Valencia

Very well spoken and meaningful- I share many of the same feelings about how the community has made an impact on my life. If I wouldn'tve had this place, Im sure there's large pillars of myself that I never would've discovered.

I don't think I'd know myself as much as I do now.

The best people I've met have been bronies, The most meaningful friendships have been bronies, the best trips I've ever made have been brony related, the best relationship I've had has been meeting them through this site.

I'm right there with you @Nightfall Gloam

Hmm 

Feld0 approves of my advice and gives me a brohoof...

didn't see that happening on my first full day on the forum XD

but that's just my way of looking at things 

Just own it and go about your day. If they see you're shy about it then they think you're embarrassed and escalate it to try and use it against you. Telling them like its no big thing would probably take them aback and just let the subject pass on through like any other conversation. 

I accidentally told my whole team at work about my enjoyment of mlp through our team chat XD. I just made a joke about owning it & how its good, then the team lead and I started blowing up the chat with talks about rainbows cause apparently she was big into care bears. Kinda made new friends at a new job by doing that