reborn dolls

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Apologies if there's been a thread on this already but has anyone seen this reborn doll stuff on tiktok? Also don't flame me for this it's just for a chat and some understanding

There's a girl on there who bases her life around her "babies" but they are dolls. She posts hauls of stuff she's bought for them, forever showing us the sleepsuits, mittens, dummies, hats, bibs, bottles, the lot, and doing "day in the lifes" of her being being a full time mum with naps and feeding and crying and day trips out and I can't get my head around the way she spends all her money on babies that aren't real

The biggest problem that she is being called out for a lot is her use of formula, she buys tubs of formula, makes bottles with them and she's called out for taking formula away from the real babies that rely on it, and she also uses breast milk bags, which I hear are in short supply

Another reason she's not very popular is she's claiming that her doctor has given her medication to induce lactation, which I'm sure would never happen, there is no reason to do this, she doesn't have kids she is not pregnant so I'm sure it wouldn't be true

I know reborn dolls are useful and help people mentally when it comes to baby losses, don't get me wrong I have personally lost two babies this year so I understand the need to maybe replace the loss with a doll, however I don't see how this can't be a big mental issue, in her mind she is a mum, she has children, surely this is not normal

I really just can't get my head around it

Also know who you mean. At one point I think she said she was using powdered milk or some other formula like substance but not actual formula. But she's since been having loads of arguments with those calling her out and telling them they should just go to another shop if there's no formula on the shelf. It's become very goady and unpleasant to watch.

Other than that I can't get worked up over her routines with them. If she wants to get up at 6am to change and feed a doll then it makes no odds to my life whatsoever.

She also said if you go to the next shop and they don't have it, just buy what brand they do have.

But you can't chop and change brands.

Especially if you need the kendamill.

Of which she poured 2 tubs of down the sink 😬

Lots of mixed opinions here, like i said i don't understand it myself, shes clearly mentally unwell spending her life dedicated to looking after, and buying bags and bags of stuff for a plastic baby

there's another girl on there who also has one (gets a lot less hate cause formula is never mentioned) but this other girl does days in the life with her "baby" where she says does things like put the baby in front of the ipad to relax him before bed, or to distract him while she as the chance to finish her coffee before he starts to cry again, or bath him ready for bed and pop a "clean nappy" on

a doll!!! she seemingly doesn't have a job so this is her life, and somehow she has supporters in her comments, when she should have comments telling her to get help cause this isnt safe, madness, i think they must be deranged

when it comes to people with dementia i find it more understandable, gives them something to focus on

I've noticed this phenomenon too, this week with this girl, last week with the girl who made the completely benign comment about classic literature, and before that the girl whose bridesmaid wore a frog hat. I've dubbed it the Severus Snape syndrome. I'll get hate for this, but I'll say it anyway -- if you note, it's a very specific type of woman who participates in this mob behaviour. Well educated, but not particularly attractive or successful in their chosen field. Their content doesn't offer much in the way of being funny or witty. They likely take pride in being formally gifted kids, but the promised life of glory from that has failed to come to fruition and they're feeling a little bit robbed of what they feel they deserve, but they lack the social capital to take it out on the James Potter's and Sirius Blacks of the world.

So what happens when a Neville Longbottom comes along? Somebody who is notably vanurable to anybody with a single functioning braincell, and who occasionally says or does awkward things?

This thread is one of the best example of women being absolute bitches to other women just for the kicks.

There are literally hundreds of posts on this very forum of women who live and put up with men who beat them up, treat them with disrespect, despise them, insult them, cheat on them. These women spend inordinate amount of money and hard work on pleasing these disgusting men, feed them, have sex with them them, give in to their very twisted wants and needs, have children with them who then go on to have fucked up lives because of it.

But a woman who treats a doll as a baby and spends some money on that doll (can't be much when she'e basically living in a caravan, can it?) deserves derision and attacks left, right and centre.

We all know why this happens,. We have all gone to school. Some of us have been, and all other have witnessed, the "weird" student who apparently "deserves" to be laughed at, ridiculed and humiliated, just because they're "weird", or they have a tic, or they do things in a different, but completely harmless way that doesn't hurt anybody else. Because let's just say it loud, human beings are cruel, hateful and enjoy putting others down to make themselves feel better.

The same posters who are having the times of their lives deriding this poor young woman will then go to cook dinner and suck the cock of the bastard who constantly cheats on them and treats them like shit.

Congratulations, I hope it made you feel better about yourselves.

Some unpleasant and judgmental comments on this thread.

I have a reborn doll, I see it as a therapy doll which helps me with anxiety. I don’t roleplay but some people in the hobby do (check out Kellie maple on YouTube, or interested in making the dolls check out my heart is in Vermont on YouTube) … the hobby is actually really misunderstood.

Also remember when you see a woman with a reborn doll, these women sometimes own these dolls for sad reasons, so think about that before you start ridiculing her or bitching about her behind her back. Have some fucking compassion.

She prob does have mental health issues but so what, she would have mental health issues without the dolls, maybe this is her way of managing those issues and it doesn’t harm anyone else.

They seem happy so it must be a nice hobby. They get to play in a safe place and keep control of their little world.
I can’t relate but I don’t see any harm.

I do I’m also angry that she hasn’t been protected from all this shit. That her partner hasn’t gently told her not to buy formula as others need it more. That there’s no care in the community to help vulnerable people such as herself. She is not the villain but people are painting her to be.

This. 100% and a previous commenter about the Severus snape syndrome 👏.

Vile thread! The justification for being mean and judgemental is that she is buying formula? Jeez, that's a stretch just to air nastiness.

I don't understand the use of the dolls, but some people clearly get some kind of comfort from them, and in the absence of any meaningful mental health support in this country, I'd say let her live!

I couldn't care less what she does with her time. I think she is inviting trolls with her constant tik toks but again that's her choice.

But do you really not have an issue with her taking/wasting formula when so many others genuinely need it? Then winding people up about it?

The partner who dates teenagers young enough to be his daughter? I really wouldn’t rely on him for any type of mental health intervention or support.