and didnt even know it in the begginning


i started out with a NEKO girl actualy, her name was Catrina (hence my DA name) but i didnt know what a animal human hybrid was called then so i just called her a demon. (i was like...14 i think?)
and she was me for the longest time..but as years passed i discovered the online furry community and found that they were who i was identifying with all along, and i scrapped Catrina but for a long long time didnt have a true fursona. i only came up with Kaprika just....oh i dunno, id say 5 months...?

i came up with her about a few weeks before i joined the furry forums if THAT tells ya anything.
cause for the longest time i couldnt figure out what animal i identifyed myself to the most...so i finnaly settled on a hybrid!
wolf...show leopard.
combined, they are me!
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Post by: Gelidus on July 03, 2011, 07:03:54 AM
I just remembered that when I was a younger (around 14) I started planning on creating a game where you played a half-dragon, which now I realized turned out to be an anthro dragon. I had spread sheets of different races giving you different stats, all the different skills you could have (there was like fifty of the them lol), different special abilities, a story line, a world I created for it (I think I called it Ailartsua), etc. I was getting really into it. I remember looking online for 'half-dragons' to find a model of what I might use as the playing character. I did quite a bit of that actually. Slowly I faded away from the project cause I came to the realization that it probly wouldn't be created since I'm only 14...or something like that. Either way all of the files are gone now.

But just the thought of playing a half-dragon was really cool to me, and I had no idea that a fandom like this existed until 6 years later.
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Post by: maggintons on July 07, 2011, 03:34:52 PM
i stumbled upon a furry youtube video and the rest is history XD
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Post by: Moonraiser on July 10, 2011, 05:28:18 AM
How did I become a furry? It's a long story that began two years ago when I first joined this site, which lead to many fun adventures online :)
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Post by: robodog on July 10, 2011, 10:01:07 AM
I think I've always had furry tendencies. I spent more time in school drawing dogs than I did doing actual  schoolwork and I used to use dumb names like Dog Lord when a video game required you to type in a name for your character. I've always identified more with dogs than people as well.
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Post by: Riyu on July 12, 2011, 03:29:05 PM
well i became a fur around 5 months ago maybe.i was on my usual youtube exploring at 12A.M. and i came across a vid looked it up,nothing special and it didnt have the word furry on the title so i saw a comment saying that this guy from U.K. saying that he is a furry and this aint furry sh**.so i was like wtf is a furry so i looked it up on google(that was a tough time)and found some photo websites.i was into it but then i was going crazy on the second week cause i thought being a furry was bad and something mental so i was trying to ask my friends for help but they didnt care.so 3rd week i found sofurry and i joined it actually talked to some furs and i decided that i was a furry and since then ive been perfectly fine,i had told my best friend and my sis about me and they took it well.now im a happy fur and ill stay fur for the rest of my life maybe...i also thanked furs for turning me BI but they may turn me gay soon  :P cause im now more opened minded toward ppl and you know what,being different is better. :)
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Post by: maggintons on July 12, 2011, 03:52:22 PM
I've always had a big interest in shapeshifters, animals, and the like. So becoming a furry was a natural extension of that. I found out about the fandom through the internet, initially, but I didn't  identify with it for some time because I was afraid of the stigma. Then I decided, screw it, I'm a furry :D
there's a girl on youtube from germany i chat with going through the same phase  XP
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Post by: ChibiMyuutsu on July 12, 2011, 04:09:24 PM
I always was, but didn't know there was a name for it, just like my paganism :)
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Post by: maggintons on July 12, 2011, 05:09:31 PM
well she does say her anthro characters are fursonas...but she said she ain't one when i asked.....but how would a little british teenager like me supposed know whats going on in a girl from another country's mind....i like her but even then i sometimes find her scary :S. (her fantasies include patriotic empires ruled by her fursona but she acts normal mostly when i chat with her)

amazingly it was me mistaking her for a furry that made me become one (yeah my online is a bit of a nerdy soap opera)
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Post by: arandomfurry on July 14, 2011, 04:57:32 AM
I guess i techinically have always been a furry but i didnt even know anything about furries until i started dating my furry bf a couple months ago and hes pretty much has told me everything i know about them and i just decided to offically become one a few days ago
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Post by: PurpleSnowLeopard on July 16, 2011, 03:34:00 PM
i errm... *madblush*

yeah. stuff!

>_>

*shoots self in head for telling the entire forum what he has done*
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Post by: FurryDan on July 30, 2011, 01:09:54 AM
I saw an early episode of My Strange Addiction.  It was about a girl that liked Furries and had her own fursona.  The tail thing was a bit of a turn on.  Did some research and liked what I found.  I decided to look up some conventions and I found one that was coming up in a few months so I saved up some money and went.  Met alot of great people but I haven' gotten into fursona's yet.  I don't know if I ever will.  Creating names and a costume is too much for me.
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Post by: WhiteTiger89 on July 30, 2011, 01:14:39 AM
I saw an early episode of My Strange Addiction.  It was about a girl that liked Furries and had her own fursona.  The tail thing was a bit of a turn on.  Did some research and liked what I found.  I decided to look up some conventions and I found one that was coming up in a few months so I saved up some money and went.  Met alot of great people but I haven' gotten into fursona's yet.  I don't know if I ever will.  Creating names and a costume is too much for me.

You don't have to create a costume or a name to create a fursona. :P I don't have a fursuit, and I had no intention of giving my fursona his own name. He's just the furry looking version of me. :)

i errm... *madblush*

yeah. stuff!

>_>

*shoots self in head for telling the entire forum what he has done*

Don't feel bad. fChan was the only exposure I had to the fandom until I came here.
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Post by: CrazyCat on August 01, 2011, 11:57:26 PM
Well, once upon a time, I was wandering aimlessly in the interwebs one day and happened to stumble upon the Vanity Fair article about furries. I started reading it, and when they started talking about that plushophile dude (I forgot his name), I thought; "Wow, furries like the same things I do!" (although, to be honest, some of the other stuff mentioned in the Vanity Fair article was rather disturbing...) So I joined the furry fandom expecting a whole bunch of people who were into plushies, but I quickly noticed that was not the case (So far, I'm the only plushophile I've met). Upon some proper research, I found out that furries were not about weird fetishes, but about people who had a strong interest in anthropomorphic animals. I decided to join anyway, because some of the stuff like fursuiting and rp's and furry conventions seemed really fun despite the obvious lack of plushie love. So, I decided to create my own fursona and officially joined the fandom as Crazy Cat.

The End
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Post by: Shadis on August 08, 2011, 02:24:42 AM
6/23/2011 is the date I discovered that I am a furry fan. The manner with which i discovered this is... interesting. Parhaps the largest way i discovered it was that i read an article about fur-ism in the 2008 Guinnes Book of World Records where an article inside mentioned the furries. I was intreagued with what i saw. I have always loved animals, Wolves especially, and cartoons my whole life. When ever I saw a film with which the caracters were furry in appearence, Surf's Up and Alpha and Omega for example, I always fealt a strange attraction to it. It was like something inside of me was pulling me towards those films. I would dream of them in my sleep and think of them constantly untill I would buy them and watch them continually. It wasn't untill 6/23/11 that I discovered why I felt this way. All the while it was the furry-ism inside of me tring to get out. It's been over a month for me and I have never fealt so happy and comfortable. I am furry!  :D
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Post by: NemiShawn on August 11, 2011, 10:13:28 PM
I suppose for me, its always been there. I always used to pretend to be various animals when I was a kid, and it all sort of progressed from there. I used to write a lot of fantasy fiction about anthro hybrid species, and its only recently I've discovered the furry community - but it feels so good to find like-minded people :)
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Post by: Shadis on August 12, 2011, 11:35:34 PM
Same here, glad to have ya  :)
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Post by: ArcticSkyWolf on August 16, 2011, 06:24:05 PM
i still need to watch that My Strange Addiction episode
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Post by: Kaprika on August 16, 2011, 06:36:24 PM
i still need to watch that My Strange Addiction episode


its on youtube.
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Post by: Acegermanshepard on August 16, 2011, 06:53:45 PM
I typed bbq recipies on youtube don't ask me what vids I had to click on I loung forgot
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Post by: WingedZephyr on August 16, 2011, 06:55:54 PM
Please stay on topic.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: StalkedByMyOwnInsanity on August 21, 2011, 07:56:25 PM
I became one cause my friend is a furry and he got me into it and i absolutely love the furry lifestyle!!
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Post by: Shadis on August 21, 2011, 11:28:30 PM
I became one cause my friend is a furry and he got me into it and i absolutely love the furry lifestyle!!

nice  B)
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Post by: thenewfurry on August 23, 2011, 07:33:22 PM
I always knew
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Post by: maggintons on August 24, 2011, 06:45:28 AM
6/23/2011 is the date I discovered that I am a furry fan. The manner with which i discovered this is... interesting. Parhaps the largest way i discovered it was that i read an article about fur-ism in the 2008 Guinnes Book of World Records where an article inside mentioned the furries. I was intreagued with what i saw. I have always loved animals, Wolves especially, and cartoons my whole life. When ever I saw a film with which the caracters were furry in appearence, Surf's Up and Alpha and Omega for example, I always fealt a strange attraction to it. It was like something inside of me was pulling me towards those films. I would dream of them in my sleep and think of them constantly untill I would buy them and watch them continually. It wasn't untill 6/23/11 that I discovered why I felt this way. All the while it was the furry-ism inside of me tring to get out. It's been over a month for me and I have never fealt so happy and comfortable. I am furry!  :D


i can relate to that
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Post by: Shadis on August 25, 2011, 12:49:38 PM
6/23/2011 is the date I discovered that I am a furry fan. The manner with which i discovered this is... interesting. Parhaps the largest way i discovered it was that i read an article about fur-ism in the 2008 Guinnes Book of World Records where an article inside mentioned the furries. I was intreagued with what i saw. I have always loved animals, Wolves especially, and cartoons my whole life. When ever I saw a film with which the caracters were furry in appearence, Surf's Up and Alpha and Omega for example, I always fealt a strange attraction to it. It was like something inside of me was pulling me towards those films. I would dream of them in my sleep and think of them constantly untill I would buy them and watch them continually. It wasn't untill 6/23/11 that I discovered why I felt this way. All the while it was the furry-ism inside of me tring to get out. It's been over a month for me and I have never fealt so happy and comfortable. I am furry!  :D


i can relate to that

Sweet! Im not the only one!  :D
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Post by: TheLazyFur on August 25, 2011, 11:38:07 PM
I've always been interested in anthros, ever since watching the old 90's cartoons like Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, and Rocko's Modern Life. Once I found out there was a fandom surrounding athropomorphics, I read up more on it. Sure we have this stigma attached to us, but if you learn to not feed the trolls you'll be fine. :D So that's how I became a furry.
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Post by: [Sov] on August 30, 2011, 02:02:35 AM
I have always loved animals, especially horses, since I was little. I always pretended I was either a horse or a wolf at recess in elementary school, and it's grown from there. I didn't know about furry fandom until about 4 years ago, but when I was around the ages of 10-16 I played online forum based role play games where I was a horse. I had several characters, and was very sad when my favorite site got shut down. It sent me into such a fury that I quit RPing all together. I haven't been able to find a site like it again.

Overall I realized that it was okay to feel the way I feel and do the things I do. Like relate to animals more than people, and especially think the way that I think. So I guess I could say I've been a furry all my life, but just didn't know it had a name until a few years ago.
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Post by: Karma Moonshadow on September 23, 2011, 08:59:53 PM
I have always loved animals, especially horses, since I was little. I always pretended I was either a horse or a wolf at recess in elementary school, and it's grown from there. I didn't know about furry fandom until about 4 years ago, but when I was around the ages of 10-16 I played online forum based role play games where I was a horse. I had several characters, and was very sad when my favorite site got shut down. It sent me into such a fury that I quit RPing all together. I haven't been able to find a site like it again.

Overall I realized that it was okay to feel the way I feel and do the things I do. Like relate to animals more than people, and especially think the way that I think. So I guess I could say I've been a furry all my life, but just didn't know it had a name until a few years ago.
Sounds exactly like myself. I had a passion for real life roleplaying as animals and my own animal characters that I became familiar with all through elementary, and drawing them ever since, and my best friends were animals, not people, because I felt a more personal connection with them. But I never heard of the furry fandom until I was 16 or somewhere in there, and then it all came together.
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Post by: TheSSF on September 28, 2011, 09:30:56 PM
Stumbling about the internet, I found some fan characters and some comics of anthros from cartoons like sonic and the like. On one of the comic sites I was on, one of the artists had a furry comic, which I got into quite quickly. I soon found out this site had a forum and ended up on it. It had some fanfic which I started reading, especially that around this furry comic. I started to comment on some of them, and soon started my own (Dead) fanfic. I got into the RP on the site, and got to know a bunch of furs on the site. I think that about sums it up XD

Since then, around two years ago, I have started attending meets, covered my room in furry artwork (Unfortunately not done by me XD) and started wearing ears and as of about two weeks ago, a tail, almost every time I'm out of the house.

Huzzah :D
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Post by: Shadis on October 02, 2011, 07:17:04 PM
Thats quiet a story u got there, nice dude!  B)
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Post by: TheSSF on October 03, 2011, 09:19:04 PM
Yup ^^

Er, afteer moving schools I also routed out the fur in my year rather quickly... We're now mated hehe.
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Post by: Shadis on October 03, 2011, 09:39:38 PM
once again, very nice dude!  :)
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Post by: Xash5621 on October 05, 2011, 08:10:06 PM
hmm... i was a Sonic RPer till i met Kira. my character quickly changed into a tiger named Dash :P when Dash got deleted coz i uploaded some... *cough cough* mature pictures i joined back up under the character, Cloud. he was a kitten :P then Cloud got deleted for the same reason as Dash XD i joined yet again with a new character, Xash. eventually i got really depressed and sad because Kira left me and gave my furry account to Kizo. about a month later i made a new one and stole back my old one :P one is now Bit the frankenfur and the other is Xash the "pup"
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Post by: BlaideBlack on October 05, 2011, 08:30:01 PM
Since I'm a little child, I loved to play with animals.
I played all time I were an animal.
Most time was it a wolf.
Then I begann with roleplay on the internet with others. Then I found Furries and I learned lot of them.. I begann to draw Furries.. and Yea.. Now I'm in the fandom since 2007.



Sorry for my English..
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Post by: Shadis on October 07, 2011, 02:49:14 AM
Thats quiet a collaberation of stories their Xash, nice!  B)
 
And BlaideBlack, Your point easily gets across, and your English is probably better than some people who normally speak English!  XD 
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Post by: Xash5621 on October 07, 2011, 03:52:16 AM
Thats quiet a collaberation of stories their Xash, nice!  B)
 
And BlaideBlack, Your point easily gets across, and your English is probably better than some people who normally speak English!  XD 

thanks ^^ glad you like it
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Post by: Døvu on October 07, 2011, 04:10:36 AM
long story short, i watched the lion king in junior high. brought back so many childhood memories and it had a really strange affect on me. the movie somehow sent me into a deep, depression, u can call it I suppose. Wasnt technically sad, was more lost if anything. (who would have guessed that a childrens movie would change a teenagers life). Any who, wasnt long before I found the fandom...then low and behold....Dingo the lion (dont question the name :P ) And ever since then, life has been great, really think ive found myself.
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Post by: Shadis on October 07, 2011, 10:42:59 PM
To Xash: No Prob mate  :)
 
 
 
To Dingo: Thats alot like how I came to find this fandom too  :D
 
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Post by: johnny hurricane on October 08, 2011, 05:49:49 AM
My friend Josh converted me. I've always been passivley interested in having cat ears/tail for a while,and recently, decided to go full furry with it. So far, I do not regret this decision.
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Post by: Shadis on October 09, 2011, 04:24:55 AM
Yay! Welcome to the fandom Johnny!  :D
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Post by: Fredriksam on October 10, 2011, 02:41:33 PM
I have always loved animals. From when i was little we had a dog that i liked very much. It was a Siberian Husky and i played and played with the dog. Later when the Husky died they bought a Golden Retriver. Very nice dog too.

In later life i was interrested in werewolves and wolfs. I dreamed about having a tail. Several years later i saw an interresting documentary about Siberian Tigers and i was hooked.

I often visit zoos and watrch the tigers there. Often softly chuffing to them. Thats their friendly hello. I wanna see tigers in wild nature but hasnt enough money to do so and the temple in Thailand i refuse to visit. They arent nice to the tigers.

In 2009 i visited the A-Kon. That was really something. It was also after that i decided to make a fursuit. It did take a very long time, but i was satisfied in the end.
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Post by: Shadis on October 10, 2011, 10:01:05 PM
Hmmmm, THATS quite a story! Well done!  :D
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Post by: Sgt. Blaine Stone on October 13, 2011, 04:16:19 AM
I'm kind of ashamed how i found out about furry, cuz it was the wrong way....yeah, i was browsing dirty pics (glad i don't anymore, it was ruining me) I came across furry pics..one day i got curious and wiki'd furry, and thought that what the fandom is really about beats out bad pics anyday.....i really regret looking at that stuff.... anyways...I've always loved tv, movies, games, etc with anthro animals in them...Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, Crash Bandicoot...is it bad how i found my way into the fandom? I know about the Y word and all that, and that is definitely not my interpretation of being a fur...i guess i still don't feel completely accepted, but i just need to get on here more...sorry for getting OT
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Post by: [Sov] on October 13, 2011, 04:26:54 AM
I'm kind of ashamed how i found out about furry, cuz it was the wrong way....yeah, i was browsing dirty pics (glad i don't anymore, it was ruining me) I came across furry pics..one day i got curious and wiki'd furry, and thought that what the fandom is really about beats out bad pics anyday.....i really regret looking at that stuff.... anyways...I've always loved tv, movies, games, etc with anthro animals in them...Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, Crash Bandicoot...is it bad how i found my way into the fandom? I know about the Y word and all that, and that is definitely not my interpretation of being a fur...i guess i still don't feel completely accepted, but i just need to get on here more...sorry for getting OT

That's actually not that uncommon...so don't feel bad about it.
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Post by: Shadow_wolf on October 14, 2011, 10:39:43 AM
Hi all!      I'll add my two cents first then tell my not so interesting story :-p

Do NOT ever be ashamed of how you found your way into the fandom, the world/internet is full of awesome and ugly things about us.    Whether it be the dirty pics, the cool drawings or the simple spark of imagination that brought you here.  you ARE here and still love it right?  what you do NOW and from here on are what matters.

Ok, my story:   I am the only son of 4 children. 3 older sisters who I love to death.  One in particular, the oldest was into wolves.  She got me (unintentionally) interested in wolves.  and over time as I grew older and gained access to the interwebs learned a LOT about the species and then eventually the fandom and was instantly hooked.   I am a wolf at heart, I have no doubt.   In spirit and mind, and if people think that's crazy I don't hate them or judge them.  It's just different from their point of view and thats OK!   

I've always been different from people,  strange in behavior and attitude but I never knew why.   It took many years of abuse from school mates and friends to realize that I was different from EVERYONE.     Mainly because I'm goofy,  I love ALL people.    And do my best to not judge anyone.  I have my dark side and a little anger now and then but that ok I think because I don't lash out with it or hurt anyone intentionally anyway.

I'm always up for making new friends and helping anyone out that needs me or can use my help.   Sometimes I think I try too hard, other times I don't think I try enough.   Only time will tell :-p
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Post by: Shadis on October 14, 2011, 08:40:03 PM
Hi all!      I'll add my two cents first then tell my not so interesting story :-p

Do NOT ever be ashamed of how you found your way into the fandom, the world/internet is full of awesome and ugly things about us.    Whether it be the dirty pics, the cool drawings or the simple spark of imagination that brought you here.  you ARE here and still love it right?  what you do NOW and from here on are what matters.

Ok, my story:   I am the only son of 4 children. 3 older sisters who I love to death.  One in particular, the oldest was into wolves.  She got me (unintentionally) interested in wolves.  and over time as I grew older and gained access to the interwebs learned a LOT about the species and then eventually the fandom and was instantly hooked.   I am a wolf at heart, I have no doubt.   In spirit and mind, and if people think that's crazy I don't hate them or judge them.  It's just different from their point of view and thats OK!   

I've always been different from people,  strange in behavior and attitude but I never knew why.   It took many years of abuse from school mates and friends to realize that I was different from EVERYONE.     Mainly because I'm goofy,  I love ALL people.    And do my best to not judge anyone.  I have my dark side and a little anger now and then but that ok I think because I don't lash out with it or hurt anyone intentionally anyway.

I'm always up for making new friends and helping anyone out that needs me or can use my help.   Sometimes I think I try too hard, other times I don't think I try enough.   Only time will tell :-p


Thats pretty awesome dude! I wish I had a sister instead of two... unaccepting brothers. Also, do you think you also might be a therian wolf as well? A fair amount of furries are. I am and a friend of mine is awell.  :)
 
I'm kind of ashamed how i found out about furry, cuz it was the wrong way....yeah, i was browsing dirty pics (glad i don't anymore, it was ruining me) I came across furry pics..one day i got curious and wiki'd furry, and thought that what the fandom is really about beats out bad pics anyday.....i really regret looking at that stuff.... anyways...I've always loved tv, movies, games, etc with anthro animals in them...Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, Crash Bandicoot...is it bad how i found my way into the fandom? I know about the Y word and all that, and that is definitely not my interpretation of being a fur...i guess i still don't feel completely accepted, but i just need to get on here more...sorry for getting OT

Yea, Don't feel bad about that dude, alot of us have some degree of experience as to how you found us, ah-hem  <.<  lol, you will never be judged or looked down upon here friend. Welcome!  :)
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Post by: Kodachi Devil on October 18, 2011, 01:33:46 AM
Haha, dude don't be ashamed, that was one of my first exposures to the fandom too, looking back. I was like "who is this artist and why can I not pronounce his name?"
proceeded to google
"oh so thaaaaats what that is--wait is that--OHSHIZ"
then i shut down the computer because i was at my grandmother's house ._.
anyways, speaking of that word a WONDERFUL school friend decided to share the halloween spirit with me with a link to a website with much of the Y word. he assumed i was so innocent itd creep me out i guess. nope, just turned me into a broken child in the hallway. i was stuttering for 5 minutes xD
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Post by: Sigcutio on October 18, 2011, 05:10:44 AM
Hmm... well I always have liked animals and cartoons with anthro characters. In fact, to this day, any work with some sort of anthropomorphic character draws me in. I never knew why, but anthro characters were always cool to me, but for a while I thought I was sort of the only person who really thought like that. Back in end of my freshman year of high school I first discovered the fandom. I was actually just trying to find any random work with some sort of anthro character when I ran across the wikipedia article on the furry fandom.


At first my expression was like this ===> :D 
I couldn't believe there was actually a whole fandom dedicated to anthropomorphic characters, but...


I read a little further into it and discovered the sexual aspects of the fandom and my expression turned to this ====>  D:  I was pretty much repulsed. The stigma associated with the furry fandom sent me running  XD


After that I pretty much avoided any reference to the fandom, but a lingering interest remained. After all I still loved anthro characters  XD


In the end of my sophomore year I can recall finding a fursuit youtube video and I was both horrified and fascinated. Horrified because the idea of people in giant animal costumes has always been weird to me, even at theme parks I have always avoided greeting characters. However, I was also fascinated because it looked like it was a blast! This slowly eased the furry fandom into a better light for me, but I still could not bring myself to associate with it.


My Junior year I actually met a furry in one of my classes who was pretty open about it, but I never discussed it. It seemed too weird to bring up in conversation. However, my senior year a friend of mine who vaguely knew of the fandom told me this joke idea of going to a furry convention as giraffes. Aside from being kinda awesome, it brought the idea of being a furry back into my mind. I looked up some conventions, went back to looking up youtube videos, and made a broader internet search on what it meant to be furry. Finally it stuck with me when I found some youtube videos of fursuiters who actually volunteered at community events and just made the whole atmosphere fun. It was probably then I came to terms with the furry fandom and officially decided to jump into it. I found this forum and decided it would be a good place to start, so here I am!


Hmm....this is kinda long
For the tl;dr people out there:
Long story short I didn't like it at first, but then I figured "What the hey?" and jumped into it.  XD
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Post by: Edwolf on October 18, 2011, 05:48:55 PM
It was Christmas 2009. Somebody on YouTube uploaded a video of himself in a Rudolph (the Red-Nosed Reindeer) fursuit and I thought to myself, "That looks nice! Why don't I have one of those?". But in order to remain in tune with the rest of the year, I decided to branch into mainstream fursuiting  X3  and it all started from there.
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Post by: kivabunny on October 18, 2011, 10:18:57 PM
it all started 10 years ago with animorphs i was 7 i read the stories and when i read the one about them becoming wolves i was awed with the  discriptions about the keenness of their senses and how they alone were kings of the woodlands. it festered for 8 years. then i took a  trip to the zoo.i looked every where.
then i saw them.
red wolves.
they were so beautiful. i almost cried at the sight of such a majestic animal, trapped and not free to roam the forests.
then it happened.
something inside me ached to be like them, wild and free (not in a cage tho). i began asking my biology teacher questions about genetic replacement and was dissappointed to find that it did not exist. but i was determined that there had to be something like a human with the senses and grace and beauty of an animal (namely wolves). so i googled.
i found nothing. then i watched yu-gi-oh abriged and i herd joey say "go y*** yourself kiba"" curious to find out what this strange word ment i looked it up, (tho i was scared i would get caught i continued to watch) i heard the word furry tossed around and looked it up and to my suprise a clean version existed.
a month later i declared my pride in being a furry this july on the fourth. my independence day.
(btw what is redwall?)
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Post by: Sgt. Blaine Stone on October 18, 2011, 10:19:16 PM
I've been busy lately, couldn't get on........anyways, thanks for that, I still liked the pics at the time, but i'm over that now...i'm here for the fun now.
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Post by: Shadis on October 18, 2011, 10:50:37 PM
it all started 10 years ago with animorphs i was 7 i read the stories and when i read the one about them becoming wolves i was awed with the  discriptions about the keenness of their senses and how they alone were kings of the woodlands. it festered for 8 years. then i took a  trip to the zoo.i looked every where.
then i saw them.
red wolves.
they were so beautiful. i almost cried at the sight of such a majestic animal, trapped and not free to roam the forests.
then it happened.
something inside me ached to be like them, wild and free (not in a cage tho). i began asking my biology teacher questions about genetic replacement and was dissappointed to find that it did not exist. but i was determined that there had to be something like a human with the senses and grace and beauty of an animal (namely wolves). so i googled.
i found nothing. then i watched yu-gi-oh abriged and i herd joey say "go y*** yourself kiba"" curious to find out what this strange word ment i looked it up, (tho i was scared i would get caught i continued to watch) i heard the word furry tossed around and looked it up and to my suprise a clean version existed.
a month later i declared my pride in being a furry this july on the fourth. my independence day.
(btw what is redwall?)

Thats an increadable story dude! Im impressed! I turned into a furry literally a week and a half before you! June 23'd!  :D
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Post by: kivabunny on October 18, 2011, 11:15:48 PM
thats cool . but ive found its not really somthing you become, but rather somthing you discover about yourself.
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Post by: Shadis on October 18, 2011, 11:28:37 PM
Well, yea. Thats kinda what I meant. By turning I meant finnally realise and become it. like being a wherewolf  :D  Also, Redwall is a semi- depressing but awesome midevil fantasy story of a bunch of anthro animals as they try to rescue abunch of kidnapped furry children. Its very furry in nature and my possibly furry friend reads them.
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Post by: kivabunny on October 18, 2011, 11:31:31 PM
ok ill check it out
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Post by: Shadis on October 18, 2011, 11:39:08 PM
Sure thing!
 
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Post by: Grahagity on October 19, 2011, 05:50:21 PM
I always found myself interested in anthropomorphic art, ever since I was a child. The concept of an anthropomorphic being just fascinates me. I find them more interesting than "normal" human characters, for some reason. One day, I stumbled upon the "furry fandom", but never thought I was really what you would consider a "furry". After doing some research, I realized that I most likely am, and decided to hop on the wagon. :P
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Post by: Cheeky Stoat on October 21, 2011, 09:04:50 PM
Magic turned me into one.
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Post by: SoulFox on October 26, 2011, 08:21:44 PM
Magic turned me into one.


mind if i barrow some of that magic, haha.

well like alot of other furries out there, i've always enjoyed anthro art and animated movies with animals. i've always loved animals soo much, i was actually going to be a vet until my dad crushed my dream by saying theres too many of them  x_x  so i gave up on that. but i still LOVE animals. well while growing it seemed anything that had to do with animals i liked more than anything that had to do with people because people are so vengeful, greedy, backstabbing, angry creatures. only but a few ever seem to do good :/ funny because the only books that kept my interest are if it involved animals, especially if they talked xD (but thats all background info)long story short, in 7th grade i became a huge gamer, i ended up really getting into computers and hacking, fell for this guy because i wanted to be everything he was, learned im mostly gay, and he turned out to be a furry. well to be his friend i tried to be a furry to, and for about a month i did all the research i could to try figuring out "what a furry was" i knew they were the combined human animals, but how do you "be" a furry? well eventually i got really into it, and furtalk, and raving. i soon began to think being a furry was a bad idea because i couldn't tell anyone i am one(other than my bf who didn't understand, muchless care) and so i gave up on it for a while, but returning about 2months ago remembering why i loved it so much before!  :D
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Post by: on October 26, 2011, 08:26:09 PM
Magic turned me into one.


mind if i barrow some of that magic, haha.

well like alot of other furries out there, i've always enjoyed anthro art and animated movies with animals. i've always loved animals soo much, i was actually going to be a vet until my dad crushed my dream by saying theres too many of them  x_x  so i gave up on that. but i still LOVE animals. well while growing it seemed anything that had to do with animals i liked more than anything that had to do with people because people are so vengeful, greedy, backstabbing, angry creatures. only but a few ever seem to do good :/ funny because the only books that kept my interest are if it involved animals, especially if they talked xD (but thats all background info)long story short, in 7th grade i became a huge gamer, i ended up really getting into computers and hacking, fell for this guy because i wanted to be everything he was, learned im mostly gay, and he turned out to be a furry. well to be his friend i tried to be a furry to, and for about a month i did all the research i could to try figuring out "what a furry was" i knew they were the combined human animals, but how do you "be" a furry? well eventually i got really into it, and furtalk, and raving. i soon began to think being a furry was a bad idea because i couldn't tell anyone i am one(other than my bf who didn't understand, muchless care) and so i gave up on it for a while, but returning about 2months ago remembering why i loved it so much before!  :D
can never be enough vets. my brother aspires to be one XD
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Post by: SoulFox on October 26, 2011, 08:37:15 PM
haha thanks, but im past that. it is true its hard to become a vet with today's economy the way it is, but i would love to go off and live with foxes and study them. i just have no idea how to get into that
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Post by: on October 26, 2011, 08:39:03 PM
haha thanks, but im past that. it is true its hard to become a vet with today's economy the way it is, but i would love to go off and live with foxes and study them. i just have no idea how to get into that
then your career should be Zoologist, the study of animals and such :P
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Post by: SoulFox on October 26, 2011, 08:59:42 PM
i actually very much like the idea of that :3 its something to consider because i still haven't set my life goal yet. all i can say is right now im aiming for something in science, but helping an animal rescue reserve of somesort might be something i get into in my free time because thats something i've always wanted to do

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Post by: Runi_the_Neko on October 29, 2011, 08:14:06 PM
I was never really into animals until my brother saved a kitten from being washed away into a street drain. It was so adorable and helpless that we just HAD to keep it. This was my first time ever being around an animal that I didn't hate as well. We nursed it back to health cause it had this cruddy stuff on it's eyes and could barely walk. We named it Snickers~ But nature took it's course and eventually died of a birth defect in it's neck, atleast he died peacefully and in a warm bed at the vet.
 
But then we just got more cats, so I started getting really interested in the furry little things. I liked the way their fur felt and their silly behavior(and their tails), so I started looking up cats online. Never really got further until I got really hooked into cat girls. Then later on I learn about furries, which I never liked to begin with but as I started getting into anthros I learned they weren't all that bad and found myself more connected with them then the human race, as stupid as that sounds.
 
Then that died out until I moved and lost my friends from my old neighborhood so I was pretty much isolated to the internet, and there goes my old flame firin' up and soon enough i'm full blown furry after getting into sonic fandom again and then it transforms into all anthros!
 
Took awhile to get here but here I am. And now that I think about it...I might of always been one considering my favorite childhood movies were The Fox and the Hound and Oliver and Company.  :o
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Post by: Shadis on November 01, 2011, 07:44:35 PM
Thats awesome dude! Welcome to the fandom!  :)
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Post by: Shadow_wolf on November 04, 2011, 10:07:33 AM
I might of always been one considering my favorite childhood movies were The Fox and the Hound and Oliver and Company.  :o

Honestly I would love to point out a personal opinion on this,  I think evil characters are dead.    Referring to Oliver and Company, a FANTASTIC move that depicts an incredible villain who is just plain scary and the story in general is nice as well.   I think that villains are just simply dead in general.   They just don't make them like they used to,  scary, evil and meaningful.     

Does anyone else agree with me on this?   I don't mean to steal the thread and I'm sorry if that's what I'm doing but this subject caught my attention lol.   



Please stay on topic. You can create a new thread in the Movies board (http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?board=58.0) for this discussion if you like.
WingedZephyr
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Post by: sunbear on November 14, 2011, 08:25:47 PM
i saw it and fell in wuvvvv
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Post by: alpha wolf on November 15, 2011, 07:53:28 PM
My best friend told me he was a furry and explaned to me what furryism was.  I looked into it more and found i had alot of characteristics of a furry.  I love cartoons, I love animals, I also like to dress up as animals, and i love to roleplay.  I am a therian and learned of the differences and simalarities of therianthropy and furryism.  My friend tried to get me into furryism so i joined the forums.  I am happy I joined for there are alot of very nice people here who all love the same things i do.
Thats pretty much how i became a furry
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Post by: Shadis on November 17, 2011, 02:47:50 AM
Haha, I am that friend  ^_^  And welcome Alpha, we are very glad to have you!  :3
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Post by: kivabunny on November 17, 2011, 02:51:14 AM
yes!!!
indeed we are!!!!!
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Post by: Aloneness on November 17, 2011, 01:21:35 PM
I think i've always been a furry even before I knew of the fandom, I guess my first introduction to the fandom was my obsesion with neko people which are normaly people with cat ears and tails, which is where my OC Ren comes from but I don't really like cats which is why I made ren a Wolf since I love wolves and floofy tails lol ^^ however I only just joined the fandom in its full meaning with the completion of my first fursona resently and I've only been in the community for like 2 years ^^;;;;;;;;
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Post by: darryldemented on November 22, 2011, 03:41:54 PM
ive had multiple friends who are furrys even a few potential bfs. ive liked furries for a while
then in october my friend alex who is a furry gave me a whole lecture on furries and broke everything down from types of characters to yiff and fursuits. afterwards i decided i liked it
even more and should give it a try. so here i am.
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Post by: Shadis on November 24, 2011, 06:01:13 AM
Fasinating, welcome to the group darryldemented!  :)
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Post by: Sne on November 26, 2011, 06:11:51 PM
Therian - always. Furry - just a need for peers.
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Post by: Sly_the_Skunk on November 26, 2011, 11:44:53 PM
i always loved skunks so much when i was little especially pepe le pew :p   about 5 years ago someone had drawn an anthro skunk for me but i didn't know what it was so when i got a computer (about 3 years ago) i started looking at more pictures like that and loved them so much and then started learning more about these pictures and then a few months ago i found this website and decided to join ^^
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Post by: Olayer77 on November 29, 2011, 01:54:16 AM
Hi everyone i'm new. I became a furry after realizing that everything furry was an interest of mine. I have always loved animals but that really took off after I started reading the warriors series. The whole anthropomorphic thing started interesting me just recently.
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Post by: Aruna on December 05, 2011, 06:43:53 PM
my husband was admin on a furry board and he brought me there.. i am a furry for almost 5 or 6 years now.. i'm not sure anymore lol! XP
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Post by: Shadis on December 05, 2011, 10:34:35 PM
ha, time flies when your haveing fun I guess  :3
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Post by: Aruna on December 06, 2011, 06:41:30 PM
yay, so true!!  ^_^
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Post by: Jinx Leven on December 16, 2011, 12:51:48 AM
well ever since the begining of 7th grade i have been looking for a hobby so i looked at costuming and saw fursuits and i thought they were cool and i was hooked and i also liked to play sonic and pokemon
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Post by: Shadis on December 16, 2011, 03:20:04 AM
Sounds reasonable. Welcome to the gang bro!  :)
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Post by: Iredora on December 18, 2011, 09:38:10 AM
How did I become a furry?

Well.. first off, I've always been fond of animals and was rarely ever without a pet cat growing up.
When watching movies or shows when I was little, I would always be more in favor for the ones with animals. (The Rescuers, Rock-a-Doodle, Robin Hood, The Great Mouse Detective, The Lion King, Talespin, Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers (<3), Quack Pack, Goof Troop, Cats Don't Dance, etc)
I guess my realization of liking such cute creatures came when I first saw Cats Don't Dance. I was 10 at the time and thought of how neat they were.
I never really thought of actually looking into furries until about five years ago when my bf (now fiance) told me that he liked furries. Since then my liking and awareness of furries have grown. I feel if it wasn't for him, I don't think I would have cared for them so much now. 
So, up until a few days ago I never really thought of browsing around for a furry community.. so far.. I'm glad I did. ^_^

edit: .. can't forget Gummi Bears, Darkwing Duck, and Gargoyles ;D
 
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Post by: Shadis on December 19, 2011, 12:23:02 AM
Thats pretty awesome Iredora! Movies are often good at getting others interested in these sorts of things, and boyfriends  X3  Welcome to The Furry Forums!  :)
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Post by: taka on December 19, 2011, 09:07:21 AM
I have to say my friend opened my eyes ive always been more conected , felt more animalistic,but was a closet furry because of csi episode .ive always loved thunder cats ,loonie toons ,duck tails and many more,the art and now  im like nuts for it to really be apart of my life.ive ran on all fours as a teenager .never been kinected to this human body.i have almost always  disliked the human race and  what its become .SO out of the closet  i am.
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Post by: Shadis on December 20, 2011, 02:12:33 AM
Thats awesome!  :D  Are you perchance, also a therian?  :?
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Post by: taka on December 20, 2011, 02:44:47 AM
Thats awesome!  :D  Are you perchance, also a therian?  :?


Yes : Therian/ Therianthropy...........among other things ..  >.>
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Post by: Shadis on December 20, 2011, 02:48:43 AM
Awesomeness!!!  :D  You are well welcomed here friend!  :)
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Post by: Kaya on December 20, 2011, 02:51:26 AM
well my ex-boyfriend got me into the ffandom its self my freshman year of HS and by the end of that first month i was a furry. :)
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Post by: Shadis on December 20, 2011, 03:08:32 AM
Your not a new member, get out of here!  :P ;)
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Post by: Kaya on December 20, 2011, 03:10:58 AM
;) i know i was just sharin! lul.
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Post by: Shadis on December 20, 2011, 03:35:37 AM
lol, jk  :P  Your story is nice too  :)
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Post by: Alison Marie on December 21, 2011, 02:34:50 PM
I love hearing the stories of how people became furry!
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Post by: Shadis on December 21, 2011, 03:46:35 PM
Me too!  :3
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Post by: darryldemented on December 22, 2011, 03:04:33 AM
Thats awesome!  :D  Are you perchance, also a therian?  :?

whats a therian XD
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Post by: taka on December 22, 2011, 05:08:03 AM
Thats awesome!  :D  Are you perchance, also a therian?  :?

whats a therian XD
  look on main forum page for a section named friends of fuurries ... im actually therian and furry among other things
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Post by: Puncia on December 22, 2011, 08:09:39 PM
Please stay on topic.
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Post by: Jared da Dingo on December 27, 2011, 12:22:25 AM
Lol i knew I was a furry at a very young age. When id play with my friends they would pretend to be their favorite characters from video games or tv shows (all fleshy of course) while id opt to take the role of someone like star fox or some anthro character i imagined up in my spare time X XD It didnt dawn on me until later that it would become a identity for me, like somekind of lifestyle. From my opinion i try and approach things as primal and  feral as i can and so far its worked out in my career and in relationships. Idk if its just me or if other furs out there find that their happiest when they live their fursona or not, but i digress. Further in life it took hold into certain attractions (oh snap) not a beast but im sure you know what i mean. which kinda made it embaressing to claim the furry banner. however I met the girl of my dreams and one day i came "out to her" if thats even the appropriate use for the word, I came out to her that im a furry, we started talking an she was so please to discover that I was she came out herself  ^_^ since then Ive been proud of who I am and my furdom, Im collared and so is my mate and we wear them proudly. We intend to attend regular furry gatherings in our area and will be attending AnthroCon in february if im not mistaken. So thats my story, as i read over it, it seems less profound and moving as I thought it would be but its nice to share XD have a greaet week friends. and never be ashamed of your fur XD
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Post by: Shadis on December 27, 2011, 02:11:55 AM
Very inspirationable! Well done sir!  :)
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Post by: Rasui on December 30, 2011, 02:02:28 AM
I'm not sure when i started to become a furry. But only in recent weeks have I been seeing the realization.
I love all the Walt Disney Movies with the animals like Lion king, Aristocats etc.
Then about 2002/2003 I started playing furcadia and i was either wolf or feline in it.
then started reading books with werewolves and spirital booking on animals meaings.
Then this year just few weeks back i have heard of furry and did some research an here i am today  XD
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Post by: Shadis on December 30, 2011, 05:54:00 AM
Ahh, we have a scholar amongst us!  :) 
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Post by: Rasui on December 30, 2011, 12:30:23 PM
a bit i guess  ^_^
Studing and researching was not my strong suit  XD
but All this interest my  XP
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Post by: Shadis on December 31, 2011, 07:44:26 AM
Their are different degrees, but never the less, Welcome!  :D
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Post by: Rasui on December 31, 2011, 02:49:24 PM
thanks you Wolf  ^_^
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Post by: Shadis on January 01, 2012, 01:14:27 AM
My pleasure Mr. Rasui
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Post by: Grisli on January 02, 2012, 02:34:09 AM
Every time I start to write this, I keep backspacing over it because I find each thing requires an explanation. So, forgive me if this ends up really long.


