If people know you watch the show, you slipped up somewhere. There is no way you could possibly expect any kind of positive response to that kind of thing from today's youth, so why/how did your taste for the show even go public?
There was this camp last summer and some of my classmates were there. We (me and three girls from my class (:D)) slept in a tent and I told them about how I'm a brony. Don't ask me why I did it. The two of them that I kinda know laughed
with me, and they could accept it. The third girl, however, went ahead and told everyone on the camp about it. Then, when school started, she told everyone there too.