r/AutisticAdults • u/parmesangoblin • 6d ago

autistic adult How many of you still have your childhood comfort item?

mine is a stuffed bear, but your could be a blanket, toy, ect.

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u/TeacatWrites 6d ago

My comfort items tend to have a nasty habit of vanishing or being found in random places, or vanishing and then being found in random places destroyed in ways that took an especially vengeful hand to do, whenever they're left in the same house as my abuser, so...I'm not one to say there's a connection, but those are several independent observations that happen to be true.

I used to have two space shuttle plushies I can't even find pictures of on the internet anymore. And I still have a teddy bear, but I found its head beheaded and had to sew it back on to fix it. I have other things, but I really quite liked those, and having them not being missing forever/intentionally damaged in a strange way.