Growing up, my family wasn't the wealthiest, but my parents were incredibly intelligent. Situations didn't permit them both to attend college, so my father worked as a brick layer and my mom was a bartender. To supplement their income, they drew on their love of animals and started an exotic animals breeding business. My parents were the first in Pennsylvania licensed to breed and sell hedgehogs and sugar gliders. My dad became the herpetology (reptile science) expert for the Pittsburgh Zoo.


That said, from a very, very young age I've been exposed to every type of animal. I had dogs and cats, sure, but I've also had a mountain lion cub and baby alligators. From that age I learned to respect and love animals like people. The Animal Planet was the only daytime TV that I watched.


In elementary school, I only ever brought live animals for 'show and tell,' and I was known around as 'the kid with all the pets.' I was attached to my animals, no matter how big or small they were. I once cried for and buried a deceased pet hermit crab.


In high school, I joined the ASPCA and my little brother and I volunteered at a local humane society, cleaning up and playing with the dogs and cats. I strongly considered joining the Whale Wars group aboard the Steve Irwin the summer following my high school graduation.


In college, we aren't allowed to have pets, but that rule has never stopped me. Freshman year I raised a kitten I found outside after efforts to find its mother proved futile. Sophomore year I had fish and hermit crabs again.


The summer after my sophomore year (this past summer) I went through a really tough break up with my (now ex) girlfriend, and was really depressed. My dogs were the only living beings I felt could ever sincerely love me and spent my summer working as a writer (specializing in herpetology) for online services and hung out with my dogs a lot.


It also turned out to be the summer that Pittsburgh hosted Anthrocon. I didn't go, but it piqued my interest to say the least. I've gone off to Vienna to study but over break as I've had some downtime I started looking more into it and found your community here.


What draws me to the furry community is more the animal root than the human morphology, and I do love how friendly everyone here is. It also interests me greatly that I've discovered a new community to write about.

So yeah. That was really, really long. Sorry about that.
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Post by: Shadis on January 02, 2012, 05:49:28 AM
And it is a wonderful story at that  :)  Thank you for sharing Grisli, welcome to the furry forums!  :D
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Post by: Dirtcopter77 on January 03, 2012, 12:15:25 AM
Well, It started on other forums for me, the Tf2 SPUF and TerrariaOnline.

First, I'll explain the Tf2 side.
When I first bought the game, I hit the quick join button, sending me to a random server. The server info page contained the usual things; No spamming, no griefing, that sort of thing. But at the bottom was "No furry sprays". At this point, I didn't even know what Furries were. Eventually, I was consumed by curiosity and asked in chat "What are Furries?" I got a few "Do you live in a box?" type comments, but then someone told me it was just animals having sex. I kind of went "ick" and moved on.

Then I found the Tf2 SPUF.
Oh, the hatred of Furries there is overwhelming (You wouldn't blame them if you saw the Tf2 Furry community, but that's another story.). Anyway, I was recommended to a Furry server. I entered, and my eyes recoiled. Furry porn (and some non-furry) adorned every square inch of the map. Another ick moment. I left the server.

Of course, that's just how I got to know that Furries existed. The TO part is next.
Ah, TerrariaOnline. A nice small-ish forum with a core of friendly regulars. This section is a lot more positive. Several people on there have furry avatars, and myself being a regular, it was only a matter of time until I found one. I saw someone who's signature said "Thanks to [Name_I_Forgot] for making my fursona!"  Being the curious person I am, I googled Fursona and found out what it was. I thought "That's cool! I want a fursona!" So I drew myself a fursona of a Bearded Dragon, and went to Google Images to see what others' were like. I expected... (continued in next section)

The last section was getting kind of long, so here you go.
...to be assaulted by rows and rows of porn images, but I just saw images of people's fursonas. I was interested, and looked for some forums. I found them, and after lurking around here a few days as a guest, I finally decided to join and made myself an account here.

Wow that's a long post. :0
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Post by: Shadis on January 03, 2012, 12:31:16 AM
Hey, thats pretty awesome! Most people don't ever learn past the "Dark side" of Furryism, but Im glad you did! Welcome to the site, friend!  :)
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Post by: kittylord6776 on January 12, 2012, 01:47:39 AM
hi lets see i have been a furry or about 3 years my friend has got me addicted to being a furry so i made my person XD so much fun! i love being my furry (kamiea) so much!!! :D
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Post by: Sloth on January 17, 2012, 12:46:44 AM
Greek mythology.

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Post by: Leiton on January 17, 2012, 01:15:54 AM
The Redwall series of books. I've been a furry since I was 8  XD ^_^
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Post by: Shadis on January 17, 2012, 01:36:51 AM
thats awesome, all you you!  :D
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Post by: Square kittens on January 18, 2012, 05:52:42 AM
The elder scrolls, khajiit are sexy.
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Post by: Shadis on January 18, 2012, 05:56:05 AM
While I wouldn't use that exact word to describe them here, I must agree that the Khajiit are pretty awesome!
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Post by: AlphaSergal on January 28, 2012, 12:45:55 AM
I honestly can't remeber how it is a blank in my memory but i think it had something to do with digimon or something to do with furry creatures in it, idk :?
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Post by: Jyynx on January 28, 2012, 01:19:42 AM
Religious reasons... Long story short, if u don't express yourself (I e imma a half half werewolf) u go crazy... After a while I put on collar (today  ^_^  and I started to like it like an hour ago  :/ then yeah...
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Post by: Shadis on January 28, 2012, 04:21:56 AM
Lmao, thats an interesting reason  X3  Welcome, both of you!  :D
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Post by: Skittlez da Fox on January 28, 2012, 07:33:13 AM
It all started one day when I was wacthing 1000 ways to die
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Post by: Shadis on January 29, 2012, 12:22:24 AM
Go on  :)
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Post by: Icefire on January 30, 2012, 05:07:45 PM
I guess it was about the time i started practicing drawing. I had a friend who had the drawing book. it had tutorials on humans, cars, planes, background. etc.
I looked further into it, and I saw furries. So me and him started skecthing them out, whoch was really fun, and yet really hard.  That was the first time I saw a furry.
But after thinking about it, I started to llike on a different level, and soon i thought myself as one.  ^_^
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Post by: Shadis on January 31, 2012, 02:46:13 AM
Oh wow! That is awesome bro! Your drawings are really good too! I wish I could draw like that!  :D
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Post by: rice243 on February 04, 2012, 02:13:21 AM
ive always loved wolves...one day i had a dream of being one... ever since then i knew i was a furry  :)
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Post by: Shadis on February 04, 2012, 04:58:26 AM
Lucky. I wish I dreamt of wolves  :S  I just discovered my furryism when I read about it in geiness book of world records  X3
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Post by: Skittlez da Fox on February 04, 2012, 05:24:58 AM
Thank you Comcast for helping me! ^_^
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Post by: Starfighter Suicune on February 04, 2012, 07:46:46 AM
I always liked animals/mystical creatures more than humans. There were some happenings in my past, that made me dislike normal people and myself beeing merely human. The same was with some friends and my best friend I found on the internet.
When I started watching Pokémon, my first own female character appeared in my head. She basically looked like Ash and was a person, who could change between a human-like and a dragon shape. That was 1 or 2 years before we got internet. (so 11 1/2 or 12 1/2 years ago). I began daydreaming about her. Dreamed about adventures and such things in the pokémon world.
Now something that I'm not sure about it: I'm not sure if I changed her name and shape later or if I got the idea of a new female character. I don't know if she is the same person, because I'm not sure about the name. It's such a long time ago. I think it was around the time where we got internet.
But with the new character or the new shape of my first one named Yumio, I began dreaming about a new world. It's basically the earth how we know it, but some things are different. To long to explain.
Soon I invented a male character who looks like Supreme Kai (Kaioshin) with the name Neo. Years later a third character, who is supposed to be my alter ego named Ryuu. All my characters are shapshifter.
Within the past 7 years I began to love dragons and other creatures more and more. With the idea of my alter ego, meeting other furrys and surfing for furry-related things on the net during that time, I understood what I am. Someone who just refuses to be only human. Sometimes I just want to break out of my normal life, get wings and fly away. I just can't live like a nomal human does.
I think thats why I feel so free when I can run around in cosplays/fursuits on conventions. There are people who wish/pretend to be someone else, just like me.

Since I read another thread here, I think I'm a therian and not only a furry.
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Post by: Talos on February 06, 2012, 04:32:14 AM
Hey guys! My first post! Anyway, this is a good topic for me to start. I took an interest in anthromorphic animals when I got into Sonic The Hedgehog when I was 8. I got a cheap Sega Genesis Plug N Play with Sonic 2. Loved it. Creating my own fan character and pretending to be him made me a furry. A tiny bit of a furry, but a furry the same. Got into the Star Fox games. Krystal pushed me past that "sort of furry" line. Got into Digimon. Renamon sure didn't help either. XD I'm not complaining, though. Being furry is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It makes me feel special.
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Post by: felgreywolf on February 08, 2012, 11:29:12 PM
couldn't give you an answer. I've had an affinity for anthropomorphic cartoons and characters for as long as i can remember.


How did I recognize that I WAS a furry and that there was a label?Cliche as all heck.


Renamon. 'Nuff said.           
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Post by: Talos on February 09, 2012, 02:57:46 AM
Yep, agreed. Either Renamon or Krystal had the "big" influence. You have all the more reason to have Renamon turn you into a furry. She's tempting... XD and pretty hot. Dat body.... 8D
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Post by: AlphaSergal on February 09, 2012, 12:41:29 PM
Yep, agreed. Either Renamon or Krystal had the "big" influence. You have all the more reason to have Renamon turn you into a furry. She's tempting... XD and pretty hot. Dat body.... 8D

Damn right for a while i had a big crush on her and i had thousands of pics of her on my phone
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Post by: blinxis on February 11, 2012, 04:29:16 AM
I grew up watching cartoons with nothing but animals talking. I like the concept of it, so I stuck with it. I drew here and there, and a few months ago someone called me a "furry" and started laughing. I didn't know what that was, so I did some research. Turned out to be a community with the same interests. Didn't really "become" a furry. Just found out the meaning.
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Post by: echohusky05 on February 13, 2012, 03:50:11 AM
I heard the term in a youtube video. The video was not really against furries, just kinda poking fun at them. Anyway, I got curious what it was talking about, cause I had never heard about it before. After I learned about it, I realized I had been a furry at heart my whole life, but never really knew that it was a thing. Never really thought about it. That was sometime last fall, and I'm so glad it happened. Being human was so boring! (Barks, wags tail)
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Post by: Narf on February 29, 2012, 12:52:39 PM
Back in 2002 i made rough sketched about wolfs who could stand and weared clothes, they were living at the street, it was a dream i had. They looked like punk rockers. I kept looking also for furry images and such. Untill 2006 IMVU came out. I joined it and i got bored of it quickly... as a human. I changed in a zombie then but it bored me to, then i bought randomly a white tiger skin and here we are! 7 years later!
I met a furry friend because of someone on msn. He introduced me and we started to roleplay.
In 2010 he created a forum and it gotten succesfull, im still on that forum and i will always be. On that forum ive met artists who drawed my fursona because they said it was a cool one it had to be drawn! The first pic ever was based on a imvu pic i showed.
(my avatar on this site is now. But first it was rougher sketch.)
It got inked and thats how i got it. My fursona gotten drawn more times.
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Post by: Luke White-Heart on February 29, 2012, 02:41:33 PM
It was only recently. I had always been interested in anthro characters, though i had no idea why or even what a furry was. Disney movies were what i watched the most. A year or so ago, i found out my girlfriend (though she wasn't at the time) was a furry. So, i decided to check it out. And i instantly clicked. I finally felt right; i had found where i belonged, at home. And here i am now. X3
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Post by: MrRazot on March 05, 2012, 08:54:54 PM
There was this one children's tv program on cbeebies when I watched it. Can't remember what it was called but the theme was rather distinctive as "have a walk, in the wind, and the rain, and the sun" over and over. Cartoon about three foxes and the mischief they got up to :P
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Post by: Gabriel of creosha on March 06, 2012, 12:39:15 PM
I don't remember exactly how, but I first began  my way onto the furry fandom after I saw a page of a furry webcomic. I looked and searched for it, but never sucessfully found it. I did however find out more about the fandom over time. I eventually started writing stories about anthros, so at that point someone called me a furry, and I did more research on it. Soon after taht I found the comic, and joined it's forum. I think I've beena furry for.... 3-4 years now.
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Post by: MrRazot on March 09, 2012, 09:03:59 PM
just remembered that pokemon mystery dungeon red probably didn't really help either :P
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Post by: LeoSpice on March 15, 2012, 02:42:08 AM
Started to slowly become one while dating this girl she was one at the time, it was only a little while after we parted ways i became one.
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Post by: Khelan on March 16, 2012, 09:41:36 PM
My ex girlfriend showed it to me, and i guess i just got realy inspired. However I have allways felt a conection thowards animals in general. :D
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Post by: Animatrix on March 17, 2012, 10:38:36 AM
Hmm..I'm not sure XD

Well, I was on the Planet MineCraft forums, and I saw a furrie thread. At the time, I had no idea what it was, so I went on it~
I found a bustling, thriving hub of creativity, with animals/humanoids at its main focus. I loved it! After a while, I realised I didn't have a fursona! So, after a think, I came up with Felinpyre.
I was then introduced to this website, and voila! XD
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Post by: AlphaSergal on March 19, 2012, 05:12:49 PM
Still trying to remember  x_x
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Post by: Ozy on March 21, 2012, 06:29:38 PM
As far back as I can remember, I've been a furry. I remember watching Sonic the hedgehog cartoons when I was very little, and things like Tom and Jerry. I pretty much fell in love with foxes after I got my first glimpse at the sonic video game and I've stuck with the obsession of Sonic ever since. throughout the years, I played games like Banjo-Kazooie and Conkers Bad Fur Day all the way on up to Sly Cooper and Ratchet and Clank. (I highly reccommend Ratchet and Clank.) I also watched cartoons full of anthropomorphic characters. At Halloween every year, my mother would find me a fox costume to wear. She was actually the first one to call me a furry when I was very young. The funny thing was that she was one too. I also grew up surrounded by very sweet animals. So in a way, I've pretty much been a furry all my life. Now that I have the money to do it, I'm getting myself a fur suit and if you see this Terra Moon thank you for going through the suit process with me.
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Post by: RainRyuu on March 25, 2012, 03:38:27 AM
I've just always loved dragons, its all i drew in school from middle up to college. Inside I always dreamed of being able to at least partialy be one, I tried to find a dragon tail that I could wear but they were very expensive, so I resorted to a fox tail. Ever since i've been hooked.
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Post by: Nikolai the Lynx on March 28, 2012, 07:36:45 PM
I like anime and was looking at art, I saw some furry art and loved it. I not too long ago met a fellow Furry who inspired me to join in. Then we found this site.
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Post by: Tika on April 01, 2012, 09:27:50 PM
well i guess i've been 1 since i have memory  :)
when i was like 7 or 8 months old my mom sister and me when to a toy store and when we passed through cuddle aisle i turned crazy when i saw a small wolf on 1 of the shelves..u know the crying kicking stuff babies do..mom told me that  :P
i also loved wolves since i got memory (when i was 2 or so and some1 asked me what was my favorite animal i always said "wuuf"  ^_^ ), i also always felt somehow different from other ppl..although i denied it til a couple of days ago i always i felt that way  :P
 
I always felt i was a wolf...sometime ago i was checking on internet about wolf/human art (anthro) and i really liked the draws i saw that time  ^_^ 
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Post by: Draco Vertolgr on April 01, 2012, 10:00:14 PM
I have been a furry since I was young not exactly sure on age but I would love to dress up like a wolf it was always so fun, when I got older I couldnt grow out of it so It ended up becoming a secret that I wanted to be a mix of a wolf and human (anthro)  Then a while ago I overheard my brother talking to my step brother about furries and for some reason my ear was raised so I listend on to only find out out the way he was describing them sounded just like me, my tail started wagging to find out that there are other people like me then he started to call them weird and "what the hell is wrong with weirdos like that" so my heart stoped and I died a little, so that also brings into why I wont be open about it untill Im in a relationship with another fur
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Post by: Aeon Firebrand on April 11, 2012, 11:40:32 AM
Believe it or not, I first learned of this from a comment on Cracked.com

I applied google after that and here we are :P.
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Post by: Slide_Jerboa on April 24, 2012, 04:51:31 PM
I'm not exactly sure when or how my involvement in the fandom originally came about. I know that I was always obsessed with animal cartoons/anthros (Biker Mice From Mars did that one for me). In some old sketchbooks, I drew my very first "fursona" if you will, although at the time I didn't know it had a name.


My actual involvement spiked last year after I stumbled upon FanBoy Confessionals one evening. I kind of tilted my head and went, "screw it. I know I'm a furry, and I want to meet others like me." So I began my search, and joined tons of furry forums (mostly local ones). I've met so many amazing people so far! It was the best decision I've ever made.
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Post by: Oxvy on April 25, 2012, 06:29:43 PM
I love to hug. And at an early age I quickly found out how awesome it is to hug furry creatures :). Though at the time I had never heard of a furry community. As I grew older I found both awesome furry's, and yiff... I loved the whole idea of furry's, but didn't realy love the yiff part. I ofc. now know that is a pretty seperate community.

But I have always been on the edge of looking for a community. And at some point someone dragged me into it. I have not regret it since.
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Post by: Astor Corbin on April 27, 2012, 08:09:39 AM
I got dragged here by Nikolai, it's not an interesting story...
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Post by: kivabunny on April 29, 2012, 12:34:52 AM
TELL IT!!!!
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Post by: Nikolai the Lynx on April 29, 2012, 01:20:19 AM
I dragged no one.
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Post by: Cephalotes on April 30, 2012, 08:54:22 PM
Sonic games and general liking of nature. Told about the site proper by my brother.
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Post by: Vicpirona on May 08, 2012, 08:22:55 PM
When I was 7 years old, watching Tom and Jerry, and playing Crash bandicoot, I loved to think and imagine myself in an animal body (Anthro), was so funny and entertaining haha xD, until later, I began to look about it and saw that i was not the only. And, the art! I love drawing,! one of the other reasons I joined was because of the art  XP
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Post by: Nadya_de_Lune on May 09, 2012, 06:40:04 PM
Hmm, I guess It has always been inside of me. I've always loved animals and have spent many hours chatting it up with all sorts. (Even though they couldn't talk back.) I remember seeing something about it on TV and since then it has been engraved in my head. But everyone around me that was watching the show made so many nasty comments about it, I just went along with it. Recently though, I was online secretly looking at it all and oooing and ahhhing over it. Then I realized i'm not the only one, and that its okay. And I felt such a big weight come off me. Then I got to work on creating my fursona.

The funny part is...I've been living a alternative lifestyle for years..and I hear everyone say I've always been like this or always knew...I've never felt that way. But when I said I was a furry...I can 100% honestly say...when I think back...I've always been a furry. And I couldn't be happier.
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Post by: voiced otter on June 09, 2012, 10:43:15 PM
Myself. I guess I have always had the seed of being one, but until about 2 years back it was pretty dormant. I just realized I have been one of two years (approx) a couple months back. Two years ago was when I started writing, and collaborating with a friend about a large multiverse spanning fiction.

I guess the seed though has been there from when I first played games with my cousin(using our imagination) where we had powers to become things from different types, always having at least 2 animals, I never really let that part of my mind slide away and it has just come back recently.
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Post by: Døvu on June 09, 2012, 11:49:49 PM
thats funny voiced otter. I used to do the same thing with my cousin when I was tiny. We would pretend we were animals and just spend all day crawling around. a good memory actually, glad ive held onto it
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Post by: voiced otter on June 10, 2012, 12:35:36 AM
Mine was from when I was around 7, but the seed was probably always there.
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Post by: Nick/Sebastian on June 14, 2012, 08:54:06 PM
Well, I have always found a liking to anthros since I was little, I just never really knew other people liked it. I was always into that kind of stuff, I loved Brian Jaques books, I like making drawings of them and playing video games that had them. I always just thought I was a weird kid that nobody would understand. Then like a year ago I beleive I found out what a furry was and looked around I thought "Hey I one of those" and so I lurked around, found this forum, and here I am.
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Post by: FurryJunky on June 17, 2012, 01:29:23 AM
This is a hard question to answer, I gave a short answer in my introduction if you want to read that one but ill try and make this as in-deff as possible.
I watch tv lik others, talk to friends and such,the normal. There is this one girl I have known for four years now and she is heavy in anime and art. She would come to lunch every day with her drawing pad and one day I asked to see her art, so she does and I see all the pictures she drew.(nekos mostly)
This got me interested so I ask about it and she says she watches anime, I ask what show, She offers I watch Spice and Wolf. Being a good friend even through the doubt I look on TV and YouTube and start watching it. As im a few episdes in I cant help but be attracted to Holo(Fox Neko in Spice and Wolf) As I keep watching there where parts of the show that had above waist nudity witch im not gon lie, was arousing. So being said that is where my interests's peaked. After that it was all UP hill from there. ^_^  I haven told anyone of my interests and im not sure what they will all think, so I decided to join a forum to talk about thies kinds of things wih other people who will share my feelings and not shun me, kinda like.
 
 ALL YOU PEOPLE! :D ^_^
 
And just recentely I think i became a broney, but thats another story for another time, ill tell but not right now. Still iffy on my own feeling about it >.<
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Post by: ChaosWulf on June 17, 2012, 03:52:23 AM
What a great friend FurryJunky.
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Post by: FurryJunky on June 17, 2012, 03:54:48 AM
Oh ya ^_^
Whenever I venture outside of my closet im going to tell her...
Someday...
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Post by: Lady Kleur on June 21, 2012, 10:38:10 PM
Ever since the third grade, I can remember being absolutely obsessed with large canines, especially wolves. I drew them non stop, and when I would get together with the younger kids, we would act like animals x3 Eventually, the other kids grew out of these games, yet I never did. I couldn't stop wanting to act goofy like that and play around. Of course, to remain "normal", I would suppress those urges. I kept drawing and writing about wolves, and I still do to this day. I would RP animals online, and make wolf masks, and all that fun stuff.

One day, my uncle 'caught' me drawing a wolf. "Oh, you're going to be a furry one day." I had heard about furries before, but mainly the bad side of the fandom, so naturally I denied it. Then I got into this online site with fantasy wolves and all that, and it just slowly developed. I don't remember the actual point where I knew I was furry because it just gradually happened. But here I am now :) I've been furry for about...a year? Maybe a bit more. But now I'm actually seeking out people with the same interests as I and building a fursuit of my fursona :) Fun stuff!

Long block of text. Sorry xD
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Post by: Pawpsi on June 26, 2012, 09:57:58 AM
When i was a kid and my friends and i would play house, the kids always wanted me to be the baby cuz i was always so little, but i always wanted to be  a monkey lol, but they would say "nobody has a pet monkey!" so then i would compromise with a "monkeydog."


anyway i've always been drawing. so through elementary school i was drawing snakes and dinosaurs, then i escalated to dogs, and they had personalities and i named them. then i drew a dog and a cat standing up and wearing clothes.



And then somehow i came across something called "Furcadia." i know someone else here mentioned it. it was so exciting. i played it for years. I think i was about 12 when i discovered it. I was totally obsessed about drawing my furcadia fursona.


Then i played IMVU as one of those weird furry human things.


FINALLY i discovered Second Life. I've been playing that for the last 3.5 years or so. I didn't stay human for long xD. Then my mate Switch really made me super keen to my fur side, so that's pretty much solidified it!


Over the years i've discovered that i'm not only a canine, but i'm really a domestic pet. i always said i was a wolf, but i've begun the process of learning what my identity really is.
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Post by: CalTheFox on July 02, 2012, 10:53:34 PM
I'd knew about it all for a while and liked it, never thought of it too much. Until a week or so ago I got my old PS3 out and played with old friends, one was now obviously a furry (I didn't know what a furry was last time I played on PS3), in the game (LittleBigPlanet) he had created a LOT of furry art . So I asked him if he was one, he got all offensive until I told him I'm not sure if I'm one too. So that went well. Now recently I've been thinking about it and found myself passionate (not sexually) about it. Found myself being a fox, not sure what kind yet though....  ^_^

But I seriously don't know how to tell my parents, they don't even know a Furry is :o ! My brother will be easier to tell, he's open minded, he thinks it's weird but won't judge overly :| .

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Post by: Sly_the_Skunk on July 03, 2012, 05:18:49 AM
i personally found it easier to not tell any family that way i wouldnt have to go through the trouble of explaining things :p but if u really wanna tell them maybe have them read the FAQ part that says 'what is a furry' good luck
I'd knew about it all for a while and liked it, never thought of it too much. Until a week or so ago I got my old PS3 out and played with old friends, one was now obviously a furry (I didn't know what a furry was last time I played on PS3), in the game (LittleBigPlanet) he had created a LOT of furry art . So I asked him if he was one, he got all offensive until I told him I'm not sure if I'm one too. So that went well. Now recently I've been thinking about it and found myself passionate (not sexually) about it. Found myself being a fox, not sure what kind yet though....  ^_^

But I seriously don't know how to tell my parents, they don't even know a Furry is :o ! My brother will be easier to tell, he's open minded, he thinks it's weird but won't judge overly :| .
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Post by: voiced otter on July 03, 2012, 06:16:12 AM
i personally found it easier to not tell any family that way i wouldnt have to go through the trouble of explaining things :p but if u really wanna tell them maybe have them read the FAQ part that says 'what is a furry' good luck
I'd knew about it all for a while and liked it, never thought of it too much. Until a week or so ago I got my old PS3 out and played with old friends, one was now obviously a furry (I didn't know what a furry was last time I played on PS3), in the game (LittleBigPlanet) he had created a LOT of furry art . So I asked him if he was one, he got all offensive until I told him I'm not sure if I'm one too. So that went well. Now recently I've been thinking about it and found myself passionate (not sexually) about it. Found myself being a fox, not sure what kind yet though....  ^_^

But I seriously don't know how to tell my parents, they don't even know a Furry is :o ! My brother will be easier to tell, he's open minded, he thinks it's weird but won't judge overly :| .


Good luck. I myself am also planning on telling my parents, mainly as I wish to go to the NZ con and well they will want to know what it is about.


But yea. As to keep this more on topic, I thought back and found that there was more to how I became one than I thought. It also comes from my reading of a couple of online web stories, and that I was originally going to write a fan story for one of them, but after thought I changed it to my own story.
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Post by: AlmarRaccoon on July 09, 2012, 10:47:16 PM
When I was 2 I was addicted to Sonic and always wanted to be tails. Later I discovered Sly Cooper the Raccoon and was addicted to that. Then it was StarFox. I thought I just had emotional ties to the video games but I later found out on July 4th 2012 that It was the characters not the video games. I heard about other furries while listening to the RoosterTeeth podcast.
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Post by: Beatnory on July 11, 2012, 04:17:05 PM
A few moths ago we got a school assignment. We had to draw our perfect partner.
So I did that and I made a girl with two ears and a tail. After that I hear the word “furry” from some classmates. (Now I'm famous about linking furrys).
after that I become a member of this forum.
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Post by: KittehChibs on July 13, 2012, 03:44:10 AM
 Hmmm... growing up I always had an affinity for animals more than people. During our games of make believe and childhood games, I would always pretend to be some sort of animal. Usually a feline, or a horse. Once in awhile a fox. x3 I loved games and movies with anthros.


Fast forward to the age 16-17 I began to enjoy online chatting and always acted out feline characteristics, and my RP characters were either anthros, or shape shifters. I developed additional fursonas, a cow, a wolf, a male feline, a dragon, and my latest is a MLP OC.


I was slow to take to my furrieness offline due to family and my career, but eventually I became comfortable with wearing ears and tail in public, mewling, the usual. And with my mate beside me I am much more at peace with being little ol kitteh me! n_n
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Post by: Zae on July 14, 2012, 05:58:51 AM
It was in grade 8 that I discovered the fandom. If it weren't for school, I wouldn't have discovered the fandom or even be here now. In grade 8 social studies, we were to pick a group/fandom etc and do research on it. Well, I found a list of things on wikipedia, and I saw Furry fandom! I thought the name was interesting, so I clicked it, and you know how.... horrible the wiki page is for the fandom. ._. Anyways, I saw all the bull on there, but thought that there must be more to the fandom than this crap this page is telling me. But, at this time I was weary to search more on the fandom at school because of what I had saw... So, after I finished the project and presented it to the class, I did more research at home. I found the fandom very interesting, and wanted to become a furry/scalie myself! So I started to work on my 'sona. c:

My original 'sona was a sea dragoness that was an ugly cyan and ORANGE combo. wut. It was... gross. But now I've improved a lot in my artsyness. My 'sona is drastically different now, but it's all good.


And that is how I became a furry!




School was useful for once! XD (I'm kidding, I actually like school. ;w; Except stupid kids there. >.-.>)
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Post by: Ruari on July 15, 2012, 01:54:09 AM
Weird story actually it started around a month ago when I googled left 4 dead on google images I was looking through them and found a left fur dead pic. I thought I was cool so I showed my friends and one of them told me that it was furry art. So I got interested in it and googled it and that's how I became the president...... I mean a furry :).
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Post by: Riku Aotsuki on July 31, 2012, 01:52:12 AM
I've been totally obsessed with cats, wolves, foxes, and dragons my whole life. I played games like StarFox64, Ratchet and Clank... but that wasn't what really DID IT. I got into fanfiction when I was a big Naruto fan, though I started disliking it about 100 episodes into Shippuden. Anyway, I was a big Kiba fan because of his animalistic nature. Months later, after I'd stopped reading fanfics, I saw an episode of SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron on the channel Boomerang. I went online, watched EVERY episode, and went back into fanfiction.  I made a great friend in the SK fandom and joined a forum. My original sona wasn't even a sona in name, more like a self to inject into that universe. However, one of the forum's mods had a quote in his signature that I assumed was from a song, so I googled it in curiosity, and found "The Furry Song 2009" by Kurrel the Raven. I listened closely, thought it was interesting, and suddenly found myself with accounts on anthrocon.org, sofurry.com, and a couple other sites. I got pulled in fast, since I'd been a furry and therian in everything but name ever since I was born.
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Post by: Lupi on August 02, 2012, 12:05:44 PM
I loved animals ever since I was a kid. Between the ages of 2 and 4 I was convinced that I was some type of dog. I've had over 16 pets in my 15 years of life, though only 3 atm. 1 Cat, 1 Jack Russell and 1 Carpet Python. This of course does not include my bee collection in Kindergarten, my ant collection in yr 2, my spider collection in yr 4 or my continuing lizard collection. In yr 5 I discovered anthros from a Sly Cooper game ad on TV, about a year later I found the game and became obsessed with it until High school.  In yr 8 (First yr of HS in AUS), I was browsing the net and began learning about furries. 6 monthes after that I was calling myself a closet furry.
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Post by: Hyper_Active_Pegasus on August 03, 2012, 01:28:43 AM
Ever since I as young I have a weird bond with animals. Dogs, cats, hamsters but especially our hoofed friends. I've always loved  horses. Especially the stockier built breeds. I played games where we were animals and as everyone grew up, I never stopped wanting to play. When I started to get older I started to draw anthro creatures but not a fursona. Recently, I was working on a request for a Clydesdale Stallion. He was the most beautiful thing I'd drawn. Then I stumbled across a photo of a palomino Gypsy Vanner mare, my heart floated, I started messing around with positions and then I decided she'd be a good anthro. After messing around for a while, She was perfect. I felt  real attachment to this beautiful mare. She looked my age, her eyes had my shine and how she held her self mimicked me. She was me.


I'd always been interested in the furry fandom, but only recently got involved and now, I feel amazing, I feel like this is the real me! and I love it!
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Post by: Shadow Kitsune on August 21, 2012, 03:13:13 AM
I always felt different than most people ever since i was young. I loved animals, and i loved caring for them and would get attached to them very quickly since i was young. I never knew anything about furries until i was in high school, i went to a pretty out of the norm school. I saw furries there and was fed false information at first and kind of thought it was weird. After we had a renaissance festival at our school and i had purchased a red fox tail, i was in love. i loved wearing it even if i got ridiculed by others, it felt so right to me like a part of me. after a while i stopped wearing it cuz i was embarrassed but i still randomly wear it not in college. The day i got my name though wasnt until college when i met my best friend/ master Reaper, a cat neko, he claimed me as his pet and called me Shadow fox because of my for tails. and thats my story! ^w^
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Post by: TheMysticMage on August 21, 2012, 05:43:03 PM
Interesting story Soph, that DOES sound pretty unique.

My story is.... well...I was always a big fan of Sonic the Hedgehog. I got into spriting at a very early age (around 9-ish), and made Sonic the Hedgehog sprite comics all the time in my 9-12 years, and even beyond that. I made all kinds of sprite comics even had my own little series called Eggman Adventures. I made comics of Sonic, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, all kinds of things. I learned about it by reading PsyGuy comics (IKR) and saw that he had his own little self-insert character...and I decided that I wanted to have my own little character. But me being 9, I wasn't the most sprite-savvy. I stumbled upon a glicthed sprite of Sonic, him being purple and having yellow shoes. I decided, "Why not!!!" and used it. Two years ater, I decided to take it a step further, and make it my own. I took a spritesheet of Sonic from Sonic 3, and having more sprite experience by now touched the sprites up. I made him purple, gave him a black shirt, gave him jeans, and made his shoes silver with a blue streak, and also gave him light green eyes.

It was.....perfect!!(IMO) I loved this little creation of mine, I felt attached to it and it felt so me......I later named him Mike, and drew all kinds of custom sprites for him and even his signature weapons (An Emerald sword and a Sapphire sword).

I later learned that this wasn't and uncommon thing, and found that people made all kinds of Sonic Characters form cats to dogs to foxes to hedgies. I got involved into that, and I absolutely loves anthros. Years after that, I learned of the furry fandom, and got involved into it.

So really...you could say I was a furry before I even knew what a furry was! X3
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Post by: Ozy on August 22, 2012, 06:57:26 PM
My story will probably be a lot different from anyone else's.
When I was young, I loved dogs. Like most children, I would pretend to be one, run around the house..When I was 10, I joined an online virtual world for all ages. On this site you could get "avatars", each avatar meant you could change your current form to another. Everyone started off as a human. Avatars were VERY rare and very expensive, up to 200,000 per avatar, depending on which it was.
I later gained a dog avatar, which looked like this:
Here's a screenshot:
(http://joeianxivio.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/angry-puff.jpg)
In this screenshot everyone had the angry expression on, I don't know why...and there's a robot on the end. ignore that.
The smaller dogs were called "Puff mini" avatars, and the bigger ones were "Puff bigheads"
I had a puff mini, and I was ALWAYS black and green. In early 2008 I had an online best friend on this website, who I lost contact with for about a year. We've now reunited, and on the website, when I met her again- she had been drawing people's avatars.
I asked her to draw mine, and here it is:
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/199/2/3/first_ever_picture_of_sopherz_by_sopherdoodlez-d40c0dg.jpg)
(I used to always hold a glowstick)
I asked to see some of her other draws and she linked me to her deviantART, from there I found out about the animation side of furry-ness. My "avatar" soon became my fursona, my character, and how I'd appear on every website. A black and green dog. And without realizing, I became a furry. Once I was a little more "advanced" in the furry world, I changed her markings, what she looked like, so on and so forth. She didn't have any markings before and there's animations of my fursona, Sopherz on youtube. Sopherz was my nickname, and is my nickname. Since MY avatar and I became my own fursona, she's named after me. She's the only one I'll ever have, and she really does, represent me  XP

Im actually not that different from you. Most of my furryness was projected through online games, chats, images and comics. I only told the short version but theres a lot longer of a story to be told with me because i recently came out of a really bad situation that lasted for about 12 years.
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Post by: AxelTheGreyWolf on August 26, 2012, 10:13:01 PM
Well, i have always loved dogs, especially huskies, German shepards and wolves but they weren't the reason why i became a furry. It happened recently a couple of months ago... I was very, very bored and i decided to watch some movies, then i ended up watching the pokemon movie about lucario and after that i just couldn't stop thinking about him (lucario) and i became obssesed with him drawing him, writting stories about him, etc. Then one day a real strange thing happened. I found a story on google linked to a furry site and i enter and there my furry self was born but like many i started with the dirty side, which word starts with the letter y... and now i'm here as Axel.
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Post by: Scout the Fox on October 08, 2012, 12:34:47 AM
About a year ago a certain friend of mine got me really deep into anime. After awhile, I noticed that some of the characters were based off of animals. That got me thinking. I started to realize that I had taken on some fox like animal characteristics. Another close friend started calling me a furry and of course I had no idea what that was. So he told me. I was a little shocked at first taking in the new information. So for that year I thought about what it would be like to be a fox furry. It wasn't only til a few weeks ago that I fully became a furry. Good discussion topic btw  ;)
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Post by: Kit Aalish on October 22, 2012, 04:16:43 PM
I think I've been a furry my whole life. I can remember when I was just getting into girls id dream more often of being "with" female chars like ms brigs from swat kats then actual women. I didn't turely realize what I was intill my freashman year of highschool when I found [removed] and practicaly fell in love with the art style. (Not so much the sexness of it but more so the humanoid animals part. Except for anything dealing with the fox champaign.) I've always really been into foxs so when I found out what I was really into that's how Kit came to be. Then a few yeas ago I had a friend who went to a furcon who when he came back told me that in the furry world id be a fox. That made me real happy. He's a ferret by the way.
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Post by: nixon/monto on November 03, 2012, 11:02:00 AM
i became furry by youtube believe it or not, i was looking up dubstep dancing and other dancing when i see "dance competion at anthrocon 2012"  i saw the costume and was curios so i wayched it and it was mangusu and it looked funny and then on one of the youtube videos it had "furry" on it i guess i just ignored it and kept watching them then my father saw one and thoyght it was cool/funny but he told a person at work and said they are sexual people, he told me and of corse i didnt believe him at first but guess what? i googled imaged it and saw the bad. and well me being a teen you can guess what i did. but i found a forum and then another and a nother and then i learn the good from uncle kage(on you tube)
and thats how
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Post by: AlmarRaccoon on November 04, 2012, 12:03:21 AM
Ooh, Mongusu is cool  :)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: nixon/monto on November 04, 2012, 08:11:47 PM
i like his costume with the monster symbol and that eye thing   :P XP :* o.O :) :D XD
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Post by: Lux-Nero on November 11, 2012, 10:18:13 PM
Hey everyone!

I'm a new member (I haven't been on this site for even a day lol), but anyway, I came to this fandom after August. You see, I am a young webcomic artist, and I have two webcomics. That being the case, I actually bought a booth at a small anime convention to sell my artwork. And I was a great success at it!

I managed to get a decent profit (after fixing out the costs of everything) and got me a little following of sorts (I wish I had a bigger following, but meh, what ya gonna do?). In any case, most of my profits came from commissions that I did for people, and wouldn't ya know it, a majority of my commissions were furry/animal/anthro related artwork, and got me a ton of my profit.

I got curious about the furry fandom since there were a lot of furries there in cosplay (mostly MLP, but they still count in my book). After research, I decided to give it a try, I came up with a story/artwork for a furry web comic (Paranormality if you guys are interested) and thus, I came here in hopes of finding others.
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Post by: nixon/monto on November 13, 2012, 11:42:26 PM
well you found others i mean the website does say *thefurryforum.* its kind of a big hint. jk. any way i would would love to read your comics if at all possible? :?  if its any thing close or far from *better days* i am sure i will love it  ^_^  i look forward to seeing you on here a lot and may i ask what state do you live in because me/myself lives in ohio.
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Post by: Lux-Nero on November 14, 2012, 12:17:19 AM
well you found others i mean the website does say *thefurryforum.* its kind of a big hint. jk. any way i would would love to read your comics if at all possible? :?  if its any thing close or far from *better days* i am sure i will love it  ^_^  i look forward to seeing you on here a lot and may i ask what state do you live in because me/myself lives in ohio.

lol, yes, I realize that, but -shrugs-.

As for my comics, sure! You can read them! In fact, I want people to read them! That's one of the reasons why I joined the forum, to find people with similar interests to read my comics, I love that!

So, I'll tell you how to find them!

They're both on Smackjeeves' website for comic hosting, and they go by the names: Vexing Gears
And Paranormality.

I go by Lux-Nero there as well.

And here's a little sample, a character from Paranormality - The black-footed weasel girl: Ashe!

(http://i662.photobucket.com/albums/uu347/AxelDH/Paranormality/-0AsheFlatcolor.jpg)
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Post by: nixon/monto on November 14, 2012, 12:22:05 AM
nice!! and i don't want to sound creepy but were do you live?  :? i might not have time to read them to day but tommorrow i will.
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Post by: Lux-Nero on November 14, 2012, 12:53:38 AM
I live in Bourbon Country, aka, Kentucky
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Post by: nixon/monto on November 14, 2012, 12:57:02 AM
dude you are the closest fur i talk to yet. i wish one lived down the street from me. :(
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Post by: Lux-Nero on November 14, 2012, 02:03:35 AM
dude you are the closest fur i talk to yet. i wish one lived down the street from me. :(

-shrugs- Cool to hear

Wish there was a fur con nearby. Although, ince there are at least four Animecons, I can pull that off...
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Post by: nixon/monto on November 15, 2012, 03:37:48 AM
well glad to hear that at least you can go to a con i have never been to one which i guess is a good thing? :? oh but when ever a morphicon event is happening we both can go. you have to make an account on their site but im sure its worth it cause they give their dates for every event. they had a picnic a couple of months ago and it was (from what i heard) a good turnout. but i no their sooo.
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Post by: Midnight Madness on November 15, 2012, 04:09:14 AM
Please stay on topic. You may continue the discussion via PM.
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Post by: Byracka on November 16, 2012, 09:42:25 PM
Drew furry comics since second grade. Basically copying storylines from the classic bond movies but replacing Bond with a pidgeon and the villains with ferrets, weasels, crows and wolves. Since then I've identified with the characteristics of alot of animals. I have known of the furry fandom through a friend for five years but never had to need to indulge myself in the community until very recently.



