So this is something I’ve been thinking about a bit recently, and I’d be interested in hearing people’s thoughts on the matter.
Lets suppose you meet someone, and chat socially with them. Maybe a work colleague, maybe a friend met through a friend. You aren’t that close with them, but you get the vibe that they aren’t a bigot or judgemental at the very least. If the conversation turned to furry stuff, would you tell them that you like furry art?
Do you keep a different set of non-furry socials for your irl friends and family? What about having a furry profile pic on your work slack? Or your Github? Do you try hard to make sure that nobody will be able to find your secret furry double life if they know you IRL?
I guess, in essence, I’m wondering if you draw a hard line between your “sfw furry life” and your “IRL life”.
I’m not “out” in the sense that I go out of my way to actively tell people I’m a furry, and I don’t have blatantly furry stuff like bad dragon stickers, nor do I tell people to refer to me by my fursona name (long story, but a coworker at my job when I first started did this, to the point where it was even his username–IIRC, management went along with it because his birth name resulted in a username that was identical to another employee’s username).
That said… my immediate family all know I’m a furry and so is my husband. my avatar is either my fursona, or a generic furry character (this is the case at work where I do not want people associating me with the type of art I tend to commission). I occasionally post (SFW) furry memes like boykisser in work chat, and I wear furry-adjacent t-shirts at work. My car has Yoshi bumper stickers on it, and my desk has a picture of a grumpy-looking rabbit captioned “Don’t carrot all.” And if someone at work directly asks if I’m a furry, I don’t deny it. So… I’m out, but not in the way where I tell everybody about it proactively?