What makes me me?

I've had writers block the past several days, so I asked my mate for help coming up with a prompt for this latest post. He asked me to describe how i got into the furry fandom. Really, a better question would be: How would anybody not expect me to have joined the furry fandom earlier.
As a little kid, my favorite movie was the Lion King. My favorite book was Warriors, and I cried when the wolves got shot in Julie of the Wolves. I had a wolf plushie I adored, and ran around howling, and pretend to be characters from my favorite anthropomorphic series. What else does that lead to?
While a highly kinky individual, the sexuality involved in furry doesnt attract me so much as the freedom of expression. I like the idea of being able to find a new way of explaining who i am to the world around me, and that's what it's about to me. I hope that by expressing myself better, I can find a way to understand myself bettter, and I'm just rambling.