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Post by: Friday on November 16, 2012, 10:13:02 PM
I've been a furry for a while, but not really identified as it due to the general distaste some people have for the community. Then I realized, if people want to dislike me for enjoying something, they can go **** themselves. And now I'm here!
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Post by: Byracka on November 20, 2012, 07:07:56 PM
I've been a furry for a while, but not really identified as it due to the general distaste some people have for the community. Then I realized, if people want to dislike me for enjoying something, they can go **** themselves. And now I'm here!


Went through a similar turn of mind while walking in costume with another group. A bit later at night and just a couple of meters out from the convention center. People from the bars crouched over the curfew barfing out alcohol, of course yelling slander, cursewords or trying to be nifty as we walked by. Took offense at first, but then I though just as you Graal. 'Why would I want to impress those people, standing on their fours barely counscious?' And now we are both here.
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Post by: nixon/monto on November 20, 2012, 08:50:14 PM
you should have told those people that byracka.
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Post by: Byracka on November 20, 2012, 09:18:24 PM
Hah, that's the beauty of walking with a couple of short tempered girls. They were so fast with a response that we got the last word and gone away before they even realised they had been devastated. Though we never argued with anyone, they're drunk and could possibly be hostile. So when we were approached we never said more than a sentence and walked away.


But if anyone would come picking a more civil fight, then of course you'd have the time to explain your point of view.  ^_^
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Post by: Draco Vertolgr on November 27, 2012, 12:42:07 PM
during my childhood I loved starfox and anthros in general and stuff so I kinda always was one but at the time had the wrong idea of what a furry was. when I hit I think 13 my friend showed me what furrys rly were and here I am. Thats the short version I could fill a book if I had to XD
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Post by: nixon/monto on November 27, 2012, 11:46:59 PM
found it the same way. ^_^
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Post by: Lakra on December 01, 2012, 09:04:56 AM
Well, I've always had a thing for talking animals since I was a young pup. I loved any movie or tv show with talking animals. I would act like a cat all the time, even in public, which annoyed the crap outta my parents. I honestly had never even heard of a furry until about 6 months ago (and I'm 21!), but right when I heard about what it was it hit me like, "oh my god. That is totally and completely me!". Coming up with my fursona was really easy because I've always had a special bond with white tigers for as long as I can remember and I love the personality and family oriented nature of the wolves. I've been an official recognized furry for about 5 months and my parents still have no clue about it, but I've never been happier with who I am. :)
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Post by: Scout the Fox on December 02, 2012, 07:44:37 AM
Hahahaha! I like your attitude. And you use my same exact vocabulary...  XP .
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Post by: Lance Corpral J.Luther on December 04, 2012, 11:44:15 AM
Well Ive had a love of Animals as long as I could remeber, then I first heard of furries and how they were hated, I decided to look into it... Then It consumed me, that meaning behind it, just by looking at a furry you can tell much more about it then looking from a human's picture, As in the species known attutides and their facial exprestion, like a growl to a small grin, you can almost magnify their emotion, as in a human picture, you can mainly tell by facial expresstion, back round and colours used and that much of it, So I mashed together a massive machine piloted by a furry, and made Haze  ^_^
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Post by: Draco Vertolgr on December 04, 2012, 12:40:17 PM
awesome, and btw cool mech
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Post by: Lance Corpral J.Luther on December 04, 2012, 12:47:23 PM
awesome, and btw cool mech
Nice Avi :D
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Post by: Draco Vertolgr on December 04, 2012, 12:49:58 PM
thx, we should battle sometime XD
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Post by: Luna Sorrows on December 05, 2012, 12:00:16 AM
It started with me liking wolves, i got kinda obsessive with them, then i saw werewolves and i was just like, that is totally what i wanna be XD
then a few years ago a friend of mine (a furry) told me about the fandom, i was interested but i didnt really do anything with it. and about last year he told me about fursuits and furry conventions and fursona's, i was glued from there. I went on to join Faraffinity, and love the artwork there. I wanted to start using a forum, but the furaffinity one wouldnt let me post, so i looked for another and here i am.
 ^_^
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Post by: Duke on December 06, 2012, 02:14:56 AM
I remember i have always loved animals and was never allowed to have one, so i pretended to be the animal xD. In kindergarded the kids played 'House' all the time. I was always first to call dog. :p here i am years later and still a dog! Just an awesome feral wolf/fox(maybe otter? o_O drawing examples to see if it would fit X3)
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Post by: DragonMKV on December 12, 2012, 12:10:45 AM
It started a long time ago, yet I didn't know it at that time. I'm an avid (although sometimes horrible -_-) artist and whenever I start draw something random a certain black/gray dragon would always find its way in there. It took me a while to see that I was subconciously drawing my fursona...
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Post by: nixon/monto on December 15, 2012, 03:59:49 AM
(i have got to be 100% honest.) 2 years ago i was looking up vids of dubstep and i started clicking on other dances things and in one of the vids i clicked it because it had magusu the monster ru on it and at the time i had no clue who he was and it was dances compittion vids from anthrocon. so the more vids i watched a vid that said "furry" poped up( by the way hate the word.) so i started searching it on youtube and.... lets just ay i'm not happy with what i did... ya. any way i started watchen more vids of the "fandom" and i got really interested and to this day have not a clue why. i searched up forums and found this site which was my second. but i do love this one sense it's the only one i get on. And that's how.
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Post by: Duke on December 15, 2012, 04:30:27 AM
hehe i rubbed on my best friend and now hes starting to become a furry xD theres his story if he gets involved more :U
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Post by: nixon/monto on December 15, 2012, 01:44:40 PM
my whole family are secret furries they just don't relize it yet. and probably never will. they watch all shows with animals. my dad wears big dog shirts and hats.
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Post by: MrRazot on December 15, 2012, 08:33:10 PM
Quite simply
Hitman: Bloodmoney, the level with the bird cosumes
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Post by: NovaAurora on December 15, 2012, 09:30:01 PM
I finally remembered the exact progression of what happened after not being able to recall for months.  XD


It was briefly after I read a sci-fi short story, in which these two space dragons made love to each other. I... started looking some stuff up online... and I saw references to "reptile furries" and "scalies." So I thought, huh, I've heard of these things, might as well investigate. So I started looking around, became intrigued, and after reading more about furries and the fandom in general something just clicked in my head. All of a sudden so many things that I had thought about and was interested in made sense, like just the previous night I had dreamed about being a wolf. So that's how it started, and soon after I found the forum and have had a great time ever since.  :)
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Post by: nixon/monto on December 16, 2012, 02:13:51 AM
i don't want to sound weird or anything......but.(what..was..it..you..saw?) x_x
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Post by: NovaAurora on December 16, 2012, 02:19:11 AM
Well, why don't you google some stuff and find out.  :P
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Post by: Inside The Fire on December 16, 2012, 10:13:58 PM
My father would be horrified to know that he turned me into a furry. He bought me a book on dragons back whenever I was six that depicted dragons in such a human manner I went to look them up more extensively.


Now 12 years later, here I am.
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Post by: obanoth on December 19, 2012, 09:31:47 PM
I have always LOVED animals. But, a few years ago at a Boy Scout Camp, they had a (domestic) wolf come in, with it's trainer. It came over to me, I started petting it, then it looked directly at my eyes for like... 3 or 4 seconds. Those eyes looked friendly, and wise. But, looked like they could turn wild in a second, should someone try and harm it. I litterally felt as it was looking into my soul. Then, it licked me on the cheek, and walked away.

Before then, I always thought animals were just dumb animals... though I did like them. But, after that experience, I reali9zed how smart they were. It was then I guess I came a furry... in the sense that I felt more connected with animals then I did with humans.

But, it wasn't until the last year or so that I found out that there was an actual fandom. And week ago, I decided to officially join the fandom xD
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Post by: Aakosir on December 27, 2012, 02:58:10 AM
I've really been a furry my entire life, but discovered the community a few years ago. When I was young I always felt a connection with my pets. They weren't pets, more like companions. Even now with my cat I do not like to call her a pet. She's my familiar.  It was not until middle school that I started to really get in touch with my inner animal though. I found a few animal roleplaying sites and chats and really enjoyed them. Those were where I learned about furries and therians. So yea, I've been a furry my whole life and realized I am also a therian.
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Post by: FinnishTokala on December 30, 2012, 09:59:31 PM
I have always adored animals, all kinds of them actually. But more than anything, I've always loved werewolves. I stumbled upon the furry fandom when I around 14-15 years old, when I found TaniDaReal in deviantart and fell in love with the anthro art she was creating. From that point onwards, I started finding more and more about the fandom. And here I am now.
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Post by: LeafTheSwift on December 31, 2012, 05:21:31 PM
I always loved animals and would always play like we were animals with my friends. Then when i really started top use the internet i just kinda found this place and thought it was the coolest thing. So i checked it out and here i am now.
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Post by: AkiraGlitterGloss on January 01, 2013, 04:55:52 AM
Well, when I was 7 or 8 I was very much an active member of a random forum (I can't remember exactly.) due to the fact that a lot of the people on there were interesting and, like me, were extremely interested in werewolves. While they also helped me out with realising I was a therian (can't word it right. It's 4:40am here.) they also introduced me to anthro animals as a whole. We would role play very much like people do on here, our characters being our animals (Mine ended up becoming my fursona to an extent.) and we generally enjoyed it.
We eventually moved forums because the old forum severely disliked therians for some reason and moved to our own private site. This was where I first heard the word furry when my friend blamed furries for all the bad publicity(?) that therians were getting at the time so obviously I tried to stay away from the fandom as a whole for a while as I had been told that furries were terrible (Her words, not mine.) and things of that nature.

3 or 4 years later, I'd lost contact with most of my therian friends and missed them. I logged onto our old site to find that everyone was pretty much gone. This saddened me deeply and so I tried to forget about my theriantropy as a whole and try to become what I deemed "normal". (Which didn't work, considering I eventually came out as gay and that messed my plan of being considered "normal" by my classmates up considerably.)
Even later than that, a year or two later I think, I had become even more interested in anthro animals again and eventually found the furry community via YouTube if I remember rightly. After looking around for a while on the general Internet, I had completely disproved my friend's opinion. I eventually joined the fandom shortly after that and then it was now.

Sorry for the ridiculously long post that I'm assuming most of you are gonna react with "tl;dr." To some extent.
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Post by: Volo Quack on January 03, 2013, 12:01:19 PM
Well, my friend, that is a long story. At least two sentences worth.

It all started with one of my friends, as some stories do. This friend was quite anti-furry, and still is, kind of. He showed me and some of my other friends some bits of art and said something along the lines of "Isn't this weird?" We disagreed. I looked into the fandom, and found another fur at college. Needless to say we became friends. Then he left, and so did my other furry friends, and I was the only one in the entire college. So I began looking for forums on the internet and found Furrypile. It seemed nice, so I registered and had a great time. I'm still on there as Sohndann if you want to find me.

Anyway, a year on, I found this place, and love every second of it. Oh, and in all this time, I was struggling with what to make my 'sona, but I eventually settled on something, and here I am.
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Post by: forrestroll on January 07, 2013, 08:33:24 PM
Well I myself have been interested in animals and anthro since as long as I can remember, a couple years ago I discovered the furry fandom and started creating fursonas and such. I really like it, most people in the fandom are really nice and accepting, it's got a nice "family" feel to it. I've just recently started becoming more active in it. Furry's a lot of fun.  ^_^
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Post by: Nobi on January 09, 2013, 06:34:20 AM
For the majority of my life, I've found myself drawn to non-human characters. I started playing Dungeons and Dragons in elementary school, and I was constantly making lizardfolk and werecat and dragonkin characters. When I first played The Elder Scrolls, my first character was an Argonian. My second was a Khajiit. In truth, I've never played as any of the other races in either Oblivion or Skyrim.


When it comes to the furry fandom, I've known about it since my teens, but haven't really delved much into it until now. I would always see furry artwork on the internet, and I always thought it was cool and interesting. Every now and then, the thought would cross my mind: "I could probably get into that..."


My first big exposure to the furry community was when I discovered Renard and his music (http://www.lapfoxtrax.com). I've always loved electronic, so I was instantly drawn to his work, which now dominates my iTunes library. I grew familiar with each of his fursonas, listening as each one evolved in his/her style. I've spoken with him several times online, and I've even gotten the opportunity to participate in the production process of one of his songs (I'm part of the guest choir on "Wanderlust" by The Quick Brown Fox).


It was only very recently that I began to identify myself as a furry. I think the process truly picked up steam when I was shopping online for a christmas gift for my mate. I was specifically looking for one of those hats with animal faces on them—an owl, in particular. I knew it would remind her of me, since they're my favorite birds, and I've been known to post owl-like emoticons very often. (•,•) Anyway, as I was shopping, I saw in the related items a picture of a fox-eared hat. Intrigued, I clicked on it, and found a plethora of eared hats made by the same person. There were foxes, cats, dogs, wolves, etc. After searching through them, I became torn between the red fox hat, and a grey wolf one. I sent the pictures to a friend of mine, asking her which one she thought I should get. She said quite confidently that I seemed much more fox-like to her than wolf-like. Her reasoning was that I valued cunning over strength or aggression; that I was more the type to hold back, observe, and outwit than the type to use force and aggression. I couldn't argue with her; upon a brief introspection I found that everything she said was absolutely true. So I added the fox hat to my order along with my mate's owl hat.


I was ecstatic when it arrived. I wore it throughout the entirety of the following day, even though the weather wasn't quite cold enough for it. I got strange looks from other students at my university, but I didn't care. I was enjoying myself far too much.


That night, I was walking across campus after a rather long study session. I came to a lonelier area of the school grounds when I saw somebody pull up and park. There was nobody else around, and I suddenly felt like not being noticed. I ducked down behind a small hill, and furtively watched as the person got out of their car and started walking toward one of the dorms. All this while I was still wearing my fox ears. To put it simply, I felt like a fox. It was a different feeling, but a good one nonetheless.


Several days later, I was contemplating what I might look like if I was an anthro fox. After much deliberation, I finally got out an old piece of notebook paper and a pencil, and sketched out the fursona you see in my avatar. It was at that point that I finally decided that I was a furry. After that, I began chatting with other furries on Omegle, hoping to dip my feet into the waters of the fandom. I met many a friendly fur there, but I didn't feel like I was building any significant friendships with any of them. So today I decided to finally venture into the realm of this forum.


A furry I most certainly am.
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Post by: Miss Pinky on January 09, 2013, 01:08:09 PM
Well, I have always liked Disney movies and stuff. Then when I was about 10 years old I fell for a certain anthro character (see my avatar), became obsessed, then when I became a teen I started visiting furry sites and it all went from there...
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Post by: Kid Blaze on February 10, 2013, 03:47:39 AM
My story is quite long but its rather simple. In summary I was a Pokemon fan (still am) and I had a friend named Scarlet. He made avatars of anthro-Pokemon and I asked him what they were. He replied they were furries and taught me all about them. Now I am a full fledged Furry all thanks to Scarlet Flame.
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Post by: JYNXthefox on February 10, 2013, 06:43:27 PM
i dont know really i'll tell all these stories saing this or that but as far as i remember ive been a fur dont know how or when it started.
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Post by: Kio on February 10, 2013, 09:27:07 PM
So I suppose I'm a furry now :3


I don't know exactly when I first heard of furries, but I'm therian/otherkin, apparently so I think this attracts me to it quite a lot.
I've always preferred non-human characters in cartoons, games and animation, plus talking (and some non-talking, as well, but I don't see many films exactly oriented around that) animals in live action film if it fits the film's story, of course. I also used to occasionally collect stuff like dragons, don't even know where most of that stuff went, or may be I was dreaming a bit of how much I had.


I started browsing more different sites by the age of 15, so I think I started to discover things like fan art of the animations, sparkledogs, comics that I now hear is furry, furry art in general (also those endless old werewolf vs vampire debates, I wouldn't call furry but I found attention to it).
I'm also an animal lover in general, from about the age of 12 and up, my parents obtained a fair range of different species, like a chameleon (RIP), corn snakes (RIP 2/3, the 3rd went wild :P), chinchillas (RIP), bearded dragon, african grey (RIP, early death, asthma causes, apparently, it's odd because usually it's the humans that get asthma from the birds not the other way around...), finches/canaries/budgies/love-birds/cockatiel/budgies (RIP), 3 x persian cats, golden retriever (more closer to yellowish-white) and uhm... a Chilean rose tarantula (I'm arachnophobia so I keep away  :S ) oh and my sister has pets, too. I've also always dreamt of having a pokemon/digimon or dragon as a pet, so I kind of like that stuff, too, but I kind of drifted away from, say, the pokemon games, but I've always loved the characters.


I'm starting to learn to draw, but I find myself enjoying it so learning realism first, because my interests in furry art won't die out any soon, would be more confident if I knew where goes where when I draw, but I think if I went into art, I'd work more towards stylized furry art and some more epic-y stuff with fantasy / sci-fi theme, because I really quite like that type as art as well. Furries + epic environment, that pretty much seems utopian to me :3 That want jumped to me the moment I found furry related stuff, but my interests around furry seem pretty diverse, some may argue some of it as not-so-furry but hey, I just like a bit of variation ^^
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Post by: NovaAurora on February 10, 2013, 10:55:50 PM
Kio, all those pets sound amazing!  XD  I must admit I'm kinda jealous  X3
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Post by: Kio on February 10, 2013, 11:09:09 PM
Kio, all those pets sound amazing!  XD  I must admit I'm kinda jealous  X3


Yeah, they are pretty cool, home would feel so empty without them, although they do take quite a bit of looking after.
Btw, note the RIP, some are dead, thus, and whenever that happens, even for a small pet the whole house seems more empty. I mean I used to hear the sounds of chirping, which tbh can be sometimes annoying when you're studying but it's like when you can't hear them anymore, it's like there's less of sense of spirit, like taking the colors out of a painting. My parents' had another dog that went viscous once so she had to go to a shelter, I mean she was really out of control and we didn't want to kill her, but then our retriever was still young so it was probably for the best because she could of hurt him, it was kind of sad, I hope she's still alive and alright ;_;
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Post by: NovaAurora on February 10, 2013, 11:13:25 PM
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean in regards to that empty feeling, as I've had pets all my life as well, though not to the degree that you have. I think they may have been a factor in me becoming a furry myself, since I've grown up having such a close and constant relationship with animals. I do hope that that dog is alright too, I believe that all dogs should be given a chance like that instead of just rejected or put down.
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Post by: Kio on February 10, 2013, 11:36:06 PM
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean in regards to that empty feeling, as I've had pets all my life as well, though not to the degree that you have. I think they may have been a factor in me becoming a furry myself, since I've grown up having such a close and constant relationship with animals. I do hope that that dog is alright too, I believe that all dogs should be given a chance like that instead of just rejected or put down.


"I believe that all dogs should be given a chance like that instead of just rejected or put down. "
That.


Even if it didn't directly lend to being a furry, I'm sure having pets would a bit indirectly, at least I can say for me :P
From that age (12) and up, though (when the uhm... "collection"  ;) [size=78%] began), I was actually home-schooled, so I've always felt more interested in other species, besides the closest members of my family.[/size]
[size=78%]Also, this text looks smaller doesn't it? But nvm.[/size]
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Post by: MatchCense on February 12, 2013, 10:26:45 AM
I always loved animals :3 I would picture myself as one as I would sit there as I stared off into space. I would think about being an animal experiment in my dreams as I rested to go to bed. I thought I was the only who thought like this but more and more I looked I Noticed there are others like myself...
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Post by: nixon/monto on February 13, 2013, 02:28:56 AM
that thing about look for something that doesnt fit in, i was like
         XD AMEN!  and that that is totally what happened to ME! ^_^
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Post by: MatchCense on February 13, 2013, 04:03:35 AM
Hahah thanks it is my signature :3

that thing about look for something that doesnt fit in, i was like
         XD AMEN!  and that that is totally what happened to ME! ^_^
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Post by: nixon/monto on February 13, 2013, 01:27:51 PM
Best signature I have seen yet! :) I'm not kidding! Hey is it all right if I buddy you?
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Post by: MatchCense on February 13, 2013, 07:14:47 PM
Well sure, I do not mind, reason why I came here was to meet new fuzzy bunz.  ^_^

Best signature I have seen yet! :) I'm not kidding! Hey is it all right if I buddy you?
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Post by: Tofi on February 17, 2013, 11:44:14 PM
Since I was little I had problems with lucid dreams,lots of times I didnt know if I am awake or not.As I was growing up I've learned to make the difference between dreams and reality.Even though my dreams were very realsitic I could never see my self in mirrors until one night when I found myself in a oval room with a big mirror,first I couldn't see anything,it was very cold and misty,suddenly the mist disappeared,that was the first time I saw myself.My skin started to burn and itch,the next moment I looked up there she was,I've transformed in a big white cat,I was serious but the reflection was smiling I was scared first but then I realize that I like it and I liked it very much.From that night I couldn't stop thinkig about me in that form,my great-grandmother made me my first furry and that was it ,I felt perfect.
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Post by: nixon/monto on February 18, 2013, 12:43:35 AM
I'm jealous for you man. So drawling jealous.
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Post by: FeralWings on February 28, 2013, 07:43:20 PM
It's been a while now, I got interested into animal traits when I was about 10, when I played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. As some of you may know, Fire Emblem features Laguz, people that can transform into animals on will, be it either cats/lions/hawks/ravens/dragons. The dragons were always depicted as the rare ones, as they were very seclusive, but they were damn awesome. Over the time, movies and games got me more interested, and by the time I read Dreamkeepers, a furry comic series which is just amazing, I really considered myself a Furry as well. I've had a hard time going open about it though, as I was rather depressed at the time, it was about 1.5 year ago.
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Post by: battlechili1 on March 17, 2013, 06:15:04 AM
Starfox. Specifically, Starfox Adventures. I had gotten to play that game for the first time in late 2012, and I loved it. The game was filled with anthropomorphic animals. I grew obsessed with the Starfox series and started looking it up. One way or another, this led me to the furry fandom, which I had known about for a while and thought was kind of cool. And recently, just a couple of weeks ago, I decided I was a furry. I love furry art. And so here I am.
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Post by: Nobi on March 17, 2013, 06:19:20 AM
Welcome, to the fandom, chili1. :) I think Starfox Adventures had some influence on me as well, when I first played it many years ago. Still never finished it, sadly. I plan on picking it up again at some point, though.
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Post by: battlechili1 on March 17, 2013, 06:44:35 AM
@ShinobiFox: Thanks for the welcome! Yep, I'm pretty new. xD
It's pretty cool that you've played Starfox Adventures before. You ought' to finish it. It's pretty fun!
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Post by: FeralWings on March 17, 2013, 09:12:45 AM
Stairfax Temperatures. I don't want to sound insulting but gameplay wise it's horrid :|
I loved Starfox Assault however, played it for ages.
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Post by: battlechili1 on March 17, 2013, 03:19:08 PM
It's all right. Assault was better than Adventures. Adventures definitely wasn't for everyone.
But now I've gone off topic....
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Post by: MatchCense on March 17, 2013, 07:39:40 PM
I also read a lot of books with Animals as the main characters, RedWall, Poppy and many more. They just were so amazing, :3 I don't really think I am an animal, I just relate to them. I use to when I was younger but now it is more of just like yay. I am really able to enjoy a character I make. XD It seems silly but it is true.
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Post by: Nobi on March 18, 2013, 12:19:14 AM
I practically lived on Redwall when I was younger! I'm guessing that was a bit of a latent influence, too. ^_^
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Post by: NovaAurora on March 18, 2013, 12:55:50 AM
If there's one latent influence for me it was probably the Ratchet and Clank series. I've played every single game in the main storyline, some several times, and of course the main character is an orange fuzzy animal called a lombax. He's kinda cute  :P
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Post by: MatchCense on March 18, 2013, 04:41:33 AM
I loved those games <3
If there's one latent influence for me it was probably the Ratchet and Clank series. I've played every single game in the main storyline, some several times, and of course the main character is an orange fuzzy animal called a lombax. He's kinda cute  :P
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Post by: Lokilullaby on March 18, 2013, 05:24:59 AM
For me it was MSN chat. I dissed chat rooms, then finally decided to try one, and started roleplaying as a puppy.  Loved it, and continued rping as animals, or humanoid animals.  This was years before I even knew what a furry was lol.  Even as kids when my frIends/cousins would play house I'd be the house pet, lol

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Post by: Rhoryc on March 18, 2013, 05:32:21 AM
Eh, not really an interesting story for me. I pretty much always thought anthropomorphic characters were cool and as a kid I really wanted to be one. Whenever I played a game that gave me the option to, I would always choose to play as the anthro character. Fox in Smash Bros, Iksar in Champions, Lizardman in Soul Calibur, you get the idea. I don't really remember how I originally found out about the fandom but I was pretty much interested from the start. Took me a while to get into it, but here I am!
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Post by: nixon/monto on March 18, 2013, 01:51:59 PM
Ever seen the secret of nimh?
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Post by: FeralWings on March 18, 2013, 02:14:18 PM
Ever seen the secret of nimh?


Sounds familiar..


Also, quick note Nixon, your signature got broken on an image. it's saying Oheight=150, remove the O and it should work again :)
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Post by: Byracka on March 18, 2013, 02:21:05 PM
Absolutely wonderful movie. Very scary if you see it as a kid. Has a great music score and stunning visuals. So yes I've seen it  :3
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Post by: nixon/monto on March 18, 2013, 02:46:01 PM
Thanks feral. ^_^
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Post by: FeralWings on March 18, 2013, 04:30:05 PM
Thanks feral. ^_^
No worries :)
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Post by: TheDeathScorpion on March 29, 2013, 10:17:07 AM
Well, I started off with a general dislike for furry's, but that was only for about a week. I then became a little interested in them and decided to not hate them anymore after realising there were some good people here. But I never really indulged in the fandom, It was just kinda... there. But one day, I decided to really look at the fandom and everything looked awesome. So I made an account on the forums and promptly lost the password for a few months.
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Post by: Balasthor on March 29, 2013, 09:24:14 PM
First I was only like wolfs. I has 12.. maybe 14. That's brilliant animals for me, I love him. I started interest and collect photos. Then I fell connection with wolfs. I'm growing up with this. When I has 20 I interesting in many information about wolfs and nature. For the long time I can think about yourself. I ask myself who am I ? Wolf is the integrated part of my soul. Many, many question decide that I want ansfer. Ansfer about that all what is in me. I belive that I'm alone. I lokking for ansfer in the internet. There are meet others. This was shock for me. People like me exist ? Now I'm not alone. Great. They show me furry and I has the same interest and opinions about world. My knowledge about furry is more and more. We are teach all live. Most important for me it's fact that I discover that I'm not alone. I'm one of many. And that's sound good. Today I'm 24 years old man. I'm furry and I will be furry for the rest of my life. After dead also ;)
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Post by: FeralWings on March 29, 2013, 09:29:22 PM
It's always great to hear how much releif people get from learning that there is a huge community, being the furry fandom. I have yet to meet any one of them that wasn't polite-mannered and good-willing, and I don't fear I ever will. It's a greta community :)
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Post by: MomoHyena on March 31, 2013, 07:51:44 AM
Doodled werewolves a bunch, learned about Goldenwolfen's art, must find more art hnnngh. And now here I am!
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Post by: Zeldoran (Former Frozt, FroztFox) on March 31, 2013, 10:41:22 AM
havent written here yet, so guess its time  X3
to make a long and boring story short...


Saw someone i knew at tv in a prog about furs, googled it and saw its true side, joined a forum, stuck forever  ;)
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Post by: Ice on April 07, 2013, 10:12:48 PM
2 years ago i work on Main Square in Cracov. I meet my friend when he and they friends go drunk. He sometimes tell me about furry but this time he invite me on, one Fox birthday party. I tell him when i end my work i join them. From this day i become a furry but 6 past 2 months i join to furry fandom.
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Post by: Geo on April 24, 2013, 05:07:05 PM
The way I became a furry is the song dirty paws by of monsters and men finally pushed me to make the decision. Before that I've always loved animals ever since I was little. I would always think my dog is lucky he can do anything he wants! Then later on I found pictures of furrys on the Internet. I was amazed at how majestic they looked. When I got a little older I finally decided that I wanted to be a vet. Then finally about 3 days ago I found this site and joined I'm not a full blown furry (yet  :) )
But I'm hoping il learn the ropes and one day go to a furcon!!
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Post by: Maine on April 26, 2013, 10:29:34 AM
After realising what a furry actually was, I was like....... THATS ME!!!
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Post by: DKanthrem on April 29, 2013, 09:07:00 PM
After a while of mindlessly living my life, I went online curious to what is a furry really,people always told me they were discusting and sick,and Did it in costume,but I still checked. So finding out what a furry is and looking back at my life and my interests I soon realised...I was a furry,but instead of being all mad or anything I was happy. For once I finally felt like I was part of something :),but when I told others who I was they just looked at me weird~_~,even my girlfriend broke up with me,but I soon found out it was because of something else I don't understand....any hows I didn't care what they thought of me,because I'm a furry and proud >:3
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Post by: nixon/monto on April 29, 2013, 09:15:35 PM
Amen to that brother!(or sister.)
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Post by: Lethrasherhuskeh on May 01, 2013, 06:02:55 AM
Hmm...well, I guess it all started with the anime I was watching in my adolescent years. There was that fox in Robin Hood when I was a kid, and that wolf named Tiger in Monster Rancher, Renamon from Digimon and many others during my teenage phase.


I've always wondered why I was into animals than socializing a lot of with my human friends, who found me odd and weird. Well, not totally since I do hang around with them once in a while. I didn't even know wether there was such a thing known as a furry or a community known as a furry fandom at the time. I was always fascinated with how complex the canine's anatomy was structured, and I have a strong affinity with them because I am a good friend and will always be loyal to my friends. I think I have an old deviantart account where I posted my silly sketches of my furry art but its lost now  XD


Through all the signs I displayed, I think my friends and family pretty much know that I'm a furry (or something else  >.> ) and I have been giving them small hints like changing my facebook pic to this hipster husky and liking pages such as the furry fandom. I think a few have accepted me for who I am but there are some who just find me to be a total oddball for thinking that I have a fursona and how I jokingly say I'm a husky. Oh well, I'm still the human they all know, and wether anyone hates me or not, I guess I've been a furry longer than I imagined and I'm glad to be one  ^_^



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Post by: nixon/monto on May 01, 2013, 07:09:26 PM
So touching :'(
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Post by: MrTanked on May 02, 2013, 03:17:49 AM
I looked up what a furry was after hearing it so many times...  It seemed to have matched what I considered myself to be.  The idea of it just intrigues me.  So, no, I don't have this great backstory or personal battle to become who I want to be, I just like the idea of being a furry.



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Post by: Lethrasherhuskeh on May 02, 2013, 04:55:53 AM
So touching :'(


Awww...c'mere  ^_^  *le big huskeh hug*  :'(


The amazing thing about us furries is that we have grown such thick skin against indifference by others. We have been able to tolerate these haters for so long by just not giving a care about what they think about us. And we have thrived as a community till this day. =)


It also takes a huge amount of ego whooping and courage to reveal ourselves for who we really are and standing by our preferences and opinions as human beings/furries. The world would be a much more better place to live if there were more people who cultivated this mindset from the beginning about us.



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Post by: nixon/monto on May 02, 2013, 12:08:01 PM
So touching :'(


Awww...c'mere  ^_^  *le big huskeh hug*  :'(


The amazing thing about us furries is that we have grown such thick skin against indifference by others. We have been able to tolerate these haters for so long by just not giving a care about what they think about us. And we have thrived as a community till this day. =)


It also takes a huge amount of ego whooping and courage to reveal ourselves for who we really are and standing by our preferences and opinions as human beings/furries. The world would be a much more better place to live if there were more people who cultivated this mindset from the beginning about us.




Dude stop…you are going to really make me cry. We all should right speeches and give them to some one to say at a convention and be like "this is from fdf and they have a few words to say". That would be cool.
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Post by: Lethrasherhuskeh on May 02, 2013, 01:32:02 PM
There there now... :)


*huskeh hugs nixon and gives him a tissue*


I know we will man, I know we will  ;)



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Post by: Shadis on May 03, 2013, 03:02:37 AM
I looked up what a furry was after hearing it so many times...  It seemed to have matched what I considered myself to be.  The idea of it just intrigues me.  So, no, I don't have this great backstory or personal battle to become who I want to be, I just like the idea of being a furry.


You could make up something dramatic and random X3

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Post by: KoalaJen on May 03, 2013, 09:00:11 PM
How I became a furry has more to do with my personal journey in life than it has with just liking and wanting to emulate a cartoon character. I had to reject social norms as I morphed into a young transwoman before I could feel free in my own mind to enjoy things that I have grown an interest in.

Earlier in my life I had experimented a bit with my curiosity in the furry fandom through art and writing stories and enjoyed it. It was simply just a part of me that I never actively brought out into public view until recently. Because now who's going to tell me, "no you can't because it's wrong." I'm already wrong in the eyes of many and it feels right to me.

There's nothing stopping me from being what I am openly and thus, there's nothing stopping me now from being who I am openly too. I'm a furry and that's that. If I walk into a store wearing a collar or a tail, what will they laugh at? My body image or the expression of my personal interests? Exactly. :D I'm a free woman.
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Post by: Rhoryc on May 14, 2013, 11:14:34 PM
That's a really nice story Terra ^_^
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Post by: Devon Bunny on May 15, 2013, 01:53:39 AM
Well,

I have always been an animal lover, i can't remember a time in my life where i have not been around 1 to 3 animal family members (calling them pets doesn't do them right), specially dogs. so my love for animals is huge.

long after, around 2 years ago, i become a brony, and there i became friends with many people, including a large variety of furry friends, it became very fun to think of a life as something more than human, so it started with role-plays, just silly games with friends, but it ended up more serious.

Now i enjoy to portrait my self as a cute fuzzy bunny, cute and cuddly, but some times, is a hard choice between a dog and a bunny :3
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Post by: nixon/monto on May 15, 2013, 03:24:38 PM
Sometimes it's hard to chose from wanting this life to wanting another life. An imaginary one. One with endless happiness. One day…one day.
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Post by: Seeva on May 16, 2013, 09:13:38 AM
Originally i have always loved animals and have always been interested in werewolves. and whenever I play games like skyrim I always tend to play one of the animal races like Kajhit or argonian. I never really thought of myself as a furry and I had always heard people say they were wierdos and that kind of thing but was randomly browsing the web and i kept seeing these awesome pieces of art which were furry's and i thought you know whats wrong with liking this kind of thing so i looked into the furry fandom a bit more, to find that it is an incredible thing full of amazingly nice people. and what i had heard people saying whether it be media or whatever. had no idea what they were talking about.
I then clicked and realised that ive always been a furry at heart.

So here I am.

And now I want a fursuit and to go to a fur-convention.
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Post by: Milo_Xyunto on May 23, 2013, 07:54:00 PM
I always had a affinity for foxes. The Fox and The Hound was my favorite childhood show growing up. Over the years, I got into pokemon and had Eevee listed as my favorite pokemon. Ninetails is my second. I eventually joined Nintendo.com and went to the forum 'Nsider'. There, I made good friends, never RP'd and always talked pokemon.
 
When the site closed, I drew away from pokemon and saught out something else. TV shows, video games, movies... Even though there arnt many shows about such, foxes remained my favorite creatures. I took this and studied much about facts, folk lore and history behind the varrious species. Books and nature films seemed to dominate my life there for a couple of years.
 
I began to imagine myself as something more then a human. What if I had a tail like a fox? What if I had ears? Would I control them? How does this feel? These thoughts and questions eventually lead to the idea of inverting myself in RP as a fox furry. At the time though, I didnt want to RP, but search for pictures.
 
I began by searching for humanoid foxes. My search led me to a place... I dont remember where. A forum where foxes seemed to be the main idea behind the forum. I joined because I do like foxes. I didnt realize that the last post was 2 years ago. So When I introduced myself. A person with the SN; Taymor, told me how rare it is how new people joined, and how rarer it was he was on. I spent... I think, five days there, and was directed to a certain gaming/chat/rP site called 'World Azon' . . . A new door for me.
 
This site had what was called Anthros. Humanoid, almost every creature. Course. I began as a fox. Greeted heartily by the mods and was introduced to RP and the concept. I had finally became a fox, I really loved the site. In this site, foxes lives in their own country, had their own language [which was shared amoung several other races], and their own traditions. I learned everything about the anthro fox as I could. I even remember how to speak the fox langauge. [Yes there was a nerd who developed a full language]
 
After the site was hacked and crashed by some angry mod, I left, but kept my Anthro RP chara. I didnt find out the creature I was, was called furry until I went to XAT. Suddenly, I became a furry. I was resistant at first, claiming that I was RPing as an anthro. Eventually I accepted the term.
 
I still have my affinity for foxes. But I RP as many creatures now, all developed depending on the genre of RP. I found this site by a simple search " Furry forums ". Clicked the first link, compared it to other sites and decided this one was more intersting. I missed Forums, that is why I specifically searched for forums.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Rushlight on June 04, 2013, 08:07:03 PM
hmm, well, i guess it started for me when i got into startrek.
soon after that i began to be able to envission my self as... not human, and after reading on book, where the main characters were a feline species, i guess thats when it happened. after that i got into reading TwoKinds, and i soon got on omegle. after that i found the "furry" topic section, i got into roleplaying,, and.. so here i am.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Zey on June 04, 2013, 08:22:32 PM
I'd say it started in a time in which I can't remember. At that point, I was playing games like Sly Cooper and Ratchet & Clank and I thought that those games were totally awesome. Some time later I got an interest in anime and thought that the Nekos were really cool, too. I tried to look them up, but I didn't know what they were called so I searched "cat girls". Sad to say, I came to some "unfavorable" results. When I reached 8th grade, I took an intrest into writing, and wrote books (clean books I might add) that included this Inumimi girl. Again, at the time I had no idea about their official names. I was a clueless hero... Anyway, I showed it to a friend of mine and he claimed that she was a furry. I had no clue what he was saying, of course, so I searched for myself. Thankfully, I searched Wikipedia and found out. At first is was a bit dissuaded from it from hearing about the whole "yiff" acts, but after reading Housepets, I quickly grew interested in this culture and thought the clean art was really cool! And now, by some lucky encounter, (not really, I literally search for "Furry Forums") here I am now!
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Lord_of_Fortune on June 07, 2013, 03:20:15 AM
Alright as weird as this sounds it's true. We all know him and his exploits " the big bad wolf" he and I just always seemed to be one in the same but as a little kid I thought I was the big bad wolf I was the tallest kid in catholic school and I always got into trouble. Later in life I would watch shows like tailspin and just think how cool it would be to be anthro and the rest is history.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Firekitty on June 08, 2013, 07:35:55 AM
I have always felt a love for anthropomorphic animals..I heard my sister talking about annoying furries and looked it up..now I am A flaming furry
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Lord_of_Fortune on June 08, 2013, 05:20:33 PM
Good for you friend fight the norm.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: nixon/monto on June 09, 2013, 06:25:11 AM
[ahem] fighting the norm? There is no norm my dear friend, the "norm" is a guide line that says:  "this is normal, this is not."   And that guide line is not an updated guide line.  (Because no one wants to change it.). 

Have you told your sister that your one of us?  (I dont like using the word furry. Don't know why either.)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Lord_of_Fortune on June 09, 2013, 07:00:00 AM
[[AH HA HEM]] I just used it as a phase to enforce encouragement not as the measure of what is normal. Everyone should know there is no true measure of " normal ". Therefor I move that your evil tongued remark be stricken from the record.... Just playing.... I was just trying to give encouragement. But ya did shoot it down like a duck hunter using an A/A gun. No hard feelings.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Firekitty on June 09, 2013, 07:39:02 AM
No. My sis doesn't know but she'll know soon enough
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: nixon/monto on June 09, 2013, 02:19:21 PM
Well fire kitty I say to you. Good luck, and make sure you don't act like your hidding it because if you do and they find out they/she are going to think your doing something wrong. Act like it is who you are and not what you have done or become. I almost messed up telling my family because I hid it for a while and they thought I was doing something wrong. But my family has come to realize that it is who I am and that's ok.

