never not dealing with it. what if it were easier for you to deal with pets than with people ? i can t imagine living without dogs. and what if you went from endurance athletes to wheelchair bound in just six months? you realize oh, this isn t going the way this is my life, you know? how would you cope? tonight we ll meet three people who overcame their odds by doing something that you might think is a joke. we re setting out on a strange trip. but stick with us. it s all about to make sense. think back on your childhood for a moment. do you remember the first time you saw mickey? how excited you were on your face? do you remember watching cartoons as a kid and the happiness that brought you entire industries have been built on this. on having kids experienced this magic. but what if you never grew out of that feeling? there are people whose affinity for animal characters never went away. people like lindsey. you okay? you sure? yes the first thing i notice about her is that
story where i want to dig deeper. while the people i ve met on this journey, we re willing to share their identities with me and the world. much of this population chooses to remain anonymous. just who are they? down with a man who goes by uncle kage. he s a professional chemist, kind of enigma. his persona is apparently a cockroach. but instead of a first suit, he prefers to wear his lab coat. it has been a fixture in the community. for decades, scientists doing with a bunch of furries, why wouldn t the scientists be here? what is a police officer doing with a bunch of fairies? what is it teacher doing it a bunch of ferries anybody out there can enjoy what this community has to offer. there s no limitation. it started with just a group of cartoon fans getting together by the community really lost. in the late eighties and early nineties, its origins were
why wouldn t a scientist be here? what is a police officer doing with a bunch of furries? what is a teacher doing with a bunch of furies? anybody out there can enjoy what this community has to offer. there s no limitation. it started with just a group of cartoon fans getting together. but the community really blossomed. in the late 80s and early 90s its origins were captured on video and are now celebrated on the internet. these conventions attracted only a few dozen furries. but today there are nearly 90 independently organized events every year and hundreds of thousands of furry fans worldwide. there is a perception that furries are a bunch of sexual deviants. how do you respond to that? do sexual deviants exist in the world? yes, they do. but that certainly does not characterize what this community is about. it s healthy. admittedly it looks a little bit strange, but it doesn t have to
a fixture in the community for decades. what is a scientist doing with furries. what is a police officer doing with bunch of furries. what is a teacher doing with a bunch of furries. anybody out there can enjoy what this community has to offer. there s no limitation. it started with just a group of cartoon fans getting together. but the community really blossomed. in the late 80s and early 90s its origins were captured on video and now celebrated on the internet. these conventions attracted only a few dozen furries. but today there are nearly 90 independently organized events every year and hundreds of thousands of furry fans worldwide. there is a perception that furries are a bunch of sexual deviants. how do you respond to that? do sexual deviants exist in the world? yes, they do. but that certainly does not characterize what this community is about.