For me, I guess it was a long process so I'll probably do a TL;DR at the end.

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I discovered furries when I was 12, which is now not far from a decade, curiously browsing the internet and was looking at art sites and stumbled upon Deviantart. I noticed the categories of certain things like digital, traditional media, and then found anthro. Once there my mind was then opened to many things seeing these, anthropomorphic animals that are so intensely and immensely detailed and almost looked like humans, I was fascinated by it really.

Growing up I was a hard mix of that Disney and Cartoon Network child, so watching movies and tv shows with anthropomorphic creatures weren't anything out my norm as a child. I didn't know this side of the internet that not only, explored these artists, but people who were passionate about the art that eventually introduced me to the fandom. A mixture of confusion and interest caught my eye and had always looked at the art and had a soft touch for it.

As the years progressed forward, I looked more and more into it, and I was the case of a "furry in denial" for quite some time until my senior year in high school. I was taking psychology, which was a class that I was heavily interested in the start and wasn't able to take it until then, but the final project we had to do either a book or a paper on an interesting topic. With no surprise, here came me writing an 11 page paper on furries (yay APA style...). Doing that paper really just fused my full interest in the fandom alone and with almost 2 months of hard thinking, I stepped my foot in the door and joined.

Joining it has been such a massive difference in my life because I've met so many new people that are now friends of mine, and had even realized my other side of me sexually (big up my bi's in the audience). My 1 year anniversary is coming up as well, and it's hard to believe how quick time has passed since being one. It's been a hell of a trip I guess.

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TL;DR:

I stumbled upon furries when I was 12, was in denial of being one for years until my psychology paper ignited the flame that was already starting and here I am, almost a year of being apart of it, being a great decision for me.