All furries remember the moment the two neurons that shouldn't have connected in our head reached out and fused together anyway when we were aged somewhere between 11 and 13.

I spent so many years collecting fox stuff. So, so much fox stuff.

@keirFox "Roleplaying" (we didn't know it was that at the very young age) with the neighborhood kids as Sonic characters, and I wound up being Tails because I had an engineering inclination.

And things have just grown from there, thankfully with supportive family and friends.