Do you remember when and what helped you discover your affinity for furries? If you do, I'd like to hear your stories!
To get the ball rolling I'll start with mine. While I certainly can't pinpoint the exact date I became fixated on anthros, I can absolutely remember getting Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast when I was 7 or 8 (2000ish).
Seeing Tails was all I needed to get hooked, and want to be a cool fox like him. I didn't even have a word for it until I started using the internet years later, but my furry fate was sealed from then onward. It was the catalyst that got me into fantasizing about having fur and a big tail, and got me doodling lots of Sonic art as a kid. While I've long since stopped making Sonic art, Tails still holds a special place in my heart over 20 years later.
I find it hard to tell where I -started- being a furry because I sorta-kinda ship-of-theseused myself into one?
You could argue it all started with Sonic the Hedgehog, but I'd argue back that liking pointy boys that go fast does not a furry make.
All I know is that by the time I knew it all my friends were either furries or furry-adjacent and then I was like "phuck it, so am I"