Being judged?

[AutisticBrony 47]

Hey guys! ^^

So lately I've been telling my friends+family that I watch MLP. Now, at first, you might be afraid of people judging you, or losing respect. Well, that was true in my case.

Once you tell the first few people, it gets much easier. And another bonus is that barely anyone will be judgmental! (wow dgm is in there. DGM! Back to topic...) One friend said to me, "Really? You're a My Little Pony fan? (You lose all my respect.)" and, turns out he was just trollin'! He IS the trolling type of guy. Anyways, I haven't been judged. Not once.

And now I ask you:

Have you ever been judged for being a brony?

And how did it turn out?

Thanks for reading!

-AutisticBrony

[An Old Head 4,816]

I haven't really admitted it to anyone other than my own brother; what I used to do was give myself the name "Rainbow Dash" when someone put Counter Strike on the school computers. Other people on the LAN game would see my name, and I eventually found another brony who recognised the name. It was cool.

If I ever do admit to a widespread audience that I'm a brony, it would be online, probably as a Facebook status where all my friends can see it. This gives people a chance to look it up, and should they choose to respond you can mull over a justified response - it's much easier than real life. (Do you get this too? I noticed your name was AutisticBrony, and I'm also autistic - so it's easier for me to talk to people online than in real life).

Edited December 30, 2012 by Flipturn

[Shanks 10,816]

No I haven't and I even made a youtube video coming out as one and everything and didn't really get a response one way or the other. I don't know why but shortly after I got into the show I just kind of felt like doing it. Other than that video though I haven't really told anyone, I haven't been in the closet about it but I haven't gone out of my to tell anyone either.

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

Yes. Yes I have. My parents and best friends dissaprove of me being a brony, with the former wishing I was no longer involved in it. As for the latter, I've taken some serious crap for what I like. Have you ever wanted to slap someone after they've hated something for no reason whatsoever other than stereotypes? I have. Multiple times.

[Yes-Man 597]

Yes. A lot. Yesterday hurt a lot, actually.

I went to Hot Topic to buy a pony shirt(and other pony stuff).

I was in the MLP section, and some little kid walks up to me,and about to ask me something, then his sister pulls him away and says to him very loudly, "Come on Tyler, we don't associate with bronies"

Then I decided to wear the Derpy, Dr.Whooves, and Twilight pins that I got on the new laniard, and as I was walking people kept looking at me funny and whispering things to each other and laughing.

The high point was when some little kid asked me for directions, and his mother pulled him away, and took it upon herself to tell the security guard about the "pedofiliac with the My Little Pony pins"

It was awful.

[Shiki 5,855]

I get called a faggot erryday at school, not only because I am very open about being a brony, but also for watching very "moe" and cute anime. However, I assume it is in jest, because I'm certain there are many who are simply afraid of me, because I am not afraid of anyone there, at my school. Most people who get called such things and take them too seriously are just asking for more of it, basically. However, whenever I get called names, I go along with it, and make it a mutual joke between me and other said party, thus making it not insulting whatsoever. And whenever they get serious and start pulling out the name calling, I am not afraid to pull out the jackass side of my personality and respond accordingly so. The people at my school are simply idiots, and I'm sure anyone here on this site could handle making them back off by outsmarting them, because this place is full of people who aren't stupid, unlike real life. 

 

What people say behind my back is beyond me, but I like to think that my rising confidence in my social status is justified. 

 

My family knows about my brony-ness. I got multiple MLP gag gifts for Christmas. Sometimes, when, say, my guardians get mad at me for something else, they'll seriously try to offend me by reminding me that I watch MLP. I ignore it. It's not as if I'm going to let one, two, three, or forty people out of seven billion affect me in a negative way.

[Trinity Erin 32]

I've told a few people that I happen to like MLP. I've never been judged. I think it's more expected because 1] I am a girl, 2] I like the fantasy genre 3] I sqwee over anything cute and girly. So when I tell people they either give me a "Daaw, that's so cute!" or "I kind of expected that".

[Jessper 735]

Such a drama everywhere. There is a difference between saying "I'm a brony." and "I have killed thirty people and then ate them." yet people make it sound pretty similar. 

 

 

I've basically met my girlfriend on MLP screening during anime con, the same screening where I actually discovered MLP itself, I'd say nice double-catch, considering I just went there because I wanted to sit down somewhere. So no problems there. I've also proceeded to tell friends in pub the next day. Then the people I play D&D with. Then people I play games with. Then people I work with. Never told parents, as I don't see a reason why, as I doubt they watch MLP or want to have debate about it (and I don't live with them).