Oh and fortune…bang bang!  ^_^
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Sirius on June 11, 2013, 04:12:00 AM
Well my last name is Wolff so i've always identified with the animal. I'm also native american so i have a strong respect and love for nature. It's all i decorated my room/personal space with. Me and my cousin both and we'd play as if we were wolves or had a wolf pack as pets. I always identified with the wolf it gave me the chance to be everything i wanted to be without all the negative. It was where i could be my best. I could be strong, cunning, strong, secure in myself. I guess i always knew i was a furry i was just afraid of what people would think and amazingly everyone is very accepting i love it. Feels very good to be open about it. It's always been a dream of mine and i'm making it happen :)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Lethrasherhuskeh on June 11, 2013, 06:39:10 PM
Wolff. What an awesome last name x3
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Sirius on June 11, 2013, 08:21:29 PM
I know right  :D . i'm excited to get some ink done i already have one drawin up. I want sleeves with a bear on one and a wolf on the other to symbolizes me and my parents.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: North Drox on June 28, 2013, 03:15:37 PM
I always respected animals and cared for them so I guess that had a role in me being a furry. I always loved games that had you playing as a cartoon animal and I liked how animals can be given human characteristics so I guess that's a big reason why I am a furry. I also liked all of my characters to be animals so I guess I am just used to it already.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: vectorfurever on June 29, 2013, 06:21:45 PM
I had always loved werewolves/ wolves. I just felt almost spiritually connected, and didn't know why. I found the furry fandom like last month and joined this forum. Finding all these other people that are like me makes me feel like I have another family.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Arcain on July 04, 2013, 04:38:35 AM
I think I had the furryness in me from all the animal cartoons and Disney movies as a kid, but the first time I felt a connection with them was when I was like 12 and had not watched those cartoons in a while. While leaving to go to the bathroom in a computer lab I saw this image on a friends computer screen and got a good feeling deep in my bones. Soon I started googling for other human like animals before I even knew there was a big fandom surrounding it.

http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/s/sprill-the_mystery_of_the_bermuda_triang-135493-1.jpeg (http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/s/sprill-the_mystery_of_the_bermuda_triang-135493-1.jpeg)

and I don't even know what the game is.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: nixon/monto on July 04, 2013, 02:26:58 PM
I think it's a comic. Or it could be a game I don't realy know. Looks like a fun whatever it is though. So arcain..when did you decide to join us? When did you find the word furry?
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Arcain on July 06, 2013, 12:11:54 AM
I think I was thirteen, it kept coming up all over the place so I looked it up, lucky for me the wikipedia article wasn't terrorised at the time or else I may have thought it was wrong.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: nixon/monto on July 06, 2013, 02:51:45 PM
Cool cool. :D
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: xXTheShadowXx on July 09, 2013, 08:41:50 PM
i grew up with tom and jerry and i always thought being a cat in real life would be awesome and i became obssesed with cats as i grew up so did the obbsession then when i was like 14 i heard of furries and was like what the hell are they talking about looked it up and it all connected in my head at one point
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Post by: Arquette on July 29, 2013, 03:04:09 PM
I've always had an affinity with spaniel dogs and my being respected as a leader among my friends and family, was nicknamed "Lion"; hence, my Liondog fursona which feels really comfy and at home with me.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Vulpatrino on August 02, 2013, 05:47:30 PM
Hmm... let me think about that...

Well, when I was about 5, I got a Gameboy Advance for Christmas, and Super Mario Bros. 3 to play with it. I hope I don't need to explain this, but Mario 3 has this power up that gives you raccoon ears and a tail, as well as the famous Tanooki Suit. To me, that game was like magic, and I think that's where my furriness started.
Another game that was a big part of my childhood was Drawn to Life, which had fox-like people called Raposa. I still hold that game high in regard.
I used to have a cat, and my remember my whole life wishing I could be a cat too. I think a bit of my personality is cat-like because of that.
I also used to watch a lot of cartoons, and you know how that works in relation to furriness.

Certainly would explain why I like foxes, cats, and tanukis so much.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Nobi on August 04, 2013, 05:31:21 AM
Hmm... let me think about that...

Well, when I was about 5, I got a Gameboy Advance for Christmas, and Super Mario Bros. 3 to play with it. I hope I don't need to explain this, but Mario 3 has this power up that gives you raccoon ears and a tail, as well as the famous Tanooki Suit. To me, that game was like magic, and I think that's where my furriness started.
Another game that was a big part of my childhood was Drawn to Life, which had fox-like people called Raposa. I still hold that game high in regard.
I used to have a cat, and my remember my whole life wishing I could be a cat too. I think a bit of my personality is cat-like because of that.
I also used to watch a lot of cartoons, and you know how that works in relation to furriness.

Certainly would explain why I like foxes, cats, and tanukis so much.

I'm always so baffled by the people who think we furries are so strange; clearly they've never watched a cartoon in their lives. Especially older ones are absolutely full of anthropomorphic animals. Having grown up watching many an anthro character's antics on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, it's honestly no surprise to me that I'm a furry when I think about it. :)
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Post by: memor the peaceful on August 07, 2013, 10:52:50 AM
not sure if i am one really... not like it's important or anything.


i had a boyfriend about 3 years ago who was into it, and then i met far too many people around the scene to give it up. sorry if my tale has been less than thrilling.
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Post by: Nim on August 23, 2013, 12:17:11 PM
As for me, I can't really remember the moment I became a furry. I grew up with loads of animals
(I was really blessed with animal-loving parents) and I'd rather spend my afternoons trying to communicate
with my cats and dogs rather than trying to mingle with kids my age. I did have alot of friends though, but
I never felt quite at ease with them as I did with animals.

As years flew by I came in contact with the site Neopets, that was somewhat a revelation since I had never
been in contact with anything specific anthropomorphic. It was not that I really was interested in playing the
games on the site, but it was an outlet for my artistic brain, I had a reason to draw these feelings that had
always been locked inside me.  I ended up 'playing' on and off for more than 12 years, and as of now I stopped
because of life (and because of re-occuring health issues), I just don't have the time left to be dedicated to
a site that has changed for the bad, even though it ment leaving a important part of my life behind and a few
friends along with it.

I can remember seeing furries on fantasy fairs, feeling envious as they skipped on by, wishing I could hop along
with them. And a little while ago I just said  'Why not?'.   So here I am.. Pouring my heart out to you guys. c:

Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: ZaraRaEchidna on August 23, 2013, 01:14:27 PM
I've always been a furry, it's my nature  ^_^ when I was a toddler I was dressing up in animal costumes trying to be an animal of some sort ~ I was wearing a cat tail around for quite some time, and always wished I could morph into an animal.
then some beach comes and calls me a furfag because I was worshipping Wilfre, an anthropomorphic video game character WHO SHOOTS RAINBOWS FROM A STAFF COME ON PEOPLE
so for a little while I was trying to impress her by writing angry journals ... HA LOOK AT MY FREE THINKING YOU LITTLE SHEET TROLL
and yeah, I discovered furries, and settled right in.
I'm still ashamed of what I did tho ...
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Post by: Deleted Profile on August 25, 2013, 05:41:20 PM
It actually started when I first played Sonic the Hedgehog 3 when I was 5, I would always pick tails. Then there came other games later in my life like Starfox 64, Super Smash Bros., Bloody Trapland, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, etc. My dream came true when I started playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2, but I felt really out of place until I discovered furries on DeviantART. That led me to FurAffinity, then here. B)
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Post by: Lethrasherhuskeh on August 26, 2013, 04:36:27 PM
I would pick Tails too. Prolly because canines are more appealing I guess?
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Post by: Nimian on August 29, 2013, 09:15:09 AM
When I was little, like ages 3-6 little, I used to act JUST like a dog around the house. I would go on all fours, bark, growl, etc. Then I stopped for a while, but I've always loved animals and felt a connection with them. I found the random via Internet, and I was like, "HEY, I DO THAT'" So now I'm a proud furry.
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Post by: Shiothefox on September 07, 2013, 08:15:53 PM
I don't really know. When I was in second grade I used to act like a dog and draw dogs (as best as I could) but I discovered furry art only a few days ago, and now I guess I'm a furry. It's weird though I feel like I will never tell anyone, even my girlfriend.
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Post by: Teh_Bunnehboi on September 11, 2013, 09:43:47 PM
How did I become a furry? The Internet.
I was 13 at the time, and in second year at school. To cut a long, boring story short, I took really sick. I missed a lot of school. My mother was often at work and my dad doesn't live with us, so I was alone a lot of the time. I didn't mind it! But what does a kid do when he's alone so much? I had an iPod touch. I often used it to look at art, comics and other such things online. I started to really get in to some of the comics I found on various sites, and they eventually lead me back to this other website. What I found on that, was my first real furry webcomic. The site had a forum which I ended up joining to see all of the content. Since I was sick and bored a lot, I just lurked, but there were a lot of fanfics on the site. I read through all of them, and there was a lot to read. Even days I was back at school I would save big chunks of fics to my notes to read when I could. After a while I grew bolder, started commenting on the fics. Pming other members of the site. I eventually got around to writing my own fic.
I was young, it wasn't great at all, but it was okay. The main character was an anthro wolf, I loved wolves! I stuck to the site and met some cool people. But some of the people on the site were also involved in RPs! It seemed like an interesting way to pass the time, I often just sat and read RP posts on the site. It took me a long time to decide to join in.
I'm never entirely sure why I chose a rabbit back then. I guess it was normal enough but not to common, not a wolf, fox, cat or dog. They were cute, and I used to be a real shy, submissive character. Very introverted. Of course, I'm not any more!
Through the RPing I discovered a lot about myself. I met really interesting people, got caught up in loads of furry drama, had a lot of fun and most of all, was really able to tackle some self-confidence issues and other rubbish I had floating around at the time. I met a lot of supportive people who years on are still a huge part of my life.

It's been a long time since I've been on a forum. My first closed a long time ago. But recently I thought, why not. Here's hoping I don't just abandon this after a week or so!
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Post by: nixon/monto on September 12, 2013, 01:40:29 AM
Don't leave us!
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Post by: Xionist on September 12, 2013, 02:15:44 AM
How did I become a furry? Great question.


To make a somewhat long story short and filled with a lot less whining and complaining, I'll tell it like this. I've been very interested in it since childhood really. I didn't officially know what it was until middle school, about seven years back. I have certain anxieties about losing friends, and the such, so I completely repressed these interests. Saying I would never be a furry, and I was completely normal. Silly, right? Anyways, this continued all throughout high school. Now that I am out of high school, and I no longer have any actual irl friends except for the one guy I've known since freshman year, I've started to slowly realize how much I think this fandom is the coolest freakin' thing ever.


However I still have nobody in this town to share it with. /end whining
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Post by: nixon/monto on September 12, 2013, 02:27:32 AM
Same here brother...same here. Gets lonely, but I got used to it ^_^
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Post by: FurryJason100 on September 15, 2013, 04:49:16 PM
When I was younger I was interested in becoming a puppy, dogs were my favorite animal growing up, then I became interested in wolves, I always wondered what it would be like to be an animal, then when I was older I loved Werewolves,it has something to do about they're transformation, the way they turn from man to beast, I believed in werewolves and wanted to become one so badly, this was how I learned about furries (well, sort of), even back then I thought they were all just peverted sexual drawings and fedishes, later on (while I was still interested in werewolves), I saw a video about what furries really are, and I thought about joining them, later I thought about it and accepted, I feel like I really belong in the furry community, in fact I dare say, I felt like it my whole life. My friends don't know it (though one of them suspects it), they still think furries are peverted. And that's how I became a furry (probably because of my fascination with animals lead to my interest in werewolves and ultimately my fursona)   :D
Title: Anthro
Post by: FurryJason100 on September 18, 2013, 01:04:39 AM
I want to be an animal..............   :P
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Post by: nixon/monto on September 18, 2013, 01:06:53 AM
Well that's very straight forward....
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: FurryJason100 on September 18, 2013, 01:23:40 AM
Well if you want me to explain then I will  ^_^


Post Merge: September 18, 2013, 01:34:46 AM
It is about being something different, to feel how it is to be an animal, I want to know how it is. To have fur, snout, wolf-ish eyes, canine teeth, digitigrade legs, paws, tail, long ears, and a animal personality. I want it, and when I concentrate hard enough... I have it...... The feeling of being in a forest, the wind brushing against your fur, as you wander around the forest, your paws on the ground...........  ^_^
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Post by: nixon/monto on September 18, 2013, 04:01:55 PM
Well...
You believe hard enough then it might happen
Or god may help you with that though prayer.
Or the other saying, anything can happen.
Madical science is getting pretty far. Who knows, in two years time it could be possible.
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Post by: sigols on September 18, 2013, 04:08:29 PM
I have always been an outsider, in elementary school I were by myself and thought about animals, pokemon and other similar stuff. After a while I got one friend, we played together and was pretending to be animals or pokemon. When I got a little older all the other boys started to play fotball (soccer) and I was alone again. I were almost addicted to pokemon on my gameboy color, and I did not much else from that. I got into reading as soon as I could read, and by third grade I were reading better than most of the teachers. I got trapped in a world of pokemon, magic and animals, and all I wanted was to stay in that world. I got bullied pretty often, not the full on in your face bullying, more of small signs; they avoided me, they stopped talking whenever I were around, some nice words with a mocking undertone. The teachers never noticed anything, and I did not very well at school, so I just got deeper and deeper in to my fantasy world.
Now I have a depression (Its going better now than before by the way) and it was pretty dark, then when I just surfed around on the internet I found some furry art. It was yiff art, but I really liked the faces and the style of it, exept the pornography in it. So i tried to find out what it was, and then I came over Furaffinity. And that was when I realized, that the furry fandom was something, and I were not alone ^_^


Its a bit of a long post, and my grammar is not perfect, I apologize for that  :P
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Post by: HyenaKing on September 21, 2013, 01:47:50 PM

I will keep it simple. I was browsing than i saw this:
Click For Pic. (http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2901560/Mayhem)
Yes, i saw mayhem (and mayhem (verb) coming)then shortly later my brain went *boop* and then i entered the fandom.
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Post by: nixon/monto on September 22, 2013, 01:53:04 PM
And then it went....boop...boop...it just went boop...why is it that that explains it perfectly?
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Post by: HyenaKing on September 22, 2013, 11:05:06 PM
Nah, i did a little research and said: well. that is what i have been classified for all this time. Hmm...
the only reason i fit in here is because i have imagined my self as an animal.-- then drew stuff about it.
yeah! that was the *boop*
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Post by: Nyco on October 07, 2013, 08:25:10 PM
I became a furry about 3 years ago because i always wanted to be an animal but i also wanted to be like a human. I was influenced by the media and what they had to say (we know its all bad) and i stayed away from furries. then about a year after that i started seeing bits and pieces of the webcomic TwoKinds. and for the next year i was searching for it until i finally found it and read it non stop. Finally, about a week ago, i was watching pet fox videos when i stumbled across the video "what is a furry?" and i thought "why not?" and I watched it. Now i finally am an official part of the fandom although i was a furry for three years prior, and i got to say, it feels good  :D .
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Post by: DragonThing on October 14, 2013, 02:29:14 PM
Well let's see if I can articulate this...it began only 4-5 years ago, and has evolved ever since.
My furry story started with a 3 way short novel that was brought up in idea by my gf and our mutual good friend. They knew I wrote quite a lot (novels :D) and they wanted me to join their idea, in which one person would each write a different perspective, involving themselves as their own main character for their third of the story. Only my gf was to be a werewolf (now also more or less a wolf furry) and our friend to be a vampire (very twilight-esque, but I digress). They wanted me to be another species, so I chose the only one I figurd to be most like me: a half dragon (or humanoid/sized dragon), they loved the idea and while the story got dropped due to study and work, the idea lived on in my gf and I.
 
That's part one of the story, the other part involves my username, the slave part reffering to how my gf got me into gothic styles, and eventually I managed to get into being largely submissive, so I'd wear a collar on outings to the city and when we were alone together. While the submissive part of the story has more to it, I don't think it's appropriate for the forums, but the furry part of me formed almost exclusively through A: The collar, B: the story where I was a dragon and C: my girlfriends use of that story to give me the nickname "dragon", and applying it when mentioning me to any of her new uni friends. As I became known more as "dragon" we both started to play around with the idea of being either dragon or wolf, in my gfs case.
   With her, dragon has become a part of who I am, and while I haven't given the "fursona" a name, I consider it to be a fully integrated part of myself. I could give it a name, but that to me would only differentiate between the two parts of what is essentially me, I am both human and dragon,both Nick. Perhaps I'll give it a name, but for now the dragon and I are one and the same. :D
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Post by: jimmy the blue on October 19, 2013, 05:51:42 PM
i became a furry because of one video on youtube that explained what a furry is. before i saw that video i was one of those people who thought furries where weird and creepy. but i was wrong and right, we are weird but not in a bad way, in a way that's unique not appauling. as i learned that a furry is simply a person who enjoys anthropomorphic animals, I realised i've been a furry my whole life and never even knew it
 :)
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Post by: HyenaKing on October 24, 2013, 01:57:15 AM
Interesting. Hmmm.
I see now that how you became a furry was my *boop* moment.
(Your artwork is not that bad btw, practice is the key!)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: nixon/monto on October 24, 2013, 05:10:23 PM
That moment 1 and 2 connect and your just like "oh hey!"
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Snow Kittie on October 27, 2013, 07:41:27 PM
I gave a grief history in my post under Introduce Yourself (http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?board=5.0), but lets see if I can be a little more detailed.

As far back as my memory can reach I have been interested in animals with human characteristics. I watched dozens of movies based on them, and read tons of books. At the time I had no idea something was different about me. I became obsessed with the Warriors series and have a long line of them on a shelf next to me right now. This period in my life went on for many years, and I had always thought I was just like everyone else.


Eventually a movie came out called Alpha & Omega, a movie based on wolves. I thought that a couple of the characters were cute, and as soon as I realize what I was thinking I began looking back through my past and realized I thought a lot of these human/animal mixes were cute. I liked them in more then just a "oh thats cool" way and I decided I must have a problem. I tried asking a few others what they thought of it and they said they did not think the same as me, just solidifying my opinion. I have a problem, and I am an outsider. I did not like myself for it and trued to hide it. Tried to change it.


After a while I must have forgotten that I didn't like being it, because now that I look back, between that time and now I did not always hate myself for it. I have always been excited to watch a movie with human/animal mixes. My 4 siblings get movies with them a lot and I secretly can't wait to put it in a watch it. I am usually glued to the TV more then they are. I don't show it however, because as far as everyone else knows I only into the action packed sci-fi, which is mostly true, those are my favorite movies. So for a long time I liked these animals with human characteristics, enjoyed watching the movies, and secretly looked them up online for a while.

Eventually I got to a point in which I am not proud of. I began using the images online for personal things and that went on for a month or so. I quickly realized this wasn't right and stopped myself. It was during this time however that I accidentally found the fandom. It was a twisted and winding path to get there, one link after another. I found articles online from yiffing, to fur suits, to the art aspects of the fandom, and finally the link that brings it all together, the fandom itself.


For a few months after that I didn't quite understand the fandom or care for it. It would come up once in a while and I would be like "oh yeah I've heard of that". Recently however, in the past two months, I had a revelation. I AM a furry! It made sense now. All the things in my past that I didn't understad now made sense. And to know I wasn't alone was an amazing feeling.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: MaskaTheOtter on November 06, 2013, 03:05:16 AM
I practically, and sometimes literally, live in the woods. I am a Native American so I feel especially close to nature. I teach wilderness survival snd love almost all animals. I have a Pet raccoon and am very jeleous of a simple life style like that (Not as a pet). This just feels natural to me.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Atho--50 on November 18, 2013, 05:06:46 AM
I've always loved the whole talking animal thing, I was completely obsessed with The Fox And The Hound for the longest time..
It really started when I found some scaly forums site, and I really loved that.. But on those forums I found some furries and just liked that alot more than dragons, so I researched a bit, and found out about the whole fandom and such. So I just joined a few forums. xD
Kinda glad I did that because I can actually fit in with furries.. Never understood dem dragons.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: DresdenWizard on November 24, 2013, 04:48:46 AM
I've always loved the whole talking animal thing, I was completely obsessed with The Fox And The Hound for the longest time..
It really started when I found some scaly forums site, and I really loved that.. But on those forums I found some furries and just liked that alot more than dragons, so I researched a bit, and found out about the whole fandom and such. So I just joined a few forums. xD
Kinda glad I did that because I can actually fit in with furries.. Never understood dem dragons.
Basically what happened with me, except replace "fox and the hound" with "lion king" >_> I watched it like 5 times a day when I was little.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Alex Laetus on December 09, 2013, 05:17:33 AM
Did I talk on here yet...?

No???

Surprising XD!

Alrighty! My furry story!!!


So it was about ... what, 12, 13 when I finally got into fanfiction, and for some odd reason, I was drawn to Digimon stories.

I kept reading them for awhile, and got curious and would occasionally browse for pictures on the interwebs. Probably not a safe idea, but nonetheless, I did and of course did find pictures of digimon and all of that.

Digimon, being anthromorphic animals, eventually led me to fur affinity, where I more or less began my slow trek to what I learned was known as 'The Furry Fandom'.

It should be noted I've always loved animals so much, and just cuddling against them, as well as the concept of transformation into animals. Animals have such unique and infectious personalities, and can do such amazing things.


Anyways, me just enjoying furry art from a distance for awhile, and then one day, a few months ago, I find myself thinking (it's related, I swear); wow. Am I bisexual?


I talk to my 'big sister' about it, and after much confusion on my end and uncertainty, she helped me figure out; IT'S OKAY TO BE QUEER AND WEIRD, But most importantly, yourself!

So fast forward a few more months, and I talk to another friend who really likes wolves. I tried to ask if she was a furry, but she instead explained that she mainly liked ginjinkas and all, though it was totally cool if I was a furry XD! Sorta weird story, but she really got me thinking on this; just what is a furry? What do they do?

So one veeerrry late ... I think October night, I decide to pick up my ears, and browse around to see if there's a furry forum that wasn't fur affinity; lo and behold, I found TFF!

Now, as to why I'm a dog;


Ever since Freshman year, my big sis, who is perhaps one of the most awesome people in the world, took me under her wing; we'd met earlier at a lock in party a few months ago, and we recognized each other from the shared interests we had.

ANyways, she took me to hang out with some of the most awesome seniors I'd ever met, mainly because I have a more mature mindset, and I had a blast! THey started calling me 'Pup' from the way I always followed them around, and wanted to hang out.

It got me thinking just how much I really do act like a dog. Not to mention I had created a character named Alex for an RP group I'm in, and he really acted like a dog.

As one could guess, I just threw some fur on him, made him a real dog, alligned him a bit more with my personality, and voíla; Alexander Laetus, the furry Ryan Cowell!

That's pretty much it, I think! My story how I became, and still am, a furry.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: MaskaTheOtter on December 10, 2013, 05:49:39 PM
^And You are the best dog there is  ;)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: ProfessorMurdock on December 11, 2013, 12:39:17 AM
I work at a nature preserve and I take care of wild animals all day so this just seems right for me :)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on December 11, 2013, 12:40:12 AM
Explain... Please...
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: ProfessorMurdock on December 11, 2013, 12:57:43 AM
Explain... Please...


Sorry, I will do so.
I work at the nature preserve Cedar Bog (it is really a fen not a bog). We take care of a large number or endangered plants and even some animals. Other than maintenance I also take care of the "house animals" which could be anything for example skunks, snakes, raccoons, lizards, and even bees. I feel like they accept me and I am one with them. Also I love the idea of anthro animals I think it is super sweet. I hope I clarified everything for you for you.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on December 11, 2013, 01:00:27 AM
Yeah! Great, man! I don't mean to be too harsh, i was just a little confuzed when i just saw such a short explanation.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: ProfessorMurdock on December 11, 2013, 01:01:29 AM
Yeah! Great, man! I don't mean to be too harsh, i was just a little confuzed when i just saw such a short explanation.


All Good I am new to the FORUM world sorry
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on December 11, 2013, 01:08:59 AM
Forum world!
I became a furry when i just got more and more drawn into it, the original spark was kitty0706 (http://www.youtube.com/user/kitty0706) with his random references to furry stuff. (anything that is blue is a link)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Nicklaus Morgan on December 12, 2013, 05:36:53 PM
By watching a lot of caroons and finding out that people like to dress up like animals ... Fell in love on the first sight
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Toxic Konpeito on December 12, 2013, 07:57:38 PM
I started out very similar growing up, enjoying Secret of Nimh,  Disney's Robin Hood and especially The Lion King, and eventually Pokémon. I wasn't allowed to attend school as a child, so most of my playtime was spent alone making up mental games and playing with imaginary friends (who eventually turned out to be my fursona). I didn't really find out about the fandom until I was about 14-15, and I was freaked out by it a little at first (I had seen that episode of C.S.I), but I got to know a few people who were involved with it and gave it a try just to see what it was all about. Haven't left since. And the fact that I'm an obsessive art hoarder doesn't help XD
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Snow Kittie on December 13, 2013, 05:07:34 AM
Here is my full detailed story, I was going to make a thread about it but decided I should just post it here!

I am a furry. That is the plain truth. I don’t know when exactly I started being a furry by definition, but I’ve known about it for a couple months now. I’ve been interested in anthropomorphic characters (fictional non-human characters with human characteristics) for as long as I can remember, loving movies such as The Fox and the Hound, Alpha and Omega, Sonic, and other various kid oriented material. To this day I secretly get excited when I see such a movie in our pile to watch, but I don’t let anyone know.  I also love games where I get to be the animal, a perfect example being Pokemon. I used to have a game where I was a pokemon and I was addicted to it, however I find the other pokemon games where I am a human joining battles and such very boring. Sometimes I would see an anthropomorphic art piece and really like it, maybe stop and look at it for a while.

I always assumed something was wrong with me and I shouldn’t like this stuff, especially after asking my friend if he thought about the art in the same way and he said no giving me a weird look. I spent many years hiding it, not knowing what was wrong with me, thinking I was an outsider and didn’t belong. One night, while watching TV, I saw a house full of people in animal costumes being very promiscuous and I thought it was the weirdest thing I have ever seen on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (Episode: Fur and Loathing). However, I was somewhat intrigued. My memory of that episode disappeared after about two weeks.

A couple months later I accidentally stumbled across the furry fandom on Wikipedia, along with yiffing and other furry terms. The next day I went to school and joked about it all to my friends, we all talked about how odd it was and I thought they must be very crazy people. A week passed and I was looking it up again, digging for more info, simply for the reason of pursuing knowledge. I read on and on and found new pages, new terms, etc. Again, we joked about it at school.

A few more weeks passed and something clicked inside me. I don’t remember what triggered it, but I realized I was a furry! I went home that night and read up on it, picking out the details this time instead of skimming over, and the more I read the more I confirmed it. I started looking up furry art, and even got into the less-then-family-friendly materials. This quickly died off, and for a month I was left with the vague knowledge that I was a furry, moving on with life.

Some time went by and then I was reminded of the fandom. From here things started to take root, growing and growing into a full obsession. I started noticing the furries in my school, guessing who was and who wasn’t. I started, again, learning more about the fandom. I found out about conventions, fursuits, fursonas, and more. It was all a blur, and still is, so I can’t place many details, all I know for sure is that I went from the thought that furries exist and they are weird to the thought that I am one and I’m glad.
I suddenly had a description and an explanation for my odd thoughts. I had a community to relate to and talk to. Suddenly, I wasn’t so weird anymore. I mean, I am very weird, but now weird isn’t so bad. I had thought that weird was horrible and I needed to be normal, but now I feel that weird is to be embraced and I should express myself!
My knowledge grew and grew in confusing spirals and paths and tunnels, learning one thing, than connecting it with another, then jumping ahead and having to back track. It was all such a mess, but eventually it was figured out. I knew what most of the terms meant, enough to describe them to others, and I started to get myself situated in the position. I created a fursona, which at the time I also thought was a fursuit, and I started to draw simple little sketches. I gave up on the sketches, being I couldn’t even get the head right, and focused instead on my mind. I joined forums and bookmarked pages such as the MidWest Furfest, Anthrocon, and FurAffinity.

Over the next few days I learned a lot from my days on the forums, for example a fursona and fur suit are two different things, and that the furry community isn’t all about the sketchy stuff either, its centered around art.  I learned that the show I had watched wasn't quite accurate, and I made connections to the things I had learned earlier. Every day I learned more feeling more confident with my understanding each day. During this time of learning I also made a couple yarn tails, and wore them to school for a couple weeks. After those weeks my obsession dwindled and I fell into my place, as a furry.

I realize now, that my first impressions were wrong. Furries are simply people, in a community together, celebrating something they all like. Everyone has there fandoms and obsessions, everyone has the occasional odd thought and wishes that maybe they aren't quite sure about. I had felt uncomfortable being different when I was alone, but with people to relate to and talk to I feel much more calm. The fandom is like a family, all hyper-happy-loving-friendly people that I am proud to be a part of. When you really get to know furries they are great people, I was one of those haters but I've changed now and have a different point of view. Proud to be furry.

…However apparently a second wave of the obsession is hitting. Cause here I am typing all this… Hi.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Halopromise on December 13, 2013, 08:11:34 AM
Hm, I've answered this a lot over the years, always fun to recap though! See the differences from before and then.


For me, as an artist, I began drawing around the age of 3 years old due to my dad always wanting to teach me. He barely had to make a habit of it since I took right too it immediately. I suppose as an artist, I've also appreciated creativity more than most things. My class mates in elementary drew their siblings or random people, all the while here I was drawing my pets and dragons.


My mother always hooked my to Disney classics, Lion King, Beauty and the beast, fox and the hound, we're back and a whole lot more. XD
Besides all that, as I grew up, I took to animal documentaries very quickly. From things by Steve Irwin to Big cat diaries. I'd always head to the school library to read up on animal biology, behavior and things of that nature. Just fascinated me.


I always began constantly drawing anthropomorphic creatures through middle school and up; luckily, it was almost common and very accepted. I'd say a lot of us there were furries and never knew.


Soon after, my "sister" introduced me into an online game called "wolf quest" and that was the very first time I heard about role play (besides video game sorts). I was at first, a little drawn back but it didn't repell me at all. At first, I just shrugged it off, but the next day I believe I asked her to help me join up. She taught me what role play was and I began. Almost 5 or so months go by and the compacity of the game became troublesome since I had formed a pack that the serves couldn't handle in one game. (5 or so limit).
We made a site just so we can all meet up and talk over a chat, that site evolved immensely once it turned into the packs RPG. After I created the site, it reached nearly 3000 members within a couple years and ran quiet smoothly.


 Around it's second year I saw the word "furry" and instantly began researching to find out it was so much larger than I thought. Figured I belonged. More of the feral community when it comes to role play, but still.


Besides all that, I've had my fursona since I was 11, which is waaay before I even owned the RPG. Stuck with her since.


SO YEAH....
Long story is long...ish.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: nixon/monto on December 13, 2013, 01:39:59 PM
Loved that story. My favorite yet.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Nicklaus Morgan on December 13, 2013, 01:45:31 PM
Wow ... Very nice story ... I loved it :D
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Edie on December 13, 2013, 03:08:22 PM
You know, I am not exactly sure how I became a furry. Sometimes I would be watching a cartoon when I was in the single digits and thinking, "Huh, that animal dude is pretty cool." I thought about if I were an animal person like him I'd probably have a crush on him. I had no idea what a furry was of course, so considering furry is kind of a self-proclaimed title I was not yet a furry.

A few years later and I am a teenager, sitting with one of my best friends. She looks at me one day and asks me all of a sudden, "Are you a furry?" and in response I just sort of look at her confused.

"No?" then I think about it a little, "What?"

"A furry, are you a furry?"

This went on for about a week, I didn't look up what a furry was, or anything to do with the fandom because I didn't really ever think about it when I wasn't with her. I didn't go to many places on the internet, and I didn't really talk to many people about things on the internet. Never went on forums or image boards.

Then she asked me again like she had every time we were hanging out, "Hey, are you a furry? Come on, tell me."

"Um... I don't even know what a furry is."

So she explained it to me, and then showed me furaffinity, and all that saying, "Huh, a lot of furries are good artists... where is all the good art." and thus she had to consult her former furry adviser.

"You have to turn off the filtering, most of the good art is porn."

"Oh thanks." she said. Then she showed me the furry stuff and asked again in a very serious manner, "Are you a furry?"

I said, "Yeah, I think I'm a furry." and from that moment on I was made fun of in a light hearted way by my friends and certain family members who knew what a furry is.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on December 14, 2013, 12:20:58 AM
That seems cool, and noone i know exept for one gal really knows what a furry is, and i never got to meet up with any irl.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Edie on December 15, 2013, 02:52:43 AM
It's not really that cool, my friend is still surprised when I use terms like "Potential Mate"
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on December 15, 2013, 02:53:50 AM
Ah, ok so theyknow, but not much.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Edie on December 15, 2013, 03:05:58 AM
She thinks it's funny when I use terms that are used by furries.
The first time I said that when I was with her her response was "That is the furriest thing I have ever heard you say."
I was like "Really?"
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on December 15, 2013, 03:15:28 PM
Wow. Whenever i say something, they just ingore what i said and conteniue the converstion. Ironically, my sister knows more about it than i do, and asks so many questions, some. Am incapable to answer.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Edie on December 15, 2013, 09:34:31 PM
Nobody asks me about it anymore, and I don't really talk to anyone, so nobody to ask too many difficult questions.
They've all been... taken care of.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on December 15, 2013, 11:34:09 PM
Always good. I wish I had that kind of closure, before peril ensued, and then the drama, and then the *pleh*
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Edie on December 15, 2013, 11:51:48 PM
I feel that there should be no peril involved in being a furry from outside sources. It's weird.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on December 15, 2013, 11:55:54 PM
Its a long story, that is non-related and off-topic.
*Switch Gears*
I found out a couple dramatic things after shouting it out of my parents, and after finding medical records, I could confirm madness. Ask, and I shall answer, I am in a tired mood, so i'll come back if you ask.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: William Dynwood on December 22, 2013, 03:31:39 AM
I told nobody about the fact that I became a furry. Cause I already know what kind of reactions I will get. Espesially since my dad installed a PC Monitor program on my standard PC... Thats why I only log into this forum on my laptop and phone in incognito mode. Its sad, but I think I have no choice. TheFluorescentVulpes, I would like to hear your story, but if you do not want to post it in this topic, feel free to PM me.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: L4BY_ on December 27, 2013, 11:27:54 AM
Well, it started a long time ago when I was about 5 years old.
At that time, I was a big fan of Disney films. But I was also fascinated by transformations. It may have come from Disney or other Cartoons, I don't know. I don't remember. But I know at that age, I had a lot of dreams where I would become an animal or transform into one.

Years passed and my passion continued living, I kept it secret from the others 'cause I knew they would consider me as weird if I told them about it.  I didn't have any friends when I was yound, I was lonely. I felt a bit different from the others because I had different interests. I also started drawing mazes, and that too I still don't know from where it came from.

Then came the french "Collège" for 11 to 15 years old. I didn't make any friends there either, people kept rejecting me or teesing me. So, I imagined myself in my head as a magician, capable of punishing them and transforming them physically or mentaly into animals, I invented a whole story about it. Of course, I didn't mention it to the others and kept it for myself.

I also got my first computer at that time too. At first, I just watched videos, but then I had the idea of searching for transformation art. I found sex-related stuff, but no normal art as I wanted. So, I continued inventing and imagining my second imaginary life in my head.


5 years later, I went into an other school named in France "Lycée". There was a lot of rough people there, and most of them were in my class. I didn't know how to socialize with them, and I quickly got ignored by the others. There had this only boy in my class that was lonely, the others teesed him a lot but he didn't realize that 'cause he had mental problems (I don't remember the name of what he had). I decided to protect Gilles from what the others said about him, and what was supposed to be a good action turned against me.

One day, an accident happened. I was there when it did. I was in the boys toilets cabins when suddenly 2 boys of my class came in with Gilles. They asked him if he could take off his trousers 'cause they were curious to know how his penis looked like. He didn't know what to answer, I wanted to please them but he was scared of doing it. They manipulated him to do it, and he did. Then, they took photos and showed them to the whole class. I was shocked of what happened and I wanted to protect Gilles.

So, I told the teachers about it, then the teachers told the parents, and the parents told the police about it. And for some reason, everyone is my class knew I told everything. I told them what I thought of it, but they didn't give a fudge about what I had to say. So then, everyone hated me and ignored me. I was taking a treatment at that time for acne, that could apparently for some people make them deeply depressive. I felt like I had no point of living.


So, since nobody cared about me, I started dreaming again about having a second life. I didn't care about school anymore, or about the others. I stayed on my own, in my corner, thinking and wishing to live my life again, as a fox.

Then, June came and things got a lot worse. I was really depressive, I felt really useless to the world and I wanted to die and live an other life. The people at school teesed me and made me feel really crap about myself. I stopped going to school then and stayed at home on my computer.

In the summer holidays, I discovered DeviantART, and also discovered anthros. I also discovered furries, I thought it was an other word for fursona. I didn't know that there had a vast community behind it. So, I joined a small group of furries without knowing the real meaning of the word itself.

In September, I entered a new school, and this time, I made myself plenty of friends. And, one of them was a furry. I told him at first about my interests in anthro art hoping that he wouldn't consider me as a weirdo. But, suprisingly, he told me he loves it too. For the first time ever, I met someone who had the same interests as me and that made me really happy in the sense that I wasn't the only person in France to like anthro art.

We had great discussions about it, he learned me a lot of stuff about anthros and furries. I searched for the real definition of the word and found the furry dictionnary. That's when I realized I was a furry.

He also told me there had communities of furries on the internet, places like forums where he liked to speak with other furries from time to time. So, I searched for the forums he told me about and I found you guys..



So yeah, that's the whole story. I know, it's pretty big. Excuse me if I went a bit of topic in one part.
Also, excuse me if my english is a bit weird, that's because I'm french. ;)

- Lab.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on December 27, 2013, 06:08:27 PM
Wow.

I liked tranformation stuff too when i was a kid!
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Kibari on December 28, 2013, 03:20:20 AM
Well I've always been an "animal person" of sorts, I won't go too much into that, though.
I believe I discovered the furry fandom when I was quite a bit more younger through feral, sparkledog and chibi anthro artists on deviantArt (of popular artists: atomicfishbowl (now apparently known as Falvie), Tamberella (aka SnowAro), TaniDaReal and silverfox5213), certainly I found an interest in how people had fursonas online and I felt connected but at the same time I didn't think I could draw and I couldn't and it put me off the whole thing for a while. After my parents recommended for me to take up new hobbies a while ago I said I'd take up drawing and showed them something that was simple (not a character) but they liked it a lot. In this next year I will be hopefully attending art class and learning to draw on paper and I am also going to be making digital art once I have a tablet. After that I decided to actually participate in the furry community instead of just exploring and reading all about it. I pretty much learnt a lot about the history of the furry fandom, it's issues (which I'm glad to be conscious of, so I can avoid any misunderstandings), what it means to different people and the variation in the content. From it's evolution as a post-funny animal / sci-fi comic fandom offshoot to a fandom appealing to those who were introduced to the personification of animals via the mainstream (Disney films, Redwall, TV cartoons, etc - of which to some degree influenced me, too) with its base striving on either identity with creativity or escaping the human world with art and roleplay. Nowadays I spend quite sometime browsing for furry art on deviantArt and other sites such as Weasyl and FA and roleplaying, etc. I usually feel more comfortably being quite more on the feral end than anthro, though I love playing semi-anthro (looking more so feral when on four legs, but capable of walking upright like most anthros do), as well - for my preference I often dodged the furry community as much as I like anthros in art but now I'm more comfortable I've opened myself up to the more anthro side of things, as well. Once I'm good enough I hope to draw furry art and also other kinds of art (I'm beginning to find art as very meditative since I suffer a lot of anxiety). Though, right now my socialising is just in talking to people I know are furries and won't bite my head off for demonstrating my "animal-person" tendencies on the internet. I don't get on well with those who don't share my interests and are rude or bullyish, thankfully this site doesn't seem to have any of that, really. I'm thankful I've found such a welcoming, decently-mannered, accepting, friendly online community :3
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 02:27:56 PM
I think I've always been a Furry. It just took me a while to realize and come to terms with it (why in the world was I apprehensive? :? ). I've been around animals my entire life and would often mimic them, or play with them as if I was one of them. It was about a year or to until I found the Furry community and have never felt so at home in my life!  XD
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: HyenaKing on January 04, 2014, 06:33:19 PM
You were maybe apprehensve because you mightve been afrid it was not what you are.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 07:29:30 PM
I'm like that a lot, but I'm settled now. :)
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Post by: juliet on January 04, 2014, 09:21:32 PM
I became a furry because generally, I already act like a kitten. So was it not fitting to fix myself into an animal setting?

My friend introduced me to another forum and turned me into a furry, haha!

However I didn't like that forum because a lot of the people there were highly unreasonable. I like it much better here though.

To elaborate on the I act like a kitten, I mew in different ways for different emotions and I purr when people pet me. I'm extremely playful, and sensitive. Ironically my fur is a wolf, though Id rater her be a fox or rabbit


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Post by: HyenaKing on January 04, 2014, 09:26:33 PM
Noone is stopping you frm changing your fursona. I've done it once.
Hmm.
I jsut was eventually more and more and more curious over months and just found myself once staring at a picture of a furry.
And then i mad e the connection.
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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 09:29:11 PM
I just picture you staring at a picture of a Furry for hours and then screaming "IT'S ALL SO CLEAR TO ME NOW! I'M A FURRY!"  XP
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Post by: juliet on January 04, 2014, 09:37:27 PM
Haha! I know but I just am so indecisive! I'll try some of them out. I dunno.


