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Furry Chat => General => Topic started by: White Wolf Guardian on March 31, 2018, 08:06:57 PM
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What is/are your friend(s) perspectives upon your furry interests? Do you share them with your friends?
Personally I don't typically share them with people unless people ask me about my hobbies, I don't consider the hobby something to be afraid of discussing in real life. The few real life friends I do have don't seem to mind it at all, but I don't bring it up all that often. My friends just seem to think of it as strange or just another unique quality of me.
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I share that I'm a furry whenever the topic is appropriate to bring up. So far my friends all think it's fine. I had to explain it to them because in the Netherlands the furry phenomenon is largely unknown. And one of them in perticular seems to be pretty interested in what the whole furry business means to me... :squint:
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My friends simply don't care...
In the past I've actually tried to befriend some furries on TF2, but they were for some reason all the really weird obnoxious fetish-sex crazed types of furries, and besides that, really toxic players...
It kinda became a meme pretty quickly, and now that's just their rock-solid impression of furries.
They don't care if someone's a furry or not, they just don't want to get involved with it, they don't want to hear about it, and they don't even care for an explaination on that being a furry is in itself not a sex thing.
They don't know that I'm a furry though. They just know that I like animals a lot. I think I'd like to keep it that way, atleast untill they'd let me explain that it's not a sex-thing... >_>
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They don't know that I'm a furry and I simply don't feel the need to share it with everyone. I don't remember if we even talked about furries.
They probably don't like them and that's understandable. Most furries that tried to be friends with me on the internet could only talk about two things - video games and being gay. I have nothing against that, I'm just not interested and you don't need to remind me that you're gay every 5 seconds.
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My friends don't care, mainly cause I don't care. If someone asks about it I'll say yes and act like its no big deal, they follow suit :P
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I'm fairly open about it, I don't go out of my way to tell people usually but it tends to come up every once in a while, especially when I'm planning on going to a con or somesuch. I have yet to have a friend who reacted negatively to it, most of them are either indifferent or super fascinated and have lots of questions. One of my closer friends even wanted to see the smut, hue.
Most furries that tried to be friends with me on the internet could only talk about two things - video games and being gay. I have nothing against that, I'm just not interested and you don't need to remind me that you're gay every 5 seconds.
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Most of my friends are pretty okay with my furry interests. Once they got that it wasn't a sexual thing and that I just enjoyed the fun with being something else. One of them has even began to create their own fursona.
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I have a very small group of IRL friends, but from what I've seen one of them is apart of the fandom and the rest are largely indifferent. Though they do indulge in some aspects of the fandom that will go un-named for the time being. And that's sorta been the way it's always been, at the very least in the small time that I have known them.
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I'm a doggie :>
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Every single friend I have is fully aware of my involvement in the fandom and are either passively indifferent to it or partake to some degree - most of them are furries or "furry-adjacent." I don't make an effort to hide it from strangers either. I've got two con badges clipped to a strap on my bag and my phone lockscreen is usually my fursona. It's as obvious as it can be without being obnoxious, to anyone who catches a glimpse at the right angle. I've never gotten crap for it from strangers before. Just cases of my parents flip flopping between the idea that furry art isn't real art/that I don't deserve to be paid for it and feeling entitled to free logos or paintings of wolves and lions because they "know a guy who would like it."
The people I mentioned it to always seemed pretty indifferent to it for the most part, even if they think it's kinda weird they figure it's just not their thing and thus, not their business. I'm pretty thankful for that. I guess New York is just super furry-neutral, haha
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I have one friend who's genuinely a furry, I haven't told anyone else.
Mainly because it's typically the butt of jokes where I'm at xD
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Furries are very much unheard of here. Only those who venture outside Facebook have even heard about it (or so I'm guessing, anyway. It's rare the the subject ever gets mentioned).
From what I did find out about IRL friends and how they see it, they seem to view furries as being the stereotypical furry porn enthusiasts and little else.
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Most of my friends are pretty cool about it, some on the other hand I cant tell because their the kind that makes fun of furries.
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I've mentioned it here and there. Either the reaction is like what is that, oh interesting or they are like ok lol.
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I don't think either of my real-life friends know about furries... :pout:
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i don't really tell any of my friends about it. one of my "friends" hates furries. i'm not really friends with him but he's in my friend group, so i just never mentioned it. and one of my (used to be) friends went through my computer to see if i had anything embarrassing on it. and that's how he found out. he's the only one that fully knows. my other friends seem to be ok with it though.
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My friends adore it, they don't fully understand it but they love my sonas, my lore and stories and they adore my cute fursona images :3
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Well, I myself am a bit quiet about that. OK, sometimes I do mention it but all of my friends are kinda 'meh' to it. Lucky I guess... :)
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Only my closest friends know that I'm a furry. One of them is a furry too, but the other two aren't. All three of them are super chill about it, and it doesn't really come up in conversation with the non-furry two.
I'm lucky to have friends like them. :)
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Most of the people I talk to, online or in real life, don't have much of an opinion about it. The only exception would be my brother, who's a bit disconcerted by it. I live in a rural town in Mississippi. Most of the people I know haven't even heard of it. I showed some pictures of a furry party to members of my Sunday school group, and they all asked, "Where's your costume?" So... no hatedom around here. At worst, a bit weirded out.
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My girlfriend thinks it's pretty cute/cool actually, never really told anyone who wasn't already a furry.
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boyfriend is also a furry. really lucked out there.
high school friends were all fine with it. they all dug the furry doodles i drew in the margins of my notes, lmao
haven't broached it with the rest of my dorm yet. that being said, ive drawn and shown off a bunch of vaguely furry artwork with no pushback, so we'll see how it goes
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None of my friends really asked yet, but I told a friend I was a Scalie, and he kept on calling me a Scalene Triangle. >_< It was funny, but annoying at the same time. I kneed him in the balls.
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Well there's a lot of variables when it comes to friends, but one of the best aspects of friendship is the acceptance it brings. Good friends could care less how weird your hobbies are, thats what makes them good friends. As for me, I brought up being a furry pretty early on, but once I did they didn't really care all that much. In fact we still have a good laugh from time to time when furry stuff comes up when playing dungeons and dragons (I made a wish for pandas once, and through some complex chain of events accidentally created a strong race of magical humanoid pandas that almost killed us all XD) . To be fair though a fair share of my friends graduated from an art college, so furry things are not that foreign to them.