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I love plushies. I grew up AMAB which meant that after a certain age (typically before 10yrs old, somewhere around 7~8yrs old), it became unacceptable to have plushies. I held onto them long past that age and didn't "put them away" until I was well into my teens, but I was still very aware of the fact that I couldn't let anyone outside my family know that I still had my plushies because I might get bullied if I did.
Afaik, no one outside the family ever found out, but it took a long time for adult me to accept that it's okay to like plushies and start pulling my og plushie crew out of the closet. Now I'm starting to expand my plushie portfolio again and I have a small army of protobeans, several high-quality dragon plushies, a medium-ish roadkill opossum, a few makeship/misc plushies like a Gardener from Gemini Home Entertainment or Acrid from Risk of Rain, a big moth, backstories and names for almost everyone, and I still have my OG beanie-baby crew (some of whom I've discovered would be fairly valuable if they hadn't been well-loved).
I regret letting my fear stop me from covering my bedroom in plushies.
No one will ever stop me loving my Indi-Bear. I'll fight em.
It's never too late for the plushie army to rise.
What is AMAB?
assigned male at birth, it and AFAB are often used with the intention of being inclusive of NB and trans people that you may not know the gender of or in OPs case implying that's not the way they identify now(although that's just an assumption, could be inclusive terminology for inclusivity's sake)
I'm not at all into plushies anymore, though I do like to cuddle a plsuhie some times. Anyways... my mom saved the dragon plushie I had when I was a kid. It was obviously a bit roughed up, but I send it to a "doll doctor" and now my son has that same plushie I used to have. I'm not the sentimental type, but I'm super happy how that I got to share this with my son even though he just threw it in the corner and never uses it 😄