I supose this is the fault of my innability to say something that is supposed to come off as funny and it totally not sound like it.
I don't blame the suitmakers or the makers of "furry" stories. I was trying to poke fun at those that would blame such people.
my fear of costumes is simple and probably worse then if I did like them.
it's not real enough, I wouldn't want to wear a fox costume unless it did for me, what batman's suit does for batman at least! and I'm not one that believes in prosthetics and plastics either, I think thiings should be as real as possible or obviously fake. that's one reason why I secretly fear the realistic CG animation technology we've got now, any news organization with the budget and the time can "edit" what they've got to make it look much worse.
if I did like costumes it would be settling for the fake and make believe. but I've spent so many hours wasted daydreaming of all sorts of things now that my mind doesn't want a costume anymore (if it ever really did) it wants the real thing. not likely to get it but that's what it wants.
you'd probably also never see me at a convention of sorts as I have an unxplainable fear of large crowds. it was a nightmare in colorado when I went to an octoberfest and it was MY job to talk to as many people as I could. I practically freaked!
I don't mind acting (I shouldn't otherwize why take drama and get an "A" in speech when the speech teacher specifically said such was impossible) but sometimes (as wato in episode 1 of starwars said) "I need something more real" and a suit just wouldn't cut it for me. plus going to conventions isn't my idea of fun really. fun for some (many actually, otherwise how could you get that many people at a convention, kidnapping?
) but not for me.
how does a scientifically oriented psychologist get off calling someone "possessed" and "can't see peoples faces" simple: chalk+overobservation.
I loved cartoons, still do infact, but I didn't know what one was or how they were made. but I observet that thin black line that outlined not only the characters but any 'object' on the cartoon screen, this led to some interresting theories (theories I have abandoned in the name of physics and the laws of the nature of light) on the nature of light and objects.
so, when I went to see this shrink, she asks me to make a picture using chalk.
big mistake, chalk is an ok medium, but not when you really have no idea what you're doing and not for making any real ammount of teensy tiny small details. my picture was of 5 people gathered around a swimming pool. the view was from above so naturally unless the people were looking up (which they weren't) you wouldn't see much if any of their faces unfortunately I didn't know my familie's (that's who the five were supposed to be) hair colors and I didn't know what color chalk to use so I just left everyone bald and didn't draw in any faces. then as a last thing I outlined every object I could remember to include in black.
and as a result of that artistic masterpiece I got called "possessed by the devil" and unable to see people's faces.
and she had promised me we would get hot chocolate one day (there was a hot chocolate machine nearby and I had asked her previously) and we never did!
eventually I got diagnosed with ADD (not ADHD (attention deficit with hyperactivity) attention deficit disorder) and was put on a few medications to see which one I could go on. eventually I went on ritalin and even in high school found it easier to concentrate with it.
I believe ADD exists though because of the natural reaction that kids have to various things it can be hard to spot. that's just a natural problem with ADD. ritalin naturally acts as a stimulent but to someone with ADD it acts as a depressent slowing the mind down and (in theory) increasing the attention span. I've never felt any "stimulating" effects from taking ritalin so either my body is chemically different so that I wouldn't feel it as a stimulent or ADD does exist.
so there!
to some cultures (depends on who you live with) furries are as foreign as snow in hawaii, then again, my mom and dad (as far as I can tell) have never had 'furry' interaction and yet haven't been dumb enough to judge the furries based on that CSI episode. maybe we just watch it so much we know when the show is exagerating. maybe we watch tv enough we expect it to exagerate and filter the message accordingly.
*shrugs shoulders* who knows.
why am I crazier, cause a (previously mentioned) shrink said so that's why
BT I didn't know there WAS a comic until after like the 50th comic or so. so far I've got... let me see
archie series
STH (sonic the hedgehog)
iss: 54-78, 83, 84, 86-88
KTE (knuckles the Echidna)
iss:8-13, 15-17, 19-21, 23-32
T3IMS (tails 3 issue miniseries
iss:1-3
SSS (sonic super special)
iss:5, 8
TOTAL: 57 (unless I've miscounted somewhere)
I still say the doctor did it....
He also saw the "Fur and Loathing" episode of C.S.I. 
I haven't seen it myself, but when I asked him about it, he seemed to take it as just a TV show. "Some of the furrie people were quite normal," he told me, "although some of the people at the convention were... Abby-Normal." [a reference to the movie Young Frankenstien]
Does the concept of putting on an animal costume or having your face made up to look like an animals somehow strike you as sinful? Do you feel guilty that you might enjoy this form of temporary escapism? If so....WHY?? 
What he did to you was evil...pure and simple. 
. When i was about 6-8 or something similar i really enjoyed watching the ole Saturday AM episodes of sonic. I found the archie comics a bit later (at issue 30) but then lost track of them for yonks. Was walking past my local newsagent and i saw that they stocked them (issue 80/90 or something). 