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Post by: HyenaKing on January 04, 2014, 09:45:26 PM
i didnt scream, i jsut pointed at he air, and said "Aha! You Stupid Mother******! Your a furry!"
I't was clean art, because i'm not a pervertd moron.
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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 09:47:36 PM
Glad to know that my mind is just as random as ever! I struggle to find clean art. (and DeviantArt is annoying to me) :S
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Post by: juliet on January 04, 2014, 10:08:36 PM
*likes the unclean art and can be a dirty pervert.* ;-; *hides in a closet from society.*


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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 10:11:33 PM
As long as it won't cause a problem, it doesn't bother me. :) There's really no need to overreact about such things. "whatever floats your boat" :3
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Post by: juliet on January 04, 2014, 10:16:33 PM
Okay, I normally just keep stuff to my self. I DREW ONE PICTURE ONCE. It was an art request. So just dun look on my DA xD


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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 10:17:53 PM
Haha thanks for the warning!  :)
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 04, 2014, 10:23:06 PM
*likes the unclean art and can be a dirty pervert.* ;-; *hides in a closet from society.*


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I'm stuck in here too, but not all the time.
Okay, I normally just keep stuff to my self. I DREW ONE PICTURE ONCE. It was an art request. So just dun look on my DA xD


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Good thing i dont know where it is.
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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 10:27:01 PM
I was shown some dirty pics by an old "friend" who was an anti-fur, trying to bring me over to his side. We're not friends any more, not after I told him just how wrong he is!  ^_^
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Post by: juliet on January 04, 2014, 10:27:25 PM
Yup xDD


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Post by: HyenaKing on January 04, 2014, 10:28:20 PM
I've got the label "perverted Moron" for coming out as a furry, and not give out any details on enven my fursona.
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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 10:32:19 PM
Most likely the reaction I'll get from my oldest brother if I ever got around to telling him. :( But it won't matter to me, I can leave the house and go to my hideaway whenever I wanted!  ^_^
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 04, 2014, 10:35:29 PM
My sister reacted my contantly playing "WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY" and siniging it
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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 10:40:43 PM
That song drives me nuts. I can't stand it.  >:( It's also one of those songs that will stick in your head for ages! I'll most likely be mocked if my brother has friends around (He's quite sly with his jabs, but when he has friend around he can stay stuff that really hurts) :'(
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 04, 2014, 10:48:07 PM
it's quite funny like gangam style. the song is making fun of celebrities and mainstream music in general.
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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 10:52:23 PM
And the ultimate irony is that it becomes mainstream!  XD
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 04, 2014, 10:53:45 PM
It was desighned to from a technical standpoint.
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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 10:57:05 PM
Why do I find that so funny? :? I really confuse myself sometimes. Everyone I know keeps saying that the video for "what does the fox say?" was filmed at a furry convention. :S
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 04, 2014, 11:00:06 PM
because it was not.
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Post by: Grey on January 04, 2014, 11:02:23 PM
It really frustrates me when people say things like that. All they negative imagery of Furries is what made me scared to be one in the first place.  :( I'm not scared anymore, mind.
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Post by: ShiroTenshiRyu on January 04, 2014, 11:11:36 PM
How did I become a furry? Well I think that goes back to the fact that I was at first a scalie. I've spent my entire life obsessed with Dragons, (That fursona will become real one day) and well I've always been a scalie. I started to notice I was a furry when I started to watch anime. Particularly so with Yuffie from Code Geass. I was a closet fur for a long time, until I met Tayy. Then nothing was ever secret XD
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Post by: FurryJason100 on January 06, 2014, 11:19:25 PM
I know I posted a while back but another reason is that I wanted to be anything I wasn't, I wanted to transform into a furry. I know it's weird but I remember seeing Pinocchio as a child and watching that part about the kid turning into a donkey really got my attention, I was a little uncomfortable by it. Mostly it was interesting, another is beauty and the beast. I liked to be an animal, to understand my animal instincts, I used to howl like a wolf (now I can't do that because of my Adam's apple). I like to unleash my inner animal and act like a werewolf, I wanted a fur suit so I can express my feelings, I made my fursona so I can have another personality (animal) Inside me. I can thank werewolves for inspiring me to join the fandom
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 07, 2014, 08:07:59 AM
Pretty cool, man
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Post by: Gammawolf99 on January 07, 2014, 08:22:45 AM
90s cartoons. Enough said.  XP
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 07, 2014, 08:23:41 AM
Heh, indeed one of the many reasons i became a furry.
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Post by: SwedishFur on January 07, 2014, 09:04:08 PM
How I became a furry? It's complicated, but I guess it started at the same time I realized to myself I was a bit bisexual.
From that point I started develop some sort of fursona I felt I had a deeper connection with. I couldn't figure out what kind of fursona it was though after looking and searching around the internet for a while. By now, I didn't even know what a "furry" was or if the word even existed. X3  All I knew was that the deep connection made me feel very happy. I had been at every possible site involving furry fandom and one day when I found the word "furry", I looked it up and from that point I definitely knew I was a furry. The story ends with finding you guys!  :D
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 08, 2014, 05:32:29 AM
cool.
Nice picture, by the way.
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Post by: SwedishFur on January 08, 2014, 08:53:18 AM
Thanks! :)
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Post by: Cheza on January 13, 2014, 07:55:59 PM
At first when I was in a really nasty spot in my life, I started to listen to a band called Sonata Arctica, who apparently have as their "thing" to write songs about, or songs that relates to wolves... I found comfort in said songs and started to come up with wolves and stories myself, with one of my many characters being Cheza.

Back in those days I didn't even know what a furry was, nor did I really care much about it... I had my "guardian wolf" and was perfectly happy with keeping us as two separate characters, but slowly as time passed we kinda grew together... But then a few years later, about 2 years ago, I started in a new school and met a fox who introduced me to the fandom. I didn't join immediatly since I've never really liked to fit myself into any group, but a few months ago I decided to join for real, and then the most natural choice for me was to "become" Cheza and bring her to life as a thank-you for keeping me alive ^^

So here you have me, a silly little creature offering free cleaning for the insides of your screens xD
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Post by: Aurora-Ice on January 14, 2014, 01:06:52 PM
I suppose it really started first when I was little. I really loved movies and cartoons with talking, or anthropermorphized animals, like Cats Don't Dance, We're Back, Oliver & Company and so on. I also loved to pretend to be animals when I played make-believe, both alone, and with my friends.

I've always adored animals of all shapes and sizes, and when I got a little older I started to enjoy book series like Warriors, Seekers, Silver Wing, and Gardians of Ga'Hoole. That's the point where I first started to notice the furry community while looking around for the fandoms for the series. Though I never paid them much attention or interacted with them.
It wasn't until highschool that I really found out what Furries were, while I was still performing at sport functions as my school's mascot. People talked about it, so I got curious and asked. Sadly what I was told was that Furries were a bunch of freaky child molesters who thought they were animals and liked to try to be intimate with animals, stuffed toys, or one another while dressed in mascot suits. So I was really put off by it for a long time.

It wasn't until I started going to collage that I learned that very few Furries are like that, if any at all. Soon after I started to sort of seek out the fandom and poke my head around. Did a lot of lurking, started to grow a fondness for the idea of being a fur, and was pointed out to this forum as a good SFW and welcoming  forum to get my foot through the door as a new fur.
Joined...did a LOT more lurking, and now here I am.
 
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 15, 2014, 12:58:53 AM
got a little older I started to enjoy book series like Warriors,



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Post by: Famanai on January 15, 2014, 12:12:19 PM
hmmm, alot of the same influences as others so i know that feeling all to well. I had been very much into anthros and Dragons from an early age. In my stories i had written for a few years it really meant alot to flesh out there world and I ofcourse love absorbing similar series. :)

Cartoons as a kid, quiet a few books and just how much I love to daydream and see myself as something else. Mostly my Dragon like aliens such as Famanai or the bipedal anthros who civilise the world they both inhabit.
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 15, 2014, 11:27:04 PM
Well, I sorta drifted intop it after coming to after daydreaming looking at art.
I watched tons of cartoons and pretended i was a Transformation kid from harry potter until high school.
Me and my Cambodian friend. Too bad he got enthrawled into bronies and never witnessed what a furry realy is...
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Post by: Shiothefox on January 16, 2014, 03:17:12 AM
I will give a better answer than my one in september... Well any signs there may have been, and i can point out a few, i had repressed in childhood as an attempt to act older than I really was, mainly because i had always been treated in a condescending way for basically my whole life. I enjoyed a lot of things an eight year old kid would not typically enjoy, like the weather channel, but there was a little part of me missing. I often felt a little empty inside and of course there was some interest to a few things I had little access to, like ratchet and clank video game and I enjoyed sonic the hedgehog as a character, never video game. I never watched many cartoons after the age of 6 or 7, but ones i did watch, I enjoyed the animal characters but again, my repression kicked in and i tried to isolate myself from all things childish. Now, lets fast-forward a few years... In 2009 i think, i was 13 years old, I saw 1000 ways to die and this guy was high on shrooms wandered out into the desert and found a bunch of people in animal costumes that were described as "furries" and they were a dry humping and they had a "furry" come on the show and tell them about the "furry sex" and this guy was like 25 and looked like he played a lot of World of Warcraft ... so i naturally wanted nothing to do with it, and a couple years later I saw a yahoo answers question posted by a guy who had uncontrollable sexual desires around animals and he got an answer from someone claiming to be a "furry" and said hey, there is a community for people like you called "furries" and I am part of it and again, that drew me away from the fandom, so for 4 years, I had this picture in my head of furries being sex-crazed maniacs dry-humping in the woods... but this summer 2013, I saw a tosh.0 episode with a furry guy on the internet posting this rant, so I finally decided to look it up, and the clean art I loved! I looked into it more and found that most furs don't do all that sick perverted stuff so I slowly inched in, grew fond of anthro foxes and huskies and here I am today! Now my only issue is the same dilemma plaguing me for years, which is being perceived as "childish" or just "weird"
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Post by: Philosophunculist on January 21, 2014, 08:53:30 PM
It all happened so fast that it's hard to tell, I was just overwhelmed by the cuteness of fur suits (which I discovered through YouTube vids) and cons and the amazing community. I discovered the amazing art (clean and dirty  XP  (quite a bit of yiff)) and felt a great emotional attachment to this world that I wanted to be a part of so much!   ^_^ 
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Post by: Ben on January 21, 2014, 08:56:03 PM
my buddy in the military was one and he got me very interested  in it and here i am now
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 22, 2014, 12:36:32 AM
Oh, look a millytary dude!
What branch?

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Post by: Ben on January 22, 2014, 02:34:35 AM
army wanted to be a marine  :/
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 24, 2014, 06:11:20 AM
Literally can bike to the USAFA, so its chosen for me.
Id explain in depth on how  became a furry more if it wasnt fixated o a couple innopropriate and cotreversial things.
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Post by: Ben on January 24, 2014, 10:05:51 AM
canis what have you been doing
laughs
i dont care what you do bud
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 25, 2014, 03:59:03 AM
Not really what you think.

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Post by: Ben on January 25, 2014, 04:04:44 AM
i don't care what you did haha your cool in my books
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 25, 2014, 05:30:37 PM
Thank you, that means quite a bit.

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Post by: Ben on January 26, 2014, 03:23:10 AM
nudges you  >.> B) B) <.<
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 26, 2014, 04:27:05 AM
WHADYA WAAANT
I became a furry because.. Oh, how? I jsut did.

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Post by: nixon/monto on January 26, 2014, 02:15:11 PM
There's gotta be more then that bud. Come on.


Live and let live
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 26, 2014, 03:34:09 PM
A friend i knew hung himself because his parents did not accept him g=being gay.
He had a tail. I peeked into that stuff.
I just couldn't not make a dedication to him.
I liked the stuff he was in. So i joined more as a dedication to him.
I could explian more but, any more depth and i'd have something like 4 pages of crap.

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Post by: nixon/monto on January 26, 2014, 05:18:38 PM
That's all good man. A memory of someone is something dear...I'm one to know. ;(


Live and let live
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Post by: Ben on January 26, 2014, 09:34:16 PM
i also know what its like to lose all my friends
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 26, 2014, 11:02:54 PM
I lose lots of friends but i find new ones.
Back to topic
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Post by: Akami Red Fox on January 30, 2014, 05:07:57 PM
I became a furry from my non-furry friends. They started talking about how weird and stupid furry is and I asked what furry is. They explained it briefly but I googled it later on that day. I didn't see what the big issue is as most of the hate is from false stereotypes. So I did some more research of what a furry is and loved the idea. And here I am now :D
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Post by: HyenaKing on January 31, 2014, 02:41:01 PM
Cool.
Every time i listen to some old music by a fur, makes me think if the Furry community is growing or shrinking.
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Post by: AnotherVerticalLine on February 12, 2014, 08:24:26 AM
Hello! I personally became furry since...well I was born this way. I have 1 friend that isn't a furry, and i've never told my parents.
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Post by: Peanut B. Rawket on February 17, 2014, 01:48:31 AM
I met some people, they happened to be furs, and they seemed kinda nice, and they introduced me to the furry thing.
i liked it, and decided why not, and here i am c:.


I also liked games/cartoons with anthropomorphic animals too. so i suppose that's something!
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Post by: KaneQuicktail on March 08, 2014, 09:03:22 AM
I was hanging out with my friends one evening in my best friend's brother's apartment (that was our hangout, we were all good friends). Anyway, my best friend used to listen to the Distorted View podcast and sometimes they did videos. So we were watching one of the video-casts and there was a bunch of furries in suit in it. I had no idea what it was, never seen a fursuit before. Went home and googled it up and next thing I know I joined a forum and made some really good friends.

That was almost 6 years ago and since then I've been to 3 conventions, countless gathers, and made my own tail!
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Post by: Loubec on March 10, 2014, 07:18:11 AM
Weeeellllllll, I used to pretend to be a cat when I was little, and tell myself stories about animals late at night. I've always been really into animals, and when I was 11 or 12 I found a huge amount of yiff art and was like "??!?!?!?" Buuuut here I am 8 years later and after my friend started drawing her bunsona I was just like "hey why not?" and now I'm a furry.
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Post by: Seyka on March 13, 2014, 07:39:15 PM
What? Sorry I was too lazy to read the first comment. =p From the topic title I assumed it meant how did I find this site. XD

*ahem*

Lesse... happened this year... Uhmm... I dunno, it sorta just happened. I've been obsessive about moogles and moved on from there. Originally, my fursona was just a moogle, but I decided I wanted to be a little more original and made up the fursona I had... There were other things throughout my life that kinda hinted at my furriness, but I didn't actually embrace the idea until after my moogle-obsession. =p Again, sorry for not reading the first post.




I love moogles!!!!! <3
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Post by: ShiroTenshiRyu on March 13, 2014, 08:14:02 PM
Oh my fish! We should all get Moogels made to look like our furs :D
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Post by: nixon/monto on March 13, 2014, 08:16:36 PM
Omg that would be so cute. (Just let me google...moogle! I rymed.)


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Post by: ShiroTenshiRyu on March 13, 2014, 08:23:22 PM
Yes yes yes yes yes!
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Post by: Seyka on March 13, 2014, 08:27:47 PM
That sounds like such an awesome idea you got there! ^^
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Post by: nixon/monto on March 14, 2014, 01:09:34 AM
How could we do this though? Maybe we could call a company or something? In other words I would love a plushie of my self!
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Post by: ENOJI Kengura on March 25, 2014, 04:58:46 PM
I became a wolf by trying to find a way to express myself. I was looking at some art online in 2009 and saw this community of standing animals and at first, dismissed it. 4 years later, I find it again and decide to join so I can be able to show my raving side through an animal for which I have chosen to represent myself: a wolf. Ever since, I can act the way I want with others who accept me as an equal. It's quite amazing... :)


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Post by: desukawaii on March 26, 2014, 07:40:17 PM
It happened a very long time ago but I never have acted upon it until now for fear of societies views and whatnot.. I made a few friends who were familiar with the fandom, I would dabble in it with them, until eventually I gained enough confidence to create my own fursona and act upon my desires, now I'm here and its the greatest decision I've ever made, I couldn't be happier :D
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Post by: RPFox on March 28, 2014, 03:43:26 PM
Come to think of it, yeah. It was definitely Brian Jacques, and the Red wall books. Also (strangely) many of the Egyptian gods/goddesses. I only heard about Furry about 4 years ago, and I guess that's how long I've been a Furry. Yep.
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Post by: DingoBoii on March 31, 2014, 12:54:13 AM
All honesty, Starfox Adventures, Coke a Cola, Some Booze, 2 allnighters, and Google, all together brought me to finding the term furry.

Upon further reading many many years ago, about 5 years ago, I found out that furries had the same interests that I did, and that I was like them, a serious love for anthro animals. So I became one, and have been a furry ever since and will never leave
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Post by: MaskaTheOtter on April 01, 2014, 06:49:20 AM
All honesty, Starfox Adventures, Coke a Cola, Some Booze, 2 allnighters, and Google, all together brought me to finding the term furry.

Upon further reading many many years ago, about 5 years ago, I found out that furries had the same interests that I did, and that I was like them, a serious love for anthro animals. So I became one, and have been a furry ever since and will never leave
That makes sense to me. Well we are glad to have you with us
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Post by: Nicklaus Morgan on April 03, 2014, 10:32:04 PM
Hehe ... Nice ... I agree with Maska  ^_^
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Post by: Thalion on April 05, 2014, 07:04:29 PM
The 90's got me into the furry universe. Rescue rangers, biker mice from mars, and TMNT to name a few.
When you grow up with that kind of stuff and search the internet you stumble upon other fans rather quickly then come to find out they are this bizarre thing called furries? O.o
I like the fandom because honestly, its more laid back and just happier! :D
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Post by: Silverwind Blade on April 06, 2014, 10:22:40 AM
I always love seeing this topic!
For my own story -


I was always interested in cartoons, books and the like with anthro characters. I grew up in the 80's and the early 90's, where there were a lot of cartoons that featured them.
I used to draw all the time (seriously - at one point my parents ran out of paper in the house because my sister and I drew so much!) and I taught myself to draw anthro characters.
My friends at the time and I used to play pretend with such characters, but as we drifted into different things, I lost touch with them, and as you do, hid my hobbies and interests for the most part as I got older.


When I was at college around 97-98 (ish, it was a while ago; I don't remember properly now!) I had access to the 'net at college, and found out about the whole 'furry thing', and that it existed.


It wasn't until my family got the 'net at home around 99ish that I found there was a UK fur scene, and got involved by going to London meets, which were local to me, living in Reading. I've been involved in the fandom on and off since then, with money being my main inhibiting factor in getting more involved by going to things like big conventions and such.
I keep my hand (paw?) in by roleplaying and writing, and occasionally going to local meets when they're on, and my own schedule doesn't clash.
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Post by: hdrgn on April 07, 2014, 06:18:00 PM
Well, i would rather not say my first reason for getting involved but the main reason i got involved is because of a friend at my school
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Post by: Ho'en Diheart on April 08, 2014, 12:21:57 PM
Maybe, I was one since I was a child. I don't know, but I wasn't for sure until 4 years ago, when I was watching a tv show where they were talking about people who believed  they were animals in the inside. It started as a werewolf thing, but then ended up as a a furry.
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Post by: OriontheFox on April 08, 2014, 10:05:39 PM
Welp. I can distinctly remember how at 6/7 I was addicted to Franklin the Turtle. After that, it was Sonic, then Starfox, then here.

Yep. That's it.
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Post by: Kennythefox on April 08, 2014, 10:16:16 PM
I was desperate for a community, any community other than bronies, then i discovered furries, i was hooked from there.
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Post by: L4BY_ on April 09, 2014, 12:14:03 PM
I was born a furry, I always loved anthro characters and transformations (from Disney), but I never told anyone about it. I didn't have any access to internet at that time, so I had to imagine all of it in my mind. I finally got my own computer at the age of 11 but didn't have any internet access 'till the following year. It's only in 2009 I had the idea to look up anthro art on the internet and got really interested in it.


The rest of the story, i've already told you..
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Post by: RicinsBlueBox on April 25, 2014, 06:51:39 AM
Welllll, wayyyyy back when I kind of had a fursona but had no idea what a furry even was... or that they existed for that fact xD.  So several years later, my best friend (who's a furry) convinced me to buy a tail from Hot Topic.  So I bought it, wore it around, denied all comments that I was a furry, but I eventually gave way and started to think,

"Well you love wolves, you love(d) drawing wolves, why not go for it and see what happens?"

So one day, I think I got up and decided I'd declare myself an official furry.  In all essence then, only in the past year or so have I officially been a furry :).  and even more so now that I have a nice faux fur tail to go with my collar (and new one that's coming in soon!).  Plus my fursona, which I finally finished two days ago :).
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Post by: HyenaKing on May 08, 2014, 08:40:06 PM
I have a hot topic here, Last time i looked i cou'lndt find a tail.
Probably becasue i was'nt looking. I ahve not been there in a while. I'll go tehre this weekend.
Alrighty.

First encounter of Furrieness was on CSI. I watched the episode and was >.</ meh, i don't care what people do in thier bed.
Then, while i was brousing the KSP forum, a person Mentioned Moonshot Rocket. I was kinda weirded out by the picture, but was like, whatever.
THIS VIDEO CAUSED ALL MY SUGGS TO GO RENARDMODE.
(Couple months of playing TF2, runnning into comminuity addons mounted so that players look like Pony/furry)
Then, a couple months later, i was fed up by getting "Murder" By Mayhem. I watched it, Knowing what a furry is, and jsut kinda muttered and realized i wanted to a be a furry, something tugged inside then, knowign i already was.
There you go.
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Post by: seltzervi on May 21, 2014, 09:06:26 PM
Hmmm. Well I have always been interested in animals and I was always the nature type. You know, always outside and playing with bugs and trying to catch snakes. Growing up I also always loved Sonic The Hedgehog games. Knuckles was always my favorite ^.^
I always liked to pretend to be animals. Acting like them and making their noises. As time went on and I got older and started going on the internet, I found anthro art and instantly fell in love with it. I also started learning more about animals, and connected with the species of my fursona c:
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Post by: TheZappiest on May 26, 2014, 05:31:03 PM
That's an odd question but not in many ways.

Let's see, I was always one of those kids with their heads in the clouds and even from a young age, looking at other people admiring girls at the schoolyard...I didn't see it. Nowadays, I can see some people as beautiful,  but there's some weird thing about my fellow humans that ours me off.

I always liked animals. Played video games starring animals leads since me wee laddyhood and watched my fair share of Saturday cartoons. My first crush was Lola Bunny as a kid, later moving to Rouge the Bat and other awesome people of fur. Sly Cooper? Dreamboat. Klonoa? Can't get cuter. Channing Tatum? Meh.

I became a furry because I felt furry, like the way some furries say that they feel like animals inside. I'm actually happy to say that I felt comfort in finding out about this fandom, since it let me know that I'm no crazier than a million other AWESOME artists and writers.
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Post by: RaverMonki on May 26, 2014, 09:39:14 PM
I started watching fursuit videos and started to like anthro art.
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Post by: HyenaKing on May 27, 2014, 01:39:42 PM
People'[s stories are facinating to read.
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Post by: nixon/monto on May 27, 2014, 06:39:22 PM
Thy vary in so many ways I wouldn't be surprised if this fandom grew 50% bigger then it is now in the next year! Imagine how many people will attended anthrocon then....the numbers are HUGE! We definitely would not be a fandom in the dark of the internet anymore! :)
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Post by: TheEndIsNearUs on May 29, 2014, 01:51:46 AM
I've always harbored an affinity for animals, particularly cats. Until I was around 11 years old I would often spontaneously don a makeshift cat costume and decide I was going to be a feline for the day, doing things like drinkng out of bowls of milk or only communicating in meows. Thus, I've always sort of been one.


In middle school I became incredibly involved in the Sonic community, which inadvertently lead to my interest in the furry community. At first, I was afraid of seeming weird to my friends, most of whom hated furries, and being young, I was put off by all of the maturity and common beliefs that it is simply a fetish. Overtime, I was able to see past the rumours [as well as get better friends], and became more comfortable with my new identity. I've considered myself a furry for about two years now. :3
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Post by: VinPoss on May 30, 2014, 07:10:07 PM
Furrydom was something I found later on, but it's a result of something else. When I was a kid, I was really, really mean and nasty to people. Cruel as I could be to anyone I felt deserved it. I ended up picturing that cruelty as somebody else, sharing my body with me to keep my mind off the trouble I caused. I thought of him as many things that are normally viewed as 'disgusting' creatures. I figured it wasn't like a human to be so cruel, so I created this rat-like thing that I wanted to believe all this cruel, terrible behavior came from.


I got better, but I ended up keeping this character around and changing him as I did. I'm older, much less of an asshole, and that creature became my fursona when I discovered furries. I still draw him as he first "appeared" every now and then, just to keep him fresh in my mind.


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Post by: Honey Bun on June 01, 2014, 01:18:45 AM
I guess I've just been interested in anthro animals since I can remember. My favorite tv characters tend to be anthro, and... I don't know. I guess it just kinda happened on it's own. And then I found out that there are a lot of other people like me, and that we had a name for it. So.... yeah. XP
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Post by: Aloneness on June 01, 2014, 01:21:28 AM
I was following this dude with a floofy tail into a dark alleyway and someone handed me a cookie the next thing I knew I woke up with a tail and ears o.o
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Post by: Roxy Katsu on June 03, 2014, 10:45:13 PM
Hmm, well, I started by looking at Transformation art, (Always found those interesting) and then saw one where the human turned into anthro. I was captivated and immediately wanted to be one. Not to mention all through my childhood I would watch disney animal cartoons with anthros in them, and ALWAYS wanted to be one. After discovering this forum, my fursona has begun to grow!  :D
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Post by: Salem Chyro on June 18, 2014, 06:07:30 AM
I started off with a very large admiration for anything anthro, in my early childhood. Everything from cartoon characters to cameo  characters in commercials caught my eye. I have also been interested in animals all my life, and find them to be more worthy of living than humans. In late 2008, during early adolescence, I'd stumbled upon some risque content during an image search. Naturally this caught my eye, (especially at such a young age.)

Though I'm ashamed to admit that smut was my introduction into the fandom, I'm glad to say that I quickly grew interested in all other facets of the community as well, immediately falling in love with the fandom, and I've been a proud furry ever since.

(Slowly but surely I'm converting my girlfriend to our fluffy ways) ;)

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Post by: Renefrade on June 18, 2014, 01:27:30 PM
I'm sorta new to it. I kinda like the idea of being a furred up creature ^^
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Post by: aperson1 on June 18, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
A few months ago I came across this (http://xkcd.com/471/) comic from the webcomic XKCD. Although it's a *somewhat* negative & incorrect view of furries, it did introduce me for the first time to what furries are. Eventually Wikipedia helped me learn more about it. I just let it go for a while, not sure whether I was one or not, but eventually I found myself going back to the page to look for places where I could socialize with others, having others like me to chat with. After looking around, I eventually found this place. All of it happened in the last couple months, so I'm newer to this group than most. It seems nice enough, though.  ^_^
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Post by: Gissa The Hopper on June 18, 2014, 06:17:01 PM
I'd always preferred foxes and bunny's more than humans, when I found out there's a whole community of it I totally got into it.
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Post by: Sick on June 23, 2014, 07:31:08 AM
It sounds like plenty of us have it in common as far as media goes, whether it was gaming, cartoons, or what have you.  I remember as a kid back when ABC morning cartoons were awesome when the first sonic the hedgehog cartoon came out (not the goofy one with the rooster and the fat drillbot), I was thinking how cute they were.  Though I guess after hearing about furs on Newgrounds i started looking it up and got into it officially.
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Post by: L4BY_ on June 23, 2014, 10:07:52 PM
Don't forget Disney! :)
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Post by: Sick on June 24, 2014, 01:38:31 PM
Oh for sure, I do miss those awesome old disney cartoons.  The Rescuers were on a couple days ago, and I'm not sure if it was an "eep!" or a squeak or a combination of the two, but some sort of high pitched noise of joy came out of me that had my girlfriend giggling at me. 
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Post by: Ben on June 24, 2014, 02:17:26 PM
I always liked Robin Hood with the fur people
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Post by: Sick on June 24, 2014, 03:41:51 PM
Oh ya and the songs were great too in that movie
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Post by: Ben on June 24, 2014, 05:03:54 PM
Yes that's why I loved it
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Post by: L4BY_ on June 25, 2014, 04:44:10 PM
That gives me an idea. Someone should open a topic dedicated to Disney.
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Post by: Ben on June 25, 2014, 05:01:59 PM
I have so many Disney movies XD
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Post by: Kozy on August 01, 2014, 01:44:19 PM
I found furry after I saw some furry art online months ago, and just now I've joined this  furry community after googling "furry forum". In my dreams I'm always either my fursona or a real life fox, not sure the exact reason but I've had them as long as I could remember. Up until I was about 8 I don't even think I saw much furry related things or even a real fox. My parents didn't let me much TV as my mom had a childminding arrangement so I spent most of my time playing, I'd play like a real fox quite a lot so much I was nicknamed for it, the only dogs I knew were old and not playful (I was young and they were likely to bite). I was homeschooled mostly so I don't know any outside influences before that (I also don't have any friends offline because of that), though I did like pokemon (and digimon) which is kind of furryish apparently but I felt no want to RP as one (actually related more to the trainers, probably as I was given a pokedex).

Thanks to my sister in recent years I've learnt to love Disney and I really enjoy cartoons and animations now. Though, my parents think it's a bit silly to be actually into it deeply unless I was an animator (which I have some ambitions to be) so I haven't told them about furry yet.
I've watched Disney films with fox characters and really related to /liked them quite well so I decided for my fursona to be the foxish being in my dreams. I've not long started taking art classes and that so I figure eventually with practice I'll be able to draw my own art and I really want to draw/paint real life animals as so far I have enjoyed drawing them and also furry/cartoon animals.
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Post by: saph the sergal on August 01, 2014, 01:46:10 PM
basacly i have loved dragons for as long as i knew and one night when i was looking about the net i found out about furries and then i started searching about furries and i had learned that there are people that dress as anthropomorphic animals and then i did more reseacrch and found this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Conway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Conway) aka uncle kage and yea so here i am basacly and to borrow a quote from uncle kage (we are all dreamers but we are not scared to take our dreams out for  execise every once in a while ) said in a video that i shall find
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Post by: Poofyena on August 10, 2014, 03:43:41 PM
Totally blame Disney!  XD


I remember being about 5-6 and watching The Fox and the Hound, it was my total favorite. I used to drive the adults mad by running around on hands and knees "practicing my howl" and insisting everyone call me Copper.
Then came The Lady and the Tramp 2. At which time I became Angel instead of Copper.
I always had an imaginary animal friend and I always used to play at being a dog or fox or whatever took my fancy.


Anyway I stumbled on the real furry fandomat 16 thanks to a furry friend of mine. I created my first fursona Harmony a white wolf. I started signing up to forums and chatting to other furs and realized I could be anything I wanted. I changed to a vixen fursona and over the years have changed from that a few times.
I started out with little basic rp's but soon my love of writing took over and I joined some more literate and experienced furs. I loved RP and created a few characters to explore with. It's a side of the fandom I miss now I'm not so active.
I decided to try my hand at the art side, I adore the furry art others make but my own art is lacking in skill though I'm slowly improving.
I took a break from online furry life but I'm right back here a few months later, I guess being furry isn't something you can just ignore! 
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Post by: Crystali on August 11, 2014, 10:33:07 AM
It all started with Spyro the Dragon.♥
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Post by: まる☽Maru on August 14, 2014, 01:24:21 PM
hey guys!! i've kind of always been a furry in essence, it just stemmed from a fascination with films like watership down, and kemonomimi and anime cat girls. i've only recently been involved in the furry fandom, though. >w>
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Post by: Jay_Foxx on August 23, 2014, 08:24:55 PM
Anthropomorphic creatures have always fascinated me from the time I was a kid watching Star Trek and reading comics, or watching the Thundercats cartoons. Later, as I grew, the fascination stayed with me, and soon I began writing about them. It was only natural then, that my fascination would bring me to this point.
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Post by: The Magic Otter on August 23, 2014, 10:45:36 PM
I have always been captivated by anthropomorphic animals/ creatures  and when I was around eight years old I found out about the fandom and decided to join.
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Post by: Bronies are cool on August 25, 2014, 03:52:18 AM
I'm not really a furry, but I would like to share how I discovered furries.

When i was in 8th grade, somehow the subject of furries was brought up to the entire class in english class. The teacher did not want to say what a furry was, but she would allow another kid to say what it was. She then covered her ears because she thought that the kid would say something bad and she didnt want to hear it. (dont ask me why she would not prevent that instead of letting it happen, but she was that kind of teacher.) So the kid who was saying what furries were said that furries were people who dress up as animals and "do things" with each other. (and thats a very nice way of putting it because those are not his exact words.) I never thought of it much at all until 9th grade.

9th grade comes around and I get a laptop for the first time. So come spring time of the 9th grade, I decided to google search what a furry was. And I saw the G4 video "wtf" or something like that and so ever since then I thought that furries were people who dress as animals and go around in public as them.
well, later on in 10th grade when I became a brony and joined a brony forum, I learned from there that furries dont all like dressing as animals and that some just like perceiving themselves as having an animal persona.
11th grade comes around and I discover that a brony kid at my school also identifies as a furry. I never ask him about it, but it kind of spiked my interest in learning a little bit about furries. I never asked him or talked to him much because he is a hard core introvert and doesnt talk about being a furry or brony in public like at all.
now, 12th grade and I recently looked up this guy who makes music and does voice acting. ShadyVox. Him and this youtuber JanAnimations have created one of the best looking animations with voice acting in the brony community. But they had a ban hammer from hasbro get them kind of. Anyway, im not going to explain their story, im just saying I was looking up the voice behind the main character of their video. And on ShadyVox's facebook, aand on his youtube, he had some art of him as a lion and there was some lion OC like lion king style. I then looked up a little bit of furry art because I thought that it was kind of cute. I came to the conclusion that there is a good amount of cute art, some bad art, and some down right wrong art.
But i dont judge because I know that bronies also have cute, bad, and wrong art. (all fandoms/groups do)

So, i decided to join this forum to see what furries are like and to see how accepting they are. I want to kind of compare and contrast this fandom/group with the bronies/mlp enthusiasts group.

I hope that wasnt too long
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Post by: Kittie on August 25, 2014, 04:26:43 AM
I've always been a furry without knowing what it was. I've always felt very close to animals, so close that I could sometimes "speak" with them. I started creating antho dog and antho cat characters and imagining stories and stuff in my head when I was about 10. Finally I started to create feline or canine or hybrid versions of myself but it never quite felt right. Then I found MLP:FiM and got hooked to everything Brony! I settled into the brony fandom very easily and experimented with pony art and such trying to create a pony version of myself. Meanwhile I was playing this awesome equine sim which has a very big art community within the sim and I started to design and collect horse charries for fun and RPing uses. I was thinking up a new design for a while for a charrie when I ended up dreaming about a beautiful chocolate colored pegasus mare with golden tipped feathers inside her wings and a star on her forehead. It was like she was calling me... I spent a good month or so trying to find someone to help bring her to life and once I'd found someone by that point she was no longer a charrie but she was me... she took on my nickname as developed a few addons that define me as a person. So even though I'd been a furry for years and years it took me this long to find "myself"
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Post by: Bronies are cool on August 25, 2014, 04:42:13 AM

I've always been a furry without knowing what it was. I've always felt very close to animals, so close that I could sometimes "speak" with them. I started creating antho dog and antho cat characters and imagining stories and stuff in my head when I was about 10. Finally I started to create feline or canine or hybrid versions of myself but it never quite felt right. Then I found MLP:FiM and got hooked to everything Brony! I settled into the brony fandom very easily and experimented with pony art and such trying to create a pony version of myself. Meanwhile I was playing this awesome equine sim which has a very big art community within the sim and I started to design and collect horse charries for fun and RPing uses. I was thinking up a new design for a while for a charrie when I ended up dreaming about a beautiful chocolate colored pegasus mare with golden tipped feathers inside her wings and a star on her forehead. It was like she was calling me... I spent a good month or so trying to find someone to help bring her to life and once I'd found someone by that point she was no longer a charrie but she was me... she took on my nickname as developed a few addons that define me as a person. So even though I'd been a furry for years and years it took me this long to find "myself"
its great to see other bronies on here. it makes me smile as I will probably be able to easily relate to you because we are a part of the same fandom
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Post by: hennessyvenom on August 27, 2014, 03:29:24 PM
I suppose I've been a furry for a lot longer than I realize. As a kid I loved animals and was always drawn to talking animal movies like Fox and the hound or Robin hood. But it wasn't till I had Internet access I even knew what furry was. I discovered it early in my Internet using years. Around age 14. Since I never had Internet or video games I had to be outside enjoying real life.

I stumbled upon a few pictures in a YouTube video and decided to look into it a bit more.
I'll admit all the negative articles and comments about the fandom initially put me off but for some reason I kept coming back to that one video.
After a year or so I told one other person I was into it. That didn't go to great...
Again that put me off and again I came back.
Now, almost seven years later, I realize I don't give a flying shit about what others think. I'm just starting to try to get involved in the community and know other furs in the flesh.
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Post by: LeoSpice on August 27, 2014, 04:54:48 PM
a friend of mine got me into it
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Post by: Hycanith on September 04, 2014, 02:54:20 AM
I pretty much always have been a furry, and it probably started with old cartoons and Neopets (<was my childhood). I always took a liking to anthro characters, as they seem to personify specific inner qualities in a way nearly impossible to replicate with human characters.
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Post by: Fenox Helkiin on September 25, 2014, 07:51:46 AM
My brother showed me it.
I'm not gonna say anything more then that as this isn't in the adult area.


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Post by: Dakotah Bill on October 10, 2014, 03:45:30 AM
For me it started whenever we were introduced to the library at our grade school, of course I read the little kids books like Bernstein Bears and other things like that, but what really got me hooked to the whole anthropomorphic thing would have to be the book series Warriors, some of the movies that have inspired me (And this one has actually pulled me out of depression SEVERAL times) How to Train Your Dragon. This movie has gotten me made fun of several times that "Oh he likes that gay kiddie movie." and then you try to explain but they wont listen. Anyway it wasn't untill Freshman year in High School that I came across the furry fandom and was amazed at the kindness of them and how they accepted new people. I have not been able to come up with a fursona to save my life but I feel like I am the verge of finding my true self/place in the fandom!!
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Post by: Alex_Mclean on October 10, 2014, 09:37:17 AM
I first found it when, my 13 year old brain was like, hmm, I wonder if there are adult games, and I found some, furry ones and thought they looked nice. Then later when I was 15 and 16 is when I realised it was an actual fandom, at 17 I officially became the dragon I am today and the rest is all over the place personal history.
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Post by: Khaki-Shepherd on October 10, 2014, 10:54:17 AM
Personally I blame learning about ancient Egyptian Gods, Dog Soldiers (2002 and Balto (1995) as reasons why I identified with the anthropomorphic fandom.
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Post by: Rottech on October 14, 2014, 12:14:39 AM
I became a furry because I got brainwashed by the internet. Nah, not really, lol, but when I was 13 years old I saw this mention about furries on a forum on a virtual pet adoption site, I started looking it up, and then kinda thought "Huh, cool, more people like me who are far more fascinated with non human creatures than humans, I wanna join!" And well.. the rest is history.
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Post by: Ricky Denzel on October 14, 2014, 11:44:00 AM
Blame Immeleman.


That's what I got to say
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Post by: PEFA Harker on October 18, 2014, 05:13:22 AM
Some documentaries,Guardians of Ga'hoole,One for sorrow two for joy,Rio and Zambezia,These were all that made me both a bird freak and furry.
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Post by: Katarrah on October 21, 2014, 03:36:16 PM
I just always thought animals, especially felines, were more visually appealing and physically interesting than humans. Being covered with fur, having a huge, floofy tail, PAWS (omg paws), muzzles, those fangy teeth ... other than dexterous hands and powerful brains (debatable with some people) felines just have better forms. And it's pretty easy to imagine re-designing paws to work as hands and stuffing a sentient brain into the skull. XD

Another pretty big thing was my love for weight gain and inflation -- when you do it to humans, it's just weird -- but make a feline the size of a house and he/she is just a huge community-sized beanbag chair!
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Post by: Son of Anubis on October 22, 2014, 05:16:11 PM
I'm not sure if I am, actually. I'm a tabletop gamer and love to play races that are animal based. When I started working with a group of friends on our own game I was joked with because I loved our wolf and simian based races. I'm a proud Pagan and more closely relate to the Egyptian Gods, mostly Anubis, Horus and Bast. I get joked with alot about being a furry so I figured why not explore and see. And so far I like how nice everyone has been!
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Post by: Julum on October 26, 2014, 10:15:20 AM
I've always liked anthro animals and even looked at art of them and wanted to be one, but I didn't know there was an entire fandom that makes awesome art like this. I think I saw that Strange Addiction episode that makes us look bad, and I thought furries were weird people at first.  Then I completely forgot abiut furries for a while, until I heard people talking about this old mod for game. The mod was called Furblivion  and it turned all the human races in the game to aninal races, I looked it up, because I wanted to see what it looked like. Google led me to a furry forum. While I found out that it was taken down because it was causing problems with people's games, I did see some avatars of some people on the forum, and thought they looked really cool. Then I realised I was exactly what a furry is. Then I joined the fandom and became a lizard. :D
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Post by: rainbow.wolf on October 27, 2014, 02:16:47 PM
Well for me, it started out as loving dragons, animals and werewolves. I wanted to find a community that was interested in stuff like that too. I heard of this thing called "furry" so I wanted to become one because they sounded pretty cool, And from that day forward, I was a proud furry!  X3
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Post by: Ricky Denzel on November 05, 2014, 01:06:30 PM
Be proud of who you are, man! Be proud
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Post by: Taliaka Anichezachi on November 07, 2014, 11:08:48 PM
I think i was born to be, it sounds just u know Crazy, but since i was 5 years old i have had these awesome dreams every night, where me and Maroon are good friends, and we adventuring the world of Raze together, adventure after adventure, when i was about 12 i watched TV, National geographic channel, and then i saw the series "Taboo" where they viewed strange parts society and lifestyles, when they reviewed "Furry" and from that moment i knew it was it :)

Well i have, been furry in a couple of years now and i was shy thinking on how other furries will welcome me to the Fandom ore what??

then i started here a week ago :) and everyone is just so nice to me :)

Thanks soooo much all of you for letting me in here :)
and thanks for being happy

-Merloon Zania
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Post by: Fuchs Jung on November 09, 2014, 04:13:54 AM
How I became furry? Well that started back in May 2013. I was browsing through IFunny (great app) and came across this Ifunnier named DoctorMitchell. He posted Furry pictures every day and coming from like starfox and such I thought that was cool. I Started to look into it and hey here I am.
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Post by: Enzay on November 11, 2014, 12:26:17 AM
I think I've always been a furry my whole life, I just never really knew what a furry was or if there were other people that were the same as me. So for most of my life I tried not to think about it as much, just put it in the back of my mind... but one day I had to stay home from school sick, and my sister wanted me to watch movies with her, so I did. We ended up watching Robin Hood and Balto, and I felt such a strange nostalgia after watching them. I felt like I had to learn more and that's when I discovered furries x3.
This was about 6 years ago
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Post by: red retro on November 14, 2014, 05:30:12 PM
I absolutely love video games , sonic , Mario , you name it! I always though anthropomorphic animals looked cool so I decided to join the furry fandom, and that's how , my fursona, red retro was born ^_^   
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Post by: Soup the wolf on November 26, 2014, 10:14:04 PM
Wait I'm a furry those are gross *wags tail mischievously*
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Post by: kalan on November 27, 2014, 03:06:17 AM
I always felt like something was missing until college i met some friends that one night decided we were gonna write a book͵ the book never got finished just something we tooled around with for awhile, but it how i met kalan. I was responible for creating the elf in the story and the more i wrote the more he came alive changed evolved started developing personality traits all on his own. By the time i was done he had become a half elf half wolf with a back story deep in war and the protection of his people. Anyways figuring i probably didn't have a career as an author in my future i pushed it aside and moved on but kalan was still there, and a then about a month ago i was watching CSI on dvd over at a friends house and we watched the episode i now hate but it brought me to the fandom reunited me with kalan and now here i am
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Post by: Nyegaeth on November 27, 2014, 11:24:32 AM
At first, I discovered furry art through the internet 4 years ago. I later started creating my own fox persona. I "became" furry a year and a half ago when I first heard of the fandom from some friends. I then joined the various furry communities a year ago.
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Post by: SilverSolstive on November 28, 2014, 04:31:03 PM
Well I was stumbling across Tapatalk looking for RP forums and found TFF. When I learned that the mostly use fursona I was skeptical of staying almost leaving but I got over it and now I couldn't be happier. I was also a deep Naruto fan. Now I happily RP with my fursonas Remulus and Colonel.

