Advice: Telling others about being furry

[The Past]

Uh, dunno how Disney fits in there. Tom and Jerry aren't from Disney. They were created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbara.

Or I may have not understood you and have no idea what you're talking about . X_x

But if they were furries, that's pretty cool. Well, I'm sure they never called themselves furries if they were.

But yeah, if you enjoy watching anthropomorphic animal cartoon characters, or even like making your own (including your fursona), that can be a simple explanation of your interest in the furry fandom, if that works for you of course.

Being an anthropomorphic artist, it was a bit easier to explain it to my dad because he was already aware of my work.

[Seko]

friend and i are having a massive arguement... :'(

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[DatFox Coleo]

well whoever makes the newer tom and jerry stuff is actually a furry
and so is the guy who made my gym partner's a monkey

[kitsune]

thats awesome! 2 very awesome cartoons that i love.!

[Crevan Fox]

friend and i are having a massive arguement... :'(

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[Korisu]

:'( How do I tell a friend im a furry? I'm scared I won't be accepted or everything will be different and I want to know how you people have done it, if you have. I do not know anyone in real life who is a furry, and I feel very left out and I feel like telling someone and I do not want to keep it to myself  :'(

[Fenrir]

I suppose the first thing I should ask is your friend's feelings towards the furry community.  If your friend doesn't know what a furry is, a simple explanation will probably do.  Chances are, however, that the media will have biased him against the word "furry", in which case you should probably ease in to the confession without using that exact word.

[Philly Tanuki]

I simply came out at school one day and said hey everybody I'm a furry!  And everybody said ok whatever.  I got no negative reactions.

[Zephri]

If he/she is your friend then he/she shouldn't care if you are a furry, he/she should still like you regardless.

[josh_down]

i don't know this for certain, but i do feel confident when i say that 90% of people who aren't furries have literally no idea that the tern even exists. most of the time that best thing to do is to let it be known that you love animals, cartoony animals, or animals in whatever form that you like most! that's not unusual. people like hearing that, and then if someone asks you "are you a furry?" then it's time for a discussion;

first evaluate what they think that a furry is, and then correct them. .


coming out as a furry really isn't such a massive thing. you'll find that in almost all cases people couldn't really care less. negative reactions are rare. the only negative reaction i got was someone denying that i was a furry, and that's only because he was so stubborn that he wouldn't accept any other definition of furry other than his own (which you can guess). but meh, he hasn't exactly reacted in what i'd call a negative way. he jokes about it, but i joke along.

[Inouva]

since realizing that i am in fact a furry, i have told a few people here and there... my Sister and several friends... they have all just been kind of 'thats cool' about it, though my best friend started looking more into it and realized that she is most likely a furry as well...

its not something that im ashamed of... in fact i feel utterly normal, where before i felt odd all the time and couldnt quite figure out why...

i say, if you feel comfortable with it, tell people... if not, dont. if people freak out, then they have their own issues to work through.

[FurryDreamer]

This is tought for someone like me in highschool. You DONT want to tell people who blurt out everything you tell them, people who are extremely judgmental or people who are just retarded. I havnt told anyone yet but if your going to tell someone, be careful who you choose. Cause a lotta people just dont understand.

[The Past]

Yep. You do have to be careful about who you tell.

I'm not going to hide my lifestyle anymore. On an "about me" paper my art teacher passed out I said I'm an anthropomorphic artist. i didn't say furry because I don't have to.

You don't have to say you're a furry if you're afraid people will get the wrong idea. You can just say you like anthropomorphic animal characters, and you're good. The word furry is what people are afraid of, the anthropomorphs are fine. It's pretty much that word that carries the negative image. If people thought anthropomorphic animals are bad, Mickey Mouse wouldn't be such a popular character.

Sorry for bringing up cartoon characters so much. It just seems to work well. 

[FurryDreamer]

Well put Lita.          The word furry DOES seem to...scare people.
I guess breaking it down easier for others to swallow seems to be the key sometimes.

[Morticia]

In my highschool, about all of three people actually KNEW what a furry was and that's because they were frequent users of the internet.

So, luckily, I got to introduce a lot of people to the fandom and educate them on the REAL furries. My senior year, we had to write an argument paper about a topic of our choosing. I wrote about the misconceptions of furries and the major different fetishes they're associated with. Luckily my English teacher was a very open-minded woman and went along with it. She even did some research of her own.