Well my whole life I loved animals... Especially anthros, I drew them a lot although I didn't know they were 'Furries' at the time just cool things I was making on paper and in my imagination, one day I was searching through the web as a small child probably ten or so eventually saw fursuits, looking deeper I found the fandom and quickly joined in.
As for my species, well I suppose I wanted to create my own, so I created the Vexū which is a closed species.