Well, I don't think I can consider myself furry, though I am totally ... fur-curious?
I started being interested in ...um... baby stuff around early puberty, maybe 10-12. I didn't really get really into it until middle of college. That first time was almost furry though, because it was the Care Bear Babies cartoon! I was so ... I don't even know how to describe it ... but I remember I did lock myself in the bathroom and stuff my underpants full of toilet paper.
Of course I loved talking animal cartoons like any kid. Robin Hood, Rescue Rangers, all that stuff. It was nothing unusual though, just a thing kids like, right? I think I heard about furries in college and ... actually I thought it was totally gross. Fursuits kinda creeped me out ,and the whole thing about lots of casual sex, and identifying with an animal seemed ... too much. So for twenty years I've had a growing ... um... acceptance and exploration and interest in AB / Little / Sissy stuff, but all that furry stuff - not interesting!
Recently though I started exploring my bi side, and I found PowFooo (
http://powfooo.tumblr.com/) which crossed the line between furry and anime and ... I loved it! I realized that being born a guy (hairy), being cute (which I want to be so bad) was hard, but furries had figured out a way to combine traditionally yucky, man stuff, with cuteness... and that seemed really, really interesting.
Then I actually came here to ADISC (looking for AB diaper reviews) and saw baby fur section and being curious, I found this very thread...
irnub said:
Somewhere in the middle of that I discovered the comic "Found". I started reading it in much the same way one starts searching youtube for videos of trainwrecks, expecting it to be terrible before dropping off the face of the earth somewhere in the middle of the story. I ended up reading the entire thing in a single night, and was impressed to find that toddlergirl consistently came across as a very down to earth and genuinely nice and caring sort of person even over 4 years worth of comic pages. It was also the first time I've ever cried because of a story. Then from there I discovered "Shine", and by the time I reached the end of that I'd consumed enough furry content that I was feeling pretty hypocritical for not admitting I was a furry. Then a few months ago I ended up commissioning some art on a whim and really enjoyed the experience.
And that post there is the reason why got up the courage to join these forums!
These two comics were so wonderful (I devoured them in two days) that I too realize I'm kinda, maybe, more furry that I thought... *blush*