When did you turn Fur?

[Thaddeus Q. Wolfe]

For me, it was a direct result of some Brian Jaques books. He writes the Redwall series,  :th_Pyong-1: all sorts of mice and bagders and stufff that fight against bad animals. So, for me, I was twelve. How about you guys and girls?  ???  

[WingedZephyr]

It was a really gradual change for me, really, so there isn't a point when I wasn't, then decided I was, a furry. If I had to pick a particular point though, it would be when I got interested in furry skins on IMVU.

[Soryu/Miayuki Isumi]

When Disney's robin hood came out ><

[Goblin Cat 😸]

As said by Forsaken, I think I've been a furry my whole life. I always pretended to be an animal rather than myself. I was little odd with my group of friends because whenever we role played outside as kids, I always had to be something animalistic. I was absolutely addicted to Disney movies with animals in them, and constantly drew animals rather than people. I never really knew I was furry until about a year or more ago when I was showing a picture of an anthropomorphic fox I drew to my friends. My best friend, now mate, kinda gave me a funny look and called me a furry. And from then on I knew the term for it.
xD

[Pibi]

Around 14... can't remember why I turn (it was gradual), but I was without PC and internet (thought that I'm the only crazy one on the world :d)

[Smitty the Airship Pirate]

Ahh you beat me to it Lady...as said before me I was always apparently a furry I was always playing as a wolf or dog and I loved the Robin Hood movie but I finally came into the fandom when I gotten my first skin on IMVU, and here I am now posting on a furry forum.

[Thaddeus Q. Wolfe]

Awesomes! But to add in to what i had started with, i didn't know the term for what i was.

[Sugar]

Same as Forsaken and Nyx.
My childhood was hard so I spent most of my
time in the woods in tree forts or hollowed bushes
and I've always had a strong emotional connection
to animals and nature. So much that the thought
of freedom in that sense broke my heart every time
I thought of it and it still does. I used to pretend
I was an animal, it sounds odd or crazy to some
people, but to me it just felt right. Being in the woods
surrounded by nothing but trees and when the
sunlight flooded in through the leaves everything
looked beautiful, and I'd always pretend that it
was all there was to the world, just me and the woods,
and it made me happy for the most part.

Anyways~ I've always had that feeling. I don't
think I'm an animal, I just feel like I don't belong
in the human world, that's all really.. x3
But the internet opened my eyes to other people
who felt kinda the same way I did and embraced it.

I love being a furry. :'3

[iKero-chu™]

I  was always a furry, even as a really young child.
My fursona changed from year to year ( From Dog to Wolf to Cheetha to a Cat to a Bat [ Yes I just reliazed it rhymed "] ) when I was young.
I think my "furry-ness" grew stronger and more noticable to me and others when I entered middle school.( Once I got re-addicted to Furcadia. )
I never knew what it was exactly called or if anyone else was like me untill my 8th grade year when I met PrincessWilly through a Furcadia room and I got totally filled in about the amazing world of the Furry Sub-culture.
So then I had a name for what I was: A furry.

Most of the furries in here have been a furry at birth It's in our blood I guess.


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Pirate Ferrachu Ninjas! xP

[Octavia]

I've been a furry ever since I can remember just didn't know what it was called...Disney got me hooked on being a furry..i Later found out mroe about it when I entered High school I met my (now best friend) Rob...i forget how exactly it went...but we found out that we were both furries...and he took me to a small group of kids in one of the empty hallways during lunch and found out there were more furries in my school...we all became good friends

[Sugar]

I've been a furry ever since I can remember just didn't know what it was called...Disney got me hooked on being a furry..i Later found out mroe about it when I entered High school I met my (now best friend) Rob...i forget how exactly it went...but we found out that we were both furries...and he took me to a small group of kids in one of the empty hallways during lunch and found out there were more furries in my school...we all became good friends

Lucky ._.
I don't know anyone in real life who's a furry..

[Kranxa]

I've been a furry ever since I can remember just didn't know what it was called...Disney got me hooked on being a furry..i Later found out mroe about it when I entered High school I met my (now best friend) Rob...i forget how exactly it went...but we found out that we were both furries...and he took me to a small group of kids in one of the empty hallways during lunch and found out there were more furries in my school...we all became good friends

Lucky ._.
I don't know anyone in real life who's a furry..

 When I did a debate speech about furries different people came up to me and talked to me about it. I think I converted a few...lol... But a few told me that they were excited to see someone had the courage to say something they couldn't. So that's how I figured a few out.

[Adelrausch]

For me, I think I've always had some sort of thought in my head that I wanted to be a different non-human species. I remember that I used to run around on all fours for most of my childhood, probably up until I was about 12 or 13 (I'm now 15, going on 16). Also around 13, I started roleplaying as a wolf on this one game's chat on Yahoo!. There were about four or five others with me and I guess that's the first time I'd really had internet friends. One of them eventually told me about Furcadia and I immediately checked it out for myself. I was hooked. xD I made friends on there, as well, and I eventually found out about IMVU. And here I am today. x3 I've especially noticed that after I went vegetarian I realized how much I cared for animals and now that I'm semi-vegan I know that I really love animals, in a more personal way, I suppose (not that non-vegetarians/vegans can't love animals just as much as a veggie-head like me can x3). After not posting anything on here for a long time and forgetting to check the forum a lot (I never was ALL that active on here to begin with, though, so if I'm not recognizable I'll understand. xD), I've realized that being a furry seems like it's a big part of who I am, so I came back.   :peek:

[Dessum]

I think I beat some pople here  :snicker:
I used to be totally obsessed with werewolves...then werecreatures.... then I went onto a fantasy website
and out came (clean) pictures of furrys! I was amazed  :sparkle:
So I guess I became a furry around 10-11 years old, but didn't actually know what it was called then.
But soon found out via IMVU and have been a proper furry since late 11- early 12 years

[Nee]

I'm not sure what counts as a fur, really... I'm not sure if I really am one yet, if I'm in a stage of "transitioning" to it... I really don't know. I like growling though.  :snicker: