Juliana
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Location: San Diego, CA
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| 2wheels4ever wrote: | I think I can pin my issue back to watching a movie called "The Velveteen Rabbit" in kindergarten, a little boy has a favorite stuffed rabbit, he grows up and adds other animals to his collection, and then one day he's almost a man and all the toys get tossed out in the trash. What a crappy thing to show kids
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It bugged me too. Big time. I had some 1970s version of the book and the story in that one was that the boy got really sick and all his belongings had to be burned to prevent the infection from spreading, so the rabbit doll was put in a burn pile. |
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dominique
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Joined: Jun 15, 2012
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh gosh. The Velveteen Rabbit. Even thinking about that story now hurts my heart. And yet, I could/can read/watch all these medical true life dramas about children dying of leukemia and it wouldn't bother me. |
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TheTigress
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Age: 28
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Location: Seattle, WA
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Jory wrote: | Animals > inanimate objects > people.
In general. There are always exceptions. |
This. I'm very attached to my car and my computer as far as objects go.
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Kaelynn
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Location: My Own World
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:27 am Post subject: |
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As a younger child I would cry when my shoes didnt fit any more and my mother would throw them in the trash. Now I just hide them in my room so they wont be thrown away!  |
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dominique
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| Kaelynn wrote: | | As a younger child I would cry when my shoes didnt fit any more and my mother would throw them in the trash. Now I just hide them in my room so they wont be thrown away! |
Oh! I sooo remember a favorite pair of jeans I had when I was eight. My mother threw them in the trash because they were beginning to fall apart. I literally mourned those jeans for months! |
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outofplace
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Age: 39
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Location: In A State of Quantum Flux
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Yep. I sometimes feel sorry for cars I pull parts off of in the junkyard. At one time, they were special to someone and now they are just trash. Those feelings have toned down with age but I still have my first and second cars in addition to my trusty old truck and daily driven Geo Metro. I will probably, sadly, let go of most of them in the coming year as I now realize that they are getting in the way of my life moving forwards. In the end, I have to realize they are just things, no matter how much of my heart and soul went into building them. For you see, I not only drove them, but rebuilt them from the ground up myself and tightened nearly every nut, bolt and screw on them by my own hands. I did all of the welding, wiring and paint and body work myself. I also planned, sim'd, calculated, chose and installed the mechanical components. They were my obsessions for a long time but I feel I can't move on without letting them go. In the end, if you fail to let go of things then the things begin to own you and you wind up a hoarder whose things rot and fall to ruin in the great pile of entropy that becomes your life.
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heavenlyabyss
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Sometimes I feel empathy towards letters, like oh that poor q, so sad, so lonely, it's only friend is the u...
usually not though
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Dirtdigger
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Age: 66
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Location: Indiana
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Since backhoe loaders are my favorite objects, I really get upset when an operator abuse one, because I have a lot of empathy for them. I even have names for my 2 favorite backhoe loader toys and my real one which are Ford, John and Terry. I don't play with them, but consider them as part of my family of backhoe loaders.
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Khyrean
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Joined: May 08, 2012
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Location: London
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Oh, yes, very much.
Depending on my mood I even feel sorry for something like an old ballpen if I have to throw it away. If I want to clear out my stuff I have to keep myself from falling into that way of thinking or I would just keep everything.
But with stuffed animals that doesn't work. I could never ever give away one of mine and I suffer whenever I see one being thrown away or abandoned - even when I see them in charity stores. I would love to buy all of them just to give them a good home. Oddly enough, very few of them have actual names, to me they have more something like.. non-verbal names or identity markers.. hard to describe..
I recently moved back home and had to put part of my stuff into a storage facility until next semester. I cried when I had to choose which of my stuffed animals to take along and which to put into storage. I decided to put my favourite one, a black panther I got when I was around 3, into storage so the rest of them knew it doesn't mean that I like them less. And I'm a 27-year old male. But I don't care.
And yes, I agree with: Animals > Objects > People |
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IdahoRose
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I collect toys, and there's a part of me that treats them as though they have feelings. I feel bad for putting them in storage because I feel like I'm abandoning them, or when they break I wonder if they are in pain. |
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Valh
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Age: 29
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 7:10 pm Post subject: Yes |
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Books, coins, lots of things, doesn't even have to be mine.
Also overly sympathetic to insects and wild animals.
It can often be heartbreaking. Though I am not a hoarder (I just have to turn the emotions off and start going through my stuff and throwing things away).
I have my ideas and theories as to why this is (but need to go stop my neighbor from poisoning the ant hills).
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doordoctor
door closer expert
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Age: 28
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Location: central nj
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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im guilty of this as well, i get sad when a door closer is found in a dumpster or tossed out or removed when a new one is installed, especially if there was nothing wrong with the older one, or if owner says "ohh, its old"
yes i name my closers as well, they either have the brand name as their name or a human like name (no pet names)
i also dont feel its right about when schools don't think about reusing old hardware and think that its smart to keep buying new stuff every few years (what a waste of taxpayer money too) and throw away perfectly good working hardware.
what makes me happy about my collection, many of them most likely would have been destined to become residents of the landfill or be a future soda can (melted down and recycled) instead of used, cared for and no worries of rejection (used, abused then abandoned)i feel they are happy to be rescued and become a part of an aspie's collection (mine)
perfect timing for the municipality's recycle department's coordinator, a school was being renovated, a janitor goes t get rid of some tables, lockers and a closer, the recycle coordinator notices a man walking across the parking lot with something with an arm (an LCN 4110 closer) he got up from his desk and got to the man and asked for the closer before the janitor got to the metal scraps dumpster then coordinator hands the closer to my dad, and i later found it in his truck when i was putting more ice water bottles in the cooler for work for him, i though ti was dreaming when i found it in the truck.
what i think, that school's loss, my gain, and another thing, its a closer i have not seen or touched since i was 12 in the 6th grade, (the age when my interest in them started) after having dreams that i visited the school and was given a closer by one of the janitors (more then once, had same dream) it happened and i didn't have to visit the school it came from.
this don't stop me from feeling bad for that closer's sisters and brothers that may still be in that school wondering where the rescued one disappeared to, i remember them and do still miss them
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Valh
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| dominique wrote: | | Oh gosh. The Velveteen Rabbit. Even thinking about that story now hurts my heart. And yet, I could/can read/watch all these medical true life dramas about children dying of leukemia and it wouldn't bother me. |
Same here, it is hard for me to watch toy story because of the tension. Yet I can watch Blackhwawk Down with a smile on my face. (I was a military guy, so you armed forces, spec ops people, please take no offense). |
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Valh
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Jory wrote: | Animals > inanimate objects > people.
In general. There are always exceptions. |
...and yes! |
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