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Going to attempt to make a thread of me rambling and it may be incomprehensible so just a fairy warning ok let’s Go
I have found so much joy I didn’t have before for years in accepting and embracing many aspects of my self recently and one of those things is enjoying stuff that’s usually deemed “childlike” or for kids. This is a really broad range of things including ways I cope to hobbies
Some of these things: playing w slime, coloring w crayons, enjoying MLP and Barbie and Sanrio, uninhibited stimming (rocking, chewing, flapping, vocalizing) and having “cringey” taste, to name a few. and I want to make it clear that none of these things are@bad or wrong
I still will feel shame over all this primarily bc of ableism, but I’ve also noticed ppl saying on here that people are somehow freaks for enjoying these things or acting “childlike” (which for me is how I express happiness without worrying about how I’m perceived)
I’m not being creepy or gross or weird for liking toys and wearing a pikachu costume in public - ok wel maybe it’s a little weird, but only bc it’s silly and different, but that’s ok? its@not like. Sexual in nature AT ALL
And I age regress uncontrollably (which I find to be inconvenient but more embarrassing than anything) but just...letting myself do what makes me happy and literlaly doesn’t hurt anyone is the way I’ve felt more comfortable in years and years