I'm right behind you, working out the size of your dogtag to put it in a frame.

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Post by: Farewell on November 28, 2014, 08:56:49 PM
I always Drew anthro creatures, though i didn't know they were furries but I just loved them so much and admired everything about them it was amazing to me. I remember I was also obsessed with dragons (Funny my boyfriend or to some my Mate is a dragon, Red Locus) anyways to the point I eventually found fursuits thinking to myself 'they look like the creatures I draw!' Looking into this more I found the fandom, furries, scalies, ect. I joined in immediately and still enjoy the fandom, as well as this forum which I truly love. So I've been a furry my whole life just didn't really know it until finding the fandom at 11
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Post by: Kaiyo on November 28, 2014, 08:59:21 PM
I am a furry, I didn't become one. I'm not someone who pretends to be someone I'm not. It feels strange to me.

P.S. guys did you know furries refers to the character right, furry fan is the fan so I guess furry fans are only furries if they're identifying through their character and in polls such persons generally answer "human" instead of "furry" at cons. This goes back to the 80s when scifi comic book artists dubbed the characters as furries based. If you know the series of Kimba, well that was the inspiration, the idea of non humans progressing into intellectual sapience like humans. Which is the story of my life, it seems.
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Post by: drakewithout on December 04, 2014, 02:14:12 AM
Three words "the cat returns" 
and Google
--too much google
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Hat insert_last_name_here on December 05, 2014, 05:16:02 AM
You know, looking back I can't really find one defining moment where I was suddenly a furry...
It feels as if I have always been one... o.O
I guess for me instead of an immediate transformation mine was so slow and over the course of several years so I didn't really notice at all until it was finally all over.
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Post by: AndrewZeCat on December 05, 2014, 11:59:04 AM
The year was 2013, it was winter and I was home alone watching my new favourite show My little pony: Friendship is magic.
I decided to go out and find some forums and pictures of my favourite ponys when I suddenly found a anthro picture. I loved it, a animal that looked a human. After that I started to search up more and after a while I found a page or site (I can't remember which) That was about furrys. I read it for hours then I was hooked.
But is not until now I have started to call me a furry.
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Post by: Owlchic on December 06, 2014, 08:29:50 PM
   I saw a random fursuit video and I thought it was cool. So when I did research I saw how much I enjoyed it and boom i'm a furry.
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Post by: MysticSolstice on December 08, 2014, 01:59:29 PM
I found a video on YouTube that was talking about furries, it was showing a con and some fursuits and it all looked like lots of fun. I've always felt a strong connection with animals so when I did some more research into the fandom it just felt right for me so I joined :)
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Post by: Tina on December 10, 2014, 06:56:14 PM
I have actually been a furry for quite while. A few years ago i began to admire a lot of the furry communities artwork. I didn't even know what a furry was at the time but then again i don't get out much. I dug a little deeper and began discover what a furry really was. I kind of like the idea at first and i began to like it more and more as time went on. It wasn't until recently that i became more active in the community. Before the past fast few months i had been skulking around on the internet admiring the artwork and stories that weren't blocked by their creaters. I know that may be a little creepy but in real life i'm actually a shy person and don't normally aproach groups of people that well.
 I glad that i'm active now, even if there are some darker sides to the furry community
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Post by: LegitlyLeo on December 28, 2014, 10:59:24 PM
I became a furry the same time I came out as gay to my friends(about august this year). My friend Andrew was really into furries and he is the main reason i'm in the furry fandom(He was also my motivation of coming out as gay). He always drew these furries that made me gaze in awe of his skill. Then I started drawing furries, and through that I discovered my fursona "Leo Meowstein", he then got me playing games that were what you call "Furry Friendly" I like those alot too. Someday I wish to go to the furry convention in Pennsylvania or maybe just meet up with some furries in my state of Texas. But again you have to thank my friend Andy for me being in the furry fandom.
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Post by: Mozart on January 01, 2015, 05:09:02 PM
I got interested in the art first, around the age of 14, and then progressed into writing and RP from there. Now I remain a fan of the art, dabble in writing and enjoy designing characters. 10 years later... ;)
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Post by: Ricky Denzel on January 14, 2015, 05:47:23 PM
You sound like a person I'll RP with. Maybe we can RP one day
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Post by: Tairiku_Akamine on January 15, 2015, 08:59:18 PM
Although I Just Recently Was Introduced To The Community By My Friend. I Always Took a Liking To People With Animal Like Features, Such As Only Having The Ears And Tails. Until One Day, I Showed My Friend And He Started Showing Me Pictures And Videos About Furries. He Also Cleared Up The Confusion About This Being a Bad Community. Ever Since Joining I Have Been Shown Nothing But Respect And Kindness. I Have Also Seen How Accepting Everyone Is About Anything In People's Lives. I Have Always Acted That Way, But Seeing Other People That Feel The Same? How Could I Ever Pass That Up? I Am Happy To Meet More People Get To Know Them!
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Post by: Titius on January 19, 2015, 04:32:00 AM
It probably happened after reading furry based comics, viewing art on DA, and watching furry tributes on youtube. I did some research into the fandom, and I found it pretty interesting..... thus, I decided to be one. :)
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Post by: Teiko on January 27, 2015, 04:33:56 AM
This is classified information people  ;)

I was very susceptible to animal cartoons - My first exposure probably being Cats Don't Dance when I was a toddler. The one that got me was probably Balto (came out the year after I was born), my #1 all-time favorite childhood movie and I'm not ashamed to say it!!! It STILL is the greatest movie perhaps of all time. I became irrationally obsessed with that movie and identified myself as the wolfdog @.@ For a long time I didn't even understand what my deal was and thought I was the only one in the world who felt this way haha. Then I discovered furries... furry art... furry music... haha boy oh boy... :o  I was fur before I even adopted my first puppy.

For the record, I didn't see BaltoIII, but BaltoII was GABBAGE.
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Post by: Breezy on January 28, 2015, 03:59:21 AM
How did I become a furry? Good question.

Like everyone else I had always been quite fond of anthropomorphic animals in animated films and tv shows. So when my current mate intoduced the furry fandom to me five years ago it had really piqued my interests. I really appreciated the passion people put into their fursonas and characters. The stories behind them and the world that they lived in fascinated me and I found myself completely inspired. It was a great way to connect with my mate since he didn't have anyone else to share this intrest with. And the rest is history.
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Post by: Skael on February 07, 2015, 06:14:45 PM
I love hyenas, and I found the furry fandom, so my brain wires touched and I became a furry.
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Post by: Kyarex on February 21, 2015, 12:05:45 AM
I've loved dragons all my life. So i guess i just decided to become one...
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Post by: Niallywolf on February 21, 2015, 05:31:48 PM
I like the style people normally draw furries as and I'm trying to become an artist
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Post by: Poaxy on February 23, 2015, 03:15:24 PM
My ex-girlfriend was a furry. I didn't know for the entire first year of our relationship. Later on she really got me into it and before I knew it I had my own fursona and was going with her to fur meets.
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Post by: Rocketeer Raccoon on March 02, 2015, 03:01:40 PM
Good question. I suppose when I was young, I used to like Sonic the Hedgehog, Bucky O'Hare, Tiny Toons Adventures and Biker Mice From Mars. Sonic the Hedgehog was probably the biggest influence for me and he was my childhood hero, also the Sonic SatAM cartoon was probably the trigger point for me of becoming a furry because I used to fancy Princess Sally.

Plus I love animals, they are so fascinating. :)
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Post by: Dax Declan on March 09, 2015, 11:16:00 AM
I've pretty much always been a furry. I've always loved movies, video games, and television shows with anthro animals. My favorite movies were always Balto, Fox and the hound, all dogs go to heaven, etc.
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Post by: Renefrade on March 10, 2015, 11:20:15 PM
Furries are pretty cool :)
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Post by: Poli "Lissy" Drax on March 11, 2015, 12:29:04 PM
Around about.. Gosh, 7 years ago, now? I found a sudden liking for characters of an anthropomorphic nature, particularly dragons. I eventually found other individuals with the same feeling, and got introduced to the fandom through it's music and artwork. It's only developed from there, I suppose.


I've gone through about three or four fursonas now, over that time, and I've sort of drifted in and out of the fandom, but I've always been around it, regardless.
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Post by: G-Root Liska on March 12, 2015, 06:36:46 AM
In a way I don't know how I really became a furry. To be honest still rather new.  I guess it could start all the way in high school freshman year typically speaking mind you that was like 10 years ago.


One of my friends that I hung out with all the time liked to draw anthropologic animals and I instanlty feel in love with it. I never really did ask him what it was just at I thought it was cool and fell in love with it. Up to now I never really thought of it until just a week ago I got to reading on a post on my Facebook about furry fandom. I looked into it and was like oh so that's what it's about.


I then decided I wanted to figure out my fursona and discovered that's its a personality hiding in another personality. Inside I'm this shy person or being and for my love of dogs and connection with them, my loyalty and friendship, and wanting what's close to me to not be taken I was like yup there it is. I found a picture on the Internet and was like instant connection. It was like that is the missing hole inside of me. The other half that I never knew existed in me.


So will leave it at that. Long enough I suppose.
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Post by: ChronoWolf on March 16, 2015, 05:44:39 PM
I am really enjoying reading all of these.  :)

It stared for me at a very young age (now that I have some perspective on the matter). When I was really young (8 or something) I used to roll up a towel and tuck it into my pants, pretending it was a tail and that I was a Wolf. Then when I played the SNES, I really, really loved Starfox! He was my first exposure to anthropomorphic characters and I thought he was so cool! But it wasn't until high school / college that I began looking more into the art (I saw some furry and anthropomorphic art and fell in love right away, and continued to seek more). It appealed to my personality so much and so I continued to build a fursona around a side of me that I never really expressed in public.

Through the phenomenon the idea of fursuiting appealed to me... although I have neither made or had a fursuit made... but one day I really hope to have one to represent me and to take to conventions. In the meantime I will settle with a tail!  XP

I moved to the USA and found there was no better place to by myself, so here I am. I hope to meet others in time, and visit some conventions.  :)
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Post by: Ricky Denzel on March 17, 2015, 04:23:47 PM
Next time, take me with you. I wanna go to a furry convention
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Post by: Alkei on March 20, 2015, 01:25:24 AM
man everyone has such amazing stories and then there's me xD
all my life I've had this admiration for animals (I've also always had a sort of fascination with dragons...) and I always used to play with my sister things, like in our pool we'd pretend to be sea animals and be desert animals in the ferns of our big ol' backyard. i also used to only watch movies if it featured talking animals (LOL). of course, when we moved out of that house she'd kind of moved on but I had wanted to continue to do this and then, I discovered roleplaying! whoa!
I actually had started a blog to keep track of little roleplay stories I was into (50% were warrior cats based) and one day while browsing through blogs i'd discovered a kid's site where you could play as different animals. I joined it and ended up meeting some pretty mazing people (some of which are still big parts of my life). I remember one day I mentioned wanting to expand my horizons and a friend of mine had introduced me to "wolfhome". I ended up becoming very active in the community throughout the years I was a part of it. throughout my time there I gradually learned more and more about the furry community and realized that I had actually been in it for awhile without knowing realizing it! (I actually had had a character I used very often, you could say she was the first fursona I had. I just kind of thought I was weird since I had an attachment to this character who was originally used for just roleplaying but then I began drawing her and such). since then I've looked more and more into the community, and when I'm able to I plan on going to cons and getting a fursuit for my fursona, Alkei. (:
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Post by: AEROXWOLF on April 12, 2015, 09:23:19 PM
History lesson: since as long as i can remember ive always been drawn to anthro animals. Being brought up on Disney and Studio Ghibli,  i can see why. If there was a film or game with a talking animal of some kind, it would instantly be my favourite character. Red XIII from final fantasy VII, Morro from princess mononoke  to name Some. Few years later i was watching a show, there was a scene involving furries doing....questionable things to each other. I loled so much i went on the Internet to see if it was true. Although i found the darkside, i also found a lot of positive things which got me curious. Now, here i am
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Post by: VoodooMax on April 18, 2015, 06:53:51 PM
I can't remember when the absolute first time I started to get into it, but I do remember watching movies like "Space Jam" and Lola Bunny was so hot! I started getting into Anthropomorphics. One thing lead to another and I fantasized of (don't judge me) of being with Lola Bunny (in that way) I later found "those" sites, you know the ones) and I liked it. A friend of mine is into that as well and he showed me more of those sites and my fascination got bigger and bigger. I like Anthropomorphic Foxes the best because of what I've seen (you know) so I wanted to become a Anthropomorphic Fox myself just so I could dream of dating other [/size]Anthropomorphic Foxes. That's how it started and I'm loving it.
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Post by: Teanup on May 06, 2015, 07:21:52 AM
For about a week or so, I've been thinking a lot about the fandom for no discernible reason. So I looked around, saw its reason for existing, et cetera, et cetera, and then boom, I'm addicted to anthros. I have a tab of this and Housepets always open on my computer.
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Post by: Obey138 (Matthew "Fluffy") on May 06, 2015, 08:43:12 AM
I was searching for an anime to watch and I accidently found some drawings with anthropomorphic animals. They attracted me (I don't think it is a good word to describe it, my knowledge of English is kind of bad) and I began searching for more. The more I looked the more I liked it. I found some intel about the fandom and thought "That's it, I'm in". (also maybe that's why I liked Ratchet & Crank series so much :S)
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Post by: sketchyVagrant on May 06, 2015, 12:20:15 PM
It all started with anime characters who had animal attributes. I'm looking at you, InuYasha and Kouga!!!

I've kind of gotten more and more into it from there, gradual like. A friend who was a major furry, reallllly got me into it about... A year ago? And now here I am.
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Post by: Sabren.the.tiger on May 24, 2015, 05:34:06 AM
It's been so long now that I don't even remember.....  I think it all started with anime..  yes, Yes! I was just about 15 maybe and had been watching death note and obviously any 15 year old with Internet access is going to be on looking for bad pictures of light and l XD so cute! But anyway I stumbled upon *removed*  this section called furry well the curiosity didn't kill the cat it created it XD Haha but after I learned more about the fandome *removed* I made friends with other furs and here I am now 4 years later!!
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Post by: vantaskarkat811 on May 24, 2015, 06:15:17 AM
I found the fandom just a couple years ago, but I've always had a broad liking for all animals. When I was about four years old, I was convinced I was a werewolf, I behaved much like a wolf as well. But then again, I was only four years old. I didn't know any better. But yeah, that's how I became a furry.
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Post by: cutiebat on May 24, 2015, 06:28:20 AM
I've always known about the fandom, but decided to research it more and I realized I really liked it and wanted to be a part of it!
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Post by: Crest Is Dead ((For Now)) on May 24, 2015, 06:35:08 AM
My friend told me about (name is archer on here if you wanna know) and said to search it up. I did and looked at some of the stuff and thought 'wow that's real good and creative ' then I looked at the other stuff and vomited (I can no longer watch looney tunes the same way) but I did like the clean stuff and it fascinated me so he tolde about this page bada bing bada boom I'm a furry.
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Post by: Jane on May 25, 2015, 07:45:02 PM
I've generally liked foxes all of my life, and I love drawing and such. Before it never really peaked my interest until I was more fully introduced to it. To be honest it shocked me quite a bit but at the same time amazed me. I wanted to put forth my love of foxes into a character and that's how it happened.
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Post by: Renefrade on May 31, 2015, 01:34:00 PM
I never was one permanently. But i am starting to feel it. A feral fox all furry and getting food and chewing.
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Post by: Karric on June 05, 2015, 10:34:17 PM
i just kind of accidentally found out about it i saw the website furry fandom looked at it and i taught that it would be fun as i have always felt very close to animals so i decided why not and hear i am now :D
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Post by: Helenor on June 09, 2015, 11:59:40 PM
Someone sent me a card with a fox furry on it, and one thing led to another and here I am
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Post by: Kai on June 11, 2015, 09:40:48 AM
When I was in 7th grade (yeah, yeah, I know) I saw it online and because I didn't really have any sort of internet presence then like I do now, I didn't really know where to start. Hell, I didn't even know what a fursona was. All I knew was I liked fursuits, and I liked the art, and I wanted to be a furry.


Then, because I was a 7th grader and had the attention span of a concussed goldfish, I just sort of forgot about it.


Skip forward to 9th grade, where I was technically part of "that group" of kids (weeaboos, mostly) mainly because I had nowhere else to go. I figured out how to do a couple google searches and landed on furaffinity and other sites like that, and got pretty much hooked considering I didn't really talk to anyone in real life.
Ironically, I think a lot of my experiences in being on the same IRC channel for 4 years actually helped me a lot with my social skills, which is why I have a busy enough social life now to the point that it's almost stressful. (Also, most of my r/l friends are furries, although we didn't meet on that basis.)


Which I guess explains how I got into being and why I continue to be a furry.
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Post by: Echo on June 21, 2015, 10:30:31 AM
Two words: Lapfox Trax. I listened to their music and went on a magical adventure of finding out what a furry was, this happened about three years ago listening to It gets better. Didn't even understand the lyrics at the time but I didn't care, about a month or two of training myself to draw I created my first fursona. Things spiraled from there and the details are fuzzy but I know that the journey has been a great one and I will continue on this path.
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Post by: Kyarex on June 27, 2015, 10:58:26 PM
dragons, dinosaurs and reptiles are my favorite things, i guess it just came naturally when i discovered it was a thing.
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Post by: Drakeyboy on June 28, 2015, 08:28:19 PM
i think how it started for me is when i was five to eight years old i had a imaginary fried based off of fox McCloud from starfox. soon after i knew about sonic the hedgehog and loved his games too. then around ten or twelve me and my brother started to rp mainly useing sonic characters. soon after i made my first anthro which was a dragon without knowing what they were. when i was fifteen i went back to foxes and found furry art (non-yiff) two years later and actually was a little exited that there were others like me and i have been one ever since.
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Post by: Ryan B on July 02, 2015, 06:17:30 PM
Well, I first became interested in the idea of anthropomorphic characters back when I played Ratchet & Clank, even though at the time I had no idea what a furry was or what the word anthropomorphic meant I became really interested in the idea of human like animals. So about 8 years later I have invested months of hours of my life into the internet when I came upon the word "Furry". I had no idea what it meant except someone in the server I was playing was insulting and hating on a furry calling him a furfag and an animal molester. Even though I had no idea what he was hating on I stood up for the furry and told the guy to stop attacking someone you don't know and just stop being a general (Censored), the hater soon logged off. I soon did some research and found out what a "Furry" was. At first I thought who would be so interested into human like animals to make themselves a fursona and even sometimes walk around in a fur suit. But fast forward a few months I all of a sudden fall in love with the idea and look for a forum to express how I feel. Now I am here.
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Post by: Heartandsoul on July 06, 2015, 08:26:15 PM
ive always been attuned to animals, they seem to automatically love me no matter their personalities even really aggressive animals will let me stroke them they will curl up on my lap or at my feet haha and ive always preffered animals to humans for company although i do have the exeption of my boyfriend Wes. ive also always had an obsession with werewolves, they seem so cool to me, I (and from my profile pick you might guess) like worgens the most as they wear armor and weapons and i always thought it was soo cool and they are adorable (cataclysm was dream expansion) then i started to look at anthropomorphic art and I found I really liked it and its a dream of mine to be able to draw it to a great standard someday!. thats how it started and since this obsession my favourite animal is Wolf, wolf for life haha. my favorite character? Wolf O'donnel


oh I also played sly cooper, star fox and ratchet and clank when I was a kid
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Post by: Henri on July 06, 2015, 08:40:29 PM
I became a furry pretty much the fist time a layed my eyes on a photo of a furry, which was when I was twelve or so (I grew up on a farm or several farms growing up and never really new of the Internet till I was twelve). I really enjoy being a furry as the people/furries are all so nice and really encuraged and gave life to the little social life that I had then I'm now sixteen and really want to go to anthrocon but can as my family doesn't know, and I don't know of any in the Toronto area.
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Post by: FizzyPaws on July 06, 2015, 10:36:11 PM
When I was about 4-5, I found about Sonic through two old toys that were my sister's; they were a plastic bendy Sonic and Amy. My dad then bought me my first Sonic game, which was Sonic '06 (a lot of people don't like that one, but that game was my childhood). I then started drawing Sonic characters all the time, and eventually, I wanted to be like Sonic. I even had my own Sonicsona (or whatever you'd call it). I got into Digimon at around the age of 9-10, and there are quite a few anthropomorphic Digimon. I then discovered fursuits by accident while looking at pictures of Digimon: it was a Renamon fursuit. For a while I wanted one, and I didn't know you could make them on your own, so I felt hopeless at getting one (because ya' know, they're like $2000). Later that year, I made my very first fursona (that wasn't my Animal Jam Arctic Wolf), and she was a white wolf named Rupa. I then went on a trip to Micheals with my step-dad, and I saw this amazing book: Draw More Furries. I instantly loved the animal characters featured in it. I couldn't get it, but I looked up how to draw furries, and stuff like that, and started drawing them more and more. In 2013, I got my step-dad to make me an Anubis costume, because I was obsessed with Kane Chronicles, and so that's technically my first fursuit. It's made of cardboard, duct tape, spray paint, and features LED eyes (which the battery is now dead for one of them) and was worn like a hat, rather than a mask (so I could wear it to school). It still holds up well today, and it's water proof, so cardboard isn't all that bad of a material if you do it right. The summer of 2014, I figured out what a fursuit was, thanks to this website: http://www.matrices.net/ (http://www.matrices.net/) and I've wanted to make one ever since. I will finally be starting on my first one soon! That's pretty much my furry life up until this point. (sorry it's so long)
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Post by: Erasmuth on July 07, 2015, 03:36:49 AM
Well, I always loved animals and the like, but that's not really what got me into being a furry.  Really, it was furry music videos x3  Particularly the furry music vids made by wolfknight1990 on youtube. 


Believe it or not, at first I was one of those normies that thought furries were weird... not to the point of bigotry mind you, but I had a little misunderstanding about what being a furry was.  But by watching his videos day after day, I started liking the art more.  Then I got started watching how one makes a fur suit by his incomplete "How to make a head" vid.  Then con vids, which I found hilarious! (2 & kage 4 evar!  :* ).


So, through the constant exposure and desire to learn more about furries, I eventually ended up making my own fursona and mingling in the fandom as a fully fledged fuzzbutt ^^
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Post by: Radio on July 13, 2015, 09:04:13 PM
I've always been interested in animals as beauteous creatures that seem to have life figured out more so than humans do. My mind always imagined alternative realities where these creatures were actually able to communicate with us as to how they live their lives. Eventually, I began to create a world in my mind where i would be one of these creatures. Namely a canine. I specified more as i came to see how nice wild dogs looked in general before having a definite mindset of how my character at this point would look. Then the internet happened...
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Post by: tengu42 on July 18, 2015, 07:39:30 PM
I've felt an innate connection will felines for a long time, but I wouldn't have identified as a furry until about 12 years ago. Prior to that I really hadn't come across the term furry, or the fandom. I've always enjoyed and prefered and enjoyed anthrocentric entertainment, but didn't really have a fursona as such until highschool. Thats about when I started using the internet to search out content, and stumbled across the fandom. I finally had a concept which I could identify with. Been with the fandom ever since.
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Post by: Teanup on July 23, 2015, 06:28:43 PM
I've always been interested in animals as beauteous creatures that seem to have life figured out more so than humans do. My mind always imagined alternative realities where these creatures were actually able to communicate with us as to how they live their lives. Eventually, I began to create a world in my mind where i would be one of these creatures. Namely a canine. I specified more as i came to see how nice wild dogs looked in general before having a definite mindset of how my character at this point would look. Then the internet happened...

The internet both accepts and denies you, enlightens and leaves you for naught. It is everything, it is nothing. It is the mush and muck of the combined subconscious, the one entity, and the diverse millions.

Before I was a furry, I had a subconscious enjoyment for this sort of thing. I guess it was so insignificant my brain didn't point it out. I heard about it from a first-negative standpoint, and believed it at the time, but didn't bother thinking about it. As my interactions in the MLP fandom grew, I started hearing more, and figured that the negativity I hear so much about was probably a minority. It got on my brain so much (for no reason at all) that I looked up the history, and some stuff, and some more stuff, and then I signed up for the forums...
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Dr. Grismond on July 23, 2015, 08:52:16 PM
I suppose I have been a furry most of my life, just without knowing it. When I was little I played a lot of outdoor games that involved being an animal and I have always found an attraction to games or cartoons with a anthropomorphic animal as a protagonist. However it wasn't until I watched one of the Nostalgia Critic's old videos about a year ago that he used the word furry to describe a group of people I haven't heard of before. So, naturally curious, I looked up what a furry was and I found that it may be something I could fit right into. I have cycled through some fursonas and read webcomics like TwoKinds but it wasn't until around now that I wanted to be involved more directly in the community.

I suppose speed running Sonic 3 all day as a kid finally paid off somehow  XP
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Post by: Reckless on July 30, 2015, 12:45:28 PM
Since the first day i saw animal planet
 B)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Teanup on July 30, 2015, 05:42:24 PM
I suppose I have been a furry most of my life, just without knowing it. When I was little I played a lot of outdoor games that involved being an animal and I have always found an attraction to games or cartoons with a anthropomorphic animal as a protagonist. However it wasn't until I watched one of the Nostalgia Critic's old videos about a year ago that he used the word furry to describe a group of people I haven't heard of before. So, naturally curious, I looked up what a furry was and I found that it may be something I could fit right into. I have cycled through some fursonas and read webcomics like TwoKinds but it wasn't until around now that I wanted to be involved more directly in the community.

I suppose speed running Sonic 3 all day as a kid finally paid off somehow  XP

Why am I the one with such a s**ty childhood?
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Golden Lucario on July 31, 2015, 02:38:22 PM
My mom and dad had sex and boom, thus I was created!

 @.@
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Post by: kalan on July 31, 2015, 02:43:53 PM
That  XD XD XD

So much funny
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Post by: Radio on July 31, 2015, 03:07:03 PM
Lol.
Wasn't expecting that.
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Post by: Reckless on July 31, 2015, 03:08:05 PM
I've seen better.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: jinrui gaku on August 04, 2015, 07:32:41 PM
Werewolves, wolves, dogs and cats were a big thing for me. Ever since i was little i had always been delighted to watch movies or read books that had, anthropomorphic, feral animals within. However i had only recently discovered the term furry a few years or so back.
~
Jinrui
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Grimlock0302 on August 11, 2015, 06:47:13 PM
Renamon. Nuff' said.
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Post by: Draco Vertolgr on August 15, 2015, 05:03:03 PM
Never grew out of humanoid animals from a young age, it was predestined :P
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Teanup on August 16, 2015, 07:19:51 PM
Can you please put "a" in the space between become and furry? My inner grammar nazi disapproves.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: KayaTheBandit on August 18, 2015, 05:38:19 PM
I was watching tv at home one weekend and Tosh.0 came on. He had a web redemption of this furry guy freaking out on his webcam about furry haters and they did a skit of everyone in poorly made mascot suits. And Tosh was making fun of the guy and the whole fandom horribly. But I got curious about what the furry fandom was and I found out what it was really about and became a fur :) a bit strange xD
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Post by: moonwolf101 on August 21, 2015, 07:30:05 PM
Well, I always enjoyed games and movies with anthros in them. At first when I was younger I would be stunned at how cool they looked. I would draw them (and failed) I would pretend to be animals and walk on two legs.  When I was around 11-12 I started looking up how to draw them, at the time I didn't know they were called furries and very popular. In the midst of my search I discovered a wiki that told me about furries and all about the fandom, I was shocked and rather happy that there was a fandom dedicated to my liking in anthros. So at 12 I became a furry. I was shy about it and when I noticed all the hate this fandom got, it crushed my hopes and I slowly drifted from the fandom. But later I decided it was silly and got back into the fandom. At 13 (now) I started looking for a forum and making my fursona. I chose a wolf as my fursona and named her Topaz. I soon started drawing and practicing how to draw furs as well. Now I'm happy to be a part of this fandom and I will defend it from hate!

(Holy cow this was long! Sorry)
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Post by: Aldebar on August 22, 2015, 12:17:18 AM
Like others, I've just always loved animals. When I was very young I loved dogs and would draw dog-people on skateboards and whatnot, and in elementary school I was often making up my own creatures and was a huge fan of both Pokemon and Digimon. I joined an online board centered around Super Smash Bros for the N64 where I represented myself with a rusty red fox character.

When I got a little older, I got into the Redwall books and joined a Redwall message board, where I learned what role-playing was and how to write with others. On a board dedicated to the Star Fox games, I finally learned what furries were. Somehow I ended up on another board about werewolves, on which I met someone who encouraged me to come to BigFurs with him. I then spent years frequenting furry IRC channels and it kind of carried on from there.

For me, furry is an interest I talk about online and I've always been too shy to bring it into my online life. Admittedly, I consider myself a role-player and a fan of fantasy first and foremost, and my current alter-ego is a bit more beastly than your average anthro.
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Post by: DarkWolf0626 on August 22, 2015, 10:32:00 PM
Well I use to hate furries and despise them. So I decided to join a furry kik chat and try to steal a account. I stole one then I looked back on my decision and thought furries are nice. So I made a sona and join this forums and so far that's it.
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Post by: SuperSimoholic on August 26, 2015, 02:46:20 PM
I always liked anthros, since I was a kid. I used to draw (mostly) cat people when I was very young, and much more recently I made a race of amphibious people that are like frogs with rabbit ears, and they have long tails that are like horse tails and long hair coming from the tips of their ears... I call them 'Amanians'.
A friend from school told me, when I was like 13, about an online social game called Furcadia and I've been playing on and off ever since. I never really admitted that I was furry until recently, but now I see it was kind of super obvious.

I think the thing that pushed me into thinking "Ok, there's no denying it, I'm furry" is when I decided I wanted a fursuit. I want to make one, and go to conventions, and meet people and all that good stuff.
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Post by: Thompson Foxworth on August 29, 2015, 09:53:05 PM
I was just curious about the fandom and I checked out a forum, this is the first one that popped up, now Thompson Foxworth exists, the end.
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Post by: warfox on August 30, 2015, 10:38:02 PM
im almost positive its in my blood ^_^
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Post by: L4BY_ on September 05, 2015, 10:52:22 PM
I've always been a fan of foxes, and used to often have dreams as a kid where I saw myself progressing in an environment as that animal. That got me liking transformations, wondering what it would be like to live as another specie, gender or person.


Two years and a half ago, I was really depressed and felt like my life was useless and was going nowhere. I imagined a different life where I'd be an animal and life would be a lot more peaceful and have more sense to me. I also played a lot of Minecraft at the time, so in April 2013 I changed my MC skin to a fox and created some kind of fox ego on the forums I used to go on attached to the servers I played.


In the summer, a group of people also possessing animal characters invited me to join me. We were the CraftedFurs of CraftedMovie. The founder, Lupi, told me more about his characted and said it was more feral than furry. I asked him what's the meaning of "furry" and he showed me stuff about the fandom.


In September, I moved to a new school and tried right on the first day to make friends. The first guy I spoke to played Minecraft and we had a lot in common like art and gaming. So we had a walk in a park next door and I told him more about myself, stuff I like and told him about my passion for anthros.


He replied : Me too! So the first guy I meet, the first ever friend I've made is a furry. So together we learned stuff about the fandom (we both discovered the fandom in the summer but been liking anthros for a pretty long time) and from that we started creating our fursonas and officially calling ourselves furries.
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Post by: Ori on September 06, 2015, 01:50:03 PM
 I was kind of always surrounded by the furry culture, because in Japan, furry characters in anime movies are a bit of a norm. I truly discovered it when I ran across something on the internet. I don't really remember. I just seem to remember discovering there was a whole community out there and saying this looks like fun. I want to join. And then joining another furry forum, then coming here.
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Post by: Karric on September 06, 2015, 07:42:49 PM
yeah we never just stumble across other furs in England
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Post by: HarleyFox on September 08, 2015, 05:44:07 AM
Sonic the Hedgehog. I used to be a massive fan of his games. I played all of them dozens of times but once i met Tails, everything changed. I literally fell in love with that little cute fox. His personality, his cuteness, his passion for planes and technology, it was like a kick in my chest hehe.

One day, i was looking for pics on Google and the word "Furry" came up. Damn! How could i miss this for so long! A few years later, i'm here  ^_^
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Post by: moonwolf101 on September 08, 2015, 08:07:34 PM
Sonic the Hedgehog. I used to be a massive fan of his games. I played all of them dozens of times but once i met Tails, everything changed. I literally fell in love with that little cute fox. His personality, his cuteness, his passion for planes and technology, it was like a kick in my chest hehe.

One day, i was looking for pics on Google and the word "Furry" came up. Damn! How could i miss this for so long! A few years later, i'm here  ^_^


Man, I love sonic the hedgehog, and the other characters. My childhood game series!
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Post by: Valentina on September 13, 2015, 04:30:04 AM
Well you see when i was young around 3-6 years, an angel appeared in my dreams she was a beautiful white wolf fur and she whispered eyes sparkling you are a furry, you may not realize this now but when you are older you will understand and that's how i became a furry.
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Post by: moonwolf101 on September 13, 2015, 01:57:47 PM
That's awesome!
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Post by: Shadowhound on September 17, 2015, 04:39:18 AM
As far as i know i have always been a furry, as a little kid i always felt really attached to anything that had to do with animals and would often daydream about the chance to be one, usally a wolf.
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Post by: Dr.Vice Jameson on September 25, 2015, 06:39:08 AM
Unlike the general, underlying theme here, as a child, animals weren't that big a deal to me. I was more of a star wars, doctor who, x-files, halo kid. Don't get me wrong, animals still had there place, but it was secondary to the whole sci-fi deal. Then I got into anime, and one of my anime friends showed me the darker side of the fandom. This lead me tho pick up on the sheer amount of hellfire furries got, and as I dug deeper into the fandom, I understood the struggle. Once I understood that, my love of anthros just kinda rose to the surface and clicked into place. Homestuck was also a persuading factor.
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Post by: Firox on September 25, 2015, 05:07:52 PM
Not really sure how I started with furries.
Since young always loved the Disney movies, especially those featuring animals (such as Aristocats, Lion King, Jungle Book, Robin Hood) - then came Pokemon, and my love of favorite animals continued - my fan of furries really got me hooked when I discovered Deviant Art (and a few other art sites) and how awesome other artist made the animals looked.
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Post by: Dexter Dare on September 26, 2015, 09:41:49 PM
im pretty sure i became a furry because of one of my favorite games Ty The Tasmanian Tiger, i played it all the time as a kid and when i was about 16ish i discovered deviantart  and naturally searched for art of my favorite games. alot of furry art was mixed in with it and a developed a interest in the art from there. now up to about a month ago i saw a fursuit on the web and wanted to know how it was made, then from then to now this fandom has managed to full suck me in, in a good way mind you XD
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Post by: ZiekeJCC on September 28, 2015, 10:53:53 PM
(Hi I'm Zieke. Just joined Thai site)

Gaiaonline really introduced me to furries. Sadly that site is more profit oriented than it used to be. It wasn't until recently that I outwardly expressed interest in furries. I always loved dogs and I like other furs like tigers, dragons, and horses.
I love the idea of fursuits but I would not be ready to make one. I don't really have a fursona yet to go off of.
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Post by: FriendlyFern on October 01, 2015, 10:16:12 PM
I have always loved animals which is the reason why I became a furry. The back story to how I became one goes like this: Since I loved animals I always loved the idea of being an animal with human qualities. I would see characters in stories and movies that would inspire me to come up with anthro characters when I played with my friends. I didn't know that furries was an actual thing until about 3 years ago so, naturally, I became a furry immediately, and just recently I have started to become more active in the furry community.
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Post by: 138 on October 02, 2015, 11:10:43 PM
I don't know the exact time, but it was my former girlfriend who introduced me to it 5 or so years back. It sort of stuck with me for whatever reason. Movies probably had some effect as well. One of my favorite childhood animated movies was the Fox and the Hound (original), so that might explain it.
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Post by: Wolfles on October 26, 2015, 02:05:53 PM
Back about 5 years ago, I asked my mum for a minecraft account, I asked for the name "MidnightWolf999" since Wolves were pretty cool at the time and no one else seemed to use it, a few months later, I was talking with one of my "Brother-Figures" and he called me Wolfie, the name stuck, through excessive googling of wolves, I found furries, I loved it.


Being a furry for me, means that I can pretend to be Wolfles, a happy, jumpy, huggable wolf that, unlike me in the real world, doesn't have depression & anxiety, Me being Wolfles with my wolf-hat and tail is my way of being able to go out into the world without being scared, it takes me away from my stresses and worries (which mostly come from me being social too much with people and being over-whelmed, as well as my family because we do NOT get along....
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Post by: Keinai on October 29, 2015, 01:51:14 PM
I think I was always into anthropomorphic animals. Growing up I watched Balto and other animated Disney/Don Bluth films featuring animals, especially dogs, like Lady and the Tramp, Fox and the Hound, Lion King, the Aristocrats, Oliver and Company, 101 Dalmations, and Balto. My love of Pokemon also fueled my passion for animals, so did the Warriors books by Erin Hunter.


My love of The Legend of Zelda, especially Twilight Princess (a game where Link is basically a werewolf) led me to Okami, a video game based around Shinto/Buddhist/Confucianist religion and Japanese folklore where you play as a wolf form of the goddess Amaterasu.


So, mostly my interests led me to it, especially when I was first on the Internet. I played a lot of Flash games and I created my first fursona in sixth grade; a brown cat named Shasta. I have been in the furry fandom for about five or six years.  :)
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Post by: UkirWolf on October 31, 2015, 10:50:41 PM
I actually didn't identify myself as a furry completely until about June of this year.

I mean, I've /always/ been a furry at heart because I've messed around in otherkin and vore websites long ago, but never really stayed longer than a couple days, and years went by without me truly getting into the fandom.

But I now realize this is just who I am, so might as well make a commitment to it.

Vore is actually what got me started in June. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm into that, and I kind of magnetized to the idea of being a pred for people who want one. I like pleasing people more than being pleased, and it's something that I'm highly skilled at and enjoy doing.

I had lots of fun doing so, made some amazing friends along the way, and that's my story of how I became who I am now.
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Post by: Silent Magus on November 01, 2015, 09:26:33 AM
Before the time that I knew the word "furry" or anything about the fandom, I really liked many anthropomorphic animals in the internet; I found them cooler looking then other humans lol.

And in about 3-4 years I found out about it but at this time I was hooked into a lot of video games and I'm just in high school;group works and assignments. Tons of it.

Few weeks earlier, I was really bored to the point of not even interested in gaming at the moment. Desperate to get myself entertained, I worked up in my mind what I like other than any video game title and *BAM* the furries were the one to pop in my mind first. I then literally researched about them; their beginnings (years and such), types, and nearly what it would be like to be one.

I accepted to be a furry the following few days.
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Post by: Synomance Blake on November 02, 2015, 12:28:15 PM
Well, another chapter of my life that is interesting to explain for you see, I started out as a brony, a story which I would rather not explain how I managed to become a part of that community, and I noticed that the community i was in did have more "adult" behaving members.. just not alot, it was then that I took notice of the furry community. I began to think up a fursona for myself, varying between cats to dogs to wolves to foxes, eventually sticking to a Wolf Fox hybrid, or Wolx. Though I must say the object that pulled me in the final stretch was the comic from ohjoysextoy, a site giving helpful lectures on different practices in life and how to do them safely. I saw an advertisement for the furry comic on another forum i was on
http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/furry/ (http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/furry/) - link may contain minor adult material
I read it through and noticed that the furry community might be the perfect chance for me to explore myself and find a community that was accepting with my newfound bisexuality.
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Post by: DisneyMudkip15 on November 02, 2015, 11:21:02 PM
I was in a production of Cats the musical in the summer of 2010 & I fell in love with the musical so much I became part of the Cats the Musical fandom & I saw these other costumes on the Cats forum I was part of but they were made of faux fur & foam. In 2011 I met who would become my best friend, AngelWingsCreations. she showed me her fursona, Angel. Fast forward to my senior year. Angel showed me videos of telephone at a sleepover and i was like OMG ADORABLE AS FLUFF! I did my research and i found the fandom and I was like THIS IS SO COOL! :D count me in! lol
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Post by: Dewpawz on November 05, 2015, 07:02:24 AM
I'd say the game that got me into furries would be Mass Effect. Still being one of my all time favorite games, I played it day and night for almost 2 months straight. As I progressed through the games I noticed that I started to take an odd liking to the Turrients and the Krogen. Just so happens a little bit later when I was looking for random Mass Effect wallpapers and came across a sort of furry/Mass Effect cross over. This is what sparked my interest in the fandom. I did a little research and found out that I wasn't alone and there was a whole fandom for things like this. Now I'm here.
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Post by: Sheehan on November 08, 2015, 04:35:52 AM
I have a friend who's been a long time furry. So it mostly started as him getting me to draw his sona for him. I visited a few sites and I really enjoy the art and the time people put into their characters. It's almost like there's a whole other world out there. I mean, I haven't had a REAL fursona before Sheehan. Not for lack f trying. I just couldn't connect with them the way I wanted to. Then, out of some strange dream, I met Sheehan. Of course she didn't have a name in my dream but it was like... I don't know how to explain it. It took me a month to get her drawn out right and give her a proper background. I ended up using a bit of my grandmother's real life experience in it, but it worked for the species she's a cross of.So here I am. Officially a fur fan.
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Post by: Dante Zairou on November 16, 2015, 04:50:18 AM
by totall accident, i saw the art for the first time mixed in with a Google search for wolves and fell in love with it and then stumbled across FA and have loved the community ever since
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Post by: Arctagon on November 18, 2015, 10:04:26 PM
How did I become a furry? Well it is kindof a funny story X3

It started with a liking for foxes and wolves that started back around.... two years ago. The whole story is kinda fuzzy to me at the moment but I do remember that the liking for foxes started with the fox standing up in the song "What does the fox say" XD I thought it wsa super cute and funny, so I just started googling foxes and wolves. From there I was introduced (With the help of an unfortunate google incident involving Ponies.....) to anthropomorphics.
It took a very short time after that to find out about the whole furry community and culture.

