It's your life, you run it how you want to. Don't let modern society get to you. We have our rights to being different. If anyone has a problem with it, they can leave and go bother someone else with their bulls***. It's YOUR life, YOUR decisions, YOUR control, and YOUR control ONLY.

And what if she pulls the "My house, my rules" Card. I pretty much have nowhere to go, unless I go to stay with a friend, but even that won't be permanent. I have little to no income.

To back up Suzonda, even if you do live with her, why must you be forced to like what she likes, why must you not like being a furry especially if it centers you so well? You're already pretty furry, just not in the sense that she thought. :P Really though, try to explain to her that it makes you more comfortable with yourself, like one finding their spirit animal [totes swiping how PK explained it to Grandma, lol]. From there, if she is not alright with it then that's just one more hole to cover in your headboard if you catch my drift. If she is, then there's no issue. I'm not so much shocked that she doesn't like it, but she has to understand how you are if she loves you. And we both know she does, so she'll come around. [If it helps, drop my name in there, see if that helps.]

And what if she pulls the "My house, my rules" Card. I pretty much have nowhere to go, unless I go to stay with a friend, but even that won't be permanent. I have little to no income.

How much more of school do you have to get through to become a certified professional?

As stubborn as your mom is, I highly doubt she'd really pull that card on you because of what you like. She knows just as well as you do that you've nowhere to go and trying to alter who you are just to make herself happy, she's not that bad. [OratleastIhopelikehellsheisn't.]