Adults with stuffed animals or dolls that they sleep with, carry around, etc

[Anonymous]

Do you have any stuffed animals or dolls that sleep with or carry with you when you travel?

[Anonymous]

Weighted stuffies can be really comforting and soothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weighted stuffies can be really comforting and soothing.

But I don’t travel with any of mine.

[Anonymous]

Labubus are on trend as bag charms. They’re fun but I don’t have one.

I understand most think things like this are silly. It’s equally silly for men to have football team home decorations and clothing, but society considers it just fine, whereas anything women like such as plushies, dolls, bag charms, etc. is considered juvenile.

[Anonymous]

What do you consider an adult? I did this in college and my college aged daughter does as well. She uses a weighted stuffie as a pillow. (I guess she’s the pillow pet generation. It’s a pillow, it’s a pet, it’s a pillow pet.)

[Anonymous]

I never saw this.

[Anonymous]

I have a weighted dinosaur i got as a joke gift, but I actually like it. I don't take it anywhere.

[Anonymous]

My childhood teddy bear is a venerable member of this household. He is not be manhandled by the children and does not join the hoi polloi in their room, which regularly hosts large numbers of younger stuffed animals for night-long raves. But sometimes when they have been very good, he gathers them round on my bed, and recounts stories of the olden days, from across the ocean, when he was chosen from a department store in Paris and placed into my 5 year old arms. I hope the younger generation of stuffed animals learns from his wisdom and world travels.

[Anonymous]

No. This seems very disordered and/or stunted emotionally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you consider an adult? I did this in college and my college aged daughter does as well. She uses a weighted stuffie as a pillow. (I guess she’s the pillow pet generation. It’s a pillow, it’s a pet, it’s a pillow pet.)

18+

Thank you PPs for the sweet stories. I want to get a stuffed animal of some sort!

[Anonymous]

I have a few stuffed animals in my bedroom - one is the bear I bought for my baby who died as a fetus, one is a moose I got on my first trip to Baxter State Park in Maine, one is an old fashioned jointed bear with a tweed vest hand made in the Outer Hebrides, and on my reading table by my reading chair is a lovely soft purple bunny gifted to me by my niece one year for Easter. In a hope chest I have three very special stuffed animals from my childhood but I almost never look at them.

When I was a kid I had dozens of stuffed animals and a few of them were Gunds - remember the 80s ad campaign, gotta get a Gund? The softest plushest stuffed animals.

Very often I will tell my little collie dog as we cuddle that she is the best ever living, breathing Gund. As a grown up it’s been much preferable to have real animals over the stuffed variety.

[Anonymous]

There are many adults who have stuffies. Apparently it is around 40 percent. Many hotel room staff report this too.

I have a bunch on my bed and they help me fall asleep at night. I also have a specific travel one I bring with me, it makes me feel at home. When I travel, the hotel room staff often fluff it up on the bed or tuck it under the covers. One person had fun with making sure it was a different part of the bed each day and artfully arranged it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/04/adult-stuffed-animal-revival/678012/

[Anonymous]

Honestly I would not call such a person an adult.

[Anonymous]

No. I do have a few very special stuffed toys that I’ve had since childhood. No kids that I know would want them, and I can’t bring myself to stuff them down the trash chute. I don’t sleep with them or take them anywhere though.

A young friend introduced me to her squishmallows — and I like the way they feel. I could see using something like that as a pillow, but I wouldn’t take it anywhere. I have a buckwheat neck pillow for plane rides though. Would that count?

[Anonymous]

My 17 year old who’s typically hell on wheeled has to travel with her favorite stuffie. She developed a crazy attachment to him when she was about 1 and hasn’t slept without him since. Starting preschool was actually difficult because of the drama of separation. He will definitely go to college with her and i suspect that he’ll be at her wedding if he can stay in one piece.