To find small children slightly repulsive

Me to childless dont hate them just dont like drama of them.

TBH I don't really like them at any stage!
The teeny crying stage, the sticky stage, the mouthy stage, the mentally challenged/teenage stage.
I know it's different if it's your own but I don't have any so they are always a bit unsettling to me!😁

This.

2 month old lives several thousand miles from me so I'm unlikely to have to hand the sticky mess for a few years.

OP, you are being more that "nasty" IMO as that is a child - look up the definition re 'child!!!!

What gets me seriously worked up is an adult relative that makes a noise like a fart, kind of when sipping a cup of tea😂 - but honestly, I've had to leave the room at times and no one says anything to her but all lol behind her back - she is now in her early 70's and always been like that as far as I can recall

Yes - other people's children are slightly repulsive!! 😀

I could happily change my children's nappies, but on the one occasion (never to be repeated) that I had to change a friend's baby's nappy, I threw up!

My admiration for health professionals who can deal with this kind of thing every day is unbounded.

I'm even squeamish when someone hands me a slightly damp, warm baby to hold.

I do like toddlers, usually - once they're house-trained!

Yeah I mean this isn’t imaginary, some kids are a bit revolting. I have kids and have met kids before and some of them are a bit ick, if they have poor toileting habits and are messy eaters I understand the feeling of revulsion, which is a human feeling you know might not be very kind but you can’t help but feel it - it’s not like we have an off switch for these things. I have feelings of revulsion towards one child I know and it is because they have quite disgusting eating habits (they eat everything with their fingers/nails and never use cutlery they are 9). I also feel this way about my mum

Objectively toddlers can be quite repulsive. Snotty noses, always food or dirt on their chins/around their mouths, sticky hands, coughing with their tongues out and not covering their mouths, dropping food everywhere. We love them anyway, right?

And misogynists who use repulsive slurs to try to shut women up.

Ok dear. 👍

Yes, of course. Because we live in a world where being annoyed by something is now a medical diagnosis. It's ridiculous.

Annoying because on reflection I think you must be a troll. You posted on AIBU, asked if you were nasty, used ‘horrid’ and ‘revolting’ in reference to your own grandchild, created a bun fight and have now been arguing with every single person who has pointed out this behaviour. Also lol at you referring to yourself as ‘unfailingly kind’ - this comment is what has convinced me this is a wind up. No one with an ounce of self awareness would think this was a sensible comment.

Is she a particularly messy eater? Mine weren't really like that at 4 unless it was an unusually messy food. There was no gasping.

Fuck's sake... try reading my comment properly.

Displaying some wilful ignorance there.
It doesn’t have a diagnostic test (yet) but it does exist. In the same way there’s no diagnostic test for IBS or CFS or fibromyalgia. But that’s not because they don’t exist either.
And fundamentally everything is a ‘made up diagnosis’ - that’s kinda how science and medicine works. Hypotheses - research - results.

@TwattyMcFuckFace do you understand that 'IME' means, in my experience? My experience is extensive and it's exactly that, 'my experience' so tell me how the actual fuck that's racist?! Jesus...

Haha brilliantly put lol .

I'll moan about my children all day long.

Allowing a thread calling small children repulsive and posts referring to children as "it" cross the line for me, by a long way. I don't think either should be acceptable on a forum that it supposedly for parents at its core.

And I nearly am one. they are.

What do you expect from a bunch of Pollyannas who have, judging by their outraged remarks, have never complained about their children or even came close to being even slightly exasperated by them? Of course you’re going to be declared the new King Herod for daring to acknowledge that children can be challenging or less than perfect at times.

I also have Misophonia and eating/repetitive sounds are a particular struggle. I didn’t have it with my own kids until they got old enough to eat properly - a bit of enthusiastic chomping from a tot wouldn’t trouble me.

My kids are older and I have to really fight the urge to say ‘stop chewing so loud’ when I can see it’s impossible to eat completely silently (kettle chips say) and they’re not doing anything wrong. I don’t want to give them a complex. But I couldn’t be dealing with the slurping and open-mouthed stuff, by four, excluding SEN, I can’t see why four year olds can’t eat correctly, with support.

When we have child-friends for dinner who chew open-mouthed/slurp and gulp, I busy myself wherever possible and if I can’t escape I don’t look or listen. People talking through a mouthful of food, lip-smacking or sip-sip-sipping at a straw like a gerbil in a cage make me want to run through a wall. My issue!

So I would say Not All Little Kids Are Like That 😂 and IME there’s a lot of adults who do the same, my MIL could be up for Audible Mastication Gold at the Argh Olympics.

You are not a fucking Mumsnet keeper either!

Obviously not but I’m not the one trying to tell people that they can’t post on MN.

It absolutely is sinister to have such obvious hatred for a section of society based on on one single characteristic, age.