Advice: Telling others about being furry

[B.Cadizzle]

Pardon me for asking, but text makes it hard to tell if that is sarcasm.

It's not an exaggeration my identity, it's more like a list of all the things I've caught flak for living in Millington. I'm bi with gay lean, I've have liberal views about most of politics, and a general 'not a single <removed> shall be given' point of view. The only thing here that might be embellished would be saying that I'm in an "open/polygamist" relationship. It's not open and it hasn't been polygamist but only because we haven't found anyone we both get along with well enough to date (not for lack of trying)

All of these thing are just small parts of me, none of them really controlling any part of my life, just as being furry doesn't change any other part of who I am. This is only a glimpse into who I am, and it's only the "Worst parts" in most peoples eyes, but in high school it was what everyone always tried using to upset me or make fun of me.

[NekoGirlNYA]

Nya, I'm currently in the middle of Kansas going to see my cusin who I havn't seen in AGES. She Says that she knows what furries are then she started laughing.   
I don't understand why she started laughing.
(Sorry if I seem weird about all this. My boyfriend told me about the forums and I had to make one right away.  )

[Jinx Leven]

i'm gonna ask my friends what a furry is and if they answer wrong i will correct them and if they answer correctly i will tell them i am a furry how does that sound?

[Alison Marie]

hmm...not a bad way to go about it actually.....

[spark]

I thought I'd throw my two cents in here.

Personally?  I never *tell* anybody I'm furry.  I also never pretend I'm not.  I don't see any point in sitting people down and having some big, drama-laden, deadly-serious discussion about it.  It's just a fandom, why should I make it into some kind of production?  Likewise, it's just a fandom, why should I go out of my way to hide that I'm into it?  I do the furry things that I enjoy, and people will figure it out, or not, and they'll care, or not.  I think that "coming out" about being furry just makes drama where there isn't any.  Just *be* furry and don't make it into this huge deal. 

[pawz9]

I already get picked on for being the "fat military nerd whos probably emo" and when i do something strange and people ask me why i do it i just tell them because i can because whta reason do i have to explain myself to them so yea i agree with spark y turn it into a huge production just to add another thing they make fun of u for

[Alison Marie]

i let people ask me about my collar, and i really dont like drama, so i do try to avoid it but people bring it with them

[Cifero Windtail]

Nya, I'm currently in the middle of Kansas going to see my cusin who I havn't seen in AGES. She Says that she knows what furries are then she started laughing.   
I don't understand why she started laughing.
(Sorry if I seem weird about all this. My boyfriend told me about the forums and I had to make one right away.  )

It's okay. Welcome to the forums, Neko!

[Aoren Deringer]

In my experience the "deal with it" attitudeis NOTa smart path. Just tossin' in mytwo cents.

[thaos627]

i was always really scared of coming out (i was tortured in school when someone found out), but ive found most people are actually ok with it.

[pawz9]

U c im lucky my friends have no clue what a furry is so i can bias them in favor of furries

[George]

A couple days before I moved, someone at school found out I was a furry. I'm surprised at how fast it went around.

[Aoren Deringer]

Yeah "interesting gossip" AKA anything that people can poke at travels quickly.

[ArcticSkyWolf]

social media makes it easier to spread

[Aoren Deringer]

Ugh one of my friends got shot down by a girl and the wole school (including her boyfriend o.o) knew about it in under an hour