When and how did you first realise you where a furry?

[WetWolf]

i was always a furry , i just didnt know what one was until 17. i found out by surfing the net for things that caught my fancy and stumbled upon furry-furry.com and i was like omg people like me... i thought i was all alone and everything but im not and ive never been happier. my family on the other hand has shunned me for being a gay furry XD

 

[Arc]

my family on the other hand has shunned me for being a gay furry XD

Bad to hear that...

My mom is sometimes just terrifying open hearted about homosexuality...
We were talking about me marrying a nice girl someday or not...
And then she just came up with: "Oh...you don't know...maybe it could be a nice guy instead"
I said: "I am pretty sure this won't happen" (Because I am straight, you know)
But she were just like: "You never know until you try it."

 

[WetWolf]

It was a really bad experience almost caused me to lose my optimistic outlook on life if it wasn’t for my mate. My stepdad and sisters were cool with it. But my mom and my biological dad were not
My mom loved me to death I loved her just as much to. Not only was she my mom but she was my best friend. She was a cop and a detective but when I was living with her my dead beat dad dropped me and my sisters on her and took on his new family. My mom couldn’t afford to support us all. my sisters were 16 and 18 I was 6 my sisters got jobs to help mom but it was still never enough we lived in a small house next to a ressaca (non pretty lake) the house was drafty and had carpet from the 60's XD lime green shag... and parts of the house had plywood floor it was kinda scary because half of the house was on the ground and the other half was on stilts about 15 feet off the ground. The house was long but small XD. Well my mom got fired for stealing money from evidence and busts to help feed us and stuff. Then things started to get better for some odd reason... all of a sudden we had cable and awesome food and a super Nintendo!!! And my mom was taking me to Houston to see the rodeo there. We rode the bus and at the checkpoint was where the happiness ended... My mom had started to traffic drugs to support us. She only wanted to do it once for the money so she could feed us until she found another job. I woke up to a border patrol agent tapping me on the bus asking me to come with him. I had 3 kilos of cocaine in my bag... later I learned that that was her 3rd trip and she finally got caught, she was finally safe. She had wanted to get out after the first run, she told them she was done. They had come into our house and my sisters told me this 4 men one in each of our rooms and two in my moms my sisters woke up I didn’t but I saw them leave. Each had a gun to each of us and the leader guy Mario (he seemed cool but I guess not) told my mom to tell him again that she was quitting. My mom had to do what she had to basically feed us and keep us alive. Needless to say my mom went to jail. I spent the next 5 miserable years with my dad.

My real dad which sometimes I can’t bring myself to call him that was a dick... my whole childhood I was basically alone. My mom was in jail and my dad had his own "new" family with my step mom. I hated him, I can’t count the time I literally slept with the dogs outside. He lives out in the monte (Brush lands) I lived with him for 5 years I slept on a couch in the living room all I had were my cloths and a shoebox of toys that’s all. I would go to school where I had no friends *I lived a really sheltered life from things like TV and other people I lacked social skills to make friends* I would go to school, eat breakfast there eat lunch there, then walk home. There I would feed our 13 dogs (dad was a dog breeder) and do my chores then I would spend the rest of the day with the animals because they seemed to be the only living things ever happy to see me. If I ever got in trouble I would get basically beat... usually with random objects...lol I hate spatulas jk XD. But I can’t count the times that I would wait until shower/bedtime to go into the house and I would try to open the door but it would be locked... I was too scarred to knock on the door for fear of a beating so I would sleep with the dogs or in a tree by the dogs. I was terrified of the dark outside but I got over it quick. I loved it though when the alpha female had her puppies I was the only person allowed to touch them. If anyone other than me would try to touch or get them the rest of the pack would bite them. My dad hated me for this... but it was cool seeing my dad bitten really badly by Cody XD and then her bring her puppies over to me. it was funny I loved being with them (probably why I am a furry) I knew I was the weakest member of the pack because when I would feed them and the puppies were really young Cody would bring the puppies to me because I would sit by a tree and watch them eat and wait for them so I could play. But ive always had a submissive personality so I kinda liked being the bottom.

So growing up basically with horses (grandfather was a horse breeder) and dogs, and watching them mostly my entire life. Learning all kinds of cool things about them and everything (it’s how I learned about sex too) is probably why I’m so attracted to the furry fandom. I always wished I was one of the dogs… and here with all of you guys I can kinda finally feel like one in a way, but my family finding out wasn’t in the plans at the moment. My mom who is so cool as always is cool with it now she just doesn’t want to talk about it but my dad cant stop giving me the GOD CARD… As for the rest of my fammily they just kinda ignore me...

omg im so sorry for the massive irrelevant rant

 

[Ishnuvalok]

Bad to hear that...

My mom is sometimes just terrifying open hearted about homosexuality...
We were talking about me marrying a nice girl someday or not...
And then she just came up with: "Oh...you don't know...maybe it could be a nice guy instead"
I said: "I am pretty sure this won't happen" (Because I am straight, you know)
But she were just like: "You never know until you try it."

Lol, same with my mother.

 

[WetWolf]

lol u guys are lucky my mom freaked out i tried to talk to her she said she wanted to kill me *she was seriouse too, and she has guns* im glad she is over me being a gay furry XD

 

[Snickers]

Im bisexual, but since im female I dont think its as controversial as if I was a male. Males do get a harder time o.0

 

[Takun]

Bad to hear that...

