BaneShea

I was honest with my parents and they're perfectly fine with it! My mom's even watched the show with me and bought me merch for Christmas ^-^ Just tell em!

I have a couple pony shirts. My favorite is my Doctor shirt. I've been brohoofed and got some good comments when wearing it, but I've also been insulted and one of my friends calls it disgusting and won't even look at it. He won't talk to me unless I have it covered...

I can agree with this. After finding mlp, I tried to introduce my boyfriend for months. Finally he gave in (with some bribery ) and now he LOVES it! I've never been more in love with him

1.) How old are you? 20, soon to be 21. 2.) What is your level of educational attainment? Some college. I'm in my third year. 3.) What groups or cultural identities other than Brony do you self-identify with? I'm the nerdy type, I enjoy anime, and I listen to metal AND country *gasp!* 4.) What attracted you to MLP and brony culture? I was seeing a lot of interesting MLP things on the web and I started wondering why anyone could enjoy that. So I watched it to see what the hype was and here I am! 5.) Do you consider MLP-related activities to be your primary hobby? Only when I'm in class, really. I'll doodle ponies among other things, like celtic knots. Outside of the classroom, I have waay too many hobbies. Beading, geocaching, origami, collecting four leaf clovers, gaming,...well I guess I collect the mlp blind bad ponies, too. 6.) What percentage of your leisure activities would you estimate are related to MLP? Maybe 40%. Most of it is chatting with a lot of brony friends or looking at pony pictures. 7.) What portion of your friends also consider themselves bronies? About 50%. The other half either don't care, are somewhat interested, or really HATE ponies. 8.) If you have non-brony friends, are you ‘out’ as a brony to them? If so, has this affected your relationship with them in any way? Yep! I honestly don't care if someone thinks less of me because of who I am. It has... There's one 'friend' in particular who once made me leave the house in tears because of something nasty he said about bronies as a whole, including myself. Another friend once sat down with us at lunch, and as he was sitting, said "You know what I hate? Bronies." And then proceeded to go on and on about us. He had no idea about me, apparently. I spoke up and he had this shocked look, and hasn't brought it up again. 9.) Do you feel that bronies as a group are put upon or stigmatized on the internet? (Or society as a whole?) Yeah, I do. I hear about it too much. Mostly just people who don't understand and refuse to understand, throwing around accusations and calling us names. It makes me sad. Some people outright avoid me now, as if I have an extremely contagious disease...

I'd actually be able to speak my mind, I'd be that loud jerk who loves being the center of attention, and instead of avoiding situations of tension and conflict, I'd try to make them... I guess I'd kinda like to be able to speak my mind...but the thought of the other things makes me sad...