When I was 13, which has been six years ago. I was very involved with werewolves because I saw myself as wolf. Later on, on the web I came to find other's besides me feeling they was animals as well, it was called Therianthropy. Expect people wasn't so friendly in the therian community and it upset me there was so many judgmental 'animal people'. I later was refured to the furry community, it was something simlair. So I joined years back, at a different forum before they changed over to another site. Later on, I left, and was more involved with otherkin, as I later considered myself an otherkin, I feel my soul is non-human so it fit me even better and the people are not to bad in the community, but still part of me enjoyed the freedom of the furry fandom, so every so often I come back to it, because I enjoy animals, animal people, the friendlyness, and the arts. I see myself as non-human at soul and something mostly animal, no matter what, even if I decided to not participate in communities, I chose to come here because the people are friendlier and at lest somewhat understanding of otherkin.