Show him Robo-Geisha...It will distract his brain.

^ This.

Damn straight! When the hell are they gonna release it here!? :D

all the 'normal' people i associate with pretty much know im a furry, and to my understanding, they're ok with that

You don't commute in the DeLorean? Or the VW van? Or any of your other rides? That, to me, is a situation far more worthy of correction! But what do I know?

Lol my phone's home screen uses a furry profile picture of my character. I've gotten some looks from friends and colleagues before, but they never asked, so I never told. Personally, I think that they think that all these "critters" are just cute.

that is awesome =3

hah I was just thinking what fun it would be to go to a boring meeting in suit. oh I would so do it if there was a video conferencing meeting on Halloween.. :)

oh wow. He's a non believer! shuuuuun

I reckon I'm the same as you in this kind of situation coopertom. I don't think I'd tell my friends how much I'm into furry unless they're into it as well. But the thing is NONE of my offline buds are into furry. I don't have a cool fursuit like you (I don't even have a fursona), but I can tell what it was like for you in that moment. My little bro knows I like furry/anthro and he'll give me crap about it sometimes, but I don't let it bug me.

I think being furry is just something the world really ain't used to yet. :/

It's kinda weird XD When I tell people I'm a furry, they don't freak out. I think this whole coming out of the furry closet is a little overrated. IMO, anyway. Wells, alls hopin' for everytin to go alright with this ordeal ^.^

How very, awkward. Thank you for sharing that with us!

Star Trek fans never go through this kind of stuff. Why should we?

They used to

Uhm... what?

Star Trek fans go through this far, far, far more often then we do. =P

if he is truly your friend it wont matter

Agree with you 100% on that point Mike...Cooper my friend, if the time is rite to "come out of the den" you will know it. Who knows, maybe he could be a future Furry?

then i will do to him what i did to you....remeber mfm

make that furfright i got my cons crossed

forget that one

no make it wierd... wear a tail in

Hehe well it was bound to happen sooner or later. Hehe and im guessin he'll most likely bug ya about it later on, so just be prepared for it and everything :)

Awkward is spelling awkward wrong in a journal about awkwardness
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I hope you find out later that he's perfectly fine with it. It's hard to hide something so big about yourself. I think of it as if I ever told someone who didn't know I liked furries I would expect them to realize that after all the time we spent together and me not needing to talk about it, it really doesn't change the person they know at all. I'll still act the same everyday. So no need to worry.

haha

yeah that must look strange, I've had that happen before, kind of :x

Just play it off like it was nothing. Don't act like it's a big deal. Like the first poster said, get Robo Geisha or some weird video and go, "Heh, dude, you gotta check this out..."

If he's anti-furry? Well, not much will change that. Y'kinda know that. If he's just middle ground, whatever. Maybe he's just curious. But if you act like it's nothing... then that's what it is. =)

Wanna watch his head explode? I should walk up to you and your friend in Kellogg.

OMG, you're a Scanner!

When I first got into the fandom I didn't tell my family I was involved in it for fear that I'd get made fun of, but I realized the more you keep something a secret out of fear of ridicule, the more others are going to have an excuse to make fun of it when you finally tell them your interest or they figure it out on their own. Like others have said, if these people are your trusted friends, I don't think they would care.

I understand how furry just doesn't seem to need to come up with some friends and relatives. I've kinda taken a policy with some "non-furs" of "open, but not advertising," where if it comes up, it comes up, but if it doesn't, it doesn't. If they are curious, I'll tell them about it. It's usually a positive reaction.

When I'm in fursuit, though, it usually seems to come up for some reason. Can't a guy just have big ears and fur without being interrogated?!

I actually just recently told my friend. Sure it was awkward as HELL, but after he treated me completely the same as before. He said he didn't find anything wrong with it, so of course HE wasn't brainwashed by the fucking media. And I'm actually kinda in the same situation and I posted a journal a few days ago.

There are people that will accept it, people that will shun it... then the people that you convert!!! Muahahahha!

I bet you could turn him ;3

People think im a weirdo anyway, but if they find out that I am a furry then who gives a shit. And I have been trying to suck my sister into it lately.

Hey Coppertom, I had something like this but a tad bit different. I'll tell you my story and my solution.

About 7-8 years ago I joined the Furry Fandom and didn't really tell my rl friends or family either. Things were going good and it was like I was living two seperate lifestyles (kind of like alot of furries do) Anyways I have kept it secret for a long time.

