Is it normal for a young adult to take a teddy and a comfort blanket on a plane?

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Seen this a few times while travelling. The staff just stick the fluffy toys and blankets in the overhead locker so defeats the object. Maybe just try biting the seat in front of you to calm your nerves or take some valium. I'm a nervous flyer so just havd a couple of drinks.

Actually I’m willing to bet there is a strong link between people who use toddler style ‘coping strategies’ and people who are unhealthily reliant on adults around them in some way.

Like the Disney women I know, who are very helpless in many ways and cry a lot etc

OP, I've read through your replies and they really don't make sense. Just because you seek comfort from a teddy or a blanket doesn't mean you are against medicine or vaccines. You are making up generalized sweeping statements that from what I have read most people don't agree with. Sensory input is a great way to calm and regulate emotions for many people, for others medication and alcohol will also work. Just because it doesn't work for you, doesn't mean it doesn't work for others. We are all different! I'm presuming this is a wind up post (and yet you accuse others of being infantile 🙈).

I've been a single parent for most of the last 18 ish years. Therefore responsible for all household and family "admin". Cooking, cleaning, bill paying and so on.

I also cry easily (so does my dad), have Disney bedding and sleep with my teddy bear.

Thank you. My point exactly.

I was a single parent back in the day. Just got on with it. Certainly didn't cuddle up to a teddy. We are always hearing about women being tough and facing hardship but a thread like this makes them like wimps.

It’s obviously totally different but o don’t like them either if that helps

I can only speak from my own experience!

Teddy bear at home: fine, lovely. Ditto Disney bedding whatever

Teddy bear in public as an adult: weird

What if you went to see your GP snd they were cuddling their teddy?

Is that ok?

I doubt it. My neuro divergent 18 year old has had a job since 16 (through choice) is a student, going to uni next year, takes on part time photography jobs, volunteers and has a lot of prospects. My neurodivergent 19 year old is studying psychology at uni but also volunteers, my 22 year old is final year of law and has lined up their first job with a law firm. My 18 year old loves cuddly toys btw. Hasn't impeded their life whatsoever, they just keep some childlike whimsy in their life.
Maybe some people are unemployed because they like the excuse of "immigrants are taking our jobs"?

More to life these days than starting a family. Buying a house isn't the be all and end all. it's fairly common in Europe to rent.

Life is changing. Priorities are shifting. You don't like it? That's absolutely fine. You do you. It's really not that deep though.

I'm 48 and love Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, Disney, Lego....Have a lot of collectibles but also a full time job, family and own my own home. It's not hobbies and interests that's the problem (or having a cuddly toy) it's attitudes that there's only one way to do things and shitting on people just for existing. You and I obviously have very different opinions and outlooks in life. I'm not making a post about it though, just letting you have a life. See the difference?

What a nasty thread. Some adults are sensory seeking and a soft toy/fabric helps regulate their nervous system. So what , they are not doing you any harm.

I have a DD with a learning disability. She’s 24. Ordinarily she never takes her soft toys out with her. But a couple of weeks ago she needed a brain scan in a MRI machine. Those machines are fucking intimidating and loud. To get her through it I suggested she take a teddy in with her. Because if she had not coped she would have had to come back on another day and be sedated. Which would have been a waste of NHS resources . And with a toy the got through the ordeal. So was that really so terrible?

By all means, find a study or do your own but guarantee you it will not be proven. I probably fall into a Disney woman category but somehow managed to raise 3 wonderful children to adulthood who are all in university or about to start their careers. Own a home, hold down a career of my own for 20 years....as have many of my peers with similar interests.....

Well yes, I "just get on with it" too. And then when I go to bed my little bear is tucked under my arm because I like him to be there. Not sure why that makes me less of an adult than anyone else. It's not like I'm walking around holding him, sucking my thumb and expecting other people to do things for me.

I’m 30 and I do this and I have a 34 year old friend who does this. Neither of us have children yet. Completely fine in my opinion.

she is proper tough, doesn’t cry, can’t even get a hug off her. Whereas I cry pretty much every day but we both have our own homes, good jobs etc. i don’t see what liking your comforts has anything to do with your character.

I've had an MRI scan. It's not nice but I put up with it. Suck it up. Shit happens.

Maybe if you had spent more time enjoying things like cuddly toys you would have a heart not made of stone!

In what way does your teddy make your life better? Does he put food on the table or pay the bills?

How is it different? Vapes are a comfort object.

There is really no need to self flagellate - there is no moral high ground to be achieved from “sucking it up”

shit happens and if you can make it a little less shit - just do it

teddies are widely available - go get yourself one and try an happier life

I have a heart made of stone because I've had a hard life and I got through it by being tough and without a teddy. All this stuff about tough women on this forum and turns out they are fainting Victorian maidens who need a guy to organise their lives and they can't cope without a teddy.

I was a single parent back in the day. Just got on with it. Certainly didn't cuddle up to a teddy. We are always hearing about women being tough and facing hardship but a thread like this makes them like wimps.

So did was my DM and so did she. And she was almost certainly clinically depressed for most of her life. Like you she resorted to the bottle rather than cuddling a teddy, and in retrospect her cuddling a teddy would have damaged her children a lot less than her cuddling of the bottle.

Having a hard life is no excuse for being so rude and judgemental.

Plenty of people on here have had a hard life but are still able to show empathy to others.

Yeah, you slightly overdid it with this one, OP. Good try, though.

No one fainted
the woman got on with living her life
yet still you have the audacity to criticise HOW she chose to do it even though it didn’t affect you one jot unless you are just jealous that she had the sense to make her life happier not harder

I can't even be bothered. Get a life will you.