 

The worst reaction I got was along the lines of "Wait. No. Really? Well, I guess it's a lot like you...". Mostly because I couldn't decide whether that was offensive of complimentary. But then again, I'm known for being pretty eccentric and I don't really befriend "hater" kind of people at the first place.

Edited December 30, 2012 by Jessper

[Twilight Circuits 603]

judgement is cause and effect based of knowledge and ignorance. It's what happens afterward that if we started to understand the world truly loves or hates itself.

[Nixter 180]

Mum calls me gay, two of three of my sisters calls me gay, my dad? "Y'know, the show isn't bad at all." 

 

 

dad is supportive, females aren't 

 

wat fak

[MrAwesomeness 59]

I get judged, but most people just dont care. One of my friends pretends to be a hater, but you can tell he really doesnt care . My dad thinks its weird, but other than the thought of it, he doesnt care. My extended family is the same as my dad.

 

In a nutshell, It hasnt really changed peoples views on me. Prolly cause I was already really weird before ponies :3

[Just some guy 1,070]

Yes and no.

 

Some of my friends don't really care about my brony status (Hell,even one of my friends thought it would be cool if I got and wore a Derpy hoodie to school).Some of my other friends,my best friend included,don't particularly don't take very well to ponies.So I just end up not bringing it up,only talking about it when it comes up in conversation.

[AutisticBrony 47]

I haven't really admitted it to anyone other than my own brother; what I used to do was give myself the name "Rainbow Dash" when someone put Counter Strike on the school computers. Other people on the LAN game would see my name, and I eventually found another brony who recognised the name. It was cool.

 

If I ever do admit to a widespread audience that I'm a brony, it would be online, probably as a Facebook status where all my friends can see it. This gives people a chance to look it up, and should they choose to respond you can mull over a justified response - it's much easier than real life. (Do you get this too? I noticed your name was AutisticBrony, and I'm also autistic - so it's easier for me to talk to people online than in real life).

Eyyyup. Did the same thing. Set my prof pic to Rainbow's face. Then I posted lots of pony pics. Awwwww yeaaaaa. Now I think one of my other friends is a brony.

[~Vallo~ 409]

I've only told a couple of friends, and they were very understanding and said that I was brave to tell them. I thought that they would be very judgmental, but I guess they respected me for telling them.

[Jordan Dash 31]

  Let me tell you a little story... not too short but not too long. 

 

  Back, about a year or two ago when I announced to the world that I was a brony... it took all the courage I had, I worry about what people thought if I told everyone. But over a week or two, I realized that I don't care what people think about me, I don't care if they think i'm gay for watching a show that was oriented towards little girls, I like what I do and you should too. My parents think i'm gay (they never said it out loud but I can tell) but they accept what I like, for example at Christmas they got me like $200 worth of pony merchandise just cause they knew my mind was set. But the hardest part is the social life I had and what I have now...

 

  After I told a few friends, word got out and by a week everyone knew but after taking pounds and pounds of insults thrown at me, I realized... it's my life and no one should control me. So the next few weeks I wore pony shirts and hoodies everywhere I went, sure people pointed and laughed but I also got some new friends, ones that care! I've even had the privilege of getting smiles from kids that know the show. But other than that, all in all, because of me stepping into the world, I've found TRUE friends from the last that never really cared.

 

  I hoped this helped <3

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Edited January 3, 2013 by Jordan Dash

[Victor van Dort 202]

My cousin and I hang out from time to time. He's not a serious hater, but he won't become a brony anytime soon. Sometimes he uses me being a brony as an insult, but he uses it more along the lines of being annoyed by it more than hating it.

[TheTEChguy27 273]

Well, I've always had a sort of fear of being constantly judged, so adding ponies to the mix didn't really change much. Most people don't know I'm a brony anyways.

 

I DID wear my Discord shirt to school today, though, and I think I got a few winks. Feels good man.

[CloudsdaleCompanion 342]

My cousin called me gay at first, but after showing her the community (art and music) and explaining the whole Brony thing I guess she started to understand. Slowly.

 

My mom was kind of shocked at first, but thanks to the Doctor Who forums she found out about Bronies herself and now she doesn't mind the slightest bit.

 

My dad doesn't even care.

 

My best friend and some other friends however assumed I was gay straight away and I think they still think so. My best friend doesn't hate on ponies (I hope), but he sure doesn't like them and doesn't like me liking loving them. If you know what I mean.

[Fluffy Pinkie 417]

  Let me tell you a little story... not too short but not too long. 

