Http://Www.Twitter.com/themexywolf. I keep my AD favs here. I’m SFW active on Twitter.

This story starts over 4 years ago. I was always obsessed with werewolves. Transforming from human to wolves. So naturally Wikipedia led me around til I found Furries. I did alot of homework. From the founder in the 80s. To IRC chats, to the Cons and then Fursuits, Fursonas, etc.....

I also researched Therianthropy. But I have a journal on that already. I will add I didn't believe I was one even after joining the Fandom because I thought they all believed they could TF (transform) into animals. I thought that was nuts.

Anyway....

My 4 years let me to the good places, Fundraisers, Fursuiting for kids and hospital visits. The general fun and playful people that are in the fandom. The openness and accepting of anyone, regardless of the Sexual orientation, color of skin, disabilities. DIdn't matter. If you were a fan of Anthropomorphic animals you were in.

Bad places, Yiffing, Bestiality. I won't go any further because I don't think it helps.

Anyway.

In the middle of this 4 year span. I met a guy that worked at my local Wal-Mart.
Neither one of us knew why we were talking. I don't know why I asked. But I said do you have Facebook or Twitter. I would like to keep in touch.
He did and wrote down his Twitter handle.
I went home and looked his page up. I saw all these pictures of Furries and Anthro animals. I asked him about it and he said "look at my friends, there all furries". At this time I wasn't ready to be involved. So I unfollowed him. But kept his info.

So many years later brings me to now. I start researching more about the Furries again. I wasn't kind either, the week before I became a Furry myself I was slamming the fandom. What I think was my minds last attempt to stop me from joining. Why, fear of the unknown...Giving into my animal side (Therian)....Who knows.

So a few days before starting my Fursona I used my REAL name account on Twitter and reached out to the guy I met many years ago at Wal-Mart. I started talking to him. But nothing big. I had no Fursona.

But on May 1st at 11 PM I started my Fursona on Twitter, the pull to start one was eating me up inside.

I did that and reached out to the guy I met at walmart using it. I was shy to tell him who I was. However I was able to get him to follow me and I PMed him a message. I told him who I was and that I had officially joined the Furry Fandom and was now a Furry. He was surprised to say the least. But glad I came aboard.

From then on out I just reached out to more and more Furries on Twitter. Set up this FA page....I dove into it fully. I went from Not wanting to go to a CON (even when I was offered it maybe free), or never wanting to wear a Fursuit. To wanting both.

One fur I spoke with said I seem like I'd been a furry for a long time.

I haven't been. But I sure hope to be. This is now to the day 1 month.

Aside from accepting I was a Wolf Therian and telling my mother I was a Furry, wanted to buy a tail and fursuit someday. To saying I was a Wolf in my soul. She took it well.

But anyway. I know the Furry Fandom probably saved my life. I was depressed, alone and missing something. It was filled when I accepted my Wolf Soul. My wolf has friends however now, ones I hope I will keep for a long time to come. :3

I also last week met the local Furs and "lead" Fur for my city. I even went to a fur meet of sorts. I had a great time. I thanked them all locally that I found them......

Life shouldn't be hard, I know it won't be the easiest all the time. But with the Furries to help me and support me through it, I know I'll be alright!

So if you see me in McMinnville, TN. Feel free to come over shake my paw and say Hi. Also if you Fursuiting expect a HUG!!! XD

