Advice: Telling others about being furry

[The Past]

That teacher is awesome. We need more people like that!

I mentioned TFF in an in-class English essay today. I trust my English teacher so I'm not too worried. If she asks questions I can answer them, and I'm sure she won't freak out about it.

[Seko]

imma not tell anyone i have not already told >_<


i get enough trouble from school already 

[Crevan Fox]

I am warming to the idea of it, I have a Furry Pride badge on my Bag, And my whole school knows *As you know i got punched for being one*

[Takarah Luna]

If I had to pick a way of announcing that I'm a furry, I think I'd just show up at school one day with a tail... Keep it simple... Not too odvious....
Assuming I would ever feel the need to do so...

[Tyla]

So, luckily, I got to introduce a lot of people to the fandom and educate them on the REAL furries.

Furry is pretty much an ambiguous term that depends on what the person interprets it as. This is a "problem" and, at the same time, simplifies it and makes it more innocent. I know a handful of furries who are in it because of the porn, but honestly?

Take the base meaning, "One who likes anthropomorphic animals and identifies alongside that community". You honestly don't need more than that, because from that point onward it's practically... down to what one makes of it. For themselves. Not for anyone else, but themselves. If someone's automatically lumping it with sex or something like that and making you out to be some sexual deviant (oh derp, in the same society where sexuality is apparently a major part of a person, and you can't say that you're asexual as a response without someone saying "you just don't know how good it feels to realise it's a big part of life!"), then I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ignore them, because they're not worth dealing with.

[Morticia]

That teacher is awesome. We need more people like that!

I mentioned TFF in an in-class English essay today. I trust my English teacher so I'm not too worried. If she asks questions I can answer them, and I'm sure she won't freak out about it.

She is a very awesome and inspiring woman. I'm glad you had the guts to go for it, too!

[Random User]

Intitially, I wanted to be secretive about being a furry. But in the end I stopped caring, I'm open with telling people about being a furry now.

[Zephri]

Well my Mom, Dad, Brothers and most of my friends know that I'm a furry, and none of them care.

I'm not really too worried about some one beating me up for being a furry, as it would be a huge mistake on their part.

[Crevan Fox]

Well my Mom, Dad, Brothers and most of my friends know that I'm a furry, and none of them care.

I'm not really too worried about some one beating me up for being a furry, as it would be a huge mistake on their part.

Its always nice when it turns out like that

I did actually get punched for being one but lets just say i got revenge hehe

[josh_down]

i hate to be hatin on some of you guys cause i'm not really, but i do wanna say this;

you guys seem to treat being furry like people treat being gay. it's really not. being furry means nothing more than what kinda music you listen to or what kinds of games you like to play. the idea of 'coming out' as a furry to me just sounds totally ridiculous. it really is not that bigger deal.

[Zephri]

i hate to be hatin on all of you guys cause i'm not really, but i do wanna say this;

you guys seem to treat being furry like people treat being gay. it's really not. being furry means nothing more than what kinda music you listen to or what kinds of games you like to play. the idea of 'coming out' as a furry to me just sounds totally ridiculous. it really is not that bigger deal.

I never treated it like that although with my wording it may have sounded like it, I just never was "really" into it up until about a month or two ago.

I don't hide my hobby's.

[josh_down]

i hate to be hatin on all of you guys cause i'm not really, but i do wanna say this;

you guys seem to treat being furry like people treat being gay. it's really not. being furry means nothing more than what kinda music you listen to or what kinds of games you like to play. the idea of 'coming out' as a furry to me just sounds totally ridiculous. it really is not that bigger deal.

I never treated it like that although with my wording it may have sounded like it, I just never was "really" into it up until about a month or two ago.

I don't hide my hobby's.

i should really have made an exception of certain people because you were one of the people who i should have excluded. i apologise... i'll edit my post a bit. really, it's comments like "realising that i'm a furry" which kinda annoy me because it suggests that there were several years of turmoil and many sleepless nights debating it. if there was indeed sleepless nights and turmoil then i would possibly say you were taking the whole thing a bit too seriously.

[Zephri]

That's no problem, and I agree there are a LOT of threads about that.

[Crevan Fox]

Josh i agree

[___]

Yea, I agree with you Josh. If you're having sleepless nights about it, then you may be a furry lifestyler, or a thein, but not not just a furry for pete's sake...