Aspie girls and holding dolls

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Like most of the people who replied on this thread, I wasn't much for 'dolls' (the human kind), but did love stuffed animals, and still do!

When I was younger, I'd carry around my Teddy Ruxpin, who I guess is a doll/stuffed animal hybrid, and would particularly take him places where I would worry about anxiety, like the doctor's or dentist's office. Teddy would go with me on every doctor/dentist trip, as he helped me to feel 'brave.'

Up until about 2 years ago (I'm just about 26), I had a collection of about 25-30 stuffed penguins, all of which I kept on a special shelf in my room. Unfortunately, my DVD/Blu-Ray collection got too big, and I needed the shelf for my movies, and reluctantly placed all of my penguins in a plastic bin.

I still enjoy stuffed animals, but the only ones I've kept in my room are a stuffed Michael Myers (from Halloween), E.T. and Michelangeo, the Ninja Turtle. I'll have a new addition soon, though, as my boyfriend just bought me the stuffed Ebola microbe I always wanted!

It's a case of "which planet" not "wrong planet" - where are you seeing all these aspie girls? With dolls, no less!

I had an American girl doll, Kirsten. I was a bit attached to her, but I didn't like carrying her around very much because her arms would poke me.
I've been told that I had a My Buddy Doll (you know, the one from the 80's that looks somewhat similar to the Chucky doll?) and I would carry it around with me everwhere, and it would freak people out, thinking it was Chucky.
My mom actually threw away the clothes it came with, so it wouldn't resemble Chucky so much. I still think that was stupid.
I lost the Kirsten doll years ago, but I still have My Buddy.

I had a bunch of stuffed animals, but I was mostly (and still am) attacked to a stuffed bear, covered with little checkerboard patches. I call him Checkers, my best friend calls him Patches.
I was also attached to one of the Ty stuffed animals, a white cat. I lost the cat, but my mom bought me a replica recently.

I played with Barbies, but I preferred to play with little figurines, mainly of Disney characters. My favorite was Sleeping Beauty, but when I lost her, I turned my attentions to my Snow White figurine. I still have them, though my Snow White one disappeared when we moved across the country. I would keep whichever one I had in my pocket, and I'd pull it out and hide it under my desk when I was at school. No one ever noticed, and I'd just sort of fiddle with it.

So out of all of them, I would really carry around my figurines and My Buddy (though I can't remember that).

I never carried any toy with me.

Having to hold something all the time would have driven me insane. Similarly, I couldn't stand to have anything be put in my pockets, back then the sensory stimuli would put me over the edge in mere minutes.

So, no, I never carried around anything. I didn't have 2 "favourite" toys either. I never played with dolls to begin with.

A lot of autistic child - boys and girls equally - seem to be fond of carrying around stuffed toys, cars, lego or glittering toys though (sometimes in backpacks they carry around all the time).

The objects seem to grant them safety (or so they say) and provide comfort.

I know of the theory but that whole idea of comfort objects doesn't seem to apply to me. Alas, I seem to have little concept of such an attachment as in "emotional safety" anyway if ASD specialists have it right.

I liked to carry arround stuffed animals, cats mostly. I have an old kindergarten group photo where I am holding a stuffed cat toy and a leaf.

I mostly liked to carry around stuffed animals, too - I was never much of a "doll" person. I can remember towing around plushies of Mushu, Kaa, Pikachu, Stuart Little, Pooh, etc. Everyone thought it was cute when I was little, but my mom and stepdad became annoyed by it when I got older and was still doing it....even to the point where they'd punish me by taking my favorite plushie away.

I also liked baby dolls when I was younger...I had the knockoff Cabbage Patch baby doll I mentioned and an African - American Gerber baby doll. I just was never into dolls like Barbies.

I should add that I do have a few very "unique" dolls now....I have a talking Larry the Cable Guy doll, a Kewpie that used to belong to my aunt in the 60s, a cloth advertising doll named "Allergy Annie" who was created to sell a brand of A/C that got rid of allergens, Butters, Chef, and Ike from South Park, and most recently, two different - sized dolls of Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons. And of course, my Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls.

I've never liked dolls really. I had a stuffed duck that I carried around till I was 10 and slwpt with till I went to college though. It was called mr.ducky. My daughter hates dolls, says they are "itchy" and uncomfortable. I've never seen her play with one with out prompting, and then the one time I got her to do it she had the baby doll attack a doll house and eat the doll people :/ She usually carries around a small toy or a hoard of small toys if allowed. Little lego guys, fidget toys, lego blocks. I got her a purse because she would carry around so many small objects, obsessively, I figured I'd make it easier for her. She hoards these small toys in her bed too...

I used to carry a doll around with me up until I was about 13. I also used to stuff its trousers with rocks so that it was heavy like a real baby, haha, but I did have a lot of maternal instincts when I was younger.

I haven't really noticed it, but I don't care if girls want to carry dolls.

I carried my baby dolls around by the hair. I used to have this extremely large ballerina doll that had a clear red plastic crown attached to its head that I tried repeatedly to remove because I wanted to wear it. Another poster mentioned popping Barbie dolls' heads off and chewing their legs. I remember that too.

I've owned both dolls and stuffed animals for as long as I can remember and still collect them at my age. I preferred baby dolls to Barbies, although I liked small plastic dolls and figures I could carry around and have go on "adventures" at the beach, in the woods or at the playground. When I became a teenager I went through several obsessions with My Little Pony (the original ponies from the 80's) Garfield, Disney, Looney Tunes, and especially Troll dolls, and would role-play with them in my room or just carefully arrange them in an OCD-like fashion on my bed and shelves. Back then my mother did not like me being so into toys as a teenager and would get smart remarks from my brother. None of us knew this was actually a female Aspie trait back then. Today I have handmade dolls based on both my own cartoon characters that I draw and other characters like Disney and classic cartoons, and I own plushies and figures of Sonic, Tails, and the Super Mario Bros. characters. I like human dolls only if they are not too real-looking, or are based on fantasy or cartoons (like fairies or mermaids). And I don't think it's fair at all that girls can carry such things around with them in public for comfort and companionship but a grown woman like myself would probably get locked up. We should start a new trend where it's acceptable for adults to carry around plushies and other toys like kids do!