How did YOU become furry? =)

[White Wolf Guardian]

I started out just being interested in the spiritual elements of people attached to animals in some way, but then that website closed down and I ended up here. My girlfriend at the time told me about "furries" and said it was a very interesting group, so I just had to check it out.

[Madmatt]

Been playing RP games for as long as I can remember, getting involved in different communities, After meeting a guy on my current one called "Wolfy" and his avatar and forum banner being wolf drawings, they looked pretty cool, started looking into the topic and liking how everything looked. Took the step into it and here I am.

[MuttButt]

It started out by me having an unsupervised internet connection as a teenage boy and finding furry...art that I rather took a shine to. At the time I was kind of an edgy kid, so I fancied reading a satirical wiki called "encyclopedia dramatica" that I'm sure many of you are familiar with. I found the article on furries, read it and went "aw shit...that sounds like me x.x"

I would say that the turning point from just being into the smut and artwork and viewing it as this shameful niche interest that I had to hide from everybody lest they shun me forever to embracing the fandom fully as a community I belonged to and a major part of my identity was when I attended my furst furry con in early 2014, Further Confusion. A friend and online roleplay buddy insisted that I attend a convention because every furry needed the experience. I was dubious because I was afraid of being associated with furries in person and I couldn't afford it anyways, but then she told me that she'd buy my plane ticket, registration, and put me up in her hotel room without charging me anything. That offer was just way too good to pass up, so I went for it, and I got a taste of how wonderful, silly, fun, and kind the fandom could be. I got a taste of what it was like to not be perpetually ashamed of myself and to be free to act as silly and fruity as I liked, because for the first time in my life I was surrounded with people that were just like me. I barely slept, I partied super hard, I kissed my first boy, I walked around so much I got blisters on my feet, I made friends that I speak to and visit to this very day, and it was so good I cried on the entire bus-ride and half the plane ride home because I didn't want it to be over. After all of that, it was pretty hard to go back to the detached irony and vague disdain that I used to treat the rest of the furry community with. They had won my heart over and I can say with confidence that that con changed me for the better and I will never ever forget what the fandom and the people in it have done for me.

Hah, this turned into kind of a rambling post didn't it? I'm sorry about that fuzzbutts uwu

[AceAurora]

I really wish I had a cool story about finding out about the fandom but alas mine is simple. A friend showed me their fursona and being a child without internet until my 6th grade year I really had no clue about the fandom. After a year, I kind of forgot about it since that friend moved and nobody else really talked about it. Once I was in my junior year of high school I was reintroduced to furries as a friend of mine again showed me their fursona and fursuit. That same friend also helped me design my first 'sona and drew my ref sheet.

[MisterCarey991]

This is quite embarrasing, haha, I have to admit that it was thanks to searching Sonic art in Deviantart when I was 12. People tagged their art as anthros/furry and I searched what they were because I didn't know.

I ended reading all the websites that contained information (good and bad) about the furry community and I started to create my first (bad designed and mary sue) fursona: a pink hedgehog who had a mix of powers of Magneto, Wanda and Quicksilver from X-Men, hahaha.

It was really bad...

[KitsumiFox]

I became interested in being a furry for a few reasons: I had a friend in HS that got me super addicted to the anthro designs and made me want to draw them.


The other is the obvious one for a hormonally charged teenager; though interestingly enough I found the furry pics I did see to be more attractive than humans (especially with males) so that was different.   

[SadDubwool]

Y'know the Hugwolf episode of Adventure Time? Yeah, that is a big contributing factor and some others would include me as an only child with a mom working at the time she used to, I pretty much had free reign over what I could watch and such

I actually started as a brony long before I became a Furry and I honestly really hated how Brony communities functioned at the time so I decided to continue looking for a place I could atleast find some solace, I eventually found this place and became the level of furry I am today, through all the trials and tribulations I've experienced on and off the forums

 I still intend to be part of the fandom...


Actually. For better or for worse the majority of the hate i see on the internet seems to have decreased for both furries and bronies, It's frankly surprising and I'm kinda glad that we aren't seen as the "Worst of the worst" anymore





((Also, The previous points Muttbutt and Kitsumi made 'bout all the Smut stuff probably keeps me aroud.))

[Oriaan]

Well, I used to hate furries actually, than I realized it wasn't all a fetish thing and that not all of them were even into **censor**  the anthros, and than I just kinda grew more and more interested

[mocha]

I'd have to say it was when I was 12. There was a certain anime I was obsessed with, Hetalia, and they had cat versions of the human characters, so I would always draw the cats. Then I would go on to other animes and draw my own cat versions of the characters. I would also draw my friends as cats as well. I knew what a furry was in the 6th grade, 11 y/o but like every new person on the internet in 2011, I didn't like furries. I made a friend on kik in 2013 or 2014 who was into Hetalia and went on her DeviantArt page and saw that she had a fursona. So I made one myself and probably freshmen year of highschool is when I labeled myself as a furry.

[L. Jay Echoes]

I was seventeen years old and I stumbled upon Captain Furry while browsing the internet. He was was a gateway to artists like Spunky, Phraggle, Oz Kangaroo, Duo Radon, Pokelai, and websites like Deviantart and Furaffinity. I didn’t officially join because I was a very shy individual, even over the internet. Nine years later, I’m in a support group talking about my interest in cartoon animals, and another guy bluntly calls me a furry. I was insulted, not because of any negative views I have towards furries, but because I’d gone there specifically to meet people I felt safe around. That pushed me over the edge, and out of spite (both for him and the group coordinator who gave me this disgusted sneer), I created an account on furaffinity.
 
I did leave the fandom once last year, but only because I’d gone through a severe moral crisis that I’ve since resolved and come to terms with. I go into the details of my entrance into the fandom in an essay on my FA account (je0000backup). It’s fairly graphic, though. Consider yourself warned.

[Beta8088_Proto]

Two words and two words only:
Animal Crossing.

[AceBun]

Twokinds did it for me. Must’ve been around 2010. I haven’t been active in furry communities that much. My interest in the fandom was kindled again when I became active on the Zootopia Reddit. While not officially a furry Reddit, I suppose close to 100% of the members there do fall in the category, regardless of whether or not they admit it. ;-)


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[Samual_Jennings]

I've always had an affinity for canines, both as pets and in the wild. I really started being into anthropomorphic animals when I first saw the movie "Zootopia". I started to pretend I was Nick Wilde, the fox. Eventually, I brushed across the term "furry" on the internet, so I Googled it. I liked the concept, so now I have a fox fursona.    I found this site by Googling "furry forums".

[KennedyBryansky]

Honestly, I just did it on impulse. I knew two furries irl who I were friendly with and thats how I kinda found out about furries. Awhile later, I was like "what if I was a furry" and so i decided to do it x3

[hanngnecessary]

i was watching a bunch of random animations on youtube because i was bored and somehow found a pocari roo video. then i was like hey, that looks pretty cool.