Ok first off if this has been posted before please forgive me.
This has been a huge push in the right direction. I am like most of you who have loved my little pony before Lauren Faust came out with Friendship is magic. I love the old and new My little pony and it took a while for me to not be ashamed. There is no reason to when you are special just the way you are. If I could change one thing about myself I don't think I would want to.
Any way here is the quote I read;
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” ― C.S. Lewis