How did yall get into the furry fandom / furry community?

When I was maybe 9 i used to watch telephone and I said "cool I want"

When i was like 10 i made my first fursona, then like almost 2 years later i learned it was called a furry

I honestly had a lot of bipolar opinions about furries. 

But i just think furries are hated so much even tho they are so freaking cool! I wanna make my own fursona and get picked up by someone by the arms *////*

My friends also met some at Comicon, i wish i went but my parents never let me go nowhere

I was a victim of the Warrior Cats to furry pipeline 

I joined a MUCK. It was January or February. By late spring, I went from "I'm not a furry but these people seem cool", through "I might be turning into a furry", to "I was a furry all my life and didn't have a word for it".

I watched Stariat animation memes when I was 10 haha

Ever since Ive had an absence of a father figure

when I was 8 I was scrolling through my sisters phone and went on her TikTok and saw TikTok's of furries and I thought "wow they're so cool!" and now here I am making a fursona and making a paper fursuit (also clover from inanimate insanity mention!! :0)

anime catgirls and an ex of mine who gave me the confidence to express myself :)

Animal Jam, still morn my animal jam account lol 

Zootopia, I love it and then begin to watch more furry related content, but didn't know what a furry was, and I was part of a fandom without knowing :3

ive always loved cats and all of my ocs at the time had cat ears/animal features,, but later on when i was like 9 I discovered via YouTube that theyre called furries and ive been one ever since..!!!

I used to draw "animal people" and made a Totally Not A Total Unoriginal Knockoff comic of InuYasha when I was in middle school starring furries. It wasn't until 2006 in High School that I heard the term "furry" and was introduced to furaffinity. Been here ever since!

I started reading warrior cats when I was in probably fourth grade, and dove into that headfirst. Through watching the AMVs and MAPs on YouTube, I eventually made it to the furry animation meme and speed drawing videos. But what really got me hooked on furries was the rave PMVs to techno music. Immediately obsessed.

i used to play wolves life 2 and animal jam all the time, and warrior cats has always been one of my favorite fandoms I've been apart of ! i adored the animation memes that came out and always wished that it was possible to have a character/dress up like the ocs in the videos ! i always thought that furries were so cool and wanted to be just like them !!! ^^

ive always kinda been a furry... ever since i was a kid i would only ever write stories about animals and related to them more than humans. i also made like "sonas" around age 10 but that was arguably more of a therianthropy thing. but i always liked animal characters more than human characters as a kid, so theres that

Honestly my intro was little scattered. But kudos to this avatar site called wolfhome and alas deviantart when it was ok. 

I had a furry friend and I thought it would be cool to be a furry as well