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02 Oct 2015, 5:54 pm

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^ Yes! I have so many stuffed animals it's not even funny. I don't know what to do with them all because I can't very well abandon them. I'm pretty sure we have a Popple sitting somewhere in the house but it wasn't mine so I'm not sure what happened to it (it's probably feeling very betrayed right now :(). I also tend to give insects and animals like that extra love because of all the hate they get from people I know. Any insects that enter the house get put back outside if I find them! Though I admit I have killed mosquitoes because I get concerned about the potential of contracting a disease from one. Even then, I still feel terrible and say a little 'I'm sorry' to them as I remove their remains. My family comes first though.

Worms and slugs are cute! I don't know why they're so unlovable to some people.

Yeah, slugs, snails, frogs, toads, mice, field rats, I think all these creatures are cute. And I feel empathy toward them, like they should have a chance to live and enjoy life.

Frogs and toads were one of my special interests when I was 6 years old. I would obsessively look at pictures of frogs. Tree frogs were my favorite because they were shiny, smooth, green, and adorable.

Also, yesterday, I was getting rid of a combinations lock that was broken. I had a replacement that came from the same package. I was feeling sorry for the old combination lock as I was separating it from its home and brother forever as I threw it into the garbage can. I can imagine how the other lock watched in horror. The human brain is funny like that, projecting emotions onto inanimate objects. :lol:


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02 Oct 2015, 5:55 pm

Myriad wrote:
^ Yes! I have so many stuffed animals it's not even funny. I don't know what to do with them all because I can't very well abandon them. I'm pretty sure we have a Popple sitting somewhere in the house but it wasn't mine so I'm not sure what happened to it (it's probably feeling very betrayed right now :(). I also tend to give insects and animals like that extra love because of all the hate they get from people I know. Any insects that enter the house get put back outside if I find them! Though I admit I have killed mosquitoes because I get concerned about the potential of contracting a disease from one. Even then, I still feel terrible and say a little 'I'm sorry' to them as I remove their remains. My family comes first though.

Worms and slugs are cute! I don't know why they're so unlovable to some people.
Yeah, slugs, snails, frogs, toads, mice, field rats, I think all these creatures are cute. And I feel empathy toward them, like they should have a chance to live and enjoy life.

Frogs and toads were one of my special interests when I was 6 years old. I would obsessively look at pictures of frogs. Tree frogs were my favorite because they were shiny, smooth, green, and adorable.

Also, yesterday, I was getting rid of a combinations lock that was broken. I had a replacement that came from the same package. I was feeling sorry for the old combination lock as I was separating it from its home and brother forever as I threw it into the garbage can. I can imagine how the other lock watched in horror. The human brain is funny like that, projecting emotions onto inanimate objects. :lol:


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03 Oct 2015, 4:02 am

I still do this, especially with my stuffed animals. I have to switch out which ones I sleep with so none of them feel left out. The strangest episode was when I was probably eleven or twelve and on a camping trip. There was a strange fungus on a tree that my sister started poking with a stick. My mom made up a voice for the fungus and said, "Please don't hurt me! Noo!" I don't know why but I felt like crying, like my sister was really hurting the poor fungus and it wanted her to stop. I was a really weird kid.


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03 Oct 2015, 4:05 am

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A few oddities with me,
The Christmas reindeer post reminded me that I usually eat the head of the chocolate bunny LAST every Easter.
I also save my name on my decorated birthday cakes for last, maybe in an effort to keep "Chris" around as long as I can?
Perhaps the wierdist one is that I'll use some of my superhero shirts and athletic jerseys as pillow cases and pretend I'm hugging some sort of macho man who will protect me during the nite while I'm sleeping wrapped around that pillow.


This reminded me of gummy bears. I always eat the heads first because I can't bear the thought of them suffering as I start eating from the toes up.


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03 Oct 2015, 4:09 am

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Yes, I do. I feel sorry for objects as much as I do people, animals and even insects. The other day somebody killed a wasp and said that it was still moving when it dropped to the floor. I suddenly felt really sick and yelled at that person to put the wasp out of it's misery, because it must be suffering in pain. I don't like wasps, but I don't like seeing anything suffering.


Yeah, when I kill insects I make sure they are dead. Although that's not completely for altruistic reasons...


