the short of it is, i'm doggy
and it was high time i realized that
the little bit longer of it is, that actually thinking back, i've always wanted to be an animal. i wanted to be a dragon, i wanted to be a wolf, anything that's not human. i want a tail!!! i'd imagine swapping places with a neighbor's dog. i only like playing animal characters in video games. i can't draw humans, never could!
my introduction to the furry fandom was TF art, and until now i just thought wanting to be an animal was just me being, really furry and into TF art (i mean, after pretending not to be a furry at all for years)
to answer your question of "how did you discover": recently after seeing more therian friends' posts, and after browsing the #therian tag i realized that actually i... really really related to it. and i started to think that maybe i shut myself off from that part of myself through like a shield of like ironic enjoyment and joking around, like saying "i'm doggy" as a joke, in the "just a furry" way.
i'm still figuring out what being a therian means for me exactly, but i decided to cut through the bullshit and embrace it, because it does just feel right. so now i'm saying, without the poison of irony
i'm doggy

