Sleeping with stuffed animals?

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Do any Aspies here still sleep with stuffed animals/plushies? I sure as heck do. Here's the ones I sleep with:
-A labrador plushie (I use her like an extra pillow)
-A chicken plushie I had since I was 2
-A wolf plushie
-An orange rabbit plushie
-A large, blue rabbit plushie
-A fennec fox plushie
-A zebra beanie baby
-A raccoon beanie baby
-A reindeer plushie
-A dalmatian plushie

I still sleep with my stuffed bear Malamb. I've had him since I was born. I also have a habit of sucking my thumb when I sleep.

WOW! I had so many preconceived notions, even at FOUR, that I would have tried to get rid of such things even when I was young. I guess I have to reassess everything. WOW!

BTW I am only making ONE value judgement, AGAINST MYSELF! Starbuline, I wish I did meet you earlier. I would have loved to have seen how I would have viewed you outside of your being on here, articulate, and smart.

As for the bouncing leg, and possibly twisting finger thing, I would have just pegged you as someone that really loved the class. Then again, I never viewed THAT sort of thing as off.

Steve

I have the following cuddly toys on my bed:

A big white dog with a heart hanging out of it's mouth that an ex got me
A 'Bugsy' bee that another ex got me
A tiger that the ex that got me the bee got me
A 'Simba' from the Lion King toy that the ex that got me the white dog got me
A scarecrow that I've had since I was about 6 years old and it's still in good condition
An 'Eric Cartman' toy that I got some few years ago
A 'Manchester Metropolitan University' cuddly bear with an MMU hoodie on it

I have four stuffed animals.

a.) A Care Bear Bedtime Bear
b.) A Care Bear baby Bedtime bear
c.) an angel bear I got from my best friend
d.) A Care Bear (purple) that I got from my former friend

I also have my stuffed rabbit Henry, and a gold lion stuffed animal I got when I was at the hospital.

The object that I sleep with, isn't a stuffed animal, but it's still a toy, none the less.

I confess! I sleep with a Routemaster!

27 posts before that one. Not bad!

I do not sleep with stuffed animals. I used to sleep with my dolls. but i would throw them on the floor because it's annoying to have something brush up against me. even blankets bother me at night.

When I was a child, I slept with a stuffed toy Siamese cat. Now I sleep with my real cats, including a Siamese.

Girls tend to be more into stuffed animals than guys. Girls will freak if you sit on one of their teddy bears, to guys they are just animal shaped pillows.

On the girl side of it stuffed animals have nothing to do with being autistic.

i sleep with my dog, but she's like a stuffed animal she's a teddybear dog.
(terrible snorer lol )

I don't sleep with stuffed animals. I didn't much as a kid either because my mom tried to discourage it saying it made allergies worse.

My Ragamuffin cat (yes that's a breed) sleeps with me and she's fairly big so that might qualify as sleeping with a stuffed animal.

A wholistic chiropractor I went to in past told me I needed to get a stuffed animal to sleep with and hug as it is therapeutic. I gave up the idea when I saw how stuffed animals are not packaged or wrapped up in stores so germy little snotty kids play with them in stores or they fall on the floor and get dirty. That disgusts me to be touching other people's germs. I know I'm weird.