Are you guys open about your hobby?

hello! i've been collecting action figures all my life, marvel/transformers/godzilla mostly, but its sort of a secret hobby. as a kid I used to get the whole "why don't you play with girl toys??" which was blegh.

im 19f in college with bad social anxiety so i definitely wont be bringing up thanos action figures as a conversation topic. also people usually assume im at least in the anime figurine direction which i guess is a result of being korean and living in a predominantly caucasian lol. it does seem nice to one day be open about all this.

Do you guys talk about collecting? How does it go?