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Do you have a comfort object?
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promiseimtrying wrote:
I do! She is a small pink stuffed owl, about six inches tall. I got her in 2014 or so and I've been attached to her ever since. I also have a stuffed dinosaur that's about the same size. This is going to seem extremely weird, so please tell me if anyone else is like this: I literally talk to both of them. The owl (aptly named "Owl," although one of my friend's daughters calls her "Sleepy" - the dinosaurs name is Dino, so I guess I'm not very creative with names sometimes) especially has a full-blown personality. She's really sassy. The dinosaur mostly wants to play and give high-fives. I met the owl when I worked retail and the store that I worked at was selling them. We got her as a return one day and I genuinely carried her with me throughout that shift and sat her on the desk (this was not TOO weird where I worked, from an outside perspective - we sorted returns and sat various items that we liked on the desk sometimes) and my co-workers were like "man, you're obsessed with that thing." I was like "I love owls!" She literally cost less than five dollars. I was going through a breakup with someone who threatened to kill me and stole my entire life savings at the time, so maybe that's why I attached to her as a friend?
I'm almost 25 years old. I have a job and I'm in school. I've had varying toys that I was super close to throughout my life. Is anyone else like this? I feel like I couldn't tell anyone this in person without them being completely weirded out.
I'm almost 25 years old. I have a job and I'm in school. I've had varying toys that I was super close to throughout my life. Is anyone else like this? I feel like I couldn't tell anyone this in person without them being completely weirded out.
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IsabellaLinton wrote:
promiseimtrying wrote:
I do! She is a small pink stuffed owl, about six inches tall. I got her in 2014 or so and I've been attached to her ever since. I also have a stuffed dinosaur that's about the same size. This is going to seem extremely weird, so please tell me if anyone else is like this: I literally talk to both of them. The owl (aptly named "Owl," although one of my friend's daughters calls her "Sleepy" - the dinosaurs name is Dino, so I guess I'm not very creative with names sometimes) especially has a full-blown personality. She's really sassy. The dinosaur mostly wants to play and give high-fives. I met the owl when I worked retail and the store that I worked at was selling them. We got her as a return one day and I genuinely carried her with me throughout that shift and sat her on the desk (this was not TOO weird where I worked, from an outside perspective - we sorted returns and sat various items that we liked on the desk sometimes) and my co-workers were like "man, you're obsessed with that thing." I was like "I love owls!" She literally cost less than five dollars. I was going through a breakup with someone who threatened to kill me and stole my entire life savings at the time, so maybe that's why I attached to her as a friend?
I'm almost 25 years old. I have a job and I'm in school. I've had varying toys that I was super close to throughout my life. Is anyone else like this? I feel like I couldn't tell anyone this in person without them being completely weirded out.
I'm almost 25 years old. I have a job and I'm in school. I've had varying toys that I was super close to throughout my life. Is anyone else like this? I feel like I couldn't tell anyone this in person without them being completely weirded out.
Hi Promise (and Owl and Dino),
Welcome to WP! We need to be friends!
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Hi!! ! I am so sorry that I'm so late getting back to this. This reply makes my day.
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I feel embarrassed to admit this, but I have a "comfort object" too. His name is Don Cheetah (my parents named him after Don Cheadle), and he's a very well-loved toy cheetah. To this day, I keep him in my bed and cheetahs are my favorite animal.
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