I have to admit, I wasn't exactly the nicest of people when I first came across MLP. In fact, I was quite the opposite - I derisively dismissed it as "idiotic", to say the tamest word that I used back then. But the people there never bit back like the other people who would rage at my hating. They still treated me nicely - decently, even if I was just an angry little man.
I think that's when I really got interested in the pony world. There I was, hating them, but they never minded, which was practically what I wanted in the real world - to not care, to enjoy myself. And when I joined that magical bronyhood, it received me with open arms. Here was a place where everyone was welcome, and where everyone belonged.
I may be a newcomer to this sanctuary from that chaotic hell in the real world, but I am really thankful that this particular world exists.