Do you ever get scared out of a fandom? Yeah, hi. That’s me.

I used to be a furry. I dropped out of the fandom entirely and avoided all things furry related for so long. I was being bullied, attacked, and judged for it. I so badly want to go back to being a furry, as it made me happy and helped me cope with my anxiety, but I’m so f****** terrified that I’ll be judged and bullied again, marked as ‘That one girl who’s a furry, ewwwwww’. Thinking about it makes me want to cry pretty badly as back then it was probably the only thing that kept me happy and from committing suicide.

Nowadays you literally can’t go anywhere with something related to anthropomorphic animals without someone going ‘You’re a furry? That’s f****** disgusting bro lmao’

Not all furries like yiff, you know… don’t think that every furry is that way just because some of them do.

It’s a hobby, for fucks sake. An interest. People shouldn’t just go around bullying others just because they have an interest in humanoid animals.

Now – I would go back to the fandom despite all the bullying

But I’m fifteen years old. I don’t need to grow up with that negativity in my life – I already lost my father to a pulmonary embolism in 2013 and I’m still trying to get over it. So I genuinely don’t need to be bullied just for liking something and being a certain way 🙁

Just let me have my coping mechanisms and interests without being attacked or judged for it, for fucks sake…