-Lee RuralWolf

I am a Wolf Therian. Something that took years to discover as I am now 30, but for years I've felt unrest inside. I had strange habits like walking/running in woods and fields for miles as a kid and to this day, I howl and growl, I didn't really think about it. But It took becoming a Furry just this month (5/1/15) to connect and acknowledge fully my Wolf within and feel a calm I never felt before. I now meditate. Something I was never told to do. But instinctively do it. I can visualize a phantom shift to my anthro wolf self, where I feel like I have fur and a tail like if I had a Fursuit. I also in times I need it can use ALL energy my body has. Bypassing my usual "safeguards". As a result I've ran 1/4 a mile without stopping or letting up. Jumping over obstacles. I can also focus or "enhance" my hearing and smelling. No matter about that However I've never felt the desire to eat raw meat or chase anything. I guess being a Vegetarian (another huh moment for most, therians too) will cause that. Needless to say outside the Furry community. A few people know... Thats how I found I was a Therian. I was slow to accept it too. But after reading many pages on Therianthropy, then going down the webpages with a checklist in hand saying, yep had that. Never before seeing the pages either or "signs". I used to think Therians believed only in shifting. So I finally accepted who I was. I am a (what I call "Humanized") full Grey Wolf (soul) inside. Full Human outside. I will add I AM NOT NOR HAVE I EVER BEEN into Bestiality! I think it is one of the worst thing people can do! I believe those that are Therians are so because "we are a voice for those that can't speak". "To make changes when they cannot". We are in-tune and have a soul of an animal to help, NOT harm them.

I AM on YouTube, BUT they're being crazy. Here is my channel page. I have recorded covers and plan for more to come later.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyN.....7QiEoR9MXYq-dg

As a child I was very hyper. I also preferred to outside running in woods and fields than playing with other children (if any). As I grew up, that desire to walk and run in woods and fields never left me. I walk/run about 3 miles everyday. I do the same at night too. I was literally raised around dogs. I felt more comfortable with them too than people. So when furries came up I started to research and what took 4 years. Mostly from denial....I finally gave in and started my Fursona May 1st of this year. I began speaking to other Furries right away. I was still "finding" myself within my Fursona. What started as an obsession with all things Werewolves though out my life that lead to my Fursona being one. Then changed 1 day in, I then became a WolfDog. From that point forward I felt a calm, peace and tranquility I had NEVER felt before. I had always had inner struggles. Those left me.....I started to discover then I was a Therian too. This was difficult for me to accept. But I had no choice given the proof I felt and knew from my entire life. However the "full" epiphany didn't arrive til another therian furry asked me "What breed of Dog are you?" I was unable to answer him and he suggested maybe I was a full Wolf. I then changed my Fursona to that of a full Wolf, no mixes/hybrids. I had the biggest "whoosh" feeling I had ever felt. The first time was intense. The second time nearly knocked me down. I can remember both times where I was and even the time of day. Since then I felt "complete". The part of me I had suppressed, perhaps been fearful of now gave me calm. (though this may sound nuts), but for years when I saw or heard of a dog being injured or killed on TV I literally had to go and destroy something. It was harmless. I NEVER hurt anyone! What I did was bend chainlink poles against things to vent my anger. Since then I have not had to do that. However the calm isn't the only feeling I've felt. My mother lives with me and when I was telling her I was a Therian and had a Wolf Soul she said "well it should upset you that they kill wolves from planes in AK". I then felt the total opposite of my calm, peaceful feeling. I had never felt this before. It wasn't a violent outburst nor did I have to destroy anything. BUT I had to ask the fellow Furry Therian that's been helping me though this journey with myself, "What happened"? He told me "Thats the wolf lashing out toward its fallen brethren, wanting revenge". I also just resently watched the Anime movie Wolf Children (about a woman who marries a man who is a "werewolf", he can shapeshift between human, anthro wolf and full wolf".) So one scene shows him first shifting and It again was like BAM! So to end this LONG BIO. lol I will add, while my sexual preference will never change (I'm straight). My view on those that were gay or Bi did. Before I thought those that were gay, chose it and AFTER becoming a Therian I now know, (being a Christian) if God placed this (what I call) Humanized Wolf Soul in me and it's the way I am the true me. Than it MUST be the same for Gay and Bi persons and Furries. It really opened MY mind. While I am still sturggling with the fact most of my non furry friends have NO idea I'm a Furry Therian. I've thought it would be (no offence) easier to say I was gay than a Furry. But I can TOTALLY understand how a gay/bi person feels. They want to be their TRUE self, not have to hide it from the world. I too want the same. :3