So, as you can see by the avatar name, my fursona Andy Dershon, and my story is a little bit personal.
I've secretly been a furry for about 15 years, and I had been deep in the closet about it. Until now, I had been a lurker on FurAffinity, having an account there for years. I had never talked to anybody about being a furry. I had never even talked to other furries this whole time, I was THAT deep in the closet, in denial to even myself.
Over the past few months, I decided to finally start engaging in the furry community, develop a fursona, and I now have commissions from a number of artists.
Now that I've taken these first big steps, I feel a little more confident to actually engage in the community a little bit more. I now have a ref sheet (which is where my avatar is from, and I'm looking at other artists to commission. Being on a site like here will hopefully help me in engaging a little bit more, and I'm starting to consider going to a convention in a few months.
This is Andy Dershon, and it's glad to meet you.