Furry Signs I Showed As a Kid! 

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I found out about the fandom when i was like 11 years old i did the typical thing a 11 year old does and hated/thought it was cringe for a quite a few years all the way up till i was 17 then i got invited into this rather large group of friends and i started getting into mythology/cryptids, I was trying to draw a wendigo but i ended up drawing this random anthropormorphized deer character that some of my friends got really excited about for some reason (i found out later that the group of friends i was brought into were furries) then when i turned 18 they invited me along to a "party" i went with them and it turned out to be Anthrocon which at first being the little introverted gremlin i was back then i wanted to go home immediately but them being all extroverts one of them picked me up like i was a sack of potatoes and brought me inside where i eventually started having fun and ever since then i was a furry i still draw from time to time but other then that i ain't really active as i once was within the fandom.

I found out what furries were when I was 16, I am now turning 20. When that happened, once I found out that furries existed, it felt like it made me whole. I found my calling, I fit in so perfectly. The furry fandom has made my life oh so much better ❤ Even though I don't know any of you, each and every one of you I'd like to thank for being amazing people and making this awesome community into what it is today!

One thing that probably signaled my mild furry-dom was my insistence to add tails to EVERY bionicle I had that I liked

I was always fascinated with anthropomorphic characters since I was 3 years old. I guess it started with the small things like the earliest cartoons, such as Disney warner bros, looney tunes, care bears, etc, and followed afterwards with Disney's Robin Hood and Don Bluth's Secret of NIMH at age 5 and a year later with An American Tail. I didn't know that there was a true following to this or any kind of fandom until the internet began, so basically I've been a furry since 1985, being 3, officially.

When I was very little, I was CERTAIN that my stuffed bear would someday turn into a person and knock on my front door so I could hug him forever. It still never happened though. :,(

DUDE! I relate to this so hard. As a kid I LOVED TY beanie babies. And I did the same thing, they became characters for me. Some of which I still use or have turned into full blown OC's. I still have most of my favorite beanies too.

I basically became a furry when I became 17 years old. Turning 20 in half a year. Back when I joined, I had absolutely NO CLUE what a furry was and never knew this was a fandom. Same as what you said, I ALWAYS loved the movies which included mostly anthropomorphic characters and always loved to sleep with stuffed animals. Like I can't sleep without atleast one stuffed animal 🙈 I thought I was just being an extremily weird person that I still love to sleep with them at the age I am in now, but when I found this fandom, I saw that I definetly wasn't alone! And the fact that people can dress up as a charracter they have made, like a huge stuffed animal was just... AMAZING!! 🤩 As by now, I have now been in the fandom for 2 and a half years, been to 3 furry conventions, have actually got to try out 2 fursuits and have a plantigrade fursuit on the making for myself now of my main sona, Inkosi! The people in this fandom are always so welcoming and nice and I absolutely love it! Thank you so much to everyone in this fandom whether I know you or not for being so nice! It's absolutely amazing! It has totally changed my life! This fandom also helped me figuring out the person that I am regarding sexuality and it has also helped me cure my social anxiety which I'm also sooo extremily thankful of! 🤩 I apologize whether it was hard to understand me sometimes. English is my 2nd language.

I became a furry recently but my childhood was incredibly furry in hindsight. I've always loved anthropomorphic characters. Tik tok pushed me into accepting it😅

The choice of music in this video is killing me with nostalgia. But yeah, I felt the same after joining the fandom and I still feel today, 12 years later as a furry. I joined when I was 17, never heard of furries before that. It was kinda an instant caught-interest of mine ! I'm now 29 and thinking back, yeah I can still say there was definitely signs during my childhood !

I really should have worked out that I was a furry seeing as Zootopia was one of my favourite films as a kid and I STILL have an absurd number of stuffed animals Honestly, I didn’t realise I was a furry until I saw Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. I don’t know why it took me so long though TBH but whatever. Hindsight is a funny thing

im a child furry and it all started in 4th grade. i recently found fnaf and became obsessed with it, and i switched from drawing dragons to unproportionally thick fnaf ocs that were always female cuz I suck at drawing guys. i acted like this weird cat dragon creature and fake scratched everyone, they called me a furry but i denied it cuz I didn't know what it was. in 5th grade i still drew furries, but noticeably better. and when i finally searched it up on google, i knew it. i had found my people. ty

I think the sings of me being a furry was me liking Wild Kratts, me liking the animal themed skins (i especially liked the one stampy used) in minecraft and my obsession with sonic games. As a kid i was was into cars, engineering, electronics and sewing. My first interacion with any the furry fandom was a fursuit making video on youtube (probably found it cause i was watching sewing videos) and i found out i was a furry when i was 14 (anyway who remembers stampy's sky den vids?)

