To not understand adults who are obsessed with Disney or Harry Potter?

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At the moment my Facebook seems to be full of Disney and Harry Potter stuff for sale. Shoes, clothes, bags, stationary etc. And full grown adults commenting saying they want it.

Just saw something posted by a bargain page, £11 for a roll of Harry Potter wallpaper and one of my friends wants to decorate their dining room with it.

Don't get me wrong I loved it all as a child/early teen but I haven't carried the obsession with me into adulthood.

AINU or is it all a bit weird and gimmicky?

One of my friend’s who is a police officer in her late twenties is obsessed with Harry Potter, she has been since the first book was released. Her dining room has glass cabinets filled with HP merch and she visits either Florida or London every year to go to the studios. I don’t understand it either, she even has HP duvet covers . Still, it keeps her happy so who am I to judge 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Oh and I also know a guy who is 30 and has a huge Hedwig tattooed on his chest.

Yabu.

Fucking mudblood.

Some have commented about certain interests being to do with not wanting to fully grow up....as a massive Disney fan I would say there is probably an element of truth to that, but not in a way I and many see as bad.

What does it mean to be a grown up? Well, I’m a grown up and I have to spend my days going to work, cleaning and maintaining my house. I have to use over half my monthly salary to pay all my bills. I have to take responsibility for everything I do now that I’m a grown up. I have to take responsibility for children every day. I have to spend a bloody big portion of my time being professional and sensible. Adults can make the lives of other adults hell and there’s no one there to bollock them for it like there was as a child.

So maybe, in this big corporate and often scary grown up world, I like to indulge in something that interests me and makes me happy and brings a smile to so many people’s faces. I like Disney films, I like some of the merchandise and have it on show in my home.

That’s not all I’m about though, like most people. I also like murder investigation dramas on tv. I like comedy films. I like running (which seems to be controversial on here!) I like canoeing. I like several very varying authors. I like to bake. I enjoy visiting European cities and beach holidays and booking little lodges in the U.K. I have certain elements of history that fascinate me. I could sit on a hammock under the stars by a campfire for hours.

All these things are an escape from real life and we all do it in different ways.

I don't like judgy people
Football colour outside of the match
People who go on and on about their hobby.

Love Disney and Harry Potter - it's a bit of fun

I LOVE Disney as it’s an interest I share with my kids. But I love a shared interest with my girls more than I love Disney, if that makes sense? So no I would not be decorating my dining room with Disney paraphernalia but I happily help my girls plaster their rooms with it.

I see it no different as me and my partner liking sci fi including Star Wars, Star Trek. Or others being obsessed with football or cycling or that Ken Barlow has left coronation st apparently...

It's all escapism, fun and/or hobbies. It's what makes us happy in a world that is seemingly harder and harder to live in! Why can't people all be different and enjoy what they are drawn to without all the sneering at each other

It's just a bit of fun so why not?

I wouldn't say I'm particularly into Disney apart from enjoying watching some of the films with the DC. We went to Disneyland a few years ago (would never have gone pre-kids) and I got completely sucked in! It was just so much fun! When I got home I looked at the vest top I'd bought with a giant Tinkerbell on it and thought 'what was I thinking?'

YABVVVVVVVVVVVVU. I LOVE Harry Potter. I also love Disney, but not as much as HP. Over November/Christmas I watched HP every single day for 6 weeks. Just rotated 🤣.

I can’t stand reality TV. I’m a Celebrity, Love Island, all these dance and singing contests. To me it’s nonsense. Why would anyone waste their time with it? But other people love it and I’ll listen to any one of my friends go on about it because they like it and I like them. Everyone has their things they like!

I love both Harry Potter and Disney. I also read kid lit and YA books.
I bet there are things you like doing that I think is crap and would never do. We all like different things.

I like lots of things but I don't want merchandising of it, nothing wrong with liking Disney or Harry Potter but to be a grown adult wanting nick naks and tat, wallpaper and bedsheets emblazoned with it is bizaare

My DSis is obsessed with one of these. She has Asperger’s. I don’t think it’s “weird”, just not for you.

Yawn.

A thread like this pops up once every few weeks.

Just let people enjoy the things.

Definitely not keen on the friends/disney tracksuits and trainers, unless its for loungewear in the house but its not me wearing it so each to their own, also wouldnt be buying a minnie mouse or harry potter back pack.
I do like disney pyjamas though, and my other half has nicked my tigger cup. Apart from that, that's all i own in disney stuff.

It’s not unreasonable to not get it though. That’s perfectly okay too!

I've had lots of different passions/obsessions/enthusiasms throughout my adult life right up till now (my 60s) - Star Trek, online MUDS, slash fanfic, computer games. I feel a bit less excited about life in general when I've not got one going on - like life has lost a bit of its colour and zest.

I'm hoping another kicks in soon and if some people think it's too 'childish' for an ancient old bat like me, oh dear

I went to DLP with 11yo DD last year and loved it as much as she did. We both loved HP World too. We love Disney and HP.

I personally hate rugby and football, and can’t understand how people can watch that and get obsessed by it but I don’t attack them for doing it.

Each to their own

I have a map of diagon alley, hogwarts and a marauders map on my bedroom wall. I’ve also got all the books, Harry Potter pjs (2 sets), a Harry Potter cushion and a winged key from the first book, a floating snitch and a blanket.

I love Harry Potter. I grew up with the books. They remind me of a time of my life where everything was simpler and I saw magic in absolutely everything. Back when I was a lot more innocent and naive to the world. I think that’s something that everyone should try to hold on to, this world is tough and it could use a bit more magic in it.

I agree but each to their own.

I don’t understand people who waste their time worrying about other people’s completely harmless interests but there you go.🤷🏻‍♀️
I love both Disney and Harry Potter. I’m currently rocking beauty and the beast pjs. No shame here. We like what we like. If people were more accepting and less judge the world would be a much nicer place!

Oh this again. Just let people be.

I was too old to get into Harry Potter so I've never read the books or seen the films because while I appreciate that the books got a lot of people into reading I didn't want to read children's books. The fact that they've now been around forever does mean that there were children and young teens reading them back in 1997 who are full-grown adults who still like them now, so while I don't get it, each to their own.

It did amuse me when they came out that there were people my age reading them, but with adult covers. I originally thought that the books with adult covers were a bit more adult, but no, just adult covers.

I like old school Disney but I'm not particularly fussed about it one ay or the other. I've seen several of the newer films, I think, and liked most of them. I'm not sure which ones were Disney and which Pixar thobut.

I like some sci-fi but prefer a good dystopian future or time travel to robots and the like. The first three Star Wars blew my mind as did Close Encounters of the Third Kind and I wept at ET. I still weep at ET.

I do find adults who are huge fans of either Disney or HP or Star Wars, etc a bit odd, but I listen to the My Favourite Murder podcast, am overly interested in true crime, especially serial killers, and my dream job in my teens would have been to work in Quantico, the FBI behavioural unit. I still would like to work there, but blah. So, I'm odd as fuck and happy to be so.

I LOVE Disney and Harry Potter.
I've loved Disney my entire life and got into HP doing my first degree where I did a module on Children's Literature and read the first book. I now even have a small HP tattoo.
Each to their own but I'm a bit disturbed myself how adults "can't understand" that people have different interests.

You really wouldn’t like the t shirt I was given today!

(Although the thought of me as a princess is highly inaccurate!)