Do Your Friends Know You're a Furry?

[HollowOfHaze]

I myself have been keeping the fact minimal among my friends, considering I'm unsure of how they might react.


Anybody in a similar situation?


Anybody in a dissimilar situation?

[Cheza]

Most of my friends know I have "some kind of weird hobby" but other than that I don't think the know more.

[Teiko]

Not one of my friends knows. I'm not sure if i will reveal in the future... I don't really care if my friends are cool with it or not. But it's relatives i'm more concerned about 

Ironically, i had a furry friend long before i was even active online, but i never revealed it to him, and he has suddenly vanished for many years.

[MrRazot]

Not many people know.
It doesn't really matter anyway

[Midnight Madness]

Pretty much everyone knows. Most of my friends are furries, and for those that aren't, they know as well. I never went out of my way and said "Hey you know I'm a furry " I don't keep it a secret, for sure, but I also don't go around bragging about it. I'm proud to be, don't get me wrong, but that's for me to feel and not rub in the face of everyone around me.

I just do as I do and answer honestly when asked. If someone has a problem with it, I let them go about their business and just leave. Luckily, I haven't had anyone flip their shit about it, but I know someone will in the future. Too bad for them I don't really care and I have a perfect motor assembly to help me vacate their vicinity, or in the case of an online incident, a handy little x.

My father knows and respects my interests, my Grandmother couldn't care less and loves me all the same, my siblings  all don't see a problem with it, and I still hold a good share of non-furry/non-brony friends (who shall not be named here) and none of them have anything against it.

[Poli "Lissy" Drax]

Most of them have known for years. A few I haven't told, but that isn't out of not wanting to, but more because they wouldn't care either way. They have no interest in the fandom, so why care?


I've actually turned one of my friends furry by accident, hilariously, so that's a thing. But yeah, I'm fairly open about what I like. Don't see any reason to have shame in liking dogs or cats that look human. And if anyone makes the whole sexualisation argument, I just idly point out that the internet sexualises anything. Doesn't mean I condone it, it's just a thing we're all aware of.

[Angder]

All my "True" friends know, and even my friend who turned out to be Anti-fur does not really care...

[George]

Most of my friends know I have "some kind of weird hobby" but other than that I don't think the know more.

imo this makes it more suspicious, and if someone finds out, they'll assume being a furry is something to be ashamed of, and possibly that the stereotypes are true.

[Cheza]

imo this makes it more suspicious, and if someone finds out, they'll assume being a furry is something to be ashamed of, and possibly that the stereotypes are true.

I don't see how it makes anything suspicious. I haven't literally told them that "Ohai, I'm a furry, it's a weird thing", it's more like I don't hide it but I don't shout it out to everyone either. I have two traditional drawings of Cheza on a wall and all my fursuit heads are "out in the open", mostly because I don't really have anywhere else to keep them, so those who have visited me probably assume it's got something to do with a hobby or something. If people were to ask me "Are you a furry?" I'd ofc tell them, but otherwise I don't really see a reason to do so.

[Hycanith]

It's a hobby, so I treat it as one. I'm sure my friends have figured it out considering I have 6 shirts with fablefire's glorious artwork and a fox-tribal mtg deck. It's nothing I'm really trying to hide. Treating it as a dark secret just makes it seem like a bad thing.

[George]

imo this makes it more suspicious, and if someone finds out, they'll assume being a furry is something to be ashamed of, and possibly that the stereotypes are true.

I'm a furry, it's a weird thing"

I meant that kind of thing, calling it "weird" means they might Google it.

[Teiko]

This thread is making me wanna stop hiding but im still scared

[Caesar Longstride]

Nobody knows my secret.

[George]

Nobody knows my secret.

You make it sound like some kind of weird cult.

[Caesar Longstride]

It is some kind of weird cult.