A bit shy on approaching an entire online community (even though I don't know the majority of you)...but anyways, I'm being too fearful, off with my head!
Uh. Gee, I don't know where to start...well, I only recently became a brony (sometime in November I believe) and I'm glad I am one. I had met someone exactly like me, and we basically had everything in common, we had even skipped out on class on the same days (creepiest way to say hello to a friend...), and the discussion eventually led up to TV shows. It was then that he asked me if I was a fan of MLP (I of course had never heard of such a name or acronym before, so I was curious to know), and after I asked him about it, he gave me the full explanation. I didn't understand it at all, how a guy would watch such a show (I was the type who got instantly angry when called anything girly or feminine), and of course I thought very differently of him until the day he got me to just give it a try. I watched the first episode on youtube, and I thought nothing of it, I had told him it was an okay show and that I wouldn't really watch it unless there was nothing else on; but of course, it had its seemingly magical effect on me, and I was drawn back to youtube to watch more. It wasn't until I had seen a few, but I found myself watching more and more until I eventually saw what had happened to me (Wow, now that I think about it, I was very slow to notice), and I was in denial for a long time. Over the course of what felt like weeks (Which was actually a few days), I grew accepting of it and all embarrassment and fear faded away.
That's the history of it, and now, well, I'm a HUGE fan of it all and I'm glad my friend turned something I hated into something I now love.
I'm also a bit of a writer, I've been thinking about composing a bit for Equestria Daily sometime soon...um...so...yeah. I think I overdid it with the huge paragraph up there. Oh well.