Was at a LAN party my cousin took me to, everyone had different anthro backgrounds and I thought it was some seriously cool art, asked about it and they told me all about the fandom, conventions, meets and how their Fursona represented them. It just said something to me I guess, so I started designing my first fursona
Formed some seriously good friendships with these furs my cousin introduced me to, decided to look into furmeets in the city in the hopes that I'd meet more people that seemed as genuine and friendly, as being a 15 year old at school, despite having plenty of friends at school they didn't feel "Genuine"
Signed up, started chatting with some other local furs and they arranged a meet in the city (about 7 years ago when the local community was more casual), I went along and met all these weird and wonderful people in and out of their fursuits and thought that this would change my life forever, and HOLY HELL has it ever, for better and for worse.