Yes, the second example is what I always have trouble with at places like Disneyland/world because the only other furry thing that got from there was a Robin Hood Christmas ornament. Other than that its kinda true that I focus on media with anthro in it

The Nintendogs music in the background really got me😂 Great video I really enjoyed it ☺️ Yeah the Bolt thing... Same 😂 I somehow always thought I was the only one Might as well go watch it now to see how much of the script I actually remember to this day ☺️ Have a fantastic furry day everyone ☀️🦊

I thought I was a furry because I would howl in my room like a wolf at night while on my bed, keep in note, I’m autistic but didn’t know about my diagnosis when I got it as a kid, I also liked movies like Bolt and Happy Feet and would mimic their actions, as well as doing animal roleplays with my older sibling, I eventually came across BeautyoftheBass and thought their fursuit was cool, so I wanted to make a werewolf with a chest speaker, so yeah

For me how I turned out as a furry was my attraction for werewolf like characters

I really appreciate the Nintendogs bath music 😭 spent a lot of time keeping my pups clean! ...which should be another furry sign that I really only played animal related games 😂 like feral heart, and other impressive title games.

I am not really sure when it first started, but I think it was around the time I watched Skylanders Academy and TMNT 2012 and 2007 and when I played Ratchet & Clank 2016. I didn’t really pay much attention to it back then, until I got a random recommended video from a furry channel. I probably got more interested in the fandom after that.

As a kid i uses to love this one random game character, essentially had a hyper fixation on them. It was a glowy white cat creature name ori, and it was crystal clear i was some what if a furry. Even my main character "Kanovii," is still loosely based around that cat thing. It got the horns, it is white, and is a alien thing. (Did originally also came from plants too) Say im still in love with ori, but now I'm obsessed with eevees and idk even anymore where the hell im going. Just gonna say its a whole wild story

Wow, everything you went over, except for the movies, was exactly how I was when I was younger. Now I'm a furry. A few months ago I looked back and realized that it was obvious I would be one even though I didn't know it at the time.

I became a furry when I was 8 years old. I don't fit in at all, but people tend to make that their problem instead of mine.

1:52 I realized how much I watched zootopia as a kid a few years later .

0/3 for me lol. Honestly, I'm not really sure why I turned out the way I did

It’s definitely become obvious for me lol. Me and my sister used to pretend to be dragons on our trampoline, and I was obsessed Warrior Cats and Wings of Fire (still a fan just haven’t read the books in a long time). I also was superrr into Rainbow Loom and I have this whole collection of 3D dragons and other animals I made as a kid, and I also have a lot of mechanical dinosaur/dragon toys I got from previous birthdays and Christmases. I also played a TON of animal-related games growing up. Pokémon, Spore, Fossil Fighters, Nintendogs, etc

My biggest sign was that I liked to pretend to be animals. Like, for a while, I'd pretend to be a wood chuck/water rat, a chipmunk etc. Aside from that, I loved Pokemon as a child, and would constantly give them human personalities (with the ability to talk and stuff)

For me, it all started with that Cartoon Network show "Legends of Chima" back in 2013. I would get SO HYPED UP over every new episode that would air on that channel, and of course my favorite tribe was the wolves. And then two years later, it was Deviantart... those were the good old days... 😆🤣

When I was younger, I would mostly like the animated animals, for example, “Zootopia” “Secret life of pets 1/2” “Sing”. Other things I had interest as well were animated cartoons with animals, my favorites were “We bear bears” “Amazing World Of Gumball”

I'm an old fart of a fur, as far as my RL age, though I didn't "officially" get into the fandom until my early thirties. I simply didn't know there were other adults who hadn't "grown out of" loving animal characters. I loved it all as a kid, though. Everything from Aesop's Fables, the Ranger Rick character stories. . .all the books I checked out from the local library usually involved animal characters. As I got older, I noticed that the things I was expected to like for my age range just didn't interest me. I was "supposed to" like stories about people. Just. . .people. Book series like "The Babysitter's Club" were given to me. . because that's what girls my age liked, I guess. And my parents and older sibling, who could see that I still gravitated toward animal stories, cartoons, figures and plush toys, cautioned me strongly not to let people know I liked those things. I spent most of my teens and twenties keeping it to myself. I'd heard OF furries during that time but didn't know much about what the fandom was, or heard enough negatives to keep my distance from it for many years. I'm glad I eventually found it, though.

