I’m a little unclear on how the furry identity works. Is it like an LGBT+ thing where you just are this thing regardless of your feelings or desires, or does wanting to be a furry make you one? Like, I’ve fought against being trans much of my life, but now I see I pretty much always was. But I don’t know if liking the puppygirl idea makes me a furry, or if that’s something I have to have always been? (this is not a reaction to a recently popular puppygirl, I’ve meant to ask this for a while) I also may be terribly misunderstanding furries; that’s a taboo subject where I live, so I don’t know much.
I have no idea. I like anthro art and monsters and find them cool (not sexually even, just like the same as a nerd that thinks elves are cool or whatever) and still people probably call me a furry even though I’m not into fursuits or whatever. I have no idea what the rules are, I think people just decide you’re one based on vibes.
I’ve been into anthro stuff since I was five or six (tails gave me very confusing feelings) but I’ve never been into fursuits. I fully agree with you—non-furries call me a furry, furries call me a “whatever I want to be”.