Yeah, it's super unfortunate when people have these kind of attitudes and personally, I've only gotten slack from a few people but the absolute worst would have to be from my grandmother who is absolutely convinced that I'm a full blown animal hoarder. The looks she gives me whenever I mention another morph/species that I'd like to have are just ridiculous. And this is coming from a woman who used to breed tons and tons of cats.
To each their own, I suppose.

Most of the people I know in my age group (teenagers) are pretty open to the idea of snake collecting though and I've actually met a couple of folks who are just getting into the hobby like I am, which is always neat. Probably has something to do with the fact that the local high school has this nice little reptile room on campus where students can volunteer so a lot of people seem to be pretty well exposed.