Advice: Telling others about being furry

[Tatter]

Just recently I was outted by sister, to my dad that I'm pansexual. He was very excepting and all like, I still love you but don't tell your mom.     But then I told him that I was a furry and his face fell and was like "I know what those are.." And it was like, I have worried so long to tell them I was "gay" and he is all worried about me being a furry. Like seriously dad, I don't do it to dress up and yiff everyone. I think he would have rather I said I was doing drugs. He quickly changed the subject and I havn't discussed it with him since. How should I go about setting him straight?

ah! your being ignored >.< sorries, seriously, now that he knows, introduce him to the real side of furries IF he is willing to listen, you knjow how he knows of furries? From the news, or from poorly portrayed "Sexual furry scenes" on shows like CSI (csi, why did you betray us?) so he thinks he knows furries is a fetish thing! try to explain to him that its not,

let him know that beinga furry means nothing more tha nyou are a fan of the anthropomorphic entertainment (movies, art, ect) and that it is EXACTLY the same as being a trekke, and dressing up in a fursuit is like them dressing up in alien costumes, and that a fur con is more atkin to a star trek convention than it is some sexual deviant palace.

infact, if he be at all a science fan, let him know that the original places furries convened where at sci fi conventions, before it grew enough to have its own.

[Grahagity]

I was/am afraid of "coming out" to people, especially my circle of internet friends. They tend to look down on the fandom, simply because of a few bad experiences with individuals who were associated with it. I find that if you start off by telling a few people you know are open-minded, then go from there, things tend ease up on you. That's my 5 cents. 

[ArcticSkyWolf]

Well, I don't think people are going to say ima furry but since tomorrow is Halloween, ive decided to wear my collar, with a costume of course and I got some general excuses for wearing one.

like cuz itz haloween, it's part of the costume (which is basically a wolf head I made with paper mache), it fits the colour scheme (black wolf head, black sword, black collar), it looks good on me, it's comfy, why not?, cuz I didnt find a spike collar, cuz I said ima be durpin tmrw on facebook, for fun,

I think the reason of it being Halloween will do the trick.

and this is another excuse to wear it again on another day, aaying that I missed the feeling of a collar on my neck. Or something like that. I wanted for a leather spike collar but couldn't get it, oh well..

[Alison Marie]

i found a creative way to come out to my parents- i changed my sig on my phone to Furry Pride!
now i know that they know that ima furry! makes it easeir on me! also a good way to tell friends simply by texting them!

[✡]

i found a creative way to come out to my parents- i changed my sig on my phone to Furry Pride!
now i know that they know that ima furry! makes it easeir on me! also a good way to tell friends simply by texting them!

my parents (and brother) are among the only people I don't want knowing my furryness props to you my friend

[Takamei Edevane]

Last week I told my best freind I am a furry and now he thinks that I am a freak.
I am not sure what I should do.

[Alison Marie]

i have incountered a simmilar situation with one of my friends. in my case he doesnt like gays and is a homophobe witch i look down upon and listens to his youth group teacher to much when it comes to furries. you may have hope to change his or her mind but i have non cuz he is stuborn!
 

[pawz9]

So far iv only told someone i trust and made him promise not to tell anyone but im goin to tell one of my friends who called me a furry as an insult and im goin to see how it works out

[Alison Marie]

hmm... i think that it could end badly..   i hate to say it but if they believe it to be an insult......

[pawz9]

Im goin to tell him to tell me if he cant accept me as a furry and if he cant then that will be that

[Alison Marie]

ooh good plan! wish i woulda thought of that......my friend just figured out what the y word was......and used it agianst me to see how i would react......

[pawz9]

Turns out he was also a furry and when he called me a furry he was joking

[ArcticSkyWolf]

Wow. Yeah that sometimes happens.

[B.Cadizzle]

Short version:
I never had any problems telling people.

Long version:

Spoiler for Hidden:

I'm a Gay/Bisexual non-republican non-chrsitian with no concerns about fashion, popularity, or other peoples opinions in an open/polygamist interracial relationship with an biracial man. I live in a white conservative christian rural area. Being furry wasn't really all that high up on peoples hate list once you sat it next to everything else.

Other then that, I always had the 'crazy kid' vibe. I called everyone out, regardless of size, age, rank or popularity. I 'came out' as gay by getting into a very large fist fight (with good cause. You don't ever attack my friends) and knocking the kid out then telling everyone the gay kid beat him up and letting them put 2 and 2 together. And I was part of a tight knit group of friends that would always watch each others back. So honestly I didn't have much to worry about in school.

[Puncia]

What a refreshing story. I admire people that don't exaggerate simple things like self identity.