INTJs and Pluche Animals

[Uytuun]

Not a joke thread, I'm genuinely interested in how you guys felt/feel about pluche animals.

I was extremely attached to mine - and I have a ton. I still have all of them and I used to do a daily newsflash with a different stuffed animal reading the news every night. They all had/have different characters and there was even a hierarchy. It was great fun. I still cuddle up to my pluche frog and cat from time to time.

[Haphazard]

Well, I have quite a few. I used to really like them as a little kid, and people would buy them for me instead of dolls because they knew I hated dolls.

Now, well, I wouldn't say that I'm particularly attached to them, except for the one I made myself, but I do prefer them to actual pillows so I keep them around.

[Toby]

I loved my pluche animals when I was little. Me and my little sister used to play with them all the time. We made up different voices and characters for each one of them.

Currently they are in a box somewhere in the basement, but this thread makes
me want to go down there and get Panda (my favourite, got him on my first christmas). :)

[ElstonGunn]

When I was a little kid, I used to go over to my uncle's house, sneak upstairs, and steal a stuffed bear that he had up there. Eventually, he just gave me the thing. I named it Mr. Bear because he had a little red bow tie. I used to dress him differently every day because, he may be a bear, but that's no excuse to go around naked. I think my mom probably still has him somewhere.

[AgentofGaming]

My house has about 5 TY Dangles and an assortment of others.

I don't know why but me and my brothers like them. We make characters out of them and use them for roleplaying.

[Aoiluna]

Well, I have quite a few. I used to really like them as a little kid, and people would buy them for me instead of dolls because they knew I hated dolls.


Ugh I hated dolls too. Theyve always creeped me out. I had tons of stuffed animals that I named and choreographed to do weird things. There is a giant box somewhere that has most of them in it but Ill confess that I still keep my oldest one here at college (whiskers the cat, real original, I know).

[Lagawrd]

Stuffed animals were not very interesting since they do not do much.
Why keep something with me at all times that does nothing but eat at my brain for no reason?

[Jgib5328]

I agree w/ lag, what's the point of a stuffed animal?

Does pluche animal = stuffed animal?

[Haphazard]

Stuffed animals were not very interesting since they do not do much.
Why keep something with me at all times that does nothing but eat at my brain for no reason?

They make very comfortable pillows.

[Lagawrd]

They make very comfortable pillows.

I didn't sleep much outside. If I am at home, I will get my own pillow and use it for it's purpose. Making it a good pillow does not give much reason to take it out everywhere.

[Haphazard]

I didn't sleep much outside. If I am at home, I will get my own pillow and use it for it's purpose. Making it a good pillow does not give much reason to take it out everywhere.

I mean at home. I use the stuffed animals more often than actual pillows. They're more likely to retain their shape, therefore more comfortable if you're somebody who wants to sleep on something firm like me.

[Aoiluna]

well its more for sentimental value I guess. my friends and I actually exchanged them as kids like playing cards. I also always have to be holding something while im sleeping, but I usually keep my phone in my hand.

[Sod]

I had a couple of stuffed toys that had sentimental value. My memories of them are very fuzzy, I think I stopped playing with them at at around six. The fifth to ninth years of my life are but one large achronological collection of memories, so I can't be certain. Regardless, they were at some point retired from service and given special positions in my room, always to be abducted by younger brothers and sisters (I'm an eldest child). O, how I loathed that! They were my animals. The fact that they sat in their spots all day doing nothing was no excuse to move them. (I despised sharing a room with my brother, even though we were inseparable. I wanted some 'sacred' space that nobody else touched.)

The stuffed animals were never part of the imaginary worlds I constructed for my other toys. The first of these was populated by a huge array of plastic invertebrates (plus a mouse and a couple of snakes). The second was comprised of Knex constructions engaged in a perpetual war. The third and latest was constructed with Lego. I consider this world-building obsession to be an outworking of my dominant Ni. In fact, the scenes I acted out with them were mere shadows of the 'real' event within my mind.

I suspect the reason I never involved my stuffed toys was that they were very symbolic to me, even at an early age. They all, to varying degrees, represented an exceedingly pleasant infancy that I could remember very little of (save that it was pleasant). Many were associated with particular people who I rarely saw in person, especially my granny. So, I suppose they were too sacred to involve in the ever-changing worlds of perpetual conflict into which I placed my other toys. I would never attach that much value to a physical object nowadays.