 

  Back, about a year or two ago when I announced to the world that I was a brony... it took all the courage I had, I worry about what people thought if I told everyone. But over a week or two, I realized that I don't care what people think about me, I don't care if they think i'm gay for watching a show that was oriented towards little girls, I like what I do and you should too. My parents think i'm gay (they never said it out loud but I can tell) but they accept what I like, for example at Christmas they got me like $200 worth of pony merchandise just cause they knew my mind was set. But the hardest part is the social life I had and what I have now...

 

  After I told a few friends, word got out and by a week everyone knew but after taking pounds and pounds of insults thrown at me, I realized... it's my life and no one should control me. So the next few weeks I wore pony shirts and hoodies everywhere I went, sure people pointed and laughed but I also got some new friends, ones that care! I've even had the privilege of getting smiles from kids that know the show. But other than that, all in all, because of me stepping into the world, I've found TRUE friends from the last that never really cared.

 

  I hoped this helped <3

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That's a very touching story. It's story's like these that make me happy to be a brony, How can we ever tell kids to be themselves if we don't even have the couarge to like a cartoon and let people know. I really hope that young kids who like the show can see us older bronies and have the strength to be themselves and not care what people have to say.

 

I really believe that your strong especially continuing to like something your parents think is possibly gay, good for you

[Callisto 1,877]

Well, not really, but considering I have no real life friends, there's no one to judges me except my family. The only one who does judge my brother, who I'm 80% sure thinks I'm gay. He's the "I dislike everything different" type.

[Jordan Dash 31]

That's a very touching story. It's story's like these that make me happy to be a brony, How can we ever tell kids to be themselves if we don't even have the couarge to like a cartoon and let people know. I really hope that young kids who like the show can see us older bronies and have the strength to be themselves and not care what people have to say.

 

I really believe that your strong especially continuing to like something your parents think is possibly gay, good for you

 

You just filled my heart with love :3 <3

 

You may have just posted something to reply, but you did more than that, I like people like you who give others praise. 

[Wubsie 1,123]

When I told my friend at school he told everyone. And it grew like a virus. People kept callng me an autistic fag subhuman piece of garbage.

Oh god that was terrible.

[Zygen 6,066]

I'm still a closet brony, Yeah I'm afraid of being judged because to be honest i'm pretty sure most of the school already thinks of me as weird. My parents and my brother don't even know because I have that feeling my parents will surely not take it well, and my brother might just go around trying to embarrass me.

 

I already have enough trouble having friends or a social life because I'm so shy, I don't need something else that people are going to judge me for. Besides I don't really see a point in bringing up the fact I'm a brony other then simply because. Keeping it hidden from my parents and my brother isn't really a big deal, because I pretty much hide most of the stuff I do online anyways.(Its not because I'm doing anything they might hate actually. Its just because I don't like people being up in my business :/ )

 

Also I know for almost a fact that one of my closest friends is atleast somewhat a hater or at very least doesn't like the show, so I don't have plans to really stop being a closet brony anytime soon. Its not really my parents or my brothers business and I know that theres a few people who exhibit alot of symptoms of being haters in some form. Some of which are of the few friends I have. If you call it that.

 

To be fair I don't really have much in the way of  friends really. I mean I never hang out with anyone(Last time I went to someones house was before school started) So idk. I don't wanna make it any harder then it already is I guess.

 

Its nobody's business what I watch, so I don't really care to keep it secret. All telling people will do is make things more complicated and people will give me more weird looks. I'd like to have atleast a chance of having a social life through highschool. And I certainly don't want to be rejected by my family.

 

Just my perspective, call me scared or whatever but theres no way I could do it, considering I can hardly even do simple things like tell my crush Hi, or sometimes even start conversations with others.

 

I'll spare you my self pitty, I'm just offering a closet brony perspective I guess.

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

Nope, No one has ever judged or criticized me for being a brony. I told my best friend and he just shook his head and shrugged...He thinks its really stupid but he also knows that I am really really weird so he doesn't really care.

My sister always sighed when I talked about being a brony but she has stopped doing that. She also watches the show but she doesn't consider herself a brony.

[MagicalStarRain 599]

My father likes to poke fun at the fandom but also agrees that FOX news should get a life(they insulted bronies one time, in case you don't know). He doesn't mind me or my friends being pegasisters(or bronies. Which ever one).

 

My mother doesn't really care.

 

My brother called me a baby one time when he spotted some pony figurines on my drawer.

 

People at school look at me weirdly whenever I say that I'm a pegasister or whenever I make MLP references. I suspect some of them may be closet bronies though.

 

I really don't get judged a lot for it, so I can announce to everyone that I'm a pegasister and not get judged. But I know there will be a day when I talk about the show and people will say it isn't age-appropriate and that I'm an immature middle/high/college student who needs to get a life instead of making pony art and buying pony merchandise.

Edited January 3, 2013 by MagicalStarRain