AS/Austic Members of the Furry Fandom

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And, yeah, forgot to add, the obsession with hating furries seems to me like little more than the obsession with cool kids hating uncool kids (only in the case of furries, it's usually the uncool people hating the even more uncool people). The "reasons" I've heard given are just excuses (at best).

It was the mom played by Shelly Duvall.
That was the scariest scene in the whole movie

I know Sonic is looked down upon when it comes to furries but I'm a huge Sonic fan and don't mind STK and the crew being drawn as furries as long as the artist preserves their original colours.

I've run into them here and there; there's a character rendering program called Poser, and there's a Crystal character from some video game (a blue...cat person?), and a few others here and there. There's others as well, but that's the only one I loaded into the program.

It doesn't do anything for me, but they're mostly harmless...

I hate to say it, but the first thing that came to mind was a Monty Python sketch about people who dressed up as mice...

I love the Mouse Problem sketch! In fact, I myself dressed up as a mouse in the first school play I acted in in grade school. At the time I was obsessed with talking animals in children's books; later I became fascinated with "Watership Down", Olaf Stapledon's "Sirius" (a love story about a girl and a hyperintelligent dog), the Muppet Show, Bugs Bunny and the characters in "Ice Age". There's also an episode of "The Goodies" ("Animals", the final episode) where they have to dress up like animals because all the real animals have been exterminated. And in school, I kept envisioning my classmates as animals - one looked just like a turtle, one like a dalmatian, one like a bull etc. Oh, and I love Mickey Rooney's "animalistic" performance as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and would like to emulate it.

I've always thought it all went back to the fact that when I was newly born, we reportedly had a German shepherd who seemed to think I was her puppy and hung about my cot licking my face, so that I in turn took a fixation on her.

I would not say I am a furry by any means.
But I understand the fascination with it perfectly.
I understand the fascination perfectly with pretty
much any fandom out there.

I have looked at the art somewhat but I'm more a
fan of all art. So it's nothing particularly 'furry' that
seems to intrigue me.

Oh my GOD you guys did you see that? Did you see I_F? He was all "I don't want to put words in your mouth, but you basically said this and so you can see what kind of logically fallacy this leads to" and such and then they were like "LOL WUT" and he's like "HA! HA! HA! You are my inferiors, you are beneath my notice" and then they realise how owned they are.

I'm sorta furry. To be frank the porn is nice, barring the aforementioned wierd ****. Plus I just really like foxes, and I've already concluded I'm not therian. So furry is where I'm at with it.

I like Safe For Work furry art.

I self-identify as a therian (short for therianthrope), which is related to being a furry in that both furries and therians identify with animal personalities; the key difference is that therianthopy implies a deeper connection with that animal (a true feeling of kinship; like feeling you were born in the wrong animal's body) and it doesn't imply anything sexually "deviant," although that exists among us. (How could it not? Animals are sexual beings! )

I discovered therianthropy in college, before I knew much about autism or realized that I'd been given that label in childhood; back then, the feeling of "not belonging here" was overwhelmingly strong and probably led directly to my self-identification as a therian. That, and I was dating one.

* Just to be clear: I'm not a member of the subset of therians who believe that they can (or can learn to) physically transform into their "wareform." I think that's just crazy.

Yes, I am autistic and I hope there is some justice in the world for other furries with autism!

I am part of the furry fandom as well. Although, just like my autistic furry friend, we both fall under the line of the stereotypical furry, especially with me being a zoosexual which is such a hated thing in the fandom... so...I don't know what to make of some of the comments on this thread. Despite how old they are, they put me in a very odd and uncomfortable position. :/

I honestly don't know what else to say. I'm kind of dry with words at the moment. When I get around in discussing specifically on how I've gotten interested in the fandom and my experiences with the fandom as a whole then I'll make another post.