My mom is sometimes just terrifying open hearted about homosexuality...
We were talking about me marrying a nice girl someday or not...
And then she just came up with: "Oh...you don't know...maybe it could be a nice guy instead"
I said: "I am pretty sure this won't happen" (Because I am straight, you know)
But she were just like: "You never know until you try it."

Lol, same with my mother.

You are lucky. Though my mother has shifted to, if you bring home a guy I'll still love you and won't be mad.

:SCORE:

cause...that's all she's going to get.

 

[WetWolf]

my dad said he would shoot my mate and me if i brought him on his property...... i hate him...*is gonna yiff my mate on his property at 2 am in the morning one day XD*

 

[Aldog076]

Fucking a, WetWolf some hard shit u had to go through

 

[Lanceleoghauni]

bummer wet, I have reletives like that who are currently unenlightened.

 

[Internet Police Chief]

I found furries back in November 2004 while looking for webcomics and stumbled across Jack the comic. I stuck around the forums there and started doing some furry roleplaying, ended up really liking it and thats that.

 

[Inky Neko]

Assuming that this is still on topic- I skipped a few pages since I'm a lazy bum and noticed that the topic seems to have changed- I think I've been a furry for a while, well depending on your definition I suppose. I used to be really into Animorphs when I was around 10, and thought one day "So...what would happen if they got stuck half way through?" I doodled my idea, badly, and ended up making Tally, a character that I suppose I could say was my first fursona, but over sometimes I separated myself from her. Now she's just another one of my characters, an important one, but I don't consider her part of my identity anymore. Not in that aspect anyway.
As far as my interaction with the furry community, starting to sniff around here a few days ago is my first dabbling in it. I've had friends before that portrayed themselves as anthro characters, but, eh, definetions are vague. I don't know if I'd call them furry, or if I'm really a furry, but I see this has already been discussed, and I feel no desire to start up the discussion/argument/debate again.

 

[Intruder]

It all started with a flash game I found on /f/ one fateful night about 3 years ago. It was a yiff game and I found it quite fappable. I started looking for other sources of furry and slowely getting more and more into it. I realized I was one when I found that there was a whole community of furries and started to draw some anthro(non-yiff) myself.

 

[Monak]

Oddly enough I have been me since i was 5 , I drew a picture in the 1st grade and when looking at it I just knew thats who I really was , so I have been a fur for 15 years , I remember when I was 8 I asked my mother if I could write Monak on my Christmas stocking and she asked me why I would put something stupid like that on there , I said something along the lines like cause its cool. needless to say I was completely shocked one day when I was surfing the net 3 years ago to find that there were others like me.

 

[EyesInTheShadows]

I first realized what furryism waswhen I found a link to FA from a friends profile. I found out
that i really connected here was when my 3 best friends stopped being best friends and just started being dicks. I saw an email that really struck a chord in my brain.
"Furries are people who are rejected by conventional society, and connect more with animals than with people because animals wont judge them."

In my mind, this is very, very, true.

 

[Dragoneer]

When I was browsing through Yahoo about a decade ago looking for images of werewolves... and came across gay furry porn by The Werewolf. And I didn't feel freaked out at all, but curious. Really curious. The next two artists I found were Paf and Nakira/Wookiee (all on the same site, no less).

The rest sort of fell in together. Those three artists are the people to blame for everything I am today. =P

 

[Randy-Darkshade]

I've always liked cartoons with furries in such as the looney toons, from a very young age, got more into furryness when i got online a few years ago, but from my early teens i knew i liked something different to most others.

 

[Karuge]

I have pretty much been a dragon all my life. It began from old cartoons which had dinosaurs and dragons, from that it developed to especially dragons and so on BUT i didn't discover yiff untill i was 15 or 16 years old...i'm currently 18 but yeah, i was underage and watching yiffy pics 83~

Like i told in another thread over here, i felt a huge bond to all kinds of scalies and i cried as a kid when i got told that dinosaurs are extinct xD

 

[harry2110]

I was always intrested in anthro animal, but I first relieved it when I was 12 years old.

 

[railroad]

when i got one year making anthro art and was so curious of seeing this page ( before that i didnt notice XDDD)

 

[Wovstah]

Furry kinda happened for me when I met my friend Pyro in highschool. I just knew I drew animal characters; she introduced me to the fandom. <3

 

[Otokage]

To be honest, I accidentally found some yiff and... I really liked it... *blushes and giggles*. I didn't think I was a furry until then, but... I dunno, I kinda lost my flare for humans and it turned to furries instead.

 

[RailRunner]

It tarted with an article I found in Popular Science about photoshopping getting more and more convincing. I looked up one of the site they mentioned (worth1000, for those keeping score) for lulz one day. Eventually, I stumbled upon the "Beastiality" contests and thought "you know what? That's...okay." Then I got bored with seeing the same pics over and over, and so a few google searches later, I was hooked. This was all about 3 years ago, and only recently have I started interacting with the online communtiy at large.

 

[RouShu_wolf]

When I met this girl from an online dating service and realize she was a furry, and then realized that there were a lot of cool people in the fandom, and it wasn't what a lot of people thought it was (those bad stereotypes). I kind of realized that my interest in animals and anthromorphic cartoons and characters pretty much made me one myself, so here I am.

 

[StainMcGorver]

I played Star Fox and SSB when they first came out, damnit. After a few years I thought that I'd use the magical internets to look up Star Fox fan art. On a picture a person asked what the name was for these 'creatures' and someone else replied "They're called Anthropos."

A visit to Wikipedia later and I found a website. I started getting into the fandom, spreading my existence to other sites, and now here I am!