Furries! The latest fetish!

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Dlee said:
He has a network of friends who have supported him the past three/four years (housing and food.)
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Is your son disabled in some way? Please understand I’m not asking this to be insulting, but I just wondered since it sounds like other people had to support him, as opposed to him supporting himself.

I just wonder if “furry” stuff correlates with some kind of arrested development/preoccupation with childish things as an adult.
 
Furries are twice as likely to have Asperger’s than the general population. But, that is still a small fragment of the community.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I don’t see how a young person with a mental disorder who feels more comfortable in furry culture is rejecting all norms he finds controlling or oppressing. And most young people don’t reject all norms. For example, no matter how free and without norms they claim to be, the vast majority of them still get upset if their significant other cheats.

Young people like to push boundaries and ask why we have these stupid norms. I was like that about many things. I think it’s okay.
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First off, I don’t think that everyone who is into being furry has species dysphoria. There are some, but not a lot. So yes, for some reason getting into a costume where you can entirely hide yourself is strangely comforting to a remarkable number of people, above and beyond the typical enjoyment people get from dressing up in a costume once in awhile.

This difficulty and extreme anxiety concerning meeting norms and rejecting norms seems to becoming pervasive. I have taught in a high school, and I can’t tell you how many students have severe anxiety issues.

I have to wonder if today’s youth aren’t suffering from a lack of being ignored and especially a ingrained horror of being average or unremarkable. The days when we were supposed to act as if we actually wanted to be unremarkable might have been better for us than the days when we’re bombarded with messages about how exceptional we’re all supposed to be. How is anyone supposed to feel contented when they’re trying to live up to that, not to mention when they’re told from the time their parents wait-list them at the best preschool how competitive the world is? The message is that you are either a “success” or a “loser.”

I certainly think the days when you spent a lot of free time in childhood just doing whatever it occurred to you to do at the time and outside the view of adult supervision was a good thing.

I think it was a lot healthier back when even great success was accompanied by the expectation that people were going to find you more comfortable to be around if you were mostly just average. It is a lot easier to seem average than to seem exceptional all the time.
 
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Well apparently there’s a man who identifies as a dragon… I don’t know how one can find something that is non-human to be attractive like that…
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I thought you meant Jello dreads, like in the 90s. I certainly hope that style is not coming back.
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Is there any style under the heavens that is not “back”?

I can’t imagine what period pieces of this era are going to look like–you know, movies they make in 20-30 or more years from now that are supposed to be set in the current time. I told my husband the other day that our sense of “style” is heading toward the bar scene in Star Wars.

We don’t have an iconic style, like the 1940s, that is for sure.
(Of course, we also don’t have a lot of other things I don’t want back, so there is that.)
 
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I used to work in an office with a lady who had a cape with cat ears on the hood that she always wore. It was actually made of plush, like she’d skinned a stuffed animal or something. I thought she was really young to be that obsessed with cats. Maybe she was a furry?
 
Nope. He just doesn’t work. He has had jobs and he is intelligent, just doesn’t have the grit to stay with jobs. He has lived in about 6 different states in the past 6 or 7 years. He quits a job when he thinks he will get a better job. He has struggled his entire life with anxiety, ADHD, depression, so I’m sure this all plays into it.
 
Dlee said:
Nope. He just doesn’t work. He has had jobs and he is intelligent, just doesn’t have the grit to stay with jobs. He has lived in about 6 different states in the past 6 or 7 years. He quits a job when he thinks he will get a better job. He has struggled his entire life with anxiety, ADHD, depression, so I’m sure this all plays into it.
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If your son has ADHD, that explains why he has difficulty staying with jobs. It’s not just because of a lack of “grit” but also because of this neurodevelopmental disorder and other things as you’ve indicated. As one website on ADHD says:
Adults with childhood histories of ADHD and/or a diagnosis of ADHD made in adulthood, on average, have more difficulty achieving in school and in their employment. They are less likely to go on to higher education and are more likely to be employed in skilled labor positions and to change jobs more often.
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http://www.myadhd.com/adhdacrosslifespan.html

I have ADHD, and know from my own experience that it can pervade almost every aspect of my life, but a stimulant medication can help quite a lot. I hope that your son can get the help that he needs to improve his life despite having this disorder.
 
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Furbies are possessed.
They open their eyes and start talking for no apparent reason 😳
 
I reckon period pieces of this era will have all the women in long, parted-in-the-middle wavy hairdos and form-fitting spandex leggings or dresses. I can tell I’m old because I don’t find any of it attractive.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
The woman in my husband’s office who came in to work dressed as a bunny was a software engineer.
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Well, you know how those techie types can be 😉

Some people like to go bowling, some people like to dress up in costumes and hang out while pretending they are animals.

That’s people for you…
 
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Tis_Bearself:
The woman in my husband’s office who came in to work dressed as a bunny was a software engineer.
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Well, you know how those techie types can be 😉

Some people like to go bowling, some people like to dress up in costumes and hang out while pretending they are animals.

That’s people for you…
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I can think of worse things for someone to do at work.
 
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