How did YOU become furry? =)

[HyenaKing]

That seems cool, and noone i know exept for one gal really knows what a furry is, and i never got to meet up with any irl.

[Edie]

It's not really that cool, my friend is still surprised when I use terms like "Potential Mate"

[HyenaKing]

Ah, ok so theyknow, but not much.

[Edie]

She thinks it's funny when I use terms that are used by furries.
The first time I said that when I was with her her response was "That is the furriest thing I have ever heard you say."
I was like "Really?"

[HyenaKing]

Wow. Whenever i say something, they just ingore what i said and conteniue the converstion. Ironically, my sister knows more about it than i do, and asks so many questions, some. Am incapable to answer.

[Edie]

Nobody asks me about it anymore, and I don't really talk to anyone, so nobody to ask too many difficult questions.
They've all been... taken care of.

[HyenaKing]

Always good. I wish I had that kind of closure, before peril ensued, and then the drama, and then the *pleh*

[Edie]

I feel that there should be no peril involved in being a furry from outside sources. It's weird.

[HyenaKing]

Its a long story, that is non-related and off-topic.
*Switch Gears*
I found out a couple dramatic things after shouting it out of my parents, and after finding medical records, I could confirm madness. Ask, and I shall answer, I am in a tired mood, so i'll come back if you ask.

[William Dynwood]

I told nobody about the fact that I became a furry. Cause I already know what kind of reactions I will get. Espesially since my dad installed a PC Monitor program on my standard PC... Thats why I only log into this forum on my laptop and phone in incognito mode. Its sad, but I think I have no choice. TheFluorescentVulpes, I would like to hear your story, but if you do not want to post it in this topic, feel free to PM me.

[L4BY_]

Well, it started a long time ago when I was about 5 years old.
At that time, I was a big fan of Disney films. But I was also fascinated by transformations. It may have come from Disney or other Cartoons, I don't know. I don't remember. But I know at that age, I had a lot of dreams where I would become an animal or transform into one.

Years passed and my passion continued living, I kept it secret from the others 'cause I knew they would consider me as weird if I told them about it.  I didn't have any friends when I was yound, I was lonely. I felt a bit different from the others because I had different interests. I also started drawing mazes, and that too I still don't know from where it came from.

Then came the french "Collège" for 11 to 15 years old. I didn't make any friends there either, people kept rejecting me or teesing me. So, I imagined myself in my head as a magician, capable of punishing them and transforming them physically or mentaly into animals, I invented a whole story about it. Of course, I didn't mention it to the others and kept it for myself.

I also got my first computer at that time too. At first, I just watched videos, but then I had the idea of searching for transformation art. I found sex-related stuff, but no normal art as I wanted. So, I continued inventing and imagining my second imaginary life in my head.


5 years later, I went into an other school named in France "Lycée". There was a lot of rough people there, and most of them were in my class. I didn't know how to socialize with them, and I quickly got ignored by the others. There had this only boy in my class that was lonely, the others teesed him a lot but he didn't realize that 'cause he had mental problems (I don't remember the name of what he had). I decided to protect Gilles from what the others said about him, and what was supposed to be a good action turned against me.

One day, an accident happened. I was there when it did. I was in the boys toilets cabins when suddenly 2 boys of my class came in with Gilles. They asked him if he could take off his trousers 'cause they were curious to know how his penis looked like. He didn't know what to answer, I wanted to please them but he was scared of doing it. They manipulated him to do it, and he did. Then, they took photos and showed them to the whole class. I was shocked of what happened and I wanted to protect Gilles.

So, I told the teachers about it, then the teachers told the parents, and the parents told the police about it. And for some reason, everyone is my class knew I told everything. I told them what I thought of it, but they didn't give a fudge about what I had to say. So then, everyone hated me and ignored me. I was taking a treatment at that time for acne, that could apparently for some people make them deeply depressive. I felt like I had no point of living.