[Zirka]

gah I must say I hate plush animals. Do you people talk to yours? One of my friends does and its quite odd to see a 19 year old talking to a pink dinosaur.

[Richard0612]

One of my friends does and its quite odd to see a 19 year old talking to a pink dinosaur.

Have they considered getting a psychiatric assessment? I never had any stuffed animals [not that I can remember], so I can't really say whether I would have liked them. I certainly wouldn't talk to them though!

[Pinkie]

I still talk to mine as well. And put them in little outfits in the winter because I don't want them to get cold. I have four, really - two rabbits, an elephant and a bear. They're all very different... people... and I love them.

[Uytuun]

I talk to mine as well sometimes.

[AgentofGaming]

I'd talk for it, but not to it.
I wouldn't indulge my imagination that far as to talk to it. It just doesn't seem right to me.
Not to mention if I talk to myself in my mind it already gets endless.

[Zirka]

Have they considered getting a psychiatric assessment? I never had any stuffed animals [not that I can remember], so I can't really say whether I would have liked them. I certainly wouldn't talk to them though!

Well she's pretty normal most of the time... it was only after a really stressful period of time for her, and only once, so I don't think she needs to be psychiatrically assessed.

Which is good, because otherwise I'd loose one of my best friends. :(

[gogurtdynasty]

I actually enjoy them... I still get them as presents :-P

they're just so much more comfortable to cuddle with than people!

[Caramel]

I collect Giant Microbes plushies. It started with a Red Blood Cell I got at this symposium, and now I have a Braincell, a White Blood Cell, a Bacteriophage, E Coli, Salmonella, and a really cute pink Epstein Barr virus.

To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. *hugs braincell*

[Alcuin]

I love action figures and I adore getting them for gifts, but I cannot stand getting stuffed animals. I have no place for them.

Oddly, I seem to balance this out emotionally by collecting throw pillows. If I ever had a date give me a big, artsy throw pillow, I'd be theirs forever.

I'd also go for a plush life size Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube, but that's different! Really.

:thumbsup:

[Uytuun]

I collect Giant Microbes plushies. It started with a Red Blood Cell I got at this symposium, and now I have a Braincell, a White Blood Cell, a Bacteriophage, E Coli, Salmonella, and a really cute pink Epstein Barr virus.

That would be an excellent birthday gift for my biomedically inclined friend! Does it ship internationally?

[Caramel]

Yes, they do. The website has a pull down menu, you can select the country nearest to you there.

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[Aoiluna]

Yes, they do. The website has a pull down menu, you can select the country nearest to you there.

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Awww! I love your braincell pluche. Its so damn adorable and now im going to buy one.

[penguin]

I own 4 stuffed owls, although I prefer to pronounce it as 'oles' when I mention about them. I had two of them for a long time now, and they each have their own personalities. I do play with them, take them with me when I travel. I wished they were real so many times, I even shot a very short stop-motion animation film with them, so they move around and interact like real animals. This may all sound crazy and sad in a way, but it is like therapy to me.

[eMachine]

I never had a strong attachment to any toys or stuffed animals growing up, I never had a special blanket, and I hated babydolls. I remember a male cousin of mine and I burning my Barbies or setting them up as targets to shoot with his little "bebe" gun.

However, when I was 18, my ex-boyfriend (whom I managed to keep a good friendshop with after breaking up) gifted me with a teddy bear that he had as a child. I named him Copernicus and over a short period of time he ended up with a hemp necklace and bracelet friends of mine had made for him. He was my constant companion for a few months. He would ride in my passenger seat in my car, until someone else got it, then he was moved to the center console. I often slept with him, sat him in my lap while at my computer and such. He was really my best friend, I didn't really talk to them either, and he was better than my real friends, because he didn't talk to me. :p

Then I met my husband and I gave up the bear. It served a purpose for a while, after ending a live-in relationship with someone I guess I needed to feel like I had some sort of companion again, but then it became unnecessary. My daughter was born a couple years later, and I handed the bear down to her.

[eternaltriangle]

I had a stuffed bear named Pierre, because he was French. I also had a dog named Berny, because there was a Swiss flag on his tag, and Bern is a city in Switzerland. I definitely have some sympathy for whoever had to share a room with their brother. One of my favourite things to do would be to put my toys in lines, but my brother would mess up the lines.

