If someone was wearing a expensive suit or dress that you see in like Runways or fashions shows would you go up and start touching/hugging the fabric, No. Its the same with Fursuits only flufflier

Break the illusion and give someone a slap of reality by removing your fursuit head and glaring at them in disappointment with your human face when they won’t leave you alone. It’s pretty effective sometimes in getting people to remember “Ooohh yeah that’s a person not a big stuffed animal.”

Also, be aware that suits can be “deceitful”. A female fursuiter may seem flat chested, a fursuit may have a dropped crotch. Be aware where you are touching them, so you don’t end up groping them. I’ve had that happen a few times in cosplay, and it is very uncomfortable.

Simply i respect fursuiters. they have my respect.

I am going to my first ever furry con on the 31st and these rules and advice will really help me for my first ever time interacting with fursuiters or furries in general in real life! Thank you for this video, Beta, I’ll be able to better interact with people without being a nuisance or annoyance!

Sometimes I unknowingly follow someone around if I want to ask for something but my social anxiety kicks in and I have to think about it for 30 minutes.

do not scritch (scratch) fursuits it can cause messed up fur and/or bald spots. most fursuiters will say no

Remember Folks; No means no!

My fear would be the suiter themself because I despise being touched without someone asking first. These kinds of people make me question if I should actually get a suit one day

I think the opposite should also be addressed. Fursuiters need to ask non suiters for permission too! I was at a con, and a suiter came up to me right after I had got out of reg line, and tried to mess with me (in a friendly way). It was really awkward because I was trying to find my friends that I was supposed to meet up with, and now I have this big fuzzy dog costume jumping around me in circles. I kinda froze up idk, it was a weird situationl.

There was this guy that used to go to our furbowl meetups. He was, like, late-20's/30ish? I remember I was 19 when I went to my first furbowl. I went with no one and fursuited and kinda just stood around, occasionally approaching a friend from the group chat and some others approaching me to compliment my suit. It included this guy. I never talked to the guy and I assumed he was nice; he was there with his mum. She kept basically smacking my beak and shouting "boop." Shit hurt my nose and she wouldn't stop; she dressed in a dirty cat onsee and said her sona pooped poptarts or something? It was like a 55-year-old never lost her 2010's LOL SO RANDOMZ phase.

I got to fursuit at a local non furry con recently and it was really nice though there were definitely some ppl that went in for a hug without consent,petting me or just got in too close and weird.

I wore a fursuit I made a while back at mcfc, and I was playing with a friend as a cat, and some random guy came up and just, joined in, grabbed a stuffed fish that I actually bought at the con and started doing what my friend was doing and bapping my face with it, and let me say, if I was any other person, I would have snatched the fish back and told them off, but no, I have crippling anxiety and just, played along hoping he wouldn't run off with my new plush.

TFF 2022 was my first furry convention I ever went to. It was so great meeting you there.

Great informative video, and yes please do that comprehensive list of fursuiting etiquette, that would be helpful for any new furries.

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Alright, this might sound weird. Given how only fursuiters use the headless lounge since it’s a place to relax and cool off a little, are their handlers allowed to follow them? A friend wants to get a fursuit and wear it at a con, and as their only furry friend, I might wind up assisting him and don’t want to commit a faux pas out of misguided assumptions.

Thank you I almost got kidnapped at TFF because people are creepy

Me with social anxiety:

I usually wear a "Please touch me! I'm ok with anything!" badge. Just bc I love being touched. And so people would feel comfy with me, so they know it's all cool.