I don't even know what most people say when they tell me they're a fur so I probably wouldn't ever tell others "I'm furry". What does that even mean? I just tell people about the parts of furry that I'm into so I'll tell them I make and perform in costumes. It's a bit weird I guess but hardly noteworthy really. My mother loves Isambaard and likes to show her friends pictures of the costume.

I guess if you said what it is that makes you say you're furry then it would be easier to comment. For me it's all about costumes and to a lesser extent art and that furs tend to be of a similar mindset so I have a lot of friends in the fandom.

I find it hard to think of how it would be something so important that you'd have to come out as it. It's just something I do for a hobby really, what exactly is a furry lifestyle? Is it papering your house with furry art? Watching nothing but The Lion King? Crawling around on all fours around the house? Only buying products with an animal on the box? I've no idea. It's such an amorphous vague thing.