My toys were by far my favourite possession, and I assumed that everybody else liked toys as well. One day when my mom was having a bath, I got some of my bath toys together, walked in and through them into the bath saying "here mommy, now you can play with them." Another time when we were robbed I was rather distraught because I wasn't allowed to go to my room and check whether they took my toys (I assumed that would be what they would take, because everything else in the house was boring, and my mom said all of our money was in the bank).

Later, maybe around 8 I would build a civilization with my toys (mostly playmobil). There would usually be a benevolent dictatorship, opposed by a rabble-rousing bunch of rebels wanting mob-ocracy. I also didn't like how most people played, because they would let their favourite toy win. So, I put together a turn-based combat system (I had seen it in computer games before), that would be fair to both sides in a war. When they shot their guns, I would move my finger in a straight line from the barrel of the gun and see if they hit anything (I was almost certainly still less than impartial). I had to modify the system though, because too many people would die. So I decided that only head-shots killed people, while non-head-shots just took them out of the battle (if they won the battle they would still live).

There were also taxes, and was a market economy... and pirates. My mother always thought I was re-enacting battles, possibly because the name of the King was Bonaparte.

[DistantSun]

I much preferred my books, ant farm, microscope, lego, electricity and magnetism set, commodore 64 and bike to stuffed toys. The few I did have just sat in their place in my room and I dont remember playing with them or talking to them. Some of them had sentimental value as a child but not now. I didnt keep any into adulthood except one stuffed doll that I kept purely because I thought my Mum was more attached to it than me.

[Lily Fayline]

people would buy them for me instead of dolls because they knew I hated dolls.


Truly. couldn't stand dolls. But all my stuffed toys are still around, and reside on the the top of the wardrobe, where one of my cats sleeps among them whenever she can.
In other words, have since moved on to living, breathing pluche toys, but am still very attached to both kinds!

[More Tea]

Yet another person who hated dolls growing up! I loved my stuffed animals, though, and still have quite a few of the ones that I liked the best. I'd make up little D&D or Star Trek adventures for them and give them personalities. It was actually a lot of fun. I also sewed a few of my own that I couldn't buy: a sehlat from Star Trek and a Thranx from the Alan Dean Foster sci-fi books.

Man, just reading this, I'm starting to realize why I didn't get on so well with the other girls. ;)

[Sod]

I would watch my sister playing with dolls occasionally, and wonder why it was simply an exercise in 'happy families'. Nothing exciting. No conflicts. No grand schemes. It seemed like mindless tedium. (She knew that Barbies could have their head removed, replaced, and switched around, but never did it...) I thought it was just a girl thing at the time. Occasionally she'd complain that she had no sisters to play dolls with, and I'd attempt to join in. Didn't last long though. Apparently my attempts to, er, spice it up were not appreciated. (If she is ISFJ as I suspect, the no-conflicts domestic bliss game makes sense.)

[Ainegue]

Truly. couldn't stand dolls. But all my stuffed toys are still around, and reside on the the top of the wardrobe, where one of my cats sleeps among them whenever she can.
In other words, have since moved on to living, breathing pluche toys, but am still very attached to both kinds!
I hate dolls too. My parents used to buy me some Barbie dolls, and I'd throw them in the toilet. The one time i remember actually playing with them was when I spontaneously decided that it wasn't nice to drown Barbies, so I tried to comb its hair. Unfortunately, later the Barbie became bald, but that's because I was playing with the lotions and bleach and trying my new shampoo on the Barbie.

I have one stuffed teddy bear that I still like. It's small and he's a sort of ninja teddy who is good at fighting and gymnastics. I don't like to hug a stuffed animal (or microbe, or car, or whatever...), or use them as a pillow (for some reason that's more cruel than drowning Barbies), or anything. I just play with them and they help me fight off the BubbleGum monster (it was something I saw at a very young age on Nickelodeon, and it ate people and freaked me out and I started having nightmares). The BubbleGumMonster soon became my imaginary friend though, I don't know how, but it just became my best bud. It and it's imaginary evil monster friends would always compete against me in a race of some sort (climbing up the stairs, running in circles...), and of course I would always win.

