As long as we are talking about similar things...
I HAVE to tell you about a guy I saw board a plane last night. He was a seemingly normal adult man. I would estimate 30-40years old. He spoke with a woman about this plushie that he called a dog, but pointed out these appendages, and said they couldn't figure out what they were. The woman said "Maybe it's a moose.

". He said "I HOPE NOT, because my childhood experiences would be dashed!". I thought HOLD THE PHONE! So I asked him.... "So this is your plushie?". And he said YEP!
They continued on and he spoke of how he had a whole collection of them. EACH had its OWN PLACE! EACH had it's OWN number, instead of a name! And what was the number of THIS plushie? NUMBER FIVE! I HAD to laugh! NUMBER FIVE!
Still, he seemed reasonably intelligent, ordered, obsessed, not caring about social norms, and had a comfort object!

I don't have a comfort object, but many aspies do. But the other stuff spoke VOLUMES to me.
Steve