did you tell a partner or friends? If so, how did they react? If not, would you ever tell anyone/do you want to?

I've never told anyone about mine but I feel like I want to and will soon...it will help me feel less weird and secretive about it and embrace it more I think, and it's kind of a relief to tell someone who won't judge.

I think my only hesitation is that a lot of people have had braces before and it probably wasn't a pleasant experience, maybe even hated it..so I wonder if me saying I find them kinky would be weird? Not sure. I've obviously never had them (but will in three days !!!) so who knows how reality will change the kink.

But yeah...I really want to get it off my chest and feel more normal and not ashamed about it. I don't think it's that weird of a kink. I'm on the submissive side and braces+appliances are kinda like oral bondage..there's pain, humiliation, this transformation aspect, a public embarrassment aspect, being in the chair unable to speak or move etc. Lot of common kink themes I feel. And I just find braces super attractive aesthetically...something about the metal and novelty of them and attention to the teeth/mouth area maybe. I find the look of them arousing, and the act of getting them on even more so.

I'll see how they react, but I really have nothing to be ashamed of.

I recently told my husband, and he took it pretty good. He seemed mostly upset that he wasn’t told this earlier because he has trusted me with a kink of his, and it’s not as strange as this. Like Tin_Grin8444 said, he did say it is the strangest kink of anyone he had been with, but he is totally fine with it. He definitely uses it to tease me, and he isn’t shy about it!

From experience, we wayyy over play this in our heads. I was so nervous that he would think it was weird but it was fine.

I pretty much concur with all of the above.  Tread lightly and be thoughtful about it.  But I have told several people over the past year after keeping it to myself all these years.  And it was never the disaster that I had worked up in my head.  I wouldn't just spit it out during the middle of dinner.  The last time I told someone it was in bed after being intimate. Afterwards as we made pillow talk she said she, um, liked it a little rougher than we had been doing it.  This led to a conversation of our likes and dislikes.  I told her about my braces kink.  She did find it unusual, but not repulsive in the least.  And it launched her into telling me all about when she had braces, and about how horrible it had been.  At one point she asked me something along the lines of "you think it would be hot if I had braces?  Even headgear?"  I told her something along the lines of "yes, especially if you had headgear".  So, we both learned some things about each other that made our time together better afterwards.  The next morning I made some crack about being embarrassed that I had told her about my weird fetish.  She responded that she liked my weird.  So, it worked out for both of us.  I am still working on talking her into some fakes, but again I am treading lightly. Though, being introspective and considering she does have a little of a submissive side, she might want me to tell her she has to do it.  Hmm, something for me to consider.

Umm, just in general, I don't think approaching a stranger and diving headfirst into fetish land as a pickup is usually a very successful strategy.  It weirds people out, makes them run, and it makes them put up a wall.  You see it all the damned time on the internet with weird, creepy, and inappropriate comments on social media posts.

She might not be with you because you are too young.  Or she may be trying to be polite; and the real reason is you objectified her as an object of your fetish right from the start.

To the OP, I may be wrong here, but I would NOT try this approach when sharing your secret with someone.

I was replying to the poster above me about approaching strangers directly about fetishes; the scenario they described.

I was just saying that is probably not the best idea.  If you are friends, then just wait for an appropriate opportunity, bring it up, and see what the response is.  And go from there.

My whole point was just to be thoughtful and respectful about it.  Don't be over the top with it. 

Maybe I am wrong, but I don't think approaching the next girl you see at the bar with braces and staring at her mouth while drooling, humping the bar, and muttering "your braces are so hot!" is going to work out well for anyone.  The girl, the person approaching them, or any of us here.

I apologize if I read the room wrong.  I just see so many people making inappropriate and cringeworthy comments to complete strangers on social media about their braces.  And it freaks them completely out.  My radar picked up a possible bogey when I read your response.  If I was wrong, and it sounds like I was, then I apologize.

The only person I've told directly and explicitly is my wife (well before we married). She took it extremely well, basically saying, "That's what you were so nervous about telling me? It's just braces? That's no big deal."

She went on to fakes, 22 months of real braces followed by Hawleys, and is now back to fakes. It's been fun.

Haven't told anyone in person but I've occasionally mentioned it on dating apps. 

So glad to find this community!

I say that on a dating app, and within 10 minutes my account is locked, lol

So you say on a dating app you have a braces fetish?  And then they lock it?

Latin America is the cradle of appearances, and telling someone that they look cute with their braces, they can accept it, but the fact of telling them that you like them, and also that you approached that person for that reason? It is not very well seen by almost anyone, by itself, devotion is considered an aberration, and almost a disease.

But objectifying someone and trying to turn them into your fetish play toy from the start is not a winning strategy.

But wait, it worked with Carrie and she likes it. 

