Advice: Telling others about being furry

[Kodachi Devil]

And foxy is the reason i don't tell my parents stuff @_@.

[Egan]

No, I doubt your parents were as harsh as mine. Mine were die-hard christians, and forced me to spent hours at chruch on sundays trying ot make me "Repent for the sins I've committed". Then I told them that I didnt even believe in god, the started the beatings, luckly, I was very active in my parkour (Even more than now, I had almost no friends back then, I was a loner and used the streets as a way of venting) So when they started I could take it, but then my dad thought he was tougher than I would ever be.
I'd rather not continue in public.... If you want to know you can PM me though....

[Kodachi Devil]

Can't send pms from my phone, but if you feel comfortable telling me i'd like to know. And yeah my parents arent that harsh but something happened that made me quite paranoid and i'm not sure why, so yeah.

[✡]

my brother knows..and god i never hear the end of it

[Cifero Windtail]

Tee-hee.
My cousins know today.
I'm also out of the closet. Well, not like, out. I just notified the family ahead of time not to be alarmed if i hook up with a guy.

Congratulations! I hope that all goes well!
As for my attempts to announce that I'm a furry at school, they aren't going well... due to the fact that nobody there right now seems to know what furries are.

[Egan]

For windtail, Ease the main ideas in, then get into the details.

[The_GMan]

Tee-hee.
My cousins know today.
I'm also out of the closet. Well, not like, out. I just notified the family ahead of time not to be alarmed if i hook up with a guy.

Congratulations! I hope that all goes well!
As for my attempts to announce that I'm a furry at school, they aren't going well... due to the fact that nobody there right now seems to know what furries are.

Same thing here, I doubt very much that they know what a furry is, that's why I can have furry art laying around and they just get confused

[Cifero Windtail]

I'll figure something out...

[✡]

if I wanted my family meddling into my private life, then I would tell them. So no, I don't tell them

[Vinny Raccoon]

i told my friends and family that im a fur and there ok with it. and if there not ok with it, then i don't give a troll's butt

[noob]

A couple months ago I told my brother about furries...he got in trouble for something...And decided he would try to get me introuble with furries....Thankfully Since this is a family oriented sight I got in no trouble   

However...I do feel kind-of ackward tho...Furries are something personal to me, that I wanted close friends, and others that I know for sure are are furries also to know about this... But whatever...

[Zaspher]

Well my Mom's okay to tell my little brother and sister maybe. My Dad on the other hand is really different. I hate to say this but he is close to the worst you can get when it comes to anti-gay support. He refuses to talk to anyone who is Gay/Bi and has told me ever since I was very young that they are the direct spawn of Satan himself. He tried to move me from a classroom once because he thought one of my classmates was gay (even though he wasn't). He made me delete my Facebook for a whole year because I befriended my uncle whom is gay. Now having thoughts towards men ever since early middle school he's scared me to death. I love my father but I wish he could be changed sadly it's far too difficult for me to handle.

I'm not saying all furries are gay. It's just that there's far too many stereotypes out there that he'll eventually pick up and when he does you guessed it. ...

I told a few friends I was a furry though, they tease me about it occasionaly but only for fun.

[The Past]

That stinks, man. Yeah, it's best to keep that information from your dad. Until he finally realizes he's been a hateful ... *tries to think of a PG word* ... meanie head. Yeah. .w.;;

I've found it pretty easy to explain the fandom to people, and so far no one has been hateful. I've told some of my teachers, family members, and friends. I made a new friend recently while going to Chicago with my Ceramics class. I told her about me being a furry and explained the fandom, and she thought it was interesting. Of course I always warn them about the stereotypes and the "don't mindlessly search it on Google, you'll most likely find the bad stuff and anti-pages first" thing.

Although my dad was the first I told about the fandom, he still gets confused on what it is and I have to keep reminding him that it's NOT about crazy people acting like animals and walking around in fursuits all the time... -_-;;

[Kaprika]

today started out rather on a bad note....early in the morning and sitting in the poring rain...but i was kept company by a random tennant from my apartment complex whom had just gotten off work from Burger King
...we talked for a hours time, and i talked to him about my "buisness" of art...how i draw fursonas. when i said furries he made a face and immediately said "oh...your one of THOSE people"
but just when i thought i was loosing his interest i swiftly corrected him about what furries are...he had seen on TV about us...and he thought we were people that just "did stuff" in fury suits.

i was happy to find i was able to better his image of what a furry is..and he was happy to be corrected, and i think in that aspect...i made the world just a little bit better for furry-kind...it felt nice to be able to de-program even one person that had been wrongfuly installed with a ill informed opinion of us..though ill admit i sort of stumbled around my words...there are so many ways to describe a furry, but its hard to condense us in so few words as to not bore or confuse a person..when someone asks you what a furry is...what do YOU tell them?

how do you describe us to those with no knowledge of us....and how do you describe us to those that have a bad view of us, and make them rethink there ill thoughts?
does it come easy to you?...or are you too at a loss for words on such short notice?

[WingedZephyr]

Merged your thread with the Advice thread that was already in place, Kaprika.