Im not yet open in real life about the fact that Im a furry, so I guess openly Im just a "normal" wierd person (if that makes sense X3 )
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Post by: Cial on November 19, 2015, 12:50:30 AM
Well, I became a furry when I was browsing you tube... I came across a video that discussed in detail why there were even furries, after the video was done, I pretty much lost it because I liked the idea of being a furry, but at the same time I was afraid to be one because of how they are commonly treated.But, I discussed the idea of it with my friends, and they told me to look into it more, so I started to watch fur suiting videos and I became more confident with the idea.
 Now I don't know why I just had the sudden obsession to be a furry, but I think it was because I used to always act like a dog and make my stuffed animals walk on two feet and talk... I even acted like my dog was singing by putting a music player next to him... So, yeah...
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Post by: Booplesnoot on November 21, 2015, 09:28:56 PM
Redwall series. I'm in college and ordered all of those books for nostalgia. After reading a few of these books around the age of 9, I began imagining myself as a half human rat like in Redwall. Eventually I changed to a rabbit and it stuck. I was a furry before I even knew what a furry was!  XD Nowadays I find myself wishing the technology was available to make it real.
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Post by: Keldorai on November 23, 2015, 12:16:21 AM
Corruption of Champions, and I say that with shame. Heh, before my interest in furrydom I was into BDSM (and still am) but I never was one to enjoy anything ordinary, so I guess it was just a matter of time I got adventurous enough to explore.
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Post by: Rho'Syn Ilwynog on November 23, 2015, 05:15:30 PM
Long story short? When I was a kid I went to a Star Wars rpg with some older kids at a college and the DM's computer started playing a screen saver with a bunch of furry star wars characters. I asked him what that was and they said to go home and google furry. I was hooked!

I grew up on loony toons, Redwall, and the like, so Furry was just something that came super naturally and still does!
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Post by: JaxTheDogMatt on November 23, 2015, 11:53:01 PM
   Personally I still don't know if I am a furry or not. I do like drawings of wolves and find it really cool how people get to dress up as them and stuff, but I only signed up because most online quizzes said I was over 70% furry.


   So what do I do? My friend took the tests and hes one too apparently. I never really thought of myself as a furry, but never looked down at them. I sort of envied them actually. Its amazing how they don't car what other people will think of them. While I don't care either, there is just something holding me back from admitting it to anyone, friends or family. I still don't even know if I should take it seriously or not, that I am one. I never dressed up as a furry or anything, but I don't know what to do.  @.@  So i am a little confused so if someone could tell me if I am one or not, or what I should do, or who to tell, that would be great. And I'm not saying I don't want to be one, I just dont know if I should accept it or not. :/ HALP!


   
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Post by: moonwolf101 on November 26, 2015, 12:48:35 AM
   Personally I still don't know if I am a furry or not. I do like drawings of wolves and find it really cool how people get to dress up as them and stuff, but I only signed up because most online quizzes said I was over 70% furry.


   So what do I do? My friend took the tests and hes one too apparently. I never really thought of myself as a furry, but never looked down at them. I sort of envied them actually. Its amazing how they don't car what other people will think of them. While I don't care either, there is just something holding me back from admitting it to anyone, friends or family. I still don't even know if I should take it seriously or not, that I am one. I never dressed up as a furry or anything, but I don't know what to do.  @.@  So i am a little confused so if someone could tell me if I am one or not, or what I should do, or who to tell, that would be great. And I'm not saying I don't want to be one, I just dont know if I should accept it or not. :/ HALP!


 


If you want to be a furry then BOOM. your a furry. You don't have to stand on the very top of everest and scream it out to become one. If you like it, and want to be apart of it then all you do is say your a furry, and your a furry. No secret password or handshake.
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Post by: Maycky-zug on November 26, 2015, 03:22:39 AM
Well... All started when I was 12 years old. Far away were I born and grow up. In my school it was a guy. He wasn't my friend bud I don' have any choice so... I tried to be friends and in one moment he tells me to search the word "Yiff". When I search it on Google. I was in shock... And I desolate 2 thinks in my head. :/

1. Hate with all my soul the furry think >:(

2. Curious and love for the art

I hate all the furry stuff because that, but in other hand I start to practice more my draw XD
It was an internal fight for 5 years, then I search on internet about the real meaning of been furry. i was to starting to like it. So i search for community in México bud there no were a lot. : S

And i thinking about my childhood.
Favorite Games: star fox, Banjo kazooie
Favorite movie: the lion king, bugs
Cartoons: "la vida moderna de Roko", cat dog, SpongeBob.

In my adolescence
Happy three friend

Then I accept my love to this kind of expression. I want to participate with the fandom  ^_^
Sorry my bad grammar, I do my Best  :'(.

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Post by: Brownie on November 28, 2015, 01:58:09 AM
I think a lot of my furriness comes from being very shy, and so I've always found it easier to spend time with animals than people. The Lion King was my favorite movie growing up, along with ones like Fox and the Hound and the Goofy Movie. I just find animal/creature characters more appealing in comparison to human characters. Plus, I've always loved stuffed animals and as I collected them over the years, I developed a continuing story with them as anthropomorphic animals who live in a castle together.

Also had a crush on Falco from Star Fox in elementary school.  XP

In terms of actually joining the furry fandom, I actually had a negative view towards it for a long time, due to the common misinformation that's been spread around. Ironically I learned more accurate information from a video called I Hate Furries. It actually mentioned the arguments for what's positive about being a furry, and talked about fursonas. I loved the idea of fursonas as soon as I heard it and found the fursuits really appealing. It looked like fun and a friendly community so I wanted to join in, too. It's been a little difficult to shift my perspective on the fandom after so long but I've really enjoyed most of what I've found so far.
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Post by: Sylvie on November 30, 2015, 02:34:00 PM
For me, I just always loved fuzzy, anthro characters in games, cartoons, and the like.
It just kinda blossomed when I found other fans of such characters online and started getting involved in the community.
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Post by: FinnegansWake on December 06, 2015, 10:33:27 PM
Well for me, I am very new to the fandom, but I was fascinated with animals - mostly wolves, canines, and large cats - and eventually I got into the concept of being a werewolf/skin walker, which I liked, and became a little obsessed with. At that age (like, 4-5th grade?) I decided that I was a wolf. When I was in 7th grade, I knew a young furry and really got into the fandom that way, as I found out there was a special place and community for people who felt the same way. This is my first venture (really!)  into the community as a furry myself and not just as a supporter of the lifestyle. 

B) so far, everyone is amazing and extremely friendly. I'm very happy I ended up "coming out" and finally stepping into the fandom after sitting at the edge looking in for a very long time  :P
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Post by: DarkHound on December 10, 2015, 02:45:57 AM
well ive always loved Spyro. well one day i got the bright idea to cross him with a wolf (well cross CYNDER) with a wolf and the outcome kinda became my fursona for a while. the when my email became what it was, the first part was used as a rp character so i decided to use the secnd have to form a new character: Darkhound. then i kinda slowly started sinking into the furry fandom
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Post by: ShemaFirekitten on December 13, 2015, 04:45:24 PM
I became a furry when i was 8 turning 9. I was at a point where i started to feel hopeless and lonely. I would mostly spoke to my animals cause knew if they didnt speak they understood. I grew attached more to animals and wanted to learn more about them. I would meow and play with outside cat. Honestly when i look back it now, its like i turned crazy. But i drew myself as cat most of my free time since i didnt have games or Internet. When i finally got internet. I roleplayed with others online and made many fursonas. I relyed on the internet at that point because i had no friends XD
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Post by: Oanta on December 13, 2015, 11:03:53 PM
I was first introduced to the Furry fandom itself with the CSI episode.  I didn't even know what they called it then, but when I saw people walking around with fur suits at an anime convention in 2011, I had that conception in my head.  Intellectually, I knew that it was wrong to use that one experience to explain the whole fandom but emotionally I couldn't get past it to really explore what being a furry meant.  Over the past couple of years, I have realized that there were some thins in my life that needed questioning and further investigation in order to make my own decisions about something.  When I started looking more into the furry fandom I realized that the stuff from the CSI episode is an outlier and the main focus of furries the love of animals and how one can incorporate anthro art into a persona that helps to define ourselves, who we want to be, or a character that we created.

Looking back at my life after realizing that I can consider myself a furry, I realized that it has been there all along.  I love the Animorphs books and would still love to be able to morph into different animals.  I watched a bunch of Disney movies and would use The Lion King as my unrequited love movie in middle school.  I have always respected animals and mother nature for the gifts that they provide as well as the power that they have.  I could go on, but in summary: I have always been a furry.  I just didn't know it until recently.
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Post by: Rob_Silvermyst on December 20, 2015, 01:27:48 AM
I began my journey into my furry side back in 95, when I was 15, but my influences leading into it came from much earlier in life. I have always loved animals, and my mother always had pets. I loved watching cartoons, but even just as much loved watching nature documentaries. Wolves fascinated me the most, with not only how gorgeous they were, but how they lived, always in groups with a hierarchy, and the important roles of all of the members. I also had a love for fantasy and medieval things. I always went to the ren. faire that always followed the week after the Woodstock Fair on the same fairgrounds. Added to that was a fascination with the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt.

In 1995, I created my fursona, Robert Silvermyst. A young prince who enjoyed being among his people more than living a life of politics. As I built a story around him, I created a brother for him, Simon. I then began expanding and crafting a deep story around Robert, pulling influences from some of my favorite games, like Shining the Holy Ark, Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean and Ultima Online. In 1996, I found Furcadia. Robert was one of many characters I played as, but Robert Silvermyst was the one I stayed with while my other characters I either lost interest in or others had no interest in interacting with.

I began delving into MUCKs, forums, and eventually Second Life which is the more recent thing I've gotten into, though I rarely actually go out and about there. I've only recently started to get into furcons and furmeets, wanting to make new friends, though I'm a bit of a recluse with all of my school friends having left the state. While I am confident online and in roleplay, I'm quite withdrawn in real life and I'm trying to break out from that. Currently I'm working on a visual novel based loosely (very loosely in some regards) to my experiences as a soldier and adjusting to civilian life after leaving the service and leaving coming off of a deployment. It's a very slice-of-life with romance paths that delves into issues like post traumatic stress disorder, bi-polar, blindness, immigration, social conflicts and views over transgender and gay/bi folks, parental abuse, bullying and the like, yet will still be balanced and have some humor in it.
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Post by: Jwaper on December 21, 2015, 12:52:54 AM
I'm still newish to the fandom. I love dogs for my whole life and even at the age of 7 I would either dream to be a dog or have a fursuit type thing (back then I did not know what a fursuit was but due to media and TV I had a mm idea of something like it). I really join the fandom back in 2013 because I loved the idea of fursuites. I have only recently decided to take action of my fursuiting love since the music video of one of my games includes a fursuit so that won me over and made me want more to do on the fursuiting and furry scene.
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Post by: Furnation on December 24, 2015, 12:48:38 AM
I'm not to sure to be honest. I know I randomly was on 4chan and came across a furry thread. Everyone was discussing the conventions and what not, and I kind of liked the idea. Then some time later on I met a girl, who happened to see me browsing through photos of people in fur suits. Turned out she liked it, and ever since then I have been more open to being apart of the furry scene.
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Post by: Blaze on December 24, 2015, 03:59:43 PM
For me it was when i started to get into games that allowed you to play as an anthro, i simply thought the character designs were cool and before i knew it i was looking up furry fan art and fursuit making or showing off videos in youtube and reading stories centered of furry characters and stuff like that.
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Post by: Element on December 26, 2015, 08:14:29 AM
Obsession with certain characters (Bolt, or Disney's Robin Hood for example) lead to google searches, which lead to other places ^_^
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Post by: Galefargion on January 14, 2016, 10:23:21 PM
Probably as a direct product for my love of anime and video games growing up. I always fancied the anthropomorphic characters, like Ouka in .hack//
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Post by: Flora on January 18, 2016, 08:46:01 PM
I don't remember exactly. I just slowly started merging into the fandom I suppose.  XD  This is just a guess, but I am pretty sure I had some sort of fursona before I even knew what a fursona was! Plus my sister introduced me to the Two Kinds comic and explained to me what a furry was.
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Post by: Riddle on January 22, 2016, 10:50:59 AM
Saw a hate video about them on youtube, and fell in love with the furry fandom after that! :3
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Post by: Eesha on January 22, 2016, 10:53:12 AM
Riddle : That's the best way  XD


Personally, I don't know, it became more official about 3/4 years ago, when I created an account on DeviantArt and watched Two Kinds  ^_^
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Post by: Booplesnoot on January 23, 2016, 05:28:23 AM
I've seen quite a few "new recruits" of late.  ^_^
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Post by: Winnona on January 26, 2016, 06:37:31 PM
It's odd; I have a very poor memory of my childhood, but I can remember lots of things that probably led me to being a fur.


Grade 1-ish, I had some plastic dinosaurs I would bring to school and play with with my oldest friend, who is not a furry, but we're still pretty close. Around Grade 3 I discovered the Guardians of Ga'Hoole book series, which were fantastic, even though the movie which came out years later SUCKED, in my opinion. Warrior Cats came after that, and I followed them up until the second or third book of the fourth series, since by that time I was quite a bit older.


Also, for a number of years, one of my friends and I would play cats whenever we hung out. I always played the black tom Darkstar; the star taken from the Warrior's clan-leader suffix, and the dark cause it sounded cool, and I was a big fan of Shadowclan. We stopped hanging out after she went to a different highschool, and we fell out of touch. If you're here, Danielle, give me a shout! I'd like to hear from you again. :)


In any case, fur-related stuff kinda fell to the wayside as I took up an interest in anime, and only came back into my life when I found Zoophobia near the end of highschool. I created a few fan characters and left them for a bit, and thought fondly of them whenever they surfaced again. Then I started going out with a guy who's sorta furry, and started thinking pretty hard about what sort of animal I'd be.


I love nature documentaries, ones about birds especially, but decided that I wouldn't just want to be a bird, I'd want to be large, and strong, too. I stumbled across the Utahraptor while trying to find an alt-mode for a Transformers Dinobot OC of mine, and decided that it was perfect. A few days later, I found this forum, and I am now proudly claiming myself as furry! :D
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Post by: Nazieri on January 29, 2016, 03:41:30 AM
It all started when the topic arose on another social media site, asking the other members about their thoughts on Furries. I got a lot of mixed messages as to what the fandom was really about, so I took it upon myself to do a bit of research and I stumbled upon a youtube video that explained it perfectly. I started to realize that I was a furry. I am a huge fan of anthropomorphic art and I drew it quite a bit myself. As time went on, I got more and more interested, I started creating my fursona and now that I have it, I'm planning on making my own fursuit.
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Post by: Klyde on February 01, 2016, 10:30:47 PM
I've thought about this alot in the past, and I believe to many people this will be a familiar tale. Of course at a young age I watched alot of cartoons where the characters were anthropomorphic animals, (Such as Robinhood, Bambi, Lion King, The Great Mouse Detective.... essentially all the Disney flicks), and was hooked on those movies and their characters from an early age. As I grew older the shows had changed but the majority of the shows and movies I sought had animals  for their cast. It was about ten years ago or more when I learned about furries and I knew right then and there that I was one and had been following the fandom ever since, but its only recently that I decided to get involved with the community.
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Post by: Calun the Bat on February 03, 2016, 01:06:09 AM
Probably as a direct product for my love of anime and video games growing up. I always fancied the anthropomorphic characters, like Ouka in .hack//

:D OMG YES. Ouka is the BEST EVER.  :*

Ahem... anyway, for me it was probably like many. You know, you get attached to certain anthro characters growing up, and/or have a fondness for the animal kingdom. For me the furry world in particular came when a very good friend of mine from high school became a well known furry artist. I used to watch her draw and stuff when we'd hang out at her place back in the day, and even though she's long since moved away, we're still good friends, and I give her the blame for getting me into the community proper.  >:3 And that's a good thing!
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Post by: Balareth on February 12, 2016, 05:59:21 AM
well because i found felines as beautiful creatures, all of them, i love from cats to lions, i found the powerful and very majestic, i love to see how they live and how they erase their children, did you know lions pretends to feel pain when the babies bites them? is really cool and also their skin looks so soft to the touch, so i choosed felines because their beauty and life style, you cant but wonder how in the world such creature exists?
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Post by: Kogashuko on February 12, 2016, 07:55:56 AM
I started out denying it and just thinking they were *funny* But when I realized I was starting to find them sexy or cute I kinda realized, that and a friend was one too so helped me realize it as well.
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Post by: Gheidren on February 12, 2016, 08:46:28 PM
Well it started out in 5th grade I was searching the internet and I happened to stumble upon a picture of a wolf standing up right. I've never seen anything like that before except for in video games (that I could really care less about). But for some reason that got my attention. so I started looking up pictures like that more often then I figured out that there was a group of people who liked those. So I reaserched the fandom more, started drawing more. And eventually came up with my fursona.
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Post by: [INACTIVE] on February 19, 2016, 07:40:41 AM
Alright sit down everyone, MetalGearStowe is going to read everyone a story.


It all started when I was 10, Little Metal was walking down to the mall with his father. When all of a sudden a wild group of fursuiters appeared. My little mine couldn't seem to figure out wtf was happening. "Why are their people in animal costumes?" I proceeded to make my father walk towards them with me. I asked, "Yo... wtf is this?" they responded with no hesitations, "Were furry's." After that was over we went into the mall bought some stuff then went home. I was so interested in these furry's that I went on the family PC and looked up furry's. Needless to say, I became one.
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Post by: Rocco Rex on February 20, 2016, 06:48:25 PM
For me, it is more of a question of when I realized I was a furry. For most of my life, I have had dogs, and I feel much more connected with dogs then with people, and I have felt that way for years. It was two weeks ago today(wow, such a short time with so much spreading of my wings) that I went on YouTube and looked for videos explaining what furries are(even though I had never heard the term before, I just knew to search it). The first one I watched was by Majira Strawberry, and I felt joyful, free, excited, and at peace. I knew I had found a new side to myself.

Normally I don't trust anyone, I rarely speak, I am quite aggressive, kind of mean, and am pretty much a hermit, but am fiercely loyal to my family(even though I hide so much from them and they drive me nuts). Since I have found out and accepted that I am a furry I am more outgoing, nice, happy, less tense, and more easy going. I am so happy I started searching.
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Post by: KaydenQuick on February 28, 2016, 12:32:42 AM
Kinda funny how I became a furry. I always liked the Pokemon games as a kid.
So somewhere around the time when I was 13 I was googling the differences in Pokemon as far as gender went.
Basically, I typed in "Charizard Sexes(The gender definition)" and google took me to a comic about a trainer continuously trying to flirt with an anthro Charizard. This led me to further explore the site, which back then was called "Kemonoart.org" and from kemonoart I went off into Deviantart, then Furaffinity, basically... I really got into the art, and later got into the people. They were all nice, friendly(Well, most of them anyways). So I developed a fursona, which changed over time and then eventually got art as an adult.

So yeah, a google translation lead me to becoming a furry, or at least discovering what furries were.
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Post by: Scorpsi on March 03, 2016, 09:41:13 PM
Mein freund ist one. As a result I sorta... phased into.
Funnily enough I used to be one of those judgmental people!
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Post by: Scorpsi on March 03, 2016, 10:40:34 PM
The Deutsche Sprache is strong in this one.


Too much war games...
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Post by: Silaluk on March 04, 2016, 04:06:15 AM
I don't remember exactly. I still don't really consider myself a furry, since my fursona isn't anthro and I don't depict her in a universe similar to modern Earth's, but I think it was the "adult" side I liked first, to be completely honest.
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Post by: Doctor Lin on March 04, 2016, 04:19:28 AM
It all started about 0-1 months ago. One day I was browsing around on the internet and I eventually come to this meme with the term "furry" in it. Me, being my curious self, started looking up what a furry was. I found out a lot about the furry fandom and was still curious about. I was interested in having a fursona, and I thought if I became a furry I would no more about furries. One thing led to an other and Tada.I'm a furry.

PS: METALGEAR YOUR STORY WAS STRANGISH
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Post by: Neurottic on March 05, 2016, 11:53:08 PM
I always loved animals, and I would draw furries all the time when I was little.  :)  I had no idea what a furry was at the time of course. When I was 11 years old I got really into sonic the hedgehog and drew sonic fan characters all the time but of course again, and again I had no idea what furries were.
But I had a friend in high school, he was a furry and he asked me to draw his fursona. I agreed and while looking up references, I discovered the furry fandom  :) I was interested but I never told anyone. My friend eventually moved away and I figured out that I actually liked furries. I'm 19 now and I finally decided to take the plunge, and here I am now!
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Post by: MustardHusky on March 07, 2016, 02:47:59 PM
I actually used to be one of THOSE people (I'm pretty sure the furry fandom knows what I'm talking about, if they don't, I used to be one of the people who thought all furries were... um... yeah) until I saw some doco on anthrocon, and I thought "hey, this fandom doesn't seem so bad" I then discovered Majira Strawberry on YouTube and decided i wanted to become a furry.


...either that or when I was three I said that I wanted to be a dog when I grew up.
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Post by: nixon/monto on March 07, 2016, 05:30:35 PM
Anthrocon dance competition videos on YouTube. I was looking up dubstep dancing a trying to learn...a little. And that's where I was like. "What's this?"
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Post by: Nori on March 07, 2016, 08:34:23 PM
I always liked dragons and dolphins and such when I was younger, and my first drawing was a possessed looking dragon/dolphin hybrid that walked on two legs :P
When I started High School, I drew more animal-people, because I still cannot draw actual humans!
I went to my first Anime Convention, Nan Desu Kan in Denver when I was 14, and I walked into a fursuit photoshoot. And I fell in love :P
I looked up what fursuit was all about, and that lead my to the actual fandom it is from (though it took longer than most might think.. like a year later). Once I got the idea of it, I wanted to make a wolf, because wolves are awesome and wolf's Rain is the best anime ever. But then I watched Stelleluna and I wanted a bat instead :P But I already got silver/black fur for a wolf fursuit.. so its more of a silver bat.

So that turned into my first fursuit I'm almost finished with. I chose Nori as the name because it means something cool in Nordic (though I can't remember off the top of my head). But then I decided I wanted to create a character with a few different things, and I came up with Nori as she is now, an anthro canine with random feathers, saber teeth, a hippogryph tail and a set of antlers XD

My next suit will definitely be my current Nori, though I'm going to go with more 'cute' and make a foam head and toony eyes instead of the realistic ones :P
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Post by: Emtile on March 10, 2016, 01:16:26 AM
I discovered myself as a furry a few years ago when I found THAT side of the community, but I never had a real fursona until a year ago. During my search, I realized  that furrys/anthos where much more than THAT and decided to create myself as a furry and took the name emtile, short for emoreptile.
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Post by: dvdog on March 13, 2016, 10:27:46 AM
I always thought what other people said about furrys where true until reacently when I watched videos of furrycons and people unboxing their fursonas. I realised that I actually like the furry fandom and every one is so nice to me even though I started calling my self a furry a few days ago and I hope when I grow up so I can attend a furrycon. I feel like this is a fandom that I can be a part of despite being an awkward person. :3
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Post by: Proto Triose on March 13, 2016, 01:47:34 PM
I don't know. There was no sudden realization other than "Ooooh. It's called being a FURRY." I've related animalistic qualities in myself since High School; people called me wolf (or Proto, if they knew about the character) all during school and after. It was just kind of who I was, how I thought; a lot of the characters I made were furries anyway, at least in early stories, and I still have a habit of attributing human qualities to any animal I write. I didn't intend for Loose Jaw to get a personality, but sure enough, once his genetics change in Fall he starts to become more aware of the self, as it were.

Long story short, I always had been, just discovered that's what it's called, and always will be. :) And I've never been happier to find like-minded people. Everyone here was so accepting and encouraging and supportive. I love everyone on TFF. All my favorite fursons are here. I love you guys!
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Post by: Wolfie the Umbreon on March 13, 2016, 02:55:58 PM
I started loving Furry Fandom a few months ago, when I saw some furry art, and since then, i became involved in FF.
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Post by: kdasjfdsfhsdhfkjsdfjhsdhf on March 15, 2016, 12:43:29 AM
This may sound silly but I went and saw the movie Zoo topia  XP .  I really enjoyed it.  I also really loved animals but the movie made me decide to become one.  Btw I'm new. 
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Post by: Bricket on March 15, 2016, 12:48:23 AM
Welcome, and trust me: itsn't as silly is mine.
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Post by: kdasjfdsfhsdhfkjsdfjhsdhf on March 16, 2016, 09:24:01 PM
If you don't mind me asking what happened?  I wont judge.   XP
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Post by: Glacier on April 06, 2016, 02:38:25 AM
As many others, I first found that side of the community, before finding the um, normal side and deciding to join since it seemed nice. That's about it really. I didn't have much interest at the time though, so it's only until now that I've officially joined.
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Post by: Wolfie the Umbreon on April 06, 2016, 02:54:35 PM
To be honest , I also discovered that side of the community a few years ago but didn't get into
FF till February 2016.
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Post by: YourUnknownHost on April 10, 2016, 03:39:06 AM
I have no idea when i became a furry only it was in the beginning of this year.The reason why i became a furry is most likely because i love cats and wanted to dress up as one. Later i stumbled on furry videos and i heard about 70% are gay or bi and i was bi curious so i felt safe near furrys in contrast to the homophobic environment i live in :/ but dont worry some people here are accepting of homosexuality ^_^.
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Post by: Makias on April 10, 2016, 03:51:32 AM
Always had a love for dragons and always referred to myself as "The Dragon" in any MMO I played. The colors (black/purple) I use because of Runescape, and my love for the god Zaros.
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Post by: Salakar Crocoli on April 16, 2016, 04:38:51 AM
It seems that I am one of the few people that found the bad side of furries after the good side. I always liked animals and on a forum I was talking to someone named "Furrific". They are actually the one that told me about furries. Since then, I have considered myself a furry, if not a very active one. Right now I am trying to make a fursona, but I don't know where to start.
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Post by: Jacques Blackfeather on April 17, 2016, 02:41:07 AM
I'd say I had my big realisation sometime in the ninth grade. One of my friends at the time was a furry, and while I was drawing anthros pretty regularly, I never really thought myself as a furry until he opened my eyes to the fact that there is a fandom xD Since then, I've just chugged along like I always have, except now knowing that there's a wonderful community to share in the furriness with
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Post by: Vinny on April 17, 2016, 09:57:53 AM
well i was a bronie to start with and after the site i was on became too toxic i had to leave and after looking around for a new site i found Furaffinity and spent a few hour looking at the amazing art and decided i say hi and got the warmest welcome ive ever had , then i saw telephone and fell in love with fursuits and suiters
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Post by: Detroit on April 18, 2016, 09:17:53 PM
when i was twelve i was introduced to my cousin who is quite the bit older and goes under the name fuchsia possum i thought everything about her art and suit were really cool so i just decided to look into it and i ended up here i guess
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Post by: Henrick on April 20, 2016, 07:40:25 PM
When I was 12 or 13 I somehow found out about furries. I don't know how I did it, honestly. However, before that I was pretty much a furry due to my love of anthro animals.
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Post by: Snufkin silverclaw on April 25, 2016, 09:01:18 PM
Well I have always liked animals like wolves, I also am a fan of sonic the hedgehog so I started liking antros from a young age . As with most kids I liked cartoons like regular show and adventure time and lots of others which contributed. And the last reason is the community because I heard of the accepting people
So that's how I am here I guess.
As always stay furtastic B)
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Post by: MuAlphaChi_ on April 28, 2016, 08:22:11 PM
I liked to look at anthropomorphic art way before I'd even heard of the furry fandom, then when I discovered it and researched it two days ago I decided I wanted to be a furry!
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Post by: jellyfishee on May 01, 2016, 05:59:09 AM
Hm, I guess I always kind of was.  I always said I was a cat when I was little.  My family even said I grew up to be a cat.  XD

I didn't even know what a furry was or that there was a fandom until I was 18 and joined secondlife.  I guess that's when I joined the actual fandom.
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Post by: Dax Declan on May 01, 2016, 06:06:35 AM
I became a furry from watching movies like fox and the hound, robin hood, balto, and all dogs go to heaven. I just always like personified animals in cartoons and stuff and i never really grew out of it.
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Post by: tokugawo on May 02, 2016, 04:21:25 PM
Konnichiwa. I'm tokugawo, if you don't already know.


I guess how I became a furry is when I had a fascination with cartoons at first. This began to develop into where I have them integrated in my own fantasies and dreams.The more of the idea of a furry community came to my mind, I was always wanting to know what it was.


I started to began actively viewing anthropomorphic artwork, and eventually considered creating my own.


Now I've officially began communicating with other furries, and plan to later participate in other activites and conventions.
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Post by: Alberath on May 03, 2016, 12:25:58 AM
I always preferred animals to humans- I used to run around on all fours, even. I always drew animals more, too. Though that may have been influenced by my not being any good at drawing humans.


From that stuff just kind of snowballed and here I am.
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Post by: Kara on May 07, 2016, 06:17:34 PM
I always loved animals more than humans (I hate people)
SO uh im a furry I guess.  :S
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Post by: ZalTheRaccoon on May 07, 2016, 06:29:03 PM
I started to become a furry sometime in 2006 when I was only about 6 years old, sometime after seeing the Over The Hedge movie. It got me obsessing over anthropomorphic raccoons for years on end, sticking with me all my life, but I never really truly started to fully accept my "furry-ness" until really recently  XP
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Post by: Modern Pirate on May 08, 2016, 10:14:18 AM
Brotha I wuz BORN a furry, it just took me a while for me to discover it.  Animals of any kind are awesome, but if you add a little fantasy and cross-breeding it becomes amazing! @.@  I discovered I was a furry when I was on google images looking at pictures of wolves, then an anthro wolf came up.  Then I started looking at pictures of those.  Then I started drawing anthro creatures (not very good drawings) then... I discovered... the fandom  Everyone there was so nice to me and I'm so grateful to have everyone with the same interest as me.  Respect to all my brother and sister furries.
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Post by: OceanWolves on May 09, 2016, 06:56:48 PM
I absolutely love animals! :D When I started coming across anthropomorphic animal art online, I thought it was amazing and creative, leading me to become mildly interested in furries. Just last month someone I was following on Pinterest made a board titled 'Furries', so I checked it out and found plenty of awesome art and pictures of intricate fur-suits. I went on to join an anthro role play on another site, so I of course created myself a fursona (and another OC) for that -  it went on from there. :)
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Post by: Doops on May 25, 2016, 12:57:26 AM
In RP's and RPGS (Ex: The elderscrolls) I always liked to create anthro characters and I always liked the idea of the furry fandom,
I was always confused of what made you a 'furry' but never took enough time to do some research but yesterday I did take that time and was thrilled to find out that anyone could be a furry, then that lead me here
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Post by: Molecular §hadow Ғox on May 31, 2016, 11:55:45 AM
I was on IMVU and I had heard of furries and there seemed to be a lot on there at the time, so I browsed the shop on there for my avatar and started finding stuff and it was like everything fell into place when I'd got my first furry avatar.  I truly felt it was right and being a furry has been a huge part of my life ever since  ;)

It's really helped me with my shyness and confidence  ^_^
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Post by: Ambrix on May 31, 2016, 09:40:15 PM
I happened to stumble upon DA user doom-the-wolf and, being my 13-year-old self, was confused and disturbed by the material at first until I looked further into these "furry" things and fell in love with them.
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Post by: Baddourufu on June 10, 2016, 10:54:14 AM
It all started with my friend, she was drawing anthro art (She's a furry too) and I thought that I would try it too. So I came up with a character, (He was a dragon named Sil, who I had actually fantasized what it would be like if I one day became him) but eventually, I came up with my current fursona, Baddourufu. I didn't realize I was furry until one day I was looking through a list of Minecraft servers, and one of them said "Furries Welcome" and I had heard of furries before that, but I didn't know much about them, so I was a little curious and I looked up what a furry is, and I was like, "Wow! That looks cool, I think I'll become a furry!" and then ~6 months later I discover this place (yesterday).
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Post by: Ryouko on June 10, 2016, 03:24:11 PM
Not really sure, I just remember liking the art.
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Post by: Dirgeful on June 29, 2016, 05:31:44 AM
I had been hearing a lot about furries (some negative, some positive) on the internet. I never really cared at the time since I didn't really know what it was. One day my cousin came over to my house and was looking up fursuits and stuff. I was looking with her and was amazed by how cute they all were. Even still, I never really considered myself a furry until about a month or two later. Of course, I never made my fursona until... last month which was about, I don't know, 6-9 months post considering myself a furry.
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Post by: Dragontail93 on July 02, 2016, 06:48:16 PM
I also played many games with animals.Spyro the dragon,crash bandicoot,pokemon.I also love anime,my favorite is dbz.In middle school I fell in love with Frieza  :* He is evil tyrant and bastard,so I dont like his personality.However his body is whole new story.I love lizards,dragons and in general tails,so I began to search frieza yaoi pictures and that is how it began(rule34).I didn't knew if there are people like me,so I felt a little bit alone with my fetish.Recently I began to take interest in furry fundom,fursonas etc.This is awesome :) People dont care about others opinion and transform into wolf,dragon or fox and they are happy with it.I am glad that there are people that love furries like I do :)
Title: Re: How did you become a member of the furry fandom?
Post by: Shoon on July 16, 2016, 07:43:47 AM
A friend showed me her new fursona, and. Was like "whats a fursona?" And then she showed me the fandom.
Title: Re: How did you become a member of the furry fandom?
Post by: Bricket on July 16, 2016, 11:28:56 AM

I was searching the internet and then I saw the art (the good kind).
Being interested I kept looking further and then I joined the forum here.

Can I be called a real furry? Probably not, but can I be called someone who is interested in it? Yes.
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Post by: Argrath on July 16, 2016, 11:56:46 AM
I wanted to be an anthropomorphic bear when I was like age 5 (I didn't know what anthropomorphic was XD I just wanted to be a cartoon bear) But then... I SAW DRAGONS WOA!!! I've collected dragon figurines, charizard pokemon trading cards, dragon plushies etc etc.  I also developed a crush on wolves, but dragons are cooler imo. I wanted to have a costume (you could call it a fursuit) at age 10 maybe? I found out that more people were into this stuff in 2013 and I plan to suit in just a few years. :P. (Sorry if I wrote things wrong)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Judy on July 16, 2016, 06:41:14 PM

Oh my... I dont remember that exactly, it was so long ago...!  X3
But once I terribly bored, because I did nt have any hobbies / interests, so i type different tags in google, and scrolling through the Google I found FURRY FANDOM, I dont remember how exactly its strated, but it was something like that.  ^_^
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Post by: Delta The Wolf on July 16, 2016, 11:54:40 PM
I didn't know it at the time but I have been a furry before I even knew what one was. Ever since I was a little kid, around 5 or something like that, I had been to attached to anthropomorphic animals. I used to like just about any movie, cartoon, anything that had those kinds of characters in them. I actually used to make up my own characters in my head that I had actually grown attached to. I don't remember their names though, it was a long time ago. Back then, I didn't even know anything about furries. I didn't even know of their existence. I was only 8 when I found out about this community but I didn't know anything about you guys to identify as one. Just about 2 years ago was when I actually came to know what the furry community was about and just recently was when I discovered I had been a furry nearly all my life.
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Post by: Racky on July 26, 2016, 01:35:21 AM
First it all started with a friend of mine. When we met the first time his first words were "Hey! you look like a raccoon!" Since then people around school started calling me "The raccoon" and it went on for 6 years(beginning of middle school - graduation).
Then I met a guy who was a furry on one of my adventures online, I told him that I'm to be called "Raccoon", got used to the nickname and started to use it myself. He introduced me to the whole furry world. Honestly I wasn't into it but eventually started liking it and then I found myself here. So I'm still a big newbie to the whole fandom thing
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Post by: Delta The Wolf on July 26, 2016, 03:18:39 AM
First it all started with a friend of mine. When we met the first time his first words were "Hey! you look like a raccoon!" Since then people around school started calling me "The raccoon" and it went on for 6 years(beginning of middle school - graduation).
Then I met a guy who was a furry on one of my adventures online, I told him that I'm to be called "Raccoon", got used to the nickname and started to use it myself. He introduced me to the whole furry world. Honestly I wasn't into it but eventually started liking it and then I found myself here. So I'm still a big newbie to the whole fandom thing
Why'd they say you look like a raccoon?
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Post by: Racky on July 26, 2016, 01:37:14 PM
Why'd they say you look like a raccoon?
The lack of sleep and the shades on my face made it look like I had a raccoon mask(it was slightly darker than most the face so it was noticeable)
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Post by: Delta The Wolf on July 26, 2016, 02:18:55 PM
Why'd they say you look like a raccoon?
The lack of sleep and the shades on my face made it look like I had a raccoon mask(it was slightly darker than most the face so it was noticeable)
Ah makes sense
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Post by: sha-draw on July 27, 2016, 02:32:44 PM
Man, for me it started long ago... OK not that long ago. I've always been into dragons, hating when they died or lost, and I also just resonated with them. I just thought they were so cool, and being one was all I could dream of! Then, one night a few years back, something happened. I couldn't sleep. I felt weird. I Dont know what happened, but after that night, something clicked. I began drawing them, writing about them, a even became a bit therian. That's when I'd saymy furry career really began. I discovered that I was actually a furry a while later on. (About two years ago)
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Post by: YourUnknownHost on July 30, 2016, 08:43:23 AM
Always had something for anthropomorphic animals/art also i seen a couple of videos on what furries are and i thought it was nice. Also i noticed how LGBT friendly they are (majority)
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Post by: Vuurniac Squarewave on August 15, 2016, 01:28:19 PM
It all makes sense if we consider that I grew up watching Duck Tales, Talespin, The Gummi Bears, Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers, and tons more. I had been bumping into people with furry avatars all over the internet before my conversion began :d
I also started making my own game on the side and I needed to create characters for it, which gave me the final push to get into it. Also, the open aspect like "YourUnknownHost" mention, was definitely something I was looking for very much. We're all weirdos in some way so it's ok. :)
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Post by: Fluffster on August 24, 2016, 10:48:59 PM
To be honest, it's a hard one to answer
I've always been the same, seeing myself more of an "animal" than a human, but joining the furry community hmm
I guess the environment I've been in the recent years? Deviant art holds a fair amount of furry art! And going to MCM Comic con, you often see the odd fur walking around, I guess I got curious one year, looked into it XP and hear I am!
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Post by: kittycatrachel on August 25, 2016, 03:52:48 AM
When I was a kid I played a lot of sonic games and other anthro games, watched cartoons a lot, my dad and cousins liked furries and introduced me to the fandom, and I've always thought animals were cool. :3
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Post by: DarkMatter on August 30, 2016, 09:38:22 PM
How did i became a furry? It's a loooooooong story...
I don't remember it very well but, i always felt more connected to animals and fantastic creatures (like dragons and werewolves), in videogames i always used to pick animal based characters (both anthro and feral) and well, after that i met Bloody roar, and now i'm a furry posting in a furry forum.
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Post by: Sterling Moonwood on September 09, 2016, 05:16:17 PM
Dunno, i just sort of, happend... ;)
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Post by: Eira on September 09, 2016, 06:44:03 PM
I've always loved animals and to be honest, I just like the way anthro animals look. I think it probably all started when i first played skyrim and chose the khajiit
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Post by: Sky_Swirl_cake on September 16, 2016, 04:04:51 PM
I was at a geek meeting at a cafe by my house and one of the fandoms that meet there were furries, i had a friend in the fandom so i asked her what the fandom was all about. As soon as she explained it i knew it was for me. Ive always saw myself being an animal and i actually used to draw my self as a cat when i was younger. We talked and looked online for some refernce for my 'starter' fursona. We looked up the hair style, the color of fox, and some other basic features. After a month i was able to draw my fursona, but i knew i could improve it. After 3 months i got better and i made some of my own changes to it. Her name was Cake for a long time because that was my username for my favorite game. Again months went by and i made more and more changes and my fursona got better and better. Then i started to make more and more fursonas. (i only has 3 until i stopped drawing them all). After 8th grade i stopped drawing them for some unknown reason. I just recently got back into drawing my fursona ( i only have one now) But i made all 3 into one that has all of the characteristics for each one. Now i have sky. And thats how i became a furry and that how i got to the fursons you see today  XD
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Post by: Lt Toast on September 25, 2016, 01:36:48 PM

Me ... I got into it because I grew up really liking starfox 64 and I just grew into it and here I an (im new) :)

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Post by: zoinky on October 15, 2016, 10:19:52 PM
Dunno, i just sort of, happend... ;)
sort of happened like how mine happened  ;)
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Post by: 0nefang on October 18, 2016, 07:22:50 PM
i have just discoverer im a furry a few months ago
but i have always been one
and fursonas name is one fang XP
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Post by: ZielZorix on October 23, 2016, 02:33:38 PM
For me the answer is really simple...Road Rovers.
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Post by: Seiden on November 17, 2016, 05:16:14 PM
I always represented myself with my fursona so I may say I always have been a furry?
But it was only feral at first.
I knew about anthropomorphic characters thanks to popular cartoons like Donald or other things like that, and always loved these kinds of characters a lot. When I was getting these kids magasines with lots of various cartoons, I would often skip the ones with humans, and only read the ones where the characters had animal heads.
I quite randomly discovered furry art on the internet. I really have no memory how I've found that website, but I clearly remember of some board where there were lots of furry pictures (mostly clean, but sometimes some dicks). And I loved them. So much. I started collecting some pretty pictures and looking for anthro roleplays or creating some. But I didn't knew about the furry community. To me, "furry" was just the name for these anthropomorphic animals.
At high school, I met that weird boy. When I first saw him, he looked like a wild dog growling at the humans around. I really was seeing him as a wild dog, without being able to explain why. I always loved dogs, so, of course, I had to try to tame this one :p
So, we became friends. He was a really weird guy, considered an outcast by most of the other students. He talked to me about himself and told me he was inhabited by the soul of a dingo. It was my first contact with a therian. He ended up discovering the therian community, and, thus, the furry community as well. Knowing that I used to represent myself with a cat, and claiming that I am a cat (I am not a therian, I do not believe in souls nor  reincarnation, but I was still claiming that I am a cat, but not for therian purposes), he introduced me to the furry fandom. This is how I first met the community. It was nice talking with all of these people who were into furry characters just like me, until I understood what kind of art they actually truly were into, and until they started to tell me about how they were having sex with dogs or this kind of things. So, I quite quickly ran away from the furry community, while my friend started within, until having the community within him (and he actually wasn't even consenting). But that's another story.
It took me years to try to come back to the furry community. Because I loved anthro characters to much to miss a chance to share about them. I've found that, while many furries are mostly into animal pron, there are still lots of people who likes clean art as well (and even if they like porn too (as there is nothing wrong with this), they are able to talk about something else, and don't try to force me into furry porn), so I joined some french furry groups on Facebook, some furry clans on some random forums and websites, and, later, I joined this forum as well.
Because I actually like the furry community beside its yiffy sides. So, I'd say I became a furry the day I accepted to be kinda part of the community ?
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Post by: Fable on November 22, 2016, 08:03:25 PM
When i was very young i was just blown away and fascinated by animals, I read about them all the time. Then in school a friend of mine and I made up some characters, two sister wolves, and every day in school those two wolves were all we talked about, we role played all time (and got in trouble for not paying attention). That's probably where it all started for me. Ever since (and after i drifted away from that friend) i was very drawn towards furry art and stories. Years later and here I am. I've changed a lot since that wolf story fursona but I'm much more comfortable in my bumpy gecko skin.
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Post by: Jinx_Dragon on November 29, 2016, 04:21:51 PM
Hi all! So I'm new to the forum and I became a furry... I feel like just a while ago... Haha I made an instagram for my art... And I started following people who drew animals.. Like as characters and I fell in love with the idea. I also have a hard time being myself, And felt that I wanted to role play as something else. My love for reptiles have always been strong. I wanted to go to school for herpetology, however, its hard to pursue in the state I live in. Then I thought, Why not make my own character and be me for once.. I can be me through my Dragon fursona. So yeah thats me  X3


-JINX
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Post by: Amun on December 30, 2016, 03:52:41 AM
Hi all! So I'm new to the forum and I became a furry... I feel like just a while ago... Haha I made an instagram for my art... And I started following people who drew animals.. Like as characters and I fell in love with the idea. I also have a hard time being myself, And felt that I wanted to role play as something else. My love for reptiles have always been strong. I wanted to go to school for herpetology, however, its hard to pursue in the state I live in. Then I thought, Why not make my own character and be me for once.. I can be me through my Dragon fursona. So yeah thats me  X3


-JINX
Hello all, I can tell you I knew I was a furry many years ago.  I always loved movies featuring a antho main character.   It wasn't till recently I was brave enough to post here.  I know inside my heart I am a canine furry and always will be.  Love every one willing to make their furry stance public. 