OMG I used to do the same with my stuffed animals!! I had about 35 of them and I gave them backstories and how they interact with other stuffed animals. Also, when I was around 11 in a history lesson, I watched Disney Robin Hood and was obsessed with the film because of the characters, which is how I discovered furries.

Bolt was (and still is) one of my favorite movies ever. The message of just adapting to change is amazing. One of the only movies I have all the lines memorized.

The biggest sign was probably my LPS obsession. I watched LPS yt videos, played with them all the time. I use them as sort of people

dawg why is this genuinely real

Kovu from Lion King 2 awoken a lot of things in me when i was a kid LMAO

One of the things I did was I was really into a comic series called Calvin & Hobbes. It includes a stuffed tiger that Calvin plays with all the time. In Calvin's mind, he's a full blown tiger, but he talks to him. They play and have fun together in most of the strips.

I would pretend I was the guard dog all the time when I played family I pretended that my collar had supplies like weapons and medical stuff

When I was growing up I loved watching Invizimals so it's obvious I'm a furry now.

I think the two biggest signs from my childhood that I can think of were me really enjoying Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, and binge reading the entire Guardians of Ga’Hoole series.

was obsessed with stuffed animals (wolves), drew furry related art, loved zootopia and *BLUEY

whoever leaves a hate comment just ignore him and block him, they will give up one day

I love this video! Glad you popped up in my recommendations❤ New sub

aaa bolt is one of my favorite movies ever ^w^ i used to watch it every single time. loved the video, and have very good day

You know whats funny? I didnt even own plushies before i became a furry! 🤣 I was primarily a lego kid, heck animals or animal characters didnt even interest me all that much back then. It was mostly space and technology! For me personally the whole furry thing was like a switch that suddenly flipped the moment I watched a TLK movie (the 1 1/2 one about Timon & Pumbaa) when I was 13. That day I watched that movie like two or three times in a row. My life changed that day. At first I got into fan forums about TLK and T&P specifically and just a year later or so I found out about fursuits and that's what *really* hooked me into the furry fandom. There was this *one* time I play pretended to be a dog with my cousin, back when I was like 10 or younger, but it literally was once. xD Tho back in my childhood, like early days, when I was like 4 or 5 apparently I was a big fan of Sonic the Hedgehog (My parents still keep teasing me about it), but I dont remember it being this intense, for me it was just another cartoon i liked watching, but maybe it paved the road and the T&P movie pushed me into the direction, who knows! But it certainly wasn't plushies. ^^ Also I never really was into RP nor did I ever had an ensemble of characters outside of a fanfic. I still only Have that one fursona and he changed species once in like almost 20 years. xD Oh and ironically, at the moment of me writing this, my hyperfixation is the Sonic franchise. Talk about full circle development!

I found out furries were a thing when I was 18. I am 23 and still going strong. I love stuffed animals to btw

so that means am a furry..... cause everything you said I did as a kid

For the past couple weeks ive been debating if i was a furry. Because i always thought it was cool i just didnt want to get bullied for it. But i have finally come to the conclusion that i am one! Almost done my Fursona as well! Good video btw! i did lots of the same things when i was a kid lol.

:0 Howl video!

I don't remember when I heard about or became a furry, but I remember in primary, whenever I played games with my friend group, my character was almost always an animal human hybrid thing thats basicly become my fursona. I also liked being the pet in the family game too. thats all I remember right now though, also good video.

Great vid!

I wouldn't say I'm a furry, I shown a lot of signs when I was a kid, but I just like using this account to watch furry related videos on the internet, that's about about it, much love!!!

