How did YOU become furry? =)

[FurryJason100]

Well if you want me to explain then I will 

Post Merge: September 18, 2013, 01:34:46 AMIt 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........... 

[nixon/monto]

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.

[sigols]

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 

[HyenaKing]

I will keep it simple. I was browsing than i saw this:
Click For Pic.
Yes, i saw mayhem (and mayhem (verb) coming)then shortly later my brain went *boop* and then i entered the fandom.

[nixon/monto]

And then it went....boop...boop...it just went boop...why is it that that explains it perfectly?

[HyenaKing]

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*

[Nyco]

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  .

[DragonThing]

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 ) 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.

[jimmy the blue]

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
 

[HyenaKing]

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!)

[nixon/monto]

That moment 1 and 2 connect and your just like "oh hey!"

[Snow Kittie]

I gave a grief history in my post under Introduce Yourself, 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.

[MaskaTheOtter]

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.

[Atho--50]

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.

[DresdenWizard]

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.