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Post by: Amun on December 30, 2016, 03:56:14 AM
Hi all! So I'm new to the forum and I became a furry... I feel like just a while ago... Haha I made an instagram for my art... And I started following people who drew animals.. Like as characters and I fell in love with the idea. I also have a hard time being myself, And felt that I wanted to role play as something else. My love for reptiles have always been strong. I wanted to go to school for herpetology, however, its hard to pursue in the state I live in. Then I thought, Why not make my own character and be me for once.. I can be me through my Dragon fursona. So yeah thats me  X3


-JINX
Hello all, I can tell you I knew I was a furry many years ago.  I always loved movies featuring a antho main character.   It wasn't till recently I was brave enough to post here.  I know inside my heart I am a canine furry and always will be.  Love every one willing to make their furry stance public. 

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Post by: Amun on December 30, 2016, 03:56:28 AM
Hi all! So I'm new to the forum and I became a furry... I feel like just a while ago... Haha I made an instagram for my art... And I started following people who drew animals.. Like as characters and I fell in love with the idea. I also have a hard time being myself, And felt that I wanted to role play as something else. My love for reptiles have always been strong. I wanted to go to school for herpetology, however, its hard to pursue in the state I live in. Then I thought, Why not make my own character and be me for once.. I can be me through my Dragon fursona. So yeah thats me  X3


-JINX
Hello all, I can tell you I knew I was a furry many years ago.  I always loved movies featuring a antho main character.   It wasn't till recently I was brave enough to post here.  I know inside my heart I am a canine furry and always will be.  Love every one willing to make their furry stance public. 

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

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Post by: Bricket on December 31, 2016, 01:59:42 PM
Now, looking back at this thread I have to rewrite mine a little bit.
I always had a bit of interest in wolves and Disney movies really didn't help me (thank you Robin Hood).
So to conclude it: it was more of a natural evolution I think.

Also: this one describes it pretty well
(http://i.imgur.com/bjEYT6D.jpg)
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Post by: Blaze on December 31, 2016, 09:26:18 PM
Ha, i remember seeing that image a lot on the internet, also applies with me, but with a wolf instead of a coyote.
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Post by: kylethefox on January 02, 2017, 01:32:59 AM
how i became a furry had to do with a series of events throughout my childhood, first all the my favorite characters in movies and tv shows were either anthro or animals, secound i felt i had a deeper connection with animals (particularly a fox) when i saw one i just thought in my mind, "thats me!" XD thirdly when i was about 7 i had a dream were i was a furry fox on a train (even thought i didn't know what a furry was) i had to do with a killer on the train trying to kill me, but thats off topic, then when i was 10 i had the SAME dream! i found out about furrys when i was 14 and realized i was one, but i new the of the hate and abuse that furrys received so i kept it a secret, however recently  i felt like i wasn't truly being myself, and i finally gained enough courage to tell someone! i prepared for the hate but instead they thought it was awesome! that really built up my confidence and i decided to join this site no matter the hate i might receive! and thats the story of i how i became a furry!
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Post by: Malina on January 05, 2017, 08:51:36 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/bjEYT6D.jpg)
That's my favourite comic because it fits me so well  XD
I found the fandom when I was 12 through looking up werewolves (because I thought they were the coolest thing ever) on google where a couple of images linked me to FA. After discovering that website I instantly decided that anthros were the best thing in the world but I didn't really know what a furry was until later on when my mum showed me a mock news report of the MFF gas attack and told us all about how bad Furries were and such. Ironically, that just further exposed me to the fandom and introduced me to the community side of it, which I shadowed for quite a while before in May last year deciding to finally get an account on a forums. Like Kyle I was expecting a bunch of negativity and resent (which I did get from my family and friends) but at the end of the day who cares what they think,
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Post by: Medroesh on January 29, 2017, 02:42:17 PM
I became a furry in highschool. I was new to the school and made a point to find all the weird and interesting kids and hang out with them. Created a large group of friends who hang out often. One of them became a furry, then everyone else slowly followed.


I also has an obsession with nordic frost dragons and it kinda grew from there. Loving being a cuddly and sleepy frost dragon.
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Post by: kiindling on January 29, 2017, 02:45:46 PM
Well, I started drawing furries before I even knew what they were when I was about 12, as human faces weren't my thing
And I always liked animals more than people
Then I kinda discovered the fandom and I found my happy place.


Only really and properly got into it last year though, when I actually made a normal fursona and stuff X3
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Khaise Grey on February 07, 2017, 11:44:10 AM
I only really got into the whole furry thing a few days ago, I'd heard of the fandom a bit and never really got too into it. I am a major animal lover so I guess it was bound to happen one way or another. I have always pretended to be animals especially dragons, cats or Sabertooth Tigers (what a surprise) and drew them non stop. I must admit I LOVED Diego from Ice Age. None of my friends even know yet and TBH I don't know how they are going to react, I mean I am a FURRY! And I really like it.


Khaise is the best thing that has happened to me in a long time, even if I only made her up on Monday...
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: GibberingMaw on February 18, 2017, 12:57:29 PM
I've always been drawn to animals and animal-like people. In addition, i'm a big fan of also learning about animals. I believe I began to realize I was one when I was younger. I don't really get along wel with most people and I tend to not be very talkative. But when I am talking to others that are similiar to me, such as a furry I become more open.

I will admit the first time I felt like I might be one, is when I saw Gadget from Rescue Rangers. No more to say.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Sub-Zero Knight on March 13, 2017, 08:58:06 PM
I became a furry simply because I've always felt spiritually drawn to foxes, and then eventually I found anthro art and discovered how I liked furry art even though I wasn't quite a furry yet. After a while, I started drawing my own anthro art, but I still wasn't a furry. Then one night back on February 4th 2016, I joined TFF. From that day on, I knew I was a furry, and that I always will be.

All in all, it's this site that turned me into a furry.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Cal Bluepaws on March 17, 2017, 02:28:26 AM
So there was a thing with a thing, and a thing happened...


OK, here we go again. I was always drawn to anthropomorphic art, and I have always tried to draw it (But i couldn't until recently) but I didn't know what a furry (the characters, the fursonas) or a furry (the actual person) was until I found furry (characters) Minecraft skins in CustomNPCs mod. Then, I thought these characters were AMAZING and so I found out what a furry (person) was and I thought, "hey, I'm a furry if that's what it is!"


And there you have it.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Chiitos on March 17, 2017, 09:54:19 PM
Disney planted the seed, beautiful artwork watered it and zootopia gave it lots of sunlight
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: RyukaAscendant on March 19, 2017, 03:45:32 AM
I'm otherkin... So someone gave me the name for what I already felt.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: 3rasvok on March 24, 2017, 07:21:38 PM
<REMOVED> one day I decided to look up "tf" on google and ran into a website named "Transfur". I found out about the fandom soon afterwards and been part of ever since.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Skall on March 25, 2017, 05:24:39 AM
I really don't know the exact time I started to consider myself as furry. It's more of an interest in the art and the community than an identity, really.


I have never really had the same connections with animals that I know many other people in this fandom experience, but I did grow up with dogs.
I used to watch a lot of anime, draw animals, spend time on art and roleplay sites, and I read a lot of the Warriors books in middle school (stopped after The Sight) so I guess that's what catalyzed it. I didn't even have a fursona until a year or so ago. You all are the first furries I've truly spoken to.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Albie on March 25, 2017, 05:36:36 AM
i was told that I was probably a furry from a friend based on what I liked.  And here I thought I was unique, lol.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Boubalos on March 26, 2017, 02:26:31 AM
I don't know when I started. I am a furry and also a scalie, but mostly into bovine as my fursona anyway. I'd say I really got into it to the degree I am now after doing roleplay on World of Warcraft as a tauren for several years. I wasn't very good and tended to use Boubalos as a self-insert/ideal. So much so that it got to the point where Boubalos just became my Fursona.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Blaiiine on March 26, 2017, 05:28:02 AM
I know I already posted here but my reasons for becoming a furry have pretty much changed since I was an obnoxious teen.


I really never had a major interest in anthropomorphic animals until I read some webcomics (Better Days, Good Cheese, etc) but even then I wasn't exactly interested in the anthro part of it.


However I did notice a lot of great artists, writers and a strong community. Even if you weren't an artist or a writer, you were still somewhat valued amongst your peers. And while the whole cringe side of the fandom made me bail for a while, the community brought me back. I've met a lot of dope people through the fandom and this forum more specifically.


TL;DR
Cool people brought me in, weird people ran me out, cool people brought me back.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: cedarr on March 29, 2017, 04:37:30 PM
I was a furry as a teenager because of a Lion King obsession. Never really considered joining deviantart because an artist that made TLK art I liked was FA and their own website only. I was also a huuugggee fan of Goldenwolfen's art, still am.

Took so long to decide a fursona that I ended up on hiatus from the fandom almost 10 years. Finally decided so I'm back. I was also run out of the fandom by some unsavory callout crew types. Never had a callout directly but they targeted one of my pals for no reason so I wasn't happy about it. I'll take awkward weirdo furries over that any day lol.

Aside from that I enjoy a lot of outdoorsy stuff and I've found a significant number of other furries that do. I'm involved in my college's Outdoor Club and like to share those experiences. Furries are mainly a cross section of a lot of communities I'm already involved in.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Keldeowarrior on April 17, 2017, 09:37:49 PM
Word of warning this very long
I have always liked anthropomorphic animals whether it was on cartoons or in magazines I loved it. I loved to draw them and loved to look at pictures of them. This was from about 2007 onwards 8 year old me. Fast forward another 4 or 5 years 12-13 year old me, in school I started to hear people mention the word furry (it would only be me catching a snippet of a conversation or something along those lines) i had no idea what is was at the time and decided to look it up and found that it was a bunch of people who dressed up like animals and gathered in groups (i didn't really understand the concept of conventions at this time) i didn't look any further than that at the time. fast forward another year or so and I recall one of my friends telling me to type in yiff on google images but i could tell that by their faces and their giggling it was probably a bad idea so i refused but i had to leave my computer to talk with a teacher and came back to a bunch of naked human/animal images on my computer the page of which i promptly closed. I did not proceed to look it up again (how innocent was I eh?) Fast forward another 2 years, 16 year old me almost finished school and I'm watching youtube videos and again I hear the phrase "furry" mentioned and it being some time since I'd heard the word and not really getting what It meant I proceeded to look it up and found out that furries were people who liked to dress up in fursuits, suits that usually depict a fursona which is a animal identity they give themselves and these "furries" come together at conventions. I also found various articles talking about furries in a very negative way that they dress up in fursuits and have sex at cons and shit like that and was like "woah woah woah this doesn't sound good at all" and I had a very weird idea of what furries were like. I did see various articles talking about these accusations as misinterpretations and the media taking things out of context for publicity. I had a mixed view of furries at this point but again i did not look much further. Fast forward to this year, about a week ago in fact I came across the term again and one thing led to another and I eventually found the furry sub-reddit. The people seemed very nice and were not how alot of news articles depicted them. After pondering stuff over in my head i decided to watch some furry related youtube videos and came to the conclusion, I am one of these people I want to be part of this.
Long story short some time after I found the subreddit I came across a post from a new furry saying hello to everyone and decided to make a post of a similar fashion and now I am officially a furry.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: kylethefox on April 18, 2017, 03:06:25 AM
you like keldeo eh? i like him to! ^_^
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: max snow on April 18, 2017, 04:53:31 PM
Well I first came across the more adult side of furries but then I looked around and did some googling and found out that it is more of a community that was around 6 months ago XP
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Keldeowarrior on April 18, 2017, 06:07:55 PM
you like keldeo eh? i like him to! ^_^


Nice! :)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: TenOfSwords on April 24, 2017, 04:03:22 PM
Okey, I don't think I've posted about it in here yet, and if I had, I forgot about it.

I feel like I've been a furry for longer than I think I have been. I only classified myself as "Furry" in the middle of last year. Before that, I was almost certainly furry; each Elder Scrolls game I played, my race would be Khajiit, my favourite fictional character of all time is Tails (from the Sonic franchise), and I felt really close to nature. Last year was me just looking at all the puzzle pieces and assembling them in the correct order.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Milks Justice on April 28, 2017, 06:34:33 PM
The magic of FnaF. I used to be really into the games, and I was searching up costumes and whatnot. I later found out about 'Fursuits' and watched a shit load of fursuit videos. I found out about furries later, and was like: 'Hey thats pretty cool!" th end
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Inactive123 on May 12, 2017, 12:11:08 AM
when I was a kid I had a CRAZY obsession with cartoons and I loved anthro cartoons as well (Care Bears and Sonic the hedgehog mostly but there were others) I didn't start in the furry fandom until about October but it has been a fun ride let me tell you!!  ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Valegretto on May 15, 2017, 06:09:57 PM
I can't remember very well, it was a long time ago, i always loved animals and nature, one day i made an account in deviant art and before i could even know what a furry is, i was already one
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Dazed on May 30, 2017, 03:35:07 PM
I played alot of the elder scrolls. Morrowind, daggerfall, oblivion, skyrim, etc. Only played argonian. Didnt discover the fandom through that but i joined it via.




I consider my actual joining is when i went onto a very specific forum for teenagers.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: SoushieChan on June 03, 2017, 03:40:16 AM
I have always liked animal cartoons and always enjoyed anthro arts more than anything else but didn't know about furries until I joined Second Life in 2005.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Daon Knight on June 30, 2017, 04:50:25 AM
Ever since I was very very little I liked to play as some form of humanoid cat not knowing anything about it.  As I got older I found the beloved thing called the internet where I found out more about what it all was. In my mind I was always some sort of animal or male.  After finding all this out it made me realize I was a furry lol

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Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Solomon the Solitary on August 21, 2017, 08:07:46 PM
I've known about fursuiting since that one episode of CSI and liked it ever since. When I got into YouTube, I looked up fursuiting videos and eventually found my way into the fandom. I also loved animated movies with animals as a kid so I imagine that helped me become a furry too! But yeah, I've been a furry since I was about 10-11 and I love it.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Whisko on August 22, 2017, 10:14:30 PM
Well Mr. Tylus


    I have a similar story to yours actually, I was addicted to the Ratchet and Clank games, later in life I got into drawing, I sucked then but I did a ton of concept art for weapons, characters, etc. I also loved the Crash games, but not for crash but for his sister Coco, she was like me, in a way, she cares for everyone... but her PC comes first. Back to the origin, Ratchet, I love the series and playing Mass Effect made me realize you could make a complex story about anything, time goes on... I liked anthro characters then I started writing stories (Within the last year actually), then I finally decided, I will make art and embrace the facts. So I made a DA, got more into it, started using some other sites, art mostly, and like yesterday decided to join here. I have been on a chat site... but it is now infected with a ton of basic furs... once a safe site now NSFW. Anything else... nope that's my story.

Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Ev_W on September 27, 2017, 12:34:47 PM
Well I guess it was a while back, a couple of friends of mine were already like into the fandom and such, cosplayed multiple times and I was interested and asked them all sorts of questions and not long after I realised that I had the same interest in the concept! Funniest part is, I hadn't understood what cosplay was and just sort of made up a definition and quickly realised I was dead on when I made up a definition  XD


So yeah, it was through a couple of really close friends who I believe do have accounts on here, I have yet to find them though haha  ^_^
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: lightstone on October 01, 2017, 08:35:34 AM
well, my started at 7 years old in DisneyLand Paris at phantom manor/haunted mansion. In the line after the elevator with those expanding paintings there was a hallway with diffrent paintings and one got my intrest, a painting with a "hot woman" changing into a cat sometimes and i found the cat one to be more atractibe then the human from memory it was this one  ^_^
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/4d/4a/46/4d4a460a65d2b8b1b36c68c7f9e7a52f--disney-rides-disney-parks.jpg)
so yesterday I thought of these moments and thought: 'what if im a furry?' i recently heard the term furry for my first time so started doing research, i lokkedup the defenition and it said that a furry is someone who is enthusiactic about animals with human-like traits, this is where i joined the forum and started asking questions here. Here i heard that a furry is indeed someone enthusiactic about anthropomorphic animals and not every furry has a fursuit or fursona. And thts when i relized im a furry :3
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Foxet on October 31, 2017, 07:04:58 PM
I'm not entirely sure where it all began, but after hearing the term "furry" being used i researched the topic. And as i like roleplaying, i instantly started to create my own fursona. And i guess that's why i'm here now. I'm kind new to this furry stuff.  ^_^
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Giordan Tigerness on November 20, 2017, 05:02:39 PM
A few years ago I woke up with a new idea for a short story that centered around a teenager, sort of a coming of age theme but with a twist; she was an anthro snow leopardess. In my imagination she was much like any other confused teen who felt the world was black and white, her parents didn't understand her, etc. Not good enough for a story; she needed a challenge! Her parents were the king and queen of an entire planet with control over a few others in a galaxy that has thousands of sentient races. Hmm. Still need a challenge! Catessa finds herself in a rather heated argument with her parents after sneaking out one too many times and they punish her by sending her on a trip of sorts with her guardian (Giordan Carriden, yes I blended the names). Neither of them expect to end up on earth. Well, she does while he kicks back in orbit and watches her struggles to learn that life is dangerous, has consequences, and that learning to purr can be scary but good... And these cats only purr for one thing.... (ahem)


Cut forward 4.5 books in the series, countless hunting the interweb to find their likeness in art (I can't draw my way out of a paper bag), several of those sketches on my cube at work... I recently got accused of being a furry and while I made Yip Yip costumes for Halloween a few years ago those don't count. Thusly accused I start doing some basic research, then more and more until I realized that yes, I'm  furry owned by two real cats, and that I'm going my homework to design full fursuits for Anthrocon (6months is good, right?), etc.


I guess Thats how I ended up in here and so far so good.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Cal Bluepaws on December 12, 2017, 12:14:58 AM
Yes, I know I've posted here already, but I've discovered more about myself and besides, when I made that first post here, I had a LOT less knowledge of the fandom, and the post was only about a month from when I really got involved with the fandom. So, I've decided that it's a good idea to post again, to make more sense about what really happened, and why I really am a furry. I'll present it in a sort of timeline-type thing:


Pre-Furry:



     Small Child (Younger than 5 years):
     (No memory of this)


     Young Child (6 to 9 years):
     I began drawing animals that looked like humans, but I had better things to do (like video games)


     Almost Teen (10 to 12 years):
     
I began becoming interested in anthropomorphic characters, and my Minecraft skin was now a tiger.


     Teenager (13-14 years):
     I found the term "furry" but only used it to describe the anthropomorphic characters. Later, Zootopia comes out and I go and watch it, regarding it as one of the best movies I've ever seen. I do a Google search on the term "furry" and these forums come up.



I become a part of the furry fandom at 14 years old, on February 8th, 2017 thanks to The Furry Forums.

     February to March 2017
     I begin getting involved with the fandom.


     April - August 2017
     Interest in fandom deepens.


     September - November 2017
     I take a temporary break from my involvement for a while...


     December 2017
     I suddenly get deeply involved with the fandom once again, my parents say they will take me on a trip to Califur, and here we are today...






That's pretty much how it's been. Have a nice day  :)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Momma Bird on December 21, 2017, 01:09:31 PM
Well, it all started 15 years ago. I had to travel to Japan to find a monk. Not just any monk, but a furry monk. I trained and trained, it was hard and rigours work. He told me I could quit at any time, but I would regret it for life if I did. So I continued my training, even though everyday I just wanted to quit.


Then, one faithful day, I had earned my furry powers. The student surpassed the master. And I returned home, not a new person, but a fully reborn furry.


And I lived happily ever after.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Aveq on January 03, 2018, 06:20:54 AM
I knew of furries from a while back and thought they looked cute but probably 2 years after discovering of their existence I joined a furry forum for teenagers and just followed my bf here a couple years later.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: s0ul_d3ww on January 04, 2018, 04:11:52 AM
Hm. I was a huge Sonic nerd so my Sonic O.C eventually became my fursona. Also, I'm pretty sure that Robin Hood had something to do with it too. Regardless, I always liked furry creatures so I just became a furry.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Corran Orreaux on January 04, 2018, 07:33:01 AM
Me becoming a furry was somewhat interwoven with me discovering my sexuality. In the middle of my whole crises between my current religion (Baptist) thing and finding out I had an attraction to guys... played a bit of FFX on my ps2 and found I felt the same way about Kimahri that I did with (don't laugh) Mel Gibson in the first Lethal weapon. 
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Misfit-Mongrel on January 18, 2018, 12:52:09 PM
I was raised on the Walt Kelly comic strip Pogo.


(http://jimbeauxdean.com/pictures/Pogo.jpg)


So the idea of critters running around acting like people was normal to me.


Add to that a strong canine connection. The furry community felt like home.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Jenny ♥ on February 04, 2018, 08:10:45 PM
When I was in primary school my teachers came up with animalized humans and humanized animals. The pictures attracted me a lot because I as a therianthrope feel pretty much the way my fursona looks like. I wanted to know more about it. It was in June 2006 when we got these. Sadly, I didn't have an own internet connection then. On March 10th 2007 I got a laptop with internet connection. Finally a way to find out more about it. But I couldn't find anything about these pictures. I didn't even know how to use that stupid thing. Someday (two days later), I wanted to know if I was the only one feeling not entirely human. I typed into the Google search bar "I feel like an animal" and came to the side ask.me where someone brought up the term "therianthropy". That was the day when I joined the therian community. A little bit more than year later I got to know someone who used similar pictures as the one we got from our teachers. He explained "furry" to me, linked up some sides etc. I joined on the 14th of February 2008. :)
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Mistaffity on February 09, 2018, 02:40:18 PM
I've been into anthro animals for a really long time. I can remember that as far back as when I was 3 years old. I came across the fandom at the age of 10.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: MaverickTheFur on March 09, 2018, 02:29:50 AM
I've always liked anthropomorphic animals, and I've loved animals for the longest time. I just became a furry one day (After I found out all furries weren't just people who dressed up in fursuits).

So that's why.


       :dapper:
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: White Wolf Guardian on March 10, 2018, 05:41:47 AM
I started out just being interested in the spiritual elements of people attached to animals in some way, but then that website closed down and I ended up here. My girlfriend at the time told me about "furries" and said it was a very interesting group, so I just had to check it out.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Madmatt on March 24, 2018, 06:01:24 PM
Been playing RP games for as long as I can remember, getting involved in different communities, After meeting a guy on my current one called "Wolfy" and his avatar and forum banner being wolf drawings, they looked pretty cool, started looking into the topic and liking how everything looked. Took the step into it and here I am.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: MuttButt on April 11, 2018, 09:22:57 AM
It started out by me having an unsupervised internet connection as a teenage boy and finding furry...art that I rather took a shine to. At the time I was kind of an edgy kid, so I fancied reading a satirical wiki called "encyclopedia dramatica" that I'm sure many of you are familiar with. I found the article on furries, read it and went "aw shit...that sounds like me x.x"

I would say that the turning point from just being into the smut and artwork and viewing it as this shameful niche interest that I had to hide from everybody lest they shun me forever to embracing the fandom fully as a community I belonged to and a major part of my identity was when I attended my furst furry con in early 2014, Further Confusion. A friend and online roleplay buddy insisted that I attend a convention because every furry needed the experience. I was dubious because I was afraid of being associated with furries in person and I couldn't afford it anyways, but then she told me that she'd buy my plane ticket, registration, and put me up in her hotel room without charging me anything. That offer was just way too good to pass up, so I went for it, and I got a taste of how wonderful, silly, fun, and kind the fandom could be. I got a taste of what it was like to not be perpetually ashamed of myself and to be free to act as silly and fruity as I liked, because for the first time in my life I was surrounded with people that were just like me. I barely slept, I partied super hard, I kissed my first boy, I walked around so much I got blisters on my feet, I made friends that I speak to and visit to this very day, and it was so good I cried on the entire bus-ride and half the plane ride home because I didn't want it to be over. After all of that, it was pretty hard to go back to the detached irony and vague disdain that I used to treat the rest of the furry community with. They had won my heart over and I can say with confidence that that con changed me for the better and I will never ever forget what the fandom and the people in it have done for me.

Hah, this turned into kind of a rambling post didn't it? I'm sorry about that fuzzbutts uwu
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: AceAurora on April 18, 2018, 03:00:31 AM
I really wish I had a cool story about finding out about the fandom but alas mine is simple. A friend showed me their fursona and being a child without internet until my 6th grade year I really had no clue about the fandom. After a year, I kind of forgot about it since that friend moved and nobody else really talked about it. Once I was in my junior year of high school I was reintroduced to furries as a friend of mine again showed me their fursona and fursuit. That same friend also helped me design my first 'sona and drew my ref sheet.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: MisterCarey991 on April 27, 2018, 10:40:41 AM
This is quite embarrasing, haha, I have to admit that it was thanks to searching Sonic art in Deviantart when I was 12. People tagged their art as anthros/furry and I searched what they were because I didn't know.

I ended reading all the websites that contained information (good and bad) about the furry community and I started to create my first (bad designed and mary sue) fursona: a pink hedgehog who had a mix of powers of Magneto, Wanda and Quicksilver from X-Men, hahaha.

It was really bad...
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: KitsumiFox on May 17, 2018, 04:45:41 AM
I became interested in being a furry for a few reasons: I had a friend in HS that got me super addicted to the anthro designs and made me want to draw them.


The other is the obvious one for a hormonally charged teenager; though interestingly enough I found the furry pics I did see to be more attractive than humans (especially with males) so that was different.   
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: SadDubwool on May 17, 2018, 04:55:59 AM
Y'know the Hugwolf episode of Adventure Time? Yeah, that is a big contributing factor and some others would include me as an only child with a mom working at the time she used to, I pretty much had free reign over what I could watch and such

I actually started as a brony long before I became a Furry and I honestly really hated how Brony communities functioned at the time so I decided to continue looking for a place I could atleast find some solace, I eventually found this place and became the level of furry I am today, through all the trials and tribulations I've experienced on and off the forums

 I still intend to be part of the fandom...


Actually. For better or for worse the majority of the hate i see on the internet seems to have decreased for both furries and bronies, It's frankly surprising and I'm kinda glad that we aren't seen as the "Worst of the worst" anymore





((Also, The previous points Muttbutt and Kitsumi made 'bout all the Smut stuff probably keeps me aroud.))
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Oriaan on May 23, 2018, 02:54:21 AM
Well, I used to hate furries actually, than I realized it wasn't all a fetish thing and that not all of them were even into **censor**  the anthros, and than I just kinda grew more and more interested
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: mocha on May 24, 2018, 02:00:55 PM
I'd have to say it was when I was 12. There was a certain anime I was obsessed with, Hetalia, and they had cat versions of the human characters, so I would always draw the cats. Then I would go on to other animes and draw my own cat versions of the characters. I would also draw my friends as cats as well. I knew what a furry was in the 6th grade, 11 y/o but like every new person on the internet in 2011, I didn't like furries. I made a friend on kik in 2013 or 2014 who was into Hetalia and went on her DeviantArt page and saw that she had a fursona. So I made one myself and probably freshmen year of highschool is when I labeled myself as a furry.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: L. Jay Echoes on June 01, 2018, 09:13:26 PM
I was seventeen years old and I stumbled upon Captain Furry while browsing the internet. He was was a gateway to artists like Spunky, Phraggle, Oz Kangaroo, Duo Radon, Pokelai, and websites like Deviantart and Furaffinity. I didn’t officially join because I was a very shy individual, even over the internet. Nine years later, I’m in a support group talking about my interest in cartoon animals, and another guy bluntly calls me a furry. I was insulted, not because of any negative views I have towards furries, but because I’d gone there specifically to meet people I felt safe around. That pushed me over the edge, and out of spite (both for him and the group coordinator who gave me this disgusted sneer), I created an account on furaffinity.
 
I did leave the fandom once last year, but only because I’d gone through a severe moral crisis that I’ve since resolved and come to terms with. I go into the details of my entrance into the fandom in an essay on my FA account (je0000backup). It’s fairly graphic, though. Consider yourself warned.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Beta8088_Proto on June 05, 2018, 04:34:06 PM
Two words and two words only:
Animal Crossing.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: AceBun on June 06, 2018, 08:25:12 PM
Twokinds did it for me. Must’ve been around 2010. I haven’t been active in furry communities that much. My interest in the fandom was kindled again when I became active on the Zootopia Reddit. While not officially a furry Reddit, I suppose close to 100% of the members there do fall in the category, regardless of whether or not they admit it. ;-)


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Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Samual_Jennings on June 20, 2018, 09:03:23 PM
I've always had an affinity for canines, both as pets and in the wild. I really started being into anthropomorphic animals when I first saw the movie "Zootopia". I started to pretend I was Nick Wilde, the fox. Eventually, I brushed across the term "furry" on the internet, so I Googled it. I liked the concept, so now I have a fox fursona.  :)  I found this site by Googling "furry forums".
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: KennedyBryansky on June 22, 2018, 12:08:45 AM
Honestly, I just did it on impulse. I knew two furries irl who I were friendly with and thats how I kinda found out about furries. Awhile later, I was like "what if I was a furry" and so i decided to do it x3
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: hanngnecessary on June 28, 2018, 06:50:59 PM
i was watching a bunch of random animations on youtube because i was bored and somehow found a pocari roo video. then i was like hey, that looks pretty cool.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Garfield on July 01, 2018, 01:17:28 PM
Welp about 3 years ago I watched Zootopia once. My buddies got word of it and created the nickname "Furrylover69" that they called me for the rest of the year. I then joined the furry amino so I could prove to myself I wasn't a furry. I didn't find any proof. I actually started doing rp's and writing stories and such. So now here I am.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Tempest-Requiem on August 14, 2018, 09:00:02 PM
Well, I have a friend who's a furry. For a while, he tried to convince me to try the whole furry thing. Not a while back, I finally said yes. Then, I realized I actually thought it was pretty neat. And so, here I am.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: L4BY_ on September 04, 2018, 12:49:56 PM
1. Discovering anthropomorphic art

Before 2011, I started off as a transformation. I liked anything transformation related but liked mostly post-transformation. The idea of living a day or more in another person's, a different gerder or species and reacting to such a change fascinated me.

Some time around 2011 I decided to search up the term on-line and discovered transformation art, and later in December 2011-January 2012, through TF-art I discovered the concept of anthropomorphic animals. The concept spoke to me right away, I was amazed. So throughout 2012 I looked up anthro art on DeviantArt.

I through anthro art was just a thing artists like to draw occasionally but I didn't realise there was a community behind all of it. I even stumbled once upon a video with a fursuit parade in a furry con and didn't get it.

2. Discovering the furry community

Skip forwards to April 2013, I fell into some deep depression because I had no real friends and got cast-out by my class at school for defending an autistic guy from some bullies in my class. I was part of this online Minecraft community named CraftedMovie, one of the best MC communities servers that ever was but that only existed for two and a half years. Playing on their server felt so real it was like living a second life, better than real life.

I created this online feral fox persona and would talk to people as if I was a real fox on the CM forums. I also strongly wished I could just turn into a fox irl and leave my depressing life forever. However, change came when LupiDragon, one of the furries from CM noticed by behaviour on the forums and asked me if I was a furry.

I knew all about the term anthro but never heard the term furry. So he explained to me what the furry community is and invited me to join his group of furries from the forums. That's how I got to interact with other furries and learn more about the fandom. I sorta joined the fandom at that point.

3. Joining the fandom

In September 2013, I changed schools and went for artistic and web design studies. I made a friend on the second day, the first real life friend I ever had in 16 years, he liked to play games, a lot of Minecraft and drew stuff. We later went out to the park next door and started talking more about ourselves, our lives, etc and I told him I liked anthropomorphic art. He stopped for a second, looked at me and said "Omg, I'm also a big fan of furry art". So yeah, first friend I make at school turns out to also be a furry.

From that point onwards, I discovered a ton of furries in my school and became friends with them and that's how I got in touch with the french real life furry community.

It's funny that contrary to a lot of my french friends who discovered an interest in furry through pr0n, I started off as a sfw fur. Now I'm neutral about both "sides".
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: ScotTheHyena_615 on September 23, 2018, 08:36:37 PM
I was on Pinterest and a furry image came up and I thought “oh a furry. Weird.” But my brain thought it was cool so clicked on it and looked at the related images and now here we are.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Ronnya on October 13, 2018, 01:00:13 AM
It’s kinda a funny story. So originally I noticed I thought that nick from Zootopia was reaaaalllyy smoking. I thought that was normal and that everyone felt that way. I soon learned what furries were, and bam, I realized that I too was a furry.  XD
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: callisto_ on November 05, 2018, 04:45:08 AM
ive been acutely aware of the community since around '11 when i got super invested in uhh. sonic riders zero gravity, and then the rest of the sonic fandom by extension...ended up making my way through the wares on deviantart and such. didn't properly join the fandom until a few yrs ago though, after making a slow transition from the my little pony fandom to the pokemon fandom and finally here, lmao
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Kraylan on November 24, 2018, 09:28:16 PM
I kinda just... Grew up as one? in the early 90s, that's all I watched on tv, Disney, Saturday morning cartoons. I just stuck with the characters I liked. Robin hood and TES had a big influence on me growing up so I suppose that's where I really got it.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Moonraiser on December 26, 2018, 08:17:20 PM
It's an interesting story. I have always loved animals growing up as a kid, but In highschool 9 years ago I stumbled upon a random youtuber with a furry profile. I saw in the comments of one of his videos someone mention he was a furry. I was curious about what a furry was, so I did some research online and one of the first results was this forum. It didn't take long to get hooked, and I have been a furry ever since.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: SketchTheRainbowWolf on March 06, 2019, 01:10:38 PM
ahh...how do i word this right...i was originally the only drawer in my family, i was drawing stuff like pokémon related, then my brother decided to visit from texas and when he started drawing, it was things like wolf pokemon and fox pokemon and stuff around those lines, and i was interested. i started to draw using templates and some pretty bright colored pencils. then when i hit my late 13s my drawings went digital, i used my laptop and my school ipad to draw most of the stuff i still have today. then i thought “i wish i could connect with other furry artists” then i started searching and well.....here i am. a 14 year old furry lover that loves to draw.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Drakion on March 06, 2019, 01:25:39 PM
Wow, Sketch that was rather interesting.

So, since i was 6 i’ve been really into fnaf (five night at freddy’s) animations and sfm simulations. when i was 10 i got into fnaf romance and stuff like that. in that time i started to really get hooked on foxy the pirate. (see what i did there?) Anyways, the fact that he was a fox just interested me. when i was around my late 11s, i got into everything fox and wolf related and i started looking up furry romance on youtube (just cause i’m a sucker for that type of crap) and i was just awe’d by it. i decided to become a furry myself and looked for a roleplay site and boom i’m here.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Bu-Ling on March 24, 2019, 06:18:34 PM
Hm, well I always loved drawing anthro animals though I didn't know that was the name.
I remember receiving an email from my boyfriend where he told me and few others he was a furry.
I was curious, since I had heard the term, but wasn't sure what it meant.

He told me some things, directed me to Pocari Roo and a few other Furry Youtubers then I spent a month trying to come up with a fursona, though I haven't drawn her yet.
Not very interesting, but it's a story.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: JJ The Husky on March 30, 2019, 11:38:11 AM
Back in 2013 (when i was 7) i heard my sister saying how one of her friends was a furry on the phone, so i decided to search it up, and then i became addicted to them in 2015 lol
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: MCtheBeardie on April 20, 2019, 02:55:34 PM
Well, I guess you could have called me a furry in denial, a few years ago.

It all got started when I was about 10, and I started playing Oblivion (An Elder Scrolls game) for the first time. I always had a fascination with the anthropomorphic races in that game- the Argonians and Khajiits (especially Argonians). It sort of launched me into my obsession with reptiles, two of which I now own. I also loved Spyro the Dragon at the time, and I always loved Disney’s anthropomorphic animal characters, as I grew up on Disney.

When I started my life on the internet, I eventually ran into another furry, and from then on, I sort of lurked around the fandom until I found myself here!

I’ve been unafraid to call myself a furry ever since~
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Athlaros on April 20, 2019, 03:55:27 PM
YouTube videos mostly, and I always liked the anthro animals in cartoons and comics and the such. Sonic the Hedgehog played a huge part in me being a furry and was my very first fursona (thinking about going back to him actually).


Also, a lot of nice furry people. Can't forget them.
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: dragiboutu on April 20, 2019, 09:03:53 PM
I fell in love with anthro art in middle school and then I dug more into it in highschool and created a wolf fursona but never did anything with her.  Then more recently I was like "Oh crap this is like a great escape and good coping mechanism" so here I am with a new fursona
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Noah Fulf on May 06, 2019, 04:15:33 PM
I found out I was a furry in the following way:                              (and it was, like, a week ago so i remember)

To start off, I always loved animals and fursuits, and I wanted one. Then Zootopia came out when I was in 5th grade and I went to watch it, and loved it. That was the base. Then, 2 months ago, a youtuber I followed relesed a video on the topic, and I started to consider it. I said: ,,YES I AM A FURRY!'' but didnt do anithing about it. And a week ago The youtube algoritm spat out furry videos, I became interested again, and Here I am!

Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: Noah Fulf on May 30, 2019, 07:01:35 PM
Furries are great
Title: Re: How did YOU become furry? =)
Post by: SophiaFox on June 15, 2019, 12:36:10 AM
How did I become a furry...
Well I am not entirely sure if I am one, but a while ago I heard the term. More recently I found myself learning more and more about what a furry is, and I guess over time I started to realise I might be one. I was then soon lead here, where I can to find whether or not I really am a furry, or simply fascinated with your unique community.