I’ll allow it!
I have around 800h in Skyrim split between the original and the special edition.
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Being non-binary, I don’t know if I count for this statistic, but I haven’t played it either. If nothing else, I didn’t feel like adding a room onto my house to store the figures.
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There’s also me who watches 40k lore videos for occasional entertainment/pass the time, but i have no inclination to play the TTRPG.
(I particularly like the youtuber WesHammer, his “grimdark story hour” videos are excellent)
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I joined a couple games in college, but I don’t like grimdark, and I think I should focus on either history or more speculative settings.
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I’ve also never played Warhammer, but a little bit of Battletech once in a while. 3e and 4e D&D and the newer version of Vampire: the Masquerade with coworkers. That’s been a while though.
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Reposting this from here…
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A key part of transition for me is the rejection of societal expectations in favour of doing what makes me happy. Apparently that means I’m now in the furry pipeline, and I’m just gonna embrace it. The good, the bad, the cringe, all of it.
This makes me inordinately happy…
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Welcome to the fandom! Although I didn’t figure out I was non-binary until literally decades after being in the furry fandom, it definitely helped me understand I was very comfortable with trans people. (I just didn’t know exactly why at the time.) You can always find exceptions, but as a whole, I’ve always found the furry community to be wonderfully accepting and a great place to explore your identity – glad to see you here too.
Woof!
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Honestly, it was a bunch of queer/trans furries I know that made me think about stuff I’d long forgotten and opened my mind to it. Well, that and my furry kid.
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It’s so interesting that the furry community/culture is doing so much heavy lifting when it comes to helping people find themselves when it comes to gender identity and sexual expressions/preferences.
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It probably helps that a large chunk of the early conventions and events were organized by queer people. Again, while you can easily find exceptions, the community largely focused on what united us and just accepted people in based on that. Yeah, sometimes that was an issue in and of itself, but for the most part it worked well.
Or to put it another way, you’re already here for this thing that most people regard as weird, why would we care about those others?
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I’ve often wondered about the crossover between out LGBTQ/furries and neorudivergence. Almost everyone I know who falls into either/both of those categories is pretty neurodivergent. My totally unscientific pet theory is that ND people are much more likely to question or reject societal norms and therefore more likely to express our inner selves openly. We’re also more likely to accept others as they are even if they don’t conform to expectations.
I mean, I’m a 47 year old trans furry who likes dressing goth. That’s pretty ‘cringe’, but I really don’t care what anyone who would label me that thinks. I just wish they’d get on with their social climbing and leave us the hell alone.
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Someone finding the things you’re into as “cringe” can be good if anything. It’s a shortcut to knowing which people might not get you, or at least might not get all of you. Doesn’t necessarily mean they are bad people, I know past me found the whole furry culture perplexing but at things point in my life I get it 
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Oh for sure. I look for the people passionate about niche topics and self expression. Those are my people. People who think I’m weird (in a bad way), well I ain’t got time for that.
I’d rather be like this:
Tonight, let’s do shit that gets us in cringe comps
Make some new behaviors that straight people will infringe on
-lyrics from ‘mos thoser’ by food house
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:: Chants :: ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! 
I came into the furry fandom from the therianthrope door- If the idea of shape-shifting into another species is a thing, then the idea of changing gender is, well. just a jump to the left. Or a step to the right. 
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