Please read me, everyone. In my experience, if people stop being friends with you, whose fault is it? It's theirs, if you're not allowed to have the same friend group because you are a furry you shouldn't have to be friends with them, I'm sure others would be willing to be your friend if you tried and look outward for new friends, im sure if they left you for one feature they didn't deserve to be your friend in the first place, I say you stay a furry, yes it will lure some people away but at the same time those are the people who think it's cool to spread a stigma, so, be it if they don't want to be your friend, did they deserve to be yours is the question in the end. Many, including I would be accepting of a furry in my friend group, in my opinion, people who are different than me are cool, whether it be where they are from or what they identify as, im friends with Bi people, trans people, furries, it's all just how you put your outlook on it, you do you but I say don't change because people think its weird, because if that happens then will there ever be change? (sorry I typed an essay lol)