I feel like I’ve shared this before here, but I’m sure that post is years buried, so I’ll share again:

I have told one person, ever. I told my husband when we first started dating, and I told him for two reasons. The first was that he had braces at the time. We were not kids or teenagers, we were young adults but he’d had his since his late teens and had them for several years already when we met and started dating. He really hated them and was pretty self conscious about them. Not that braces were absolutely awful, just the fact that he still had them and nobody else our age really did. Adults with money, yes. Teens whose parents were paying, also yes. But none of our peers. So to him they were embarrassing, like a sign he was still a kid or something, and also the truth of why he still had them was because his parents had stopped paying the orthodontist, so he could neither proceed with treatment or get them taken off without someone paying what was still owed, which as a broke college student with a totally unstable/unsupportive home life, was entirely impossible. I didn’t know this about his braces for a long time, but it’s definitely part of why they were so embarrassing to him, since it’s not like they were doing anything. But I really felt like I HAD to tell him, since he would frequently apologize for them and complain about how self conscious he was.

The other reason I told him was that I’d really only just then discovered this was more than an intense interest, it was actually something sexual and attraction based, and I just felt SO WEIRD AND GROSS. I really wanted someone to tell me, hey, it’s ok, it’s not that weird, you are fine.  Which… he sort of did tell me that. I made a really big deal of telling him and he was completely unfazed. Apparently in his mind some girls just like braces. There had been a girl before me who also liked them! I did not inquire as to just HOW MUCH she liked them, like was it a thing, or did she just think he was cute and therefor the braces were cute, or what, but it was completely no big deal to him. Even with how much he hated having them.

So then I married him.

And what I never came right out and said was that his braces were THE ONLY reason I ever gave dating him a try. I was young, or at least looking back it seems like I was so young, but at the time I felt old and weary of relationships. I had had SO MANY relationships completely fail, and I mean crash and burn horribly, with lasting fallout, that I had absolutely sworn off boyfriends and girlfriends. The problem was always me. It was always that that spark of physical attraction was just not sustainable. I can fall in love with someone, and love them deeply, but I guess I just am not intensely physically attracted to most humans. I do have a really intense interest in certain non-organic objects, though. Like braces, and other similar things. And even though of course I noticed he had braces (because literally NO ONE ELSE around us did, it was ONLY HIM) I still wouldn’t have considered dating him or anyone else. I was, in my mind, absolutely over it. But of course I would always talk to him if the opportunity came up, because I wanted to see his braces. I would, of course, also go out of my way to create said opportunities. So I could see his braces. They gave him a lisp and I was always trying to figure out what extra thing he had that caused it.  …He also stutters. Not really badly, but enough that my little heart was absolutely head over heels. So he picked up on… something, I guess, and even though I wasn’t intentionally flirting, I guess that gave him the green light to flirt with ME. And of course I wasn’t about to be like “no I’m not interested” because I WAS interested.

And lo and behold, that intense physical spark that had always been missing? OH IT WAS NOT MISSING ANYMORE.

So, I am absolutely weird. But also we have been happily together for more than 20 years now. And it’s unlikely that I will ever tell anyone else about this, but more because I can’t imagine how it would come up. I’m a lot more comfortable just being very strange than I was back then, so I don’t feel the need to be so secretive, so probably if the opportunity arose I would share. I just don’t know how that would come about.

And obviously he does not have braces anymore, but he did have them for almost six years. Sometimes people post here wondering how they could extend their time in braces, and I will tell you, you can just stop going to the appointments. If you do that, and keep the braces on for a year or two extra, your teeth WILL NEVER MOVE BACK. Even if you don’t wear your retainers even once in your life.

…or at least that’s how it went for us. He got them taken off before a major life milestone, but before that… they were really just there for me. And I feel like I also shared this here once before, but I was very nervous that our entire relationship would implode after he got them off. It didn’t, but I was really worried there for a while, and he was a little bit too. That’s why he left them for so long to begin with.

But wait, it worked with Carrie and she likes it. 

I still hate I didn’t buy Carrie a drink at the A-town Loft bar.  A gorgeous woman alone at at bar.  With braces.  Fudge.  But I knew her husband might whip my ass….  I would have bought you drinks.  I tend to do that.

I haven't told anyone yet (apart from you now ). Would really like to open up towards my friends at least, but i am too afraid of the reactions.
They sometimes ask why I am still single, they cannot know that my whole sexuality is all about braces (and a few other side kinks) and that I don't really feel attracted to people 

I feel kind of isolated because of that and fear to grow old alone... If you have tips to get out of that or if you are in a similar situation, feel free to write me (here or via PM)

I only told one person. I told my former girlfriend, who is now my wife.
At first she thougt it is a little bit weird. After all she took it extremely well and said that its no big deal.

After years, she is now be up for wearing fakes.