Sounds like the same situation it was with me and Khajiit.
My first TES game being Oblivion, Khajiit just looked silly to me and I couldn't really take them seriously. After awhile of becoming familiar with Oblivion and the Khajiit, I made one... and now most my characters have been Khajiit since then.
OT: I would hate to stereotype all Khajiit as Theives, Drug-dealers, or Assassins; there's a pretty good speculation that the Khajiit in Elsweyr are much different in being very strict law-abiding citizens.