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The thing people need to understand is that collecting toys as an adult IS weird. Just accept that. In reality, there's no real difference between collecting kid's toys, gaming your life away, obsessively fanning out over a sports team, getting all goofy over shoes, restoring classic cars/bikes and on and on... It's just that walking into some grown-ass man's home and finding toys reverently displayed all over the joint is often creepy and always dorky. There's just a lot that smells childish and obsessive about it to outsiders. Childishness is never sexy, and obsession is always creepy. You will be judged for it, and rightfully so. It's what humans do. That's a fact, deal with it.

Me personally, I've interacted enough with adult toy collectors over the past 2 decades to know that a huge number of you are people I don't like online and definitely wouldn't interact with in real life. Overly whiny, prone to ridiculous hyperbole ("they raped my childhood!"), childishly argumentative, often misogynistic and racist, out of touch with reality, socially awkward... So I totally get why someone would steer clear. That said, there are also many adults who collect toys who don't act that way, keep things in perspective, have their financial shit together, take care of their responsibilities and obligations, and are just all-around really good people. Point is, we're aberrations regardless of who we are as people because of this hobby, and there are consequences to that. You will be judged for it, right or wrong, and that's that.