Advice: Telling others about being furry

[Snufkin silverclaw]

I know the feeling that's what happened with my dad but firstly don't let them look on the internet or search for a furry documentary by furries that's how I convinced my parents good luck

[Kovume]

Iv told them that and it still no help I'm now trying to go thou the stages to become Trans and that is hard for them to process as well it  feels like I'm getting no were and I feel like I could die some days

[Ibi Tanvaal]

Welcome to the club...

[Ori]

 Well I let almost everyone know that I'm a furry. (Excluding my parents. My mother I think would just find it alright, much like cosplaying or going to comic cons. My father on the other hand is against fandoms/cons in general so yeah... no point trying to explain it to him.)
 My friends? I got mixed reactions. My kinda close friends didn't know what they were. My third closest was a furry all along. Everyone else was pretty much like, 'WTF man eww gross!' At first they joked I was going to be part of the furry force, but after that they just put it under the table. If I brought it up they would kind of give me that like 'hey, don't bring it up.' look. I don't think a single person dumped me (as a friend) over it. Actually someone else kind of made it known to all the Freshmen, sophmores, juniors, and a couple seniors in my class that I was a furry. While we had a small charade of jokes about it. ( And I just kind of laughed it off.) They left me alone about it, every now and then that one guy that made it known brings it up playfully. Err... IT got out of hand actually. An old friend I hadn't seen since middle school (He's not even IN my highschool! And I don't think he communicated with anyone else from my Middle school circle of friends)  some how he knew that I was a furry in fact and he simply said 'I heard it... Somewhere.'  It's apparently become common info that I'm a furry. Well despite all this, people are still alright about me, and I don't think that the moment I leave they breathe out in happiness despite that's what I originally thought.

[Angder]

I think I have said this before, but everyone I have told has found it weird but OK. I had one incident where people I did not know saw me on TFF, and said "Furry forums? reeally?" but then they got silenced by my actual friends. so... yea. I'm a furry, and nobody gives a shit. They occasionally make furry jokes, but its all playful and lighthearted, and so far nobody I care about has reacted badly at all. 

It helps I generally appear sane, rational, and good humored, so those who have biases against furries see me as an exception even if they still hate furries as a community. (from there its not hard to convince them other furries are also OK).

[Ibi Tanvaal]

One of my friends who knows makes a few jokes every now and then.
The best one was when we were playing MTG. I played a card with art of a (clearly) female Anthro-ish tiger and I remarked on their figure. My friend came back with "well she is your type"

[★Amethyst★]

I don't mind being open about the fact that i'm into the fandom, if anyone asks. It's mostly an artistic or community thing for me than an identity per se, and i dont care what other people think, so long as they don't believe in anything inaccurate. If anyone is rude about it I'll try to set them straight, or at least ignore them if i can't do that.


A few of my friends know I draw anthros and kind of like the fandom but they've never been negative or anything about it. It's just something i like, like listening to metal music i guess ^^' And one of my friends I've learned is a furry too, though is a little new to the fandom.

[Ibi Tanvaal]

Amethyst, I showed a friend the headshot you did. He was actually very impressed - and he said that it reminded him of me when he looked at it. I'd told him about me being furry a couple of weeks ago and he had no idea what I was talking about! xD

[★Amethyst★]

Amethyst, I showed a friend the headshot you did. He was actually very impressed - and he said that it reminded him of me when he looked at it. I'd told him about me being furry a couple of weeks ago and he had no idea what I was talking about! xD

Oh, thanks. That's cool

Not many people where I went to school knew about the fandom either. In college now more people do, and I've come across a couple here and there.

[Ibi Tanvaal]

I haven't encountered any where I live, but I haven't really asked anyone.

[★Amethyst★]

I haven't encountered any where I live, but I haven't really asked anyone.

Yeah, usually I only know when it's super obvious (i.e. overhear them talking about it, see them drawing stuff, sometimes I'll see someone wearing a tail or ears, etc.).

[Ibi Tanvaal]

I've found the hardest part of telling people is initiating the conversation with people.
I usually take forever to tell people.

[Dax Declan]

About to "come out" to a good friend of mine as a furry. Going for the best.

[[INACTIVE]]

I never really tell people I'm a furry, if they ask I will gladly tell them. There's a place and time for telling people. I've told some people I was one, just because there good friends and it would be nice if they knew.

[Detroit]

told my boyfriend i was one, turns out so was he