Family's reaction to me being a Brony.

Wow, yeah your lucky that your family is so supportive. I hear so many stories of kids being disowned because they like MLP. There are a lot of very bad families out there. My dad has disowned me because I didn't stay in the army until retirement and started my own game store instead of becoming a mechanic, but my mom is supportive of me as a brony.

 

I love your mom, my grandparents are also supportive, my dad doesn't really care, I'll joke about it with him all the time like "are you really going to listen to a man with a pony on his shirt?"

 

I want to see the results of it. I wish I had a pony plushie, but at least I have my blind bag ponies now.

 

Congrats, that's really good to hear, and I'm happy for you! My mom doesn't know because I never brought it up to her but I know if I did she would be supportive of me and wouldn't bat an eye at it. She would rather have me doing anything including liking ponies then getting drunk or smoking pot like some people I know. All my friends know though and they don't mind it at all because it doesn't change who I am and I'm still the same person that they knew before. It doesn't change anything about our friendship, and actually the show has made appreciate my friendships even more and not to take them for granted. Anyways, I'm glad that you had a happy ending and that you can be free (at least around your family to engage in what you like without the fear of being judged by them. Just curious, are you gonna tell your friends or anyone else? Have a nice day!

 

Sparky, can you get your mom to adopt me? That would be the awesomez. ^^

 

My cousin (whom has a custom made fur suit) offered to make me a Nightmare Moon plushie if I can get a hold of a pattern. :x

My mom sewed like a master. I got all sorts of handmade quilts, blankets, and clothes growing up. She probably would've made me some pony stuff. ;P

 

Your Mom's Sewing ya a plushie?

Sounds like one of the best reactions one could hope for.

 

^ That. That's awesome that your mum's making you a plushie. I'm not really one for the material pony things (although I wouldn't mind some clothing if I could justify spending the money :c) but I have to say I would love to have a Princess Luna Plushie, one big enough to be used as a pillow would be 20% cooler.

Anyway, good to see it all went great.

 

Wow you are damn lucky. My dad laughed at me ( must have been a HUGE shock to him) and now I'm too scared to tell anyone else (besides my cousin I told him and he didn't mind

 

seems like my family isn't exception.

Sister: Since we both like similar stuff, after I became brony, I just had to show her few episodes for her to become Pegasis (at this point, we teamed up)

Mom: doesn't mind, she made my Rainbow Dash cake for my 20th birthday, Rainbow Dash mug as gift, and whole lot of pony merch for Christmas.

Dad: after me and sis showed him few episodes, he now watched mlp with me and sis every weekend

 

My Experience:

Mother: "Oh, cool! This show sounds really neat."
Dad: "That's really cute."
Brother: "This is awesome."
Friends: "Okay...?" (nobody minds)

You aren't alone. I haven't experienced a single negative response. Some people were skeptical at first, but eventually they were all like, "Whatever floats your boat."

 

Wow, your family seems great. I'm not sure if my family know for sure. They saw me watching it on TV but they did think much of it. I haven't really found myself in a position where I would have to explain but I'm sure that they wouldn't care. A lot of people at school know I'm a brony. Some of them are bronies too, some of them think it's weird (mainly my non-brony friends) and the others couldn't care less.

 

I'm pretty sure most of the people around here are Social Libertarians, so i mean, their gut reaction towards everything is "Whatever floats your boat. As long as you aren't making me watch it that's cool." And like i've said before, I'm pretty relaxed about everything, so even if they did, I wouldn't really care.

 

A lot of my friends are bronies, and the ones that aren't just don't care that I am.

My family readily accepted it. I got several toys for Christmas even lol. I got my middle sister into it as well (helps that her boyfriend is a brony too). My parents point out ponies whenever they're on a commercial or something, and my oldest sister watched a few episodes but is too busy with my niece and nephew to watch a lot.

 

Well you're a girl, you have an unfair advantage

 

You Guys are truly lucky to have families that don't mind you watching a show like this. My friends know and don't care and only three are Bronies them selves but only my oldest friends is a die heart one like me. The only Family Member knows I am a Brony is my Brother and Confused he is and told me a few day if I could stop drawing ponies. I told him No. For Good Reason why i told him is that i'm going into animation and for me to get into is take refuge of drawing all different types of animated characters and this be part of it is just one of it...I also told him that there are worst things in my life that i could get myself into then this. He told me "That true..You could be a juggalo." He also told me he was going to buy me a Brony shirt but i think i know which one he's gonna get in which i have, already. My Folks have seen my work but have no clue where it came from. I Really want to talk to them about but i don't know what to suspect from them. They already know i'm a strange and weird kid. I don't know if i should take a risk at and flat out tell them or wait for a perfect moment?

 

Go for it, if he hates you for it, his loss