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Originally Posted by JkrSmkrMdntTkr

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.

Finally, someone who doesn't sugarcoat the facts of collecting toys. Toys are toys, people.

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Originally Posted by JkrSmkrMdntTkr

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.

This reminds me of a time before the lockdown when this group of five adults were sitting across my table in a fancy restaurant and they were arguing loudly about Power Rangers and its toys of all things. I couldn't help laughing softly at the stupidity I have witnessed back then.