Realizations

[Katt]

I want to here some stories 
Things like when did you realize you liked things furry?
(If you are) how did you figure out you were gay or bi?
Did it come slowly or all at once? (settle down you pervs)
What was it like coming out (as either) to your friends/family/partner?

In my case it kinda came to me in a shock, I'd always liked animals but it seemed a bit weird how close I felt to my dog. I set up a YiffSTAR account about a year ago and it was an eye opener. It helped explain a lot to me... and kept a total balance of cute and creepy As for sexuality I guess bi is the correct term, but really, I just want someone to be with. I don't care about anything else. _{Unfortunately the selection here is very limited...} A few of my friends know one or the other, my best friend knows both _{but not that I like her boyfriend} as does my cheating ex.
I'm enjoying the word commands

[katamukiryuu]

ok, i guess i'll go second =^.^=
ummm, i guess i realized i was a furry a few years ago, i always liked animals a lot more than people.  at some point i just stumbled onto some furry artwork and fell in love with it!  and even though thats super boring...thats about it....

i consider myself gay, i realized this very slowly because i was very sheltered as a kid, but in high school i started wondering about it, and considered myself bi until my senior year and finally figured myself out my freshmen year in college.  the best part was coming out to my friends though.  i finally got up the courage to tell them after lying to them for a few years and after i told them they just gave me a blank stare and said "yeah, we kinda figured"  it was funny as hell. 

[doggieluvr2000]

Well I guess I'm 3rd then.

None of your choices really fit me so let's just say experimental is my orientation.

I knew for many years but it has only been in the last few months that I have come to terms with who I am.

So far only my father knows the whole truth.

If you want to know more about me read the following post on another forum I belong to.

http://www.cultureghost.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=9101

This forum is a bit more free in the topics that are discussed than what is allowed to be posted here.

Well I guess that's me for this thread.

[Quail]

Eh, I'm not a furry, but I like some of the things. I'm straight, but rather, straight-asexual. I blame doctors for that, giving me meds than have basically stripped me of my feelings, leaving me in anger and depression. It's hard, but just trying to take it one day at a time. Bf knows, but does his best to deal with it, says he still loves me and doesn't want to give me up. Sometimes I wonder if he's sweet or stupid, or a little of both, lol.

Family doesn't know much. Sex and such is taboo, you just don't talk about it. They don't know I have toys, either, otherwise they'd flip out. (Or at least my dad will, I don't have a mom, and my grandma just thinks I'm on drugs and am lesbian, which I'm NOT.) Just not close with my family pretty much, and very few friends know what I like and all, because some are just not very open people.

BF if bi though, and open to the furry idea. He's monogomous like me, though, so we do not have an open relationship and do not plan on having one either.