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.

Is it normal for people to care about what gives others comfort?

What’s normal? Who makes a decision about what’s classified as normal and what isn’t? I don’t care what people take as long as it doesn’t cause a huge security concern and delay the flight/impact on me. For so many people, an item that brings comfort is important. People also like to bring blankets as it can get cold and the wafer thin blankets they give you are awful. And for clarity, I don’t take a teddy or blanket but I equally don’t judge or mind if someone else does.

So you’re suggesting that blankets and soft toys are abnormal, OP? How nasty.

It is now, yes.

My 19 yo autistic DD does this, shes anxious and it comforts her, blanket is also for warmth as well as comfort, and she has a shaped cuddly toy that can also be used a pillow..
No air stewards have ever asked her to put them in overhead locker.
Maybe some people think ot looks strange but many people have blankets or those neck.pillows when flying.

It's absolutely bizarre that you're looking around the flight and judging what other people are doing that has absolutely no impact on you whatsoever.
Maybe try normalising minding your own business

Knocking back drinks to cope is not better than bringing along a comforting item.

I doubt you have seen anyone holding a conversation about the cabin pressure with their bear or punching it during turbulence, but even if true, would be more entertaining than watching you knock back the gins.

Most issues are caused or at least exacerbated by alcohol and sedatives as cabin crew will tell you.

Yet to hear of a teddy bear gone rogue or a plane having to land because of a blanket.

I follow a 60 year old woman who takes her teddies shopping with her and photos them. She's a bit odd.

Staff absolutely do not take them. Travelled on roughly 11 flights this summer, with a blanket and a teddy my oldest gave me years ago and not a single flight attendant took them.

"Nervous person drinking on a plane" versus a "young adult with a teddy and blanket"

I know which one I'd rather travel with - count me in double for the "young adult" if the nervous drunk twat is a man.

I have a blanket as I hate being cold. I have never had it taken off me. On taking off and landing it is not over my seatbelt. If I wanted to carry a stuffed toy that would be my decision and certainly nothing to do with you, only people in emergency exits have things taken away for take off and landing.

No they don't. You are essentially responsible for yourself and getting yourself out calmly and sensibly without causing harm to others under direction of cabin crew. They can manage and direct an evacuation but they're not going searching or pulling people out nor are they legally required to do so or put themselves in danger. Better to be as little under the influence as possible.
Nothing wrong with a teddy or blanket. Not my thing but doesn't affect my life in the slightest.

Haha! Or just bite the person in front of you.

I’m 49 and I take my childhood Teddy on every flight I go on. I’ve never flown without it and never will because so far I’ve not crashed and always got home safely.

on long haul flights they give you a blanket and tell you to buckle over it. They recommend you keep your belts on throughout a flight. That's why they do the safety demos to make sure you know how to unbuckle yourself in case of emergency. They're not going to go through the plane unbuckling anyone

Or an ignorant arsehole?

Why do you care?

I reckon that if there were to be an emergency, I'd be going over and through anybody stupid enough to get pissed up or off their tits on tranquilisers without a slightest scrap of concern. Especially if they'd been a dick to somebody about having a soft toy or blanket beforehand.

Somebody with a blanket, though, they'd be handy, whether as a blanket or as a towel - and you should always know where your towel is.

The adults taking a teddy on a flight are not the concerning ones here...

This really has to be a bait post
Risky business blocking the aisles with teddies & blankets
Not to mention people punching talking teddies😂
which airline is this based on!?😅

I presumed OP was concerned about their childs mental health or coping mechanisms. But no, just a judgemental ' query' ffs

I myself and all 3 of my children are ND. Hugging or squeezing an object such as a teddy bear provides a form of self administered deep pressure therapy. Particular useful in times of high stress and anxiety. I’ll let google tell you the ins and outs in the screenshot below. Same for a blanket, comfort and warmth to settle the nervous system.

My youngest has high support needs and a learning delay, and will often cover his head and body with a blanket in the car as a sensory blocker to sort of shut out the world around him. Also who didn’t like building tents with their sheets and dining room chairs as a kid.

I think probably minding your own business should be far more normal, than judging other people’s choices, even if they are drugs and alcohol 🤷‍♀️

Screenshot of Google response to squeezing a teddy for deep pressure therapy.

As we speak, the Teddy bears are fighting back and organising a demo in Hyde Park called the Teddy Bears Picnic, demanding the right to be taken on planes by their young feminist owners. Along with crocodile and alligator support pets. I feel sorry for the goldfish who might feel left out.

Take your medication. Far more effective. My son has schizophrenia and lives a normal life. Wonder why everyone thinks Teddy bears are any help. They aren't. These days, people have a deep suspicion of medicine, science and vaccines. Absolute BS even if you found it on Google.

We are going back to the Dark Ages with the witch Doctor "remedies" or "spells" and "alternative medicine" which is all inferior to Western medicine, the most advanced in the world.

try biting the seat in front

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