I've always loved animal characters. Growing up, most of my favorite shows had animal characters. I watched old cartoons too, like Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo, and more (thank you, Boomerang), which I think added onto it. My favorite movies were Balto, Stuart Little, and Ratatouille. And I never outgrew them. When I'd draw as a kid, be it for fun or for school stuff, I'd draw animals, oftentimes anthro animals (this actually got me in trouble during a group project in elementary school once because a boy I had to work with got mad at me for drawing a dog instead of a person XD). When I first started playing video games, I played things like Spyro the Dragon and the Ratatouille game (which, looking back on it, wasn't a very good game
). I continued drawing animals. I continued watching shows and movies with animal characters. It wasn't until I got to middle school that I learned what a furry was. And at first, I thought it was just perverts. So I hated it. But as I looked more into it, I thought "oh, that seems cool, I'm kinda like that", and I even made a fursona (which is much different than my current one). But I never showed my drawings to anyone out of fear I'd get made fun of, or my parents would get mad. And it was around that time my cousin showed me an old game series that I grew to really enjoy myself: Sly Cooper. That was what really made me think "okay, I'm probably a furry"
It wasn't until a couple years later I decided to become a furry, however.
So, basically, I never outgrew my love for anthropomorphic animal characters, I love drawing them, and I want a fursuit. So, I'm a furry.
