how to cope with feeling shame and embarrassment about being an adult and still liking toys?
You could try not being a self conscious faggot
>>11546875I just accept the truth. As we grow up, our toys just get bigger.
>>11546875Tell the store employees that you use them as sex toys, those are acceptable for adults to buy.
>>11546875What >>11546876 said. Who cares what anyone else thinks?
I call them collector items and stress relievers
I don't have to cope with that because I'm not ashamed of buying the toys I like. I have friends and family who venture into my basement where I display my toys whenever they visit to see what is new. It helps that I don't collect slutty anime girls. In general, people don't tend to care about what strangers buy except for pathetic people with shittier lives than yours.
>>11546875Toy collecting will NEVER be a serious hobby. All those news articles about being a kidult collecting labubus or legos won't change anything. You may need a reason, but you'll never have an excuse. You collect because you want to
i got way worse problems than that bro
>>11547077>kidultStop trying to make this a thing. It's more embarrassing than buying toys in public.
>>11547077>chat gpf tier
>>11546875Realize you're going to die some day and none of this shit could ever matter
>>11546895Not quite as socially acceptable for men though.OP, dress up as a woman and tell the cashier “I’m going to put these up my pussy”, you will get no judgement.
>>11547100>>11547103>Stop trying to make this a thing. It's more embarrassing than buying toys in public.Just the reaction I needed. Labels like AFOL, Adult Collectibles, Not a Toy and kidult just make it sound defensive. \
>>11546875the world is in total disarray as it is. if the hobby brings you peace, and you're causing no trouble to yourself or others, you have nothing to be ashamed of.Boomers collected stamps, toy trains, cars, and comic books. How are muscly plastic action men any different?
>>11546875First you have to accept some things. Collecting toys is mindless consumerism. It doesn't take any skill or resourcefulness to find a figure on ebay and put it on a shelf. It barely counts as a hobby. Nobody is interested in the deep lore of Bionicle so it isn't a socially viable interest either. Once you accept that's how normies view collecting toys and it will never, ever change, you can start figuring out your personal coping methods.
>>11547231>Collecting toys is mindless consumerism.Don't know if you've been paying attention to the YouTube scene, but toy collecting? It's hard work. It takes skill to know what to find down at a garage sale or flea market. You gotta be kicking a ton of ass to correctly identify those big ticket items for an easy pay day. Toy Hunting is serious business in this day and age.
>>11546875>how to cope with feeling shame and embarrassment about being an adult and still liking toys?I FEEL NONE! Ther's absolutely nothing wrong with having a hobby I enjoy. "To thine own self be true," and I am a dork who collects toys. I embrace it. It makes me happier that way.
>>11546875>how to copeI make my boyfriend suck me off before he wakes up to shower to go to work and after he brings me breakfast in bed
>>11547272That's the stupidest attempt to justify this hobby that I've ever heard.
>>11547231Well, no, getting toys on ebay and Amazon are ez mode and not how most people like to do it that really like the hobby.
>>11546875Sounds like you're not quite an adult yet.
>>11546875Anon have you seen the labubu trend with females? Collecting toys is normiecore as fuck these days. You aren’t special.
I had this exact same question but one day I had a conversation that blew my mind. I sat down on a bench outside of a Target waiting for my Lyft driver, next to me was an old woman eating a sandwich. Not sure how or why we began to talk but we had a pretty lively Convo about Legos. She talked about how much she loved collecting them and sharing her hobbies with her grandkids.She may not have realized it, but she gave me a whole new perspective in life. It IS possible to be a responsible adult AND still be able to enjoy what it is typically seen as "for kids". The trick I think is to come up with a healthy balance between the "kid stuff" and your responsibilities.
>>11546875>shame and embarrassmentThis is a you problem, not an us problem
>>11547077>Toy collecting will NEVER be a serious hobby.It actually is. That's where you get the "no smiles and happiness allowed" serious collectors like that not-a-Frenchman and his anal-guy, and the "toy investors" who are nothing short of fucking pricks with the way they do the whole market just to make a buck. The serious ones are the ones who suck the fun out of a hobby, and every hobby has that one group of elitist pricks who think they're better than you because they have more. If there's a community of dildo-collectors out there, then there's one guy who says "I HAVE A DILDO THAT WAS SIGNED BY GEORGE TAKEI OF STAR TREK AFTER HE USED IT ON HIS BUTT, AND I GOT TO MEET HIM AND YOU DIDN'T BECAUSE YOU'RE POOR AND A LESSER COLLECTOR THAN I." There's always that one fucking guy, and he's always surrounded by minions who think his "coolness" rubs off on them by licking his boots. I've seen it in coin collecting, watch-collecting, porcelain-collecting, car-collecting, and all sorts of other collecting circles.
>>11547373>with females
>>11547434Females collect toys too. They make up maybe 20% of the She-Ra buyers.
>>11547437My point is that you'd be labeled as effeminate by some people.
>>11547437This seems way lower than it should be.
>>11547443I know. It's all "I'M NOT GAY! I COLLECT IT BECAUSE IT'S PART OF HE-MAN! NOW LEAVE ME ALONE WHILE I COMB SHE-RA'S HAIR!"
>>11546875Anon, nobody really gives a shit anymore. Unless some stereotypical gigachad or stacy characters are regularly coming into your house you aren't being judged since hobby shit exploded after Covid.
>>11546875I'm in my 40s and every member of my family that was older than me is dead. There is no one left to judge me. Life's too short to worry about what others think, just enjoy what you like and don't worry about little shit.
>>11547457They're the walking dead. Here today, gone tomorrow, never to be seen again. They are irrelevant.
>>11546875>Cope and shameI'm too autistic to even care about that shit, anon. You seem to be a normie, sad.