When I went to Furbowl 13 and met you and others, I only told family and friends I was gong to Delaware to hang out with friends and chill really. I didn't really say anything about furries.

Well after that day, my father ended up talking to a friend who used to work with way back in the day and this guy lives in Delaware. Well they started talking and my father said that I was going to go to the bowling alley to bowl. Right away the guy new about Furbowl and said thats why I was going there and he sent him a link to the Furbowl site and I think Wikipedia or something *shrugs* My father then told my mother and it spread around the family quickly. Though they didn't say anything untill a few days before I was going to Furbowl 14.

With me being embarrassed as hell and shy about it, I just let it be and turns out my mother is really helping me out some. Saying that she can me free suits, tails, ears, etc for me and everything cause she's very good at that stuff. As that happened my rl friends knew that I was a furry and was alright by it to. So now my parents know and can make me free stuff, my local friends know and can do art on it and I'm open about my fur life and even brought a friend to furbowl 15 (Igen Mifune)

My advice would be if he asks and really wants to know, just give him small information like "oh their furries" or something. It may seem awkward but it might pay off. Just something I felt like sharing Copper ^.^

that was the best phone call ever because i had no clue what you were talking about. with my phone crapping out all i herd was found out about furbowl ....oh shit this sucks. i was like what the hell just happened lol you could also put this under the pounced incident about how i found out the guy in my chem class was also a fur and then the other guy in my chem class was also a fur lol our chem class was full of furs ahahahahahaha

wah wah wah? Who all in our chem class was fur's? Thought it was just me and you really?

If your talking about like sean and all them, their not exactly furs, just like fur porn pretty much. Nothing else.

nick..... other nick

Only nick's in the class was me and Nick P, which he only likes fur porn. Nothing else.

Personally, for me furry is just another one of my hobbies and I don't make a big deal over it one way or another. I don't go around advertising that I'm into furry stuff if the situation doesn't warrant it, but I'm also not ashamed of it if someone starts asking me about it or asks if I'm a furry. That goes for friends, family, and strangers. I certainly don't go into unnecessary details about what goes on at fur cons and etc., (epically to my family) and when explaining it to anyone who asks I try to shed a positive light on the fandom.

One of my other hobbies that I have that has some similarities when it comes to telling people I'm into is motorcycling: With both it's always awkward to tell your folks (usually Mom) that you are getting a motorcycle or explaining furry. When someone finds out I ride a motorcycle there have been numerous times when they have a negative response to it, either telling me I'll kill myself, or asking if I'm one of those assholes that pop wheelies on the freeway at 120mph. likewise, when someone asks and I tell them I'm into furry stuff I've got some negative responses, but mostly I hear "What's furry?" However, kids universally find both the fursuit and motorcycle to be totally awesome.

I don't advertise either hobby outside of it's context, but I don't hide it either. In my house you'll find helmet sitting on a table not far from the fox painting hanging on the wall, and the motorcycle jacket hanging in the same closet as the fursuit.

lol I told my housemates at my university about it a few weeks into my studies and they were very cool with it. When I got my fursuit, it was good to be around them, because they loved it just as much as I did.

lol i told a guy i work with because he loves inside jokes and i knew the way he creeps on my facebook that he would find out so i asked if he knew what a furry was and he said in a joking manner "furrries? like the people that dress in animal costumes and fondle each other? its ok Klaus. is one bothering you because together we can defeat this fuzzy." and i was dieing on the floor at that point because he got all up into it....(its an inside thing if you knew him you would die to because he can never be serious about anything) and so he was like whats wrong why are you laughing so hard? and i told him i was a fur and i have changed his whole perspective on it. but the only thing that anoys me is he things getting tails and suits is like a sermonize thing like in karate. but he got after seeing some facebook pics of furbowl he got the web site through Google and wants to come to one but i told him you are welcome to come but i am not taking you because i know you and you will get drunk and more than likely do something that i will get in trouble for he got the calender for it so i cant hid it and he saw my tail when i got it so he loves it and everyone at the fire house knows now because someone else got word of it. it took me about 3 weeks to tell him when he saw my first fur group on facebook i joined and i just beat around the bush on that. but all is good and having a furized facbook page everyone at school knows too.... but over all its good know one has had any negative thoughts about it other than one who thought it was a colt but everyone in the room was like what the hell are you talking about. but i love it lol

Just remember, if someone doesn't know what a furry is, you totally have the upper hand! You can tell them whatever you want and create their first impression.