How did YOU become furry? =)

[Jack]

hmm... i found it on gaiaonline actually. after about a week of debating with myself i decided, what the heck! and here i am today. a three year old furry. it looks so long ago.

[Packedsnack]

Me and my brother used to play like, a pseudo LARP when I was seven in which we could transform into two metre tall anthropomorphs. When he stopped I continued playing with my friend and a fetish developed.... (There was a particularly cute cat in the cast)

[Righteousbro]

I always was and didn't know. I found it on a web comic, it mentions furries so I looked it up and then I looked up some forums for it.
And that is how babies are made, wait... oops, I think I ended the story wrong....

[DeviantDave]

Started playing wow as a Tauren, Liked the idea of being  strong and having a tail, oh and the horns, then I go and look for a good tauren backround image for my comp and...well my filter may have been off so I ended up getting a Very good female [pic, she was so cute, so here I am. Dull yes, Original no, But hey it could be worse.

[Spirit Hamaski]

Well, I was found out that I fall in loves all animals till I watched movie where most furry come from. and I was white with blue stripes Tiger like as Siberia Tiger but White. and In few month later I met my ex who is Black wolf and I found out again because white wolf with ice blue eyes and anything went so far..I think about 5-7 year. and I can drawing anthros and feral. And Stick with my 3 fursona (Werewolf, Snowmew, Dragonwolf) those I found more in the future as meet Hexidimentional. And Grow to find more animal to see inside my body what I will be.

~Spirit

[Kohax]

I was looking on google images for epic matrix pictures and funnily enough I found a picture of a star wars sith furry, I was like "... Wtf is that?? O___o" clicked on it, searched the website, t'was a furry art site, saw a title which said "Furry fandom"... Google then wiki, and yea got interested in it after that.

[Dawnwind]

I'm not sure if I'm going to draw some hate from this, but here goes.

When I was with my ex-partner, we had a mutual friend whom we spoke to via the internet - where me and my ex met, he was a furry. Eventually, my ex-partner came closer and closer to their first fursona, I simply smiled and went along with it as one who is enamored does. My ex went to stay with aforementioned friend over one Easter, as my grandmother was going to be around, and was off with me when we were re-united, apart from one lovemaking session, which was unusually tender and gentle. After a week, I snuck a look at my ex's diary.

They had slept together. At this point I started to lose sleep, spending hours awake while my ex slept soundly, in our bed. I somehow got it into my head to create a fursona for myself, I don't know why. Perhaps to try and understand what was going on. Perhaps it was to compete with the now former friend, eventually I confronted my partner, who left within a few weeks, after pleading with me to forgive them. The fursona I had developed just seemed to stick, over the next couple of years, I formed a small online circle of furry friends, even getting back into contact with my ex without realising, until they revealed themself.

After a while, I lost everything due to some stupid mistakes, and went for a few more years effectively shutting away my fursona in the closet. My fiancée thinks it was a fad, and doesn't know that the fursona I created for myself, about five years ago, has become as much a part of me as my outer self since my heart was broken all those years ago.

For about two months now, I've been feeling empty, like something was missing. I decided this morning, after much thought last night to unlock the closet, at least online, so I can have that little piece of me out there, and not locked away from the world.

So, basically fabricated a fursona when my partner cheated with a furry, and found that it wasn't as fabricated as I thought.

[Ninjalion]

Always was, always will be. Haven't been in the fandom for long, but I was always down with furry.

[Strawbearry_PANDA]

Well, mine will sound a bit odd. When I was growing up I had a rough life and I kind of detached from reality. I felt hollow. And for my 11th birthday, my grandad got me a panda plushie. I didn't feel so hollow anymore, I felt like maybe the panda was a part of me. So that's the way I look at it now, is that I have his body, and he has my soul. I'm never without him, for six long years, I've always had him by my side. And slowly, I started to make more friends who were into furry. They told me about it and it felt really right. I mean, I'm much happier now than as a child, don't get me wrong! I don't want it to seem like "Oh, that's a depressing way to get into it." It's just I think my panda really helped me out, you know? I've only come out of the kennel yesterday, but that is how I'm a furry.   