Still have my the teddy bear to this day

[Coraline]

I still have all my childhood dolls, and my teddy bear, which still growls after 46 years. They are in my home office. My mother reckons I wasn't much interested in dolls, and I do remember getting into trouble one day (Mum had friends around for afternoon tea) because I built a gibbet and hanged all the dolls. My brother would line them all up and preach to them; I preferred to experiment on them.

[Blacklustre King]

I still keep a Mewtwo doll from the first pokemon movie on my key chain. Since I identified with Mewtwo I guess I've never really thought about tossing it out.

[Reganon]

I had a lot of stuffed animals to which I gave very intricate stories and character traits. I can't stand dolls- with their plastic faces and frilly dresses and vacant yet homicidal stares. But I loved my stuffed animals. They gave me a chance to play god.

[punkyplatypus]

When I was young I used to have a bunch of them. Collectively they were more like a giant cushion/pillow on my bed rather than physical bodies for imaginary friends. I was never really attached to any, but I favored some more than others. I think my favoritism was based on seniority. About the time I left elementary school I put all the stuffed animals I had in the garage and never looked back. I believe most of them were given to various cousins or are in my parents' attic now.

[Homini Lupus]

I also had quite a selection of them, each one with a personality etc, but the ruling class were plastic and (relatively) realistic dinosaurs.

[Double Victory]

I absolutely loved stuffed animals as a kid, and I ended up with around 300 of them. Of course, due to my weird nature I can't bring myself to get rid of them, or put them in a box somewhere, so they take up a lot of space in my room. I also have a blankie that I've had since I was born. It's pretty ratty now, but more often than not I use it as a pillow, and it's just so soft and comforting.

Granted, when I have to move out, I honestly don't know what I'm going to do about them. I might be forced to keep a couple of my favorites and dump the rest on my little sister....

[zibber]

Not a joke thread, I'm genuinely interested in how you guys felt/feel about pluche animals.

I was extremely attached to mine - and I have a ton. I still have all of them and I used to do a daily newsflash with a different stuffed animal reading the news every night. They all had/have different characters and there was even a hierarchy. It was great fun. I still cuddle up to my pluche frog and cat from time to time.

Hah, I did that exact same thing with my favorite G.I. Joes. I can't believe I'd ever share that with anyone. It was like a news/talk show with three main dudes and some characters on the side, good times.

I still have my favorite pluche animals, but a year or so ago decided to ignore my instinct and sentiment and get rid of the rest. I don't wanna talk about it :P

[jikin]

They were always my favorite toys growing up. I still have my 3 favorites from when I was a child, and a few others I keep around just for the sake of it. I always have to have something to hold while I'm sitting at home, and they work quite nicely.

[seoa]

i had a baby-doll from around 5 till i left home... i remember going through phases where it had to sit in a high-chair at dinner in the evening (my poor family!), and from around 7 i was reading my mum's baby-care books cover-to-cover...

i also had around 20 stuffed toys (or plushies, as you guys seem to call them)... somewhere i've got some "family photos" that i took of my little tribe.... pre-digital of course...

these days, i've just got a couple of nice new cuddly animals... got rid of the rest when i left home for uni....

[PHS Philip]

I had a little stuffed lion I got when I was less than a year old. I lost it when I was 8 :cry: That was the only one I really liked a lot. The rest was just stuff to play with. Soft, fuzzy lions are awesome :lovestruck:

[Katuun]

I red somewhere that 'INTJ' is the most sentimental type of all the rationals. It may be actually true.

(first post here, woot!)

[Homini Lupus]

I red somewhere that 'INTJ' is the most sentimental type of all the rationals. It may be actually true.

(first post here, woot!)

That depends on the kind of sentimentalism you are talking about. INTJ tertiary function is Fi of course, but it's introverted and also ENTPs have a tertiary feeling function and it's extraverted (and Fe is more likely to look like sentimentalism). I think passional is more suited for INTJs.

[blackberry]

I LOVE stuffed animals! (I always detested dolls...) :wacky: I've been collecting them for 23 years and have somewhere around 400 of them. I prefer small to medium-sized ones, unusual animals (elephants, lemurs, kangaroos, turtles, fish, skunks, puffins, and so on) and also lots of rabbits. They represent my memories -- I can look at an individual stuffed animal and tell you the event or circumstances of when and where I got it. I never took many photos, so I hate the thought of getting rid of them.

[Monte314]

I have one in my office (mammoth).