So, since nobody cared about me, I started dreaming again about having a second life. I didn't care about school anymore, or about the others. I stayed on my own, in my corner, thinking and wishing to live my life again, as a fox.

Then, June came and things got a lot worse. I was really depressive, I felt really useless to the world and I wanted to die and live an other life. The people at school teesed me and made me feel really crap about myself. I stopped going to school then and stayed at home on my computer.

In the summer holidays, I discovered DeviantART, and also discovered anthros. I also discovered furries, I thought it was an other word for fursona. I didn't know that there had a vast community behind it. So, I joined a small group of furries without knowing the real meaning of the word itself.

In September, I entered a new school, and this time, I made myself plenty of friends. And, one of them was a furry. I told him at first about my interests in anthro art hoping that he wouldn't consider me as a weirdo. But, suprisingly, he told me he loves it too. For the first time ever, I met someone who had the same interests as me and that made me really happy in the sense that I wasn't the only person in France to like anthro art.

We had great discussions about it, he learned me a lot of stuff about anthros and furries. I searched for the real definition of the word and found the furry dictionnary. That's when I realized I was a furry.

He also told me there had communities of furries on the internet, places like forums where he liked to speak with other furries from time to time. So, I searched for the forums he told me about and I found you guys..



So yeah, that's the whole story. I know, it's pretty big. Excuse me if I went a bit of topic in one part.
Also, excuse me if my english is a bit weird, that's because I'm french.

- Lab.

[HyenaKing]

Wow.

I liked tranformation stuff too when i was a kid!

[Kibari]

Well I've always been an "animal person" of sorts, I won't go too much into that, though.
I believe I discovered the furry fandom when I was quite a bit more younger through feral, sparkledog and chibi anthro artists on deviantArt (of popular artists: atomicfishbowl (now apparently known as Falvie), Tamberella (aka SnowAro), TaniDaReal and silverfox5213), certainly I found an interest in how people had fursonas online and I felt connected but at the same time I didn't think I could draw and I couldn't and it put me off the whole thing for a while. After my parents recommended for me to take up new hobbies a while ago I said I'd take up drawing and showed them something that was simple (not a character) but they liked it a lot. In this next year I will be hopefully attending art class and learning to draw on paper and I am also going to be making digital art once I have a tablet. After that I decided to actually participate in the furry community instead of just exploring and reading all about it. I pretty much learnt a lot about the history of the furry fandom, it's issues (which I'm glad to be conscious of, so I can avoid any misunderstandings), what it means to different people and the variation in the content. From it's evolution as a post-funny animal / sci-fi comic fandom offshoot to a fandom appealing to those who were introduced to the personification of animals via the mainstream (Disney films, Redwall, TV cartoons, etc - of which to some degree influenced me, too) with its base striving on either identity with creativity or escaping the human world with art and roleplay. Nowadays I spend quite sometime browsing for furry art on deviantArt and other sites such as Weasyl and FA and roleplaying, etc. I usually feel more comfortably being quite more on the feral end than anthro, though I love playing semi-anthro (looking more so feral when on four legs, but capable of walking upright like most anthros do), as well - for my preference I often dodged the furry community as much as I like anthros in art but now I'm more comfortable I've opened myself up to the more anthro side of things, as well. Once I'm good enough I hope to draw furry art and also other kinds of art (I'm beginning to find art as very meditative since I suffer a lot of anxiety). Though, right now my socialising is just in talking to people I know are furries and won't bite my head off for demonstrating my "animal-person" tendencies on the internet. I don't get on well with those who don't share my interests and are rude or bullyish, thankfully this site doesn't seem to have any of that, really. I'm thankful I've found such a welcoming, decently-mannered, accepting, friendly online community

[Grey]

I think I've always been a Furry. It just took me a while to realize and come to terms with it (why in the world was I apprehensive? ). I've been around animals my entire life and would often mimic them, or play with them as if I was one of them. It was about a year or to until I found the Furry community and have never felt so at home in my life! 

[HyenaKing]

You were maybe apprehensve because you mightve been afrid it was not what you are.