Dude this video is actually so relatable (the plushies and pretend part)

I like the avatar! ;p I think I blame source games. Primarily Gmod and TF2 from 2008-2011. Player icons, sprays on the wall, etc etc. lol

It all started in I believe, 2nd grade if I'm not mistaken. It was 2017, and I recently found out about the FNAF Community and as soon as I saw some gameplay of the game, I almost instantly fell in love with the fandom! Cuz, well the lore and the game in general were interesting but mostly because of the anthropomorphic animal animatronic characters in which I absolutely loved. At the time I went from drawing ordinary animals to the FNAF Characters, because they were animals but anthropomorphic. Then a few years later, I believe in 6th grade, it was 2019, and I was 9 years old. I would pretty much all the time have an avatar of an animal in online games, and those were the times where I was called a furry. Now, at this time, I did not know what a furry was, fast foward to when I was 12 that's when I finally found out about the Furry Community and ooohhhh boy, I was like "I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE!". But yeah, that's how I got to where I am today! :3

nice vid and also i love the movie Bolt ❤, anyways have a good day>-

I never cared much for dolls as a kid; I always preferred stuffed animals. I loved shows, movies, and books about talking animals; Warriors and MLP were some of my favorites. I also really enjoyed (and still do!) Pokémon. Now my sona is a Pokéfusion XD

I figured I was a furry after I had a whole Pokémon addiction for like 3 years then I collected over 1k dollars worth of fnaf plushies and I liked furries in general

One big sign i noticed is that when you are in your early teen years if you ask your friends "do you think im a furry" their response is accurate. When i was 13 all my friends thought i was a bisexual furry for some reason. Around 16 years old i became a bisexual furry.

Biggest sign was me REALLY enjoying Yoshi to an extreme degree as I would have the plushes and then I had my Minecraft Skin and name as Yoshi until I changed it to Daro a few years ago. I also sleep with this Yoshi plush and it is incredible. I still cuddle with it I will admit. It is also very comfy. I am 18 btw.

I used to love cartoons, where Antros was main stuff. VRchat & furry art start to get into my brain only in 2021.

Didn't know autism was so popular these days

For me I had a tattered wildlife fact file because I had looked at it so much and still vividly remember poketmonsters airing for the first time on smtv live here in the uk.

I was apart of furry but now I got bored of it. Now I'm into my ooolllddd car

I kinda liked the idea of anthro characters probably from watching disney films but only found out about furries november last year and then became one

Only ogs remember the doggy town team

The figurines of wolves where my love and life. edit: i DID THE SAME THING WITH BOLT. I know it by heart. "Bolt, zoom zoom" "Calicos in bolivia! Near lake road of wago (??) oh oh oh..." "Like road of wago, i shoulda known" w a g o

Cute fangs

I might have learned about the furry fandom a lot later than most, and joined 10y after even that, but looking back on my life I should have joined the fandom a lot sooner. I have learned more about myself in the past 2 years since I considered myself part of the fandom than I have in the previous 15 before that, and I feel more (and less) at home in my own body now than I ever have. I don't feel "not at home in my own body" because I'm trans tho. Gender is not the issue here. The issue is that i have discovered that I am Therian, with a kinship with dragons (the creature doesn't have to exist IRL for you to have valid kinship with it). My brain seems to think my body should have wings and a tail, and sometimes I get phantom sensations from those despite them not existing. My thoughts are always on what is the most just and ethical course of action, just like a metallic dragon from D&D. I have always been fantastically quick at solving problems that require a lot of thought and/or planning to get a working solution in place. And from this, I feel like the truest representation of myself is not a human, but a dragon. I still live like a human IRL, I know I can't really just change my species like that (that's probably a few thousand years into the future if we ever do that or even have the human race live that long). But I FEEL like I'm not human on the inside.

To be honest, you're right it's kind of obvious when you think about it. I've always loved animals, had tons of stuffed adorable toys when I was a kid. I refused to play barbie to play with my little pony instead (the only time I played was with the horses). The first movie I was obsessed with Balto, I drew wolves all the time (still do) but I thought, nah, I just like animated movies and animals (I mean I did like other disney movies so maybe I didn't realize I was turning into a furry ^^). That denial persisted until 2022 I watched The Bad Guys and thought to myself while having a crush on both Diane and Mr Wolf... wait a minute, holy shit ! Then I realized I also liked movies that had anthropomorphic animals before, like Basil Great Mouse Detective, I loved also Kung Fu Panda and so many other movies and anime that had anthropomorfic animals. There, now I finally decided to draw furry characters instead of just ferals ! I was doomed from the start anyway ! XD

I knew I was a Furry in my late teens early 20s when I finally found out that's what the characters in all the great art I loved so much were called. Looking back it was pretty obvious, I loved anything with animated animals and creatures in it, loved scifi and horror monsters over any other movie media, anything werewolf or kaiju. My first crush as a kid was Nala from lion king for crying out loud 😆. I think digimon was my first huge clue as a kid though, especially when renamon debuted and the Fandom art blew the internet up.