I'm terrified of spiders, yet when I see one I try not to tell anyone because I know if I do that they'll kill it, and I don't want them to. I still feel guilty for all the ants nests I kicked over when I was a kid.


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03 Oct 2015, 4:22 am

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I do feel sorry for objects. I have ever since I was very young, in fact.

I mostly feel sorry for stuffed animals and toys, especially ones that I see have been rejected at yard sales or left on roadsides, or are ripped, dirty, or are missing button eyes. Every time I see a stuffed animal or toy with flaws, I feel the need to take it home so I can fix it and give it the home it might not otherwise have because anyone else would see it as "broken" and not worth caring for. That's just how people are; especially the "normal" ones. I think it has to do with how my self esteem has pretty much always been in the crapper and I see myself as "broken" too, so my adopting bedraggled stuffed animals and repairing them is sort of a "wish fulfillment" for me - that is, maybe someday I would find the one person who would be able to "fix" me, too.

....It's probably no coincidence that one of my favorite cartoons is "Doc McStuffins."


I do this too. Going into the toy section of a thrift store is a really bad idea, because I just want to take all those poor abandoned toys home. If I pick one up and look at it then put it back, I feel really guilty, like I got its hopes up then decided not to give it a home.


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03 Oct 2015, 6:14 am

I too feel sorry for objects, always have.

The lamp in this commercial is a good example


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03 Oct 2015, 7:03 pm

I feel deeply, for historically significant architecture/buildings/houses and Mid-Century-Modern furniture. It causes me deep sadness when historical buildings are neglected, altered or destroyed. And I have done some somewhat wacky things, in a persuite to save historically significant architecture from being destroyed. It is heartwrenching to me to see buildings that are delapidated and uncared for.



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03 Oct 2015, 7:41 pm

This is perhaps, more in line with this thread. When I was in preschool I went to a birthday party, where the kids were smacking a piñata with a wooden stick. I felt the piñata's pain and couldnt stop crying, even though my Mom kept explaining to me that the piñata was not a living being and did not feel pain. I could not rationalize that due to feeling pain I had thought the piñata had felt. I was so traumatized by that experience, I couldn't get it out of my mind (or my heart). I ruminated and dreamed about it for the next several months. Anytime I was invited to a birthday party, following that one, My Mom would call to find out if they would be having a piñata at the party. To this day, it affects me to a certain degree, to watch a piñata being struck - anything being hit, smacked, et al, affects me.



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03 Oct 2015, 11:06 pm

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I feel deeply, for historically significant architecture/buildings/houses and Mid-Century-Modern furniture. It causes me deep sadness when historical buildings are neglected, altered or destroyed. And I have done some somewhat wacky things, in a persuite to save historically significant architecture from being destroyed. It is heartwrenching to me to see buildings that are delapidated and uncared for.

When I was much younger, I *might* have climbed atop a high, domed church ceiling to save a number of hanging iron lamps that dated back to California's days of being part of Mexico.

I get the oddest, most wonderful feeling in old buildings, specifically those built from 1910-1930 (-ish), but that's for another topic/thread.


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04 Oct 2015, 12:36 am

Edenthiel wrote:
Britte wrote:
I feel deeply, for historically significant architecture/buildings/houses and Mid-Century-Modern furniture. It causes me deep sadness when historical buildings are neglected, altered or destroyed. And I have done some somewhat wacky things, in a persuite to save historically significant architecture from being destroyed. It is heartwrenching to me to see buildings that are delapidated and uncared for.

When I was much younger, I *might* have climbed atop a high, domed church ceiling to save a number of hanging iron lamps that dated back to California's days of being part of Mexico.

I get the oddest, most wonderful feeling in old buildings, specifically those built from 1910-1930 (-ish), but that's for another topic/thread.


My sentiments, exactly, Edenthiel.



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04 Oct 2015, 6:35 pm

Yes!
I did this all the time! I still do, just not as much as an adult. I never told anyone because I thought they'd think I was nuts, plus I was really paranoid so... yeah. But a few years ago I saw that same documentary and I felt so much better about it. I even made a post about it on here.
I suddenly miss the friends I used to have because of it...



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04 Oct 2015, 7:51 pm