I just wanted to say i love this fandom with all my heart, it has helped me grow as a person, and realize who it truly am. to all my friends thank you so much for all of your support. now for the story of how a seven year old boy found out about the furry fandom, his sexual orientation crisis, and dealing with near death experiences.



I was about 7 years old when i saw my first thing to do with the fandom back then i didn't really know much about it. just that it was cute humanistic cartoon animals, and the i saw my first fursuit..... i was absolutely stunned the idea of dressing up as a character to escape my real self was all too tempting. see back then i didn't have the best childhoo. i've told a bunch of people several different stories. how i got everything i ever wanted. how my mom used to actually care about me. the thing is..... neither of those things are true. growing up i lived in a small 2 bedroom trailer with my little sister my mom and my dad. they never hit us. but when they yelled at us for things we couldn't help it hurt so much more. see i have Aspergers and my sister has low functioning autism. when we were young we didn't know what those things meant for us or for our futures. we were just kids having fun. one day when i was playing with my friend zack me and him did something my mom at the time told me was wrong. we kissed and it felt amazing i've always known i liked guys. but i didn't think of it as wrong or abnormal it's just what i always knew i thought it happened to everyone, turns out it doesn't. my mom still never hit me for it. she tried to change me. tried everything she could to get me to like girls. and then when i was about 8 years old a man abducted me and.... i am not gonna go into details due to fear of a flashback. but one of the things that happened was he locked me in a safe. thus causing me to have a fear of the dark and tight spaces to this very day. after that my mom tried to change me harder, and kept trying until i was about 14. i still didn't know much about the fandom then. but on my fifteen birthday we moved into a small town called jefferson iowa. where i met my first real crush and my full introduction to the furry fandom. ever since then i've been in the fandom. as goofy as the day i joined it. and some say as innocent mentally. i never had very many friends growing up, but now i have more than anyone could ever ask for thank you all so much