Hello,
Please accept my traditional introductory furry greetings post.
I used to spend a lot of time online
socially, meeting and chatting to new like-minded people, but I haven't much for the last few years. I've started to feel this need to connect to more people again recently, and I think that a furry forum is a good place to do this.
I say I think so because I'm not 100% sure what a furry is, so I can't be sure that I am a good fit for the furry community. There is a very large range of stuff described online, and I've never met anyone who claimed to be a furry, or hinted that they were furcurious, or even expressed any interest on the topic.
I've never really felt that I was the same species as everyone else. When I was younger social interactions confused the hell out of me, I didn't understand the whole social dishonesty thing at all, and as a result I was painfully shy. As I've gotten older I've learned all this stuff intellectually and am now actually quite good at interacting with people, but I still feel like its something that just doesn't come naturally to me.
My mental image of myself is covered in fur. And I definitely have a tail because I often wag it. And ears. Because I like to prick them up when something interests me.
Inside my head I refer to myself as Captain Mule, or Hoofy, or even The Iron Hoof. I also generally do this in the third person. I know that this sounds very silly. This is because I am in fact very silly, although I very seldom let this show to anyone except my husband. I’m not sure why people take themselves so seriously.
I however don’t actually think I am a mule. Or any other specific kind of creature. Sometimes my hooves are paws. Sometimes I’m a Velociraptor. I am The Mule, not a Mule if that makes sense.
But, I’m not interested in furrydom as a fetish. I don’t role-play or want to start role-playing. I don’t have a fursona and can’t join some kind of species driven group. I'm sure I would enjoy wearing an animal suit, but don't own one and have never worn one unless you count a chicken suit I wore in a grade 2 play. And I’ve just hit 30 and want to engage with like minded grown-ups, not trying to be age-ist, I’m just looking for discussions with people experiencing in a similar way to me. (I also will totally accept that one can be a grown-up or not at all a large range of ages).
That was a bit of a long post, so thanks for reading
Hoofy.
