How did YOU become furry? =)

[Shadis]

Oh wow! That is awesome bro! Your drawings are really good too! I wish I could draw like that! 

[rice243]

ive always loved wolves...one day i had a dream of being one... ever since then i knew i was a furry 

[Shadis]

Lucky. I wish I dreamt of wolves    I just discovered my furryism when I read about it in geiness book of world records 

[Skittlez da Fox]

Thank you Comcast for helping me!

[Starfighter Suicune]

I always liked animals/mystical creatures more than humans. There were some happenings in my past, that made me dislike normal people and myself beeing merely human. The same was with some friends and my best friend I found on the internet.
When I started watching Pokémon, my first own female character appeared in my head. She basically looked like Ash and was a person, who could change between a human-like and a dragon shape. That was 1 or 2 years before we got internet. (so 11 1/2 or 12 1/2 years ago). I began daydreaming about her. Dreamed about adventures and such things in the pokémon world.
Now something that I'm not sure about it: I'm not sure if I changed her name and shape later or if I got the idea of a new female character. I don't know if she is the same person, because I'm not sure about the name. It's such a long time ago. I think it was around the time where we got internet.
But with the new character or the new shape of my first one named Yumio, I began dreaming about a new world. It's basically the earth how we know it, but some things are different. To long to explain.
Soon I invented a male character who looks like Supreme Kai (Kaioshin) with the name Neo. Years later a third character, who is supposed to be my alter ego named Ryuu. All my characters are shapshifter.
Within the past 7 years I began to love dragons and other creatures more and more. With the idea of my alter ego, meeting other furrys and surfing for furry-related things on the net during that time, I understood what I am. Someone who just refuses to be only human. Sometimes I just want to break out of my normal life, get wings and fly away. I just can't live like a nomal human does.
I think thats why I feel so free when I can run around in cosplays/fursuits on conventions. There are people who wish/pretend to be someone else, just like me.

Since I read another thread here, I think I'm a therian and not only a furry.

[Talos]

Hey guys! My first post! Anyway, this is a good topic for me to start. I took an interest in anthromorphic animals when I got into Sonic The Hedgehog when I was 8. I got a cheap Sega Genesis Plug N Play with Sonic 2. Loved it. Creating my own fan character and pretending to be him made me a furry. A tiny bit of a furry, but a furry the same. Got into the Star Fox games. Krystal pushed me past that "sort of furry" line. Got into Digimon. Renamon sure didn't help either. I'm not complaining, though. Being furry is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It makes me feel special.

[felgreywolf]

couldn't give you an answer. I've had an affinity for anthropomorphic cartoons and characters for as long as i can remember.


How did I recognize that I WAS a furry and that there was a label?Cliche as all heck.


Renamon. 'Nuff said.           

[Talos]

Yep, agreed. Either Renamon or Krystal had the "big" influence. You have all the more reason to have Renamon turn you into a furry. She's tempting... and pretty hot. Dat body.... 8D

[AlphaSergal]

Yep, agreed. Either Renamon or Krystal had the "big" influence. You have all the more reason to have Renamon turn you into a furry. She's tempting... and pretty hot. Dat body.... 8D

Damn right for a while i had a big crush on her and i had thousands of pics of her on my phone

[blinxis]

I grew up watching cartoons with nothing but animals talking. I like the concept of it, so I stuck with it. I drew here and there, and a few months ago someone called me a "furry" and started laughing. I didn't know what that was, so I did some research. Turned out to be a community with the same interests. Didn't really "become" a furry. Just found out the meaning.

[echohusky05]

I heard the term in a youtube video. The video was not really against furries, just kinda poking fun at them. Anyway, I got curious what it was talking about, cause I had never heard about it before. After I learned about it, I realized I had been a furry at heart my whole life, but never really knew that it was a thing. Never really thought about it. That was sometime last fall, and I'm so glad it happened. Being human was so boring! (Barks, wags tail)

[Narf]

Back in 2002 i made rough sketched about wolfs who could stand and weared clothes, they were living at the street, it was a dream i had. They looked like punk rockers. I kept looking also for furry images and such. Untill 2006 IMVU came out. I joined it and i got bored of it quickly... as a human. I changed in a zombie then but it bored me to, then i bought randomly a white tiger skin and here we are! 7 years later!
I met a furry friend because of someone on msn. He introduced me and we started to roleplay.
In 2010 he created a forum and it gotten succesfull, im still on that forum and i will always be. On that forum ive met artists who drawed my fursona because they said it was a cool one it had to be drawn! The first pic ever was based on a imvu pic i showed.
(my avatar on this site is now. But first it was rougher sketch.)
It got inked and thats how i got it. My fursona gotten drawn more times.

[Luke White-Heart]

It was only recently. I had always been interested in anthro characters, though i had no idea why or even what a furry was. Disney movies were what i watched the most. A year or so ago, i found out my girlfriend (though she wasn't at the time) was a furry. So, i decided to check it out. And i instantly clicked. I finally felt right; i had found where i belonged, at home. And here i am now.

[MrRazot]

There was this one children's tv program on cbeebies when I watched it. Can't remember what it was called but the theme was rather distinctive as "have a walk, in the wind, and the rain, and the sun" over and over. Cartoon about three foxes and the mischief they got up to

[Gabriel of creosha]

I don't remember exactly how, but I first began  my way onto the furry fandom after I saw a page of a furry webcomic. I looked and searched for it, but never sucessfully found it. I did however find out more about the fandom over time. I eventually started writing stories about anthros, so at that point someone called me a furry, and I did more research on it. Soon after taht I found the comic, and joined it's forum. I think I've beena furry for.... 3-4 years now.