I watch zootopia and they thought it's just a movie and i was curious why animals talk and stand i was 9

Aside from the autism (apparently, a large amount of furrys have it), I was always playing "imagination" with my little brother, the usual wilderness survival with a point system, I think one time he made a scenario where we would shift to animals. Then there were the stuffed animals, even with a suppressive and narcissistic father, I loved those things and cried when he got rid of the collection when I turned 10. Looking back, I did like a lot of movies where the animals had some kind of humanistic character (the jungle book, Rio, zootopia, angrybirds), so it all makes sense.

Oooo Yeah. When I Was A Little Kid, I ONLY Liked To Play With Stuffed Animals And Acton Figures. I HATED Playing With Dolls. Most of my toys were of Rabbits, Dragons, And Dinosaurs. And I would give them Human Personalities and backstories. I Also LOVED To Draw Animal Characters. (And I Still Do) I’ve Actually written A Few Homemade storybooks Books about the characters I created. I Was Definitely Always A Furry.

I'm 1 thousandth sub :3

HELP WHEN I WAS A KID I WOUKD BUY WOLF PLUSHIES AND PRETEND TO BE A WOLF LIKE THEM LIKE IF THEY WERE MY PUP 😭

I don't think I had any signs that I was furry until middle school since I usually played with action figures from WWE and had a ton of toy cars.

Why do i relate so much? 😂

Ayyy fellow bolt fan 🤝

I think a big one was wishing werewolves, werebears, werelions, Etc were real. Like.... all the time. I got bitten by animals a TON as a kid, because I tried to pet EVERYTHING. From squirrels, to rabbits, to dogs, to owls, to ferrets, to snakes, to foxes.

Being a furry at times just feels like the right thing to be.

jesus randomly got a memory of me acting like a dog 20 seconds into the video, like full on not talking, BARKING FOR COMMUNICATION BRO,... i did NOT need this memory to resurface bruhhhh😭😭😭 i showed all signs in this video wtf

I uhhhhh... I read warrior cats.

Whenever I was younger I hate this huge stuffed animal of a tiger (probably about as big as 6 year old me) and I would run around an all fours and pretend I was in a tiger family and I would either be the mom or kid and try to run away and hunt

love your voice howl its vary nice ^W^

I have a question if i dont like any of the animal movies and all those things but i wanna be a furry anyway can i do that

I found out about furrys when I was ten and I really liked them just the thought about having a suit and hanging out with other furrys just felt really cool although I haven’t found in person furrys to be freinds but I made plenty of freinds online now I’m trying to make a Dino mask fur suit head and same as you I really liked being the pet when playing pretend and had a lot of fun just following my dreams like everyone should try to do.

When I was a kid and I learned about the fandom at about 11 I would walk on my tip toes to imitate an anthro wolf, also Bolt is one of my favourite movies to this day!

As a kid, i never really did any of these things as i mostly just stayed inside playing games and watching vids, i never really played alot. And because i was basically fluent at english at the age of 9 (english is not my native language) i started watching Changed videos because i was rlly into puzzle games. And because of the stinki youtube algorythim those videos just kept coming and i just watched them... and i guess you can see how that spiraled down. However i had to keep it really hidden because for SOME REASON brazil is one of the coutries with the highest hate ratio.

Every game I played; I chose an animal character if I could. Such as Patra in Pac-man Minigames. I didn't realise that I chose animal characters because I had an interest in them, I just liked the style of those characters.

Growing up back in elementary school I was obsessed with sheep's and pugs, weird I know.

i showed some signs of "furrieness" i would only play animal games on roblox, like wolves life, dragons life, dinosaur game etc. i would also also draw only dragons and dinosaurs. one other thing thats funny is that i think roblox ugc also contributed to me being a furry, cuz yk, furry items.

Nothing prepared me for tyst revelation... Nothing xD

The stuffed animal and playing pretend are just signs you really like animals, i collect tons and tons of stuffed animals and i sometimes pretend to be an animal if my friends want me to, but im not a furry. This isnt hate and i support the furry community :D

hey howlfuzzy missed me

My fave cartoons were the ones without humans or few humans in them. TinyToons was a prime example.

Mine was acting like a wolf when i was like 5 or 6....and as an adult i do now still🤣

I did most of these things in my childhood and here I am now, big shocker

Bro this was the video that convince to accept that I was a furry after like 2 years 😂😂😂

nice vid

Same!

I relate to all of them