[Karma Moonshadow]

Ever since I could walk, I had a passion I didn't understand. My friends would have to pretend to be animals with me, because that's the only way I liked to play. I never played with dolls, but I loved to use rocks as my eggs and protect them in my nest. I had a wild streak that ran so deep it confused me. The only use I had for Barbie clothes was on my TY beanie animals, which I dressed to look anthropomorphic. Usually I would make their clothes out of scrap fabric. My imagination ran wild with animals in somewhat human forms. My imaginary friend was a kangaroo named Stella, who understood me when no one else could. I loved to draw and was pretty good at it even before I was in kindergarten, but I only drew animals. Often they were in story form, as I couldn't write yet. As I got a little older, I developed passions for certain animals at different times. When I got too old to openly pretend to be an animal, I would simply daydream about it or imagine myself as one. It went from cats, to horses, to wolves. Each one hadsomething about it that triggered something in me I couldn't understand.

And yet, I had never heard of a furry. When I finally did, it all clicked. That was what I'd been all my life, and I hadn't even known it.
Now, after all these years, I'm coming out of my closet, online for now. Now that I've told my mate and he has found a furry side of himself as well, I can come out of the closet when I'm alone with him. I'm hoping I'll get to meet some other furries in real life one day.

[DarkHorse_Steele]

I'm not exactly sure how I became a furry... As I wrote in my intro,I have been aware of furries for several years but I have only been a furry since Friday or Saturday.  I stumbled across some pics of a fursuiter dressed as a character from one of my favorite "old" WB cartoon series. I thought that it would be a cool idea if I could pull off something like that for Otakon. I looked on the con forums to see if there were any more furries planning to attend and found only two or three people posting their attendance.  My original Otakon costume idea is now back in my closet as I construct my fursuit. I know I won't be alone...

[immortal_wolf]

Well I've been attached to animals since before I could walk. When I was younger I would always "pretend" to be a dog or another canine. I had and still have a stuffed wolf that I used to carry around everywhere. I would growl at anyone that tried to take him from me. So I've been a furry since before I even knew what it was called.

[Aklaya]

I always knew I was different exspecially when all my friends would play house i wanted to be the dog only once has anyone ever wanted to be a pet with me (he was a guinipig) As i got older i had an interest in wolves and werewolves i used to pretend to be one but it never felt quite right well one day i was about 10 maybe 11 and my brother did this trick with a lighter and was like look im a dragon i felt different but it was whatever at first but i took an immidiate liking to dragons and the more i studied them the more i could feel that i was one i already had my name i had it sense i was six so i looked at who i was and thus at about 13 Ashleigh the outcast human became Aklaya the weredragon

[RakJak]

I think I became aware that I was a furry at some point in my late-teens. Somehow I came across some lewd (see: awesome) pictures of some furry women wearing no clothes. I wasn't on a porn hunt at the time, I honestly can't remember the reason I came across these pictures, but I remember thinking very clearly "This is not normal. I don't know what this is, but it's not normal....and I'm fine with that. In fact, I think I'm more than fine with that."

From that point on I went deeper into the rabbit hole. Pretty much the same minute I learned what a furry even was, I was aware that I was also one.

[ƒyreblue ƒox]

I have always felt an interest in anthro's, and until recently i didn't know that furries/furry fandom existed (except for renamon, and the only reason i knew about Renamon was through G-Mod idiot box on youtube, which definitely did NOT give a good view of furries). Like many of the bio's i read in this thread so far, as a kid i wished i was like the lions, foxes, and other furries in Disney movies. I used to pretend to be anthros, making believe i was one...i almost wish my imagination from my childhood still existed in me (btw im 14...lol). Now, onto the other side of the story. I am, what i consider myself to be, an emerging artist. i have always loved drawing, it's one of my favorite pastimes. I became interested in drawing furries, and am currently working on making my own fursona. I am trying to move on to digital art, but my birthday seems to be moving in on me slowly. i plan on purchasig a graphic tablet so that i will be able to start my journey as a graphic/digital artist. anyways, that is my story up until this point, and it is great reading all of yours.
~Crimson