Disney loving men

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To be fair, being into hard rock or Romantic poetry is way cooler than being into Disney.

OP, has he ever been evaluated for ADHD?

An ex became obsessive about true crime and the death penalty. Arrested development for sure, though I’d not heard of it then, but also autistic traits that I only realised after we parted.

I thought maybe there was some news story about Walt having a secret gay life. 😂

So im a big believer in that everyone should enjoy what they like, and i get a bit snappy if i see someone call other people's joys 'weird' because its just small minded stuff. The fact some people are super passionate about niche things is one of the really wonderful things in life.
Having said that, I know people who.like Disney, and ive met a few people who are 'Disney Adults'

• as a side note, ive seen people describe ptehrs as 'Disney adults' simply because that person has been to Disney more than once without kids... that in my mind isnt really a 'Disney adult'.

I wouldn’t want to spend my life with someone like that; we just wouldn’t be compatible at all.

Could he be neurodivergent though I wonder? I mean I still wouldn’t want to be with him because the behaviours would irritate me too much, but I just wondered if it might explain some of his behaviour?

it would give me the absolute pure and utter ick . I hate Disney as an adult

Family of Disney's here!
My lovely Dad first took the entire family to Orlando in the 1990's My sister, husbands and kids. None of us wanted to go but now all have a passion for Disney. I am currently sitting below a large hand etching of 1960'S Mickey Mouse.
With all the crap going on in the world it seems a perfectly harmless diversion.

I agree with this. There's no harm in a competent and functional adult having a quirky interest. It's when it either becomes their whole identity or they can't function in an expected adult way and let others down that it becomes a problem.

Perhaps if he had been a competent adult his enjoyment of the escapism wouldn’t be so repellent.

I know several adult Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and HP fans, but it’s just one of their harmless hobbies and special interests alongside holding down responsible well-paid jobs and being solvent.

The Florida theme parks are great fun. My old head of department (very senior NHS manager) said that she had had a wonderful time. So much entertainment and the most complicated decision she had to make was where to eat lunch.

Happy Disney Adult here, married to a Disney Adult. This morning the first thing he said to me was ‘so do you want to know about the announcements then’ as it was D23 live stream last night and so they had all of the park updates. Yesterday he did the same thing with the new movie announcements.

It is weird that you see it as such a problem, you should visit there (Florida) before being so judgemental about it

Shouldn’t it be Disney-loving? Without the hyphen I took you to mean that Disney loves men

I know three adult women like this and they have so much random Disney stuff, blankets, figures, wear Disney clothes (mostly stitch) have stitch tattoos and drink out of Disney cups that look like they're for kids. I know two of them were abused as children and all have had social services involvement as adults.

I think its a bit infantile. It’s up to people what they want to spend their time and money on but it seems very limiting.

Frankly when people have that level of obsession with anything, whether its Disney, hard rock or 19th century French romantic poetry I find it pretty dull.

I think any hobbie that strays into obsession territory is unattractive.

I agree with all the PPs about his childhood. I remember liking the Disney films again in my mid to late teens and watching some of the old films (secretly on my room haha) and the anxiety of growing up was definitiely a part of that. Thinking about it, I've done this with other things periodically at times of stress or emotional volatility in my life, but it was never an obsession, more a guilty secret. One thing was rereading some old, beloved books from my tween years and another was collecting a particular childhood toy (the latter was during Covid). I do think there is a strong psychological reason behind it. I found a lot of comfort in rediscovering those things, they almost seemed to reconnect me with who I am at times I was feeling lost, but once the hard time was over, I moved on - sold the collection and put the books away for my DC.

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I would absolutely not be attracted to this kind of man.

Adults obsessed with Disney are a massive red flag to me. It's really odd and more often than not points to mental health issues.

(Scottish accent): It Disney sound very healthy 🙂

Sounds like you are well out of that marriage. The fact that it is a family thing is even better if you can have no contact with them . As for Disney thing , just yuck yuck yuck in an adult .