[ Poll ] Infantilism Discussion - In need of more cookies. o.o

Have you ever considered Infantilism?

Yes.		11.1%	[ 416 ]
No.		69.9%	[ 2627 ]
I am an infantilist...And I hearby claim one of your cookies!		19.1%	[ 717 ]

Total Votes: 3760

[EliteDanneh]

Maverick Wolf

He is trying to inform people. It's not for attention at all. I know because I posted in the version of this topic that got mvoed to Chatterbox for some unknown reason before I found this one. Now, here's that post:

On topic: I really can't say I see anything wrong with this. Of course, now being aware of it (I've never heard of it before today), I believe there's a chance that I might have my own mild case, so to speak. I use my thumb and not a pacifier, but still. I"m more comfortable going to sleep like that, curled around something or someone (usually a really big teddy bear or something equally squishy, although I'm just as comfortable going to sleep cuddling with my girlfriend, and have fallen asleep numerous times with her stepmom's baby laying on my chest (and the two-year-old [I tend to babysit fairly often]).)

To find out for yourself, buy a pacifier...And suckle on it before bed, see if it makes you feel any better...

I wish I had a giant teddy bear. Does anyone seem to mind you sucking your thumb or care? I suck my thumb alot too!

[kaijupaziuri]

Hang on... did you all just make a NEW infantilism thread? Or did the last one get consigned to GD?

You still haven't convinced me that "your" age is four. It seems like nothing more than an arbitrary designation betraying a general ignorance of children... why, for instance, are you still sucking on pacifiers when you're four? Most children ween off of pacifiers between the ages of one and three. And where's all the screaming at mommy and hogging your toys?

Also, forty year olds who pretend to be teenagers are not "involved in age play". They're "sad, creepy old people". At best.

[EliteDanneh]

kaijupaziuri

Hang on... did you all just make a NEW infantilism thread? Or did the last one get consigned to GD?

You still haven't convinced me that "your" age is four. It seems like nothing more than an arbitrary designation betraying a general ignorance of children... why, for instance, are you still sucking on pacifiers when you're four? Most children ween off of pacifiers between the ages of one and three. And where's all the screaming at mommy and hogging your toys?

Also, forty year olds who pretend to be teenagers are not "involved in age play". They're "sad, creepy old people". At best.

Not really, they are just true to themselves...

And that's just your own opinion really...I could say you being normal is creep, and trust me...I scream at my real mom alot. >_>

It's a new thread, a mod uncorrectly assigned it to Chatterbox of all places, can't say I was happy about that...Had a temper tantrum about it. v_v

[Dynamo Kiev]

Eshmasesh

EliteDanneh

That's not actually true, for most furries, doing it in the fur they wear is all about it...Without the fur, it would mean nothing to a good number of them.

Uh...the majority of furries aren't fursuiters. If I based the proportion of furries that are fursuiters on the FWA con I recently went to, then around 1/20 furries even own one.

Nolandon

Lets not generalize.

The sex industry makes tons of money from weird sex costumes/suits. Freaking living doll suits have zippers at the crotch for just that (my friend uses one such suit for his contortion routine. We make fun of it all the time). Plus isn't not exactly difficult to clean or mend a damaged suit.

I was THINKING about editing something like that into my post, and I'm thinking I should have =p I have visited one of those sites before and it was...grr.

And I meant that no furries wear fursuits in every day life, I DID edit that in...

Yeah, but maybe they'll make freaking annoying animal noises and n** and such.

Pride isn't a good quality...

I still don't get why people would talk about this thing. Either they can keep it private and not get laughed at, or they can post it in their sig, and then get angry when people laugh at it.

And from the last thread that was moved, I got the impression that the OP was a highly capable, compotent grown buisness man. But apparently he's some sixteen year old kid. rolleyes Where your buisnesses lemonade stands or an iron on t-shirt jig? And apparently now he has schizophrenia (what gaia doesn't proudly claim to be rolleyes ), whereas he was claiming to be mentally all there in the other thread. Please.

[Maverick Wolf]

EliteDanneh

Maverick Wolf

He is trying to inform people. It's not for attention at all. I know because I posted in the version of this topic that got mvoed to Chatterbox for some unknown reason before I found this one. Now, here's that post:

On topic: I really can't say I see anything wrong with this. Of course, now being aware of it (I've never heard of it before today), I believe there's a chance that I might have my own mild case, so to speak. I use my thumb and not a pacifier, but still. I"m more comfortable going to sleep like that, curled around something or someone (usually a really big teddy bear or something equally squishy, although I'm just as comfortable going to sleep cuddling with my girlfriend, and have fallen asleep numerous times with her stepmom's baby laying on my chest (and the two-year-old [I tend to babysit fairly often]).)

To find out for yourself, buy a pacifier...And suckle on it before bed, see if it makes you feel any better...

I wish I had a giant teddy bear. Does anyone seem to mind you sucking your thumb or care? I suck my thumb alot too!

I've got lots of giant teddy bears. Well, half the size of me, but stil, that's pretty big. A 3-foot-teddy bear isn't exactly a small one. ((I've seen bigger, but they get to be expensive.)) I don't let most people see me sucking my thumb, but I know my girlfriend doesn't care. Hell, my last girlfriend thought it was cute. And both of them like(d) the fact that I'm kind of clingy.

On a side note: *decides its safe to vote for the cookie*

[EliteDanneh]

Nolandon

Eshmasesh

EliteDanneh

That's not actually true, for most furries, doing it in the fur they wear is all about it...Without the fur, it would mean nothing to a good number of them.

Uh...the majority of furries aren't fursuiters. If I based the proportion of furries that are fursuiters on the FWA con I recently went to, then around 1/20 furries even own one.

Nolandon

Lets not generalize.

The sex industry makes tons of money from weird sex costumes/suits. Freaking living doll suits have zippers at the crotch for just that (my friend uses one such suit for his contortion routine. We make fun of it all the time). Plus isn't not exactly difficult to clean or mend a damaged suit.

I was THINKING about editing something like that into my post, and I'm thinking I should have =p I have visited one of those sites before and it was...grr.

And I meant that no furries wear fursuits in every day life, I DID edit that in...

Yeah, but maybe they'll make freaking annoying animal noises and n** and such.

Pride isn't a good quality...

I still don't get why people would talk about this thing. Either they can keep it private and not get laughed at, or they can post it in their sig, and then get angry when people laugh at it.

And from the last thread that was moved, I got the impression that the OP was a highly capable, compotent grown buisness man. But apparently he's some sixteen year old kid. rolleyes Where your buisnesses lemonade stands or an iron on t-shirt jig? And apparently now he has schizophrenia (what gaia doesn't proudly claim to be rolleyes ), whereas he was claiming to be mentally all there in the other thread. Please.

I do own three business', Bespoke software, web design and graphics design.

I am sane, I just get easily freaked out, what's not sane about that? There's a difference between sanity and getting freaked out.

Tell me, are you just out for arguing and conflict?

[kaijupaziuri]

EliteDanneh

kaijupaziuri

Hang on... did you all just make a NEW infantilism thread? Or did the last one get consigned to GD?

You still haven't convinced me that "your" age is four. It seems like nothing more than an arbitrary designation betraying a general ignorance of children... why, for instance, are you still sucking on pacifiers when you're four? Most children ween off of pacifiers between the ages of one and three. And where's all the screaming at mommy and hogging your toys?

Also, forty year olds who pretend to be teenagers are not "involved in age play". They're "sad, creepy old people". At best.

Not really, they are just true to themselves...

And that's just your own opinion really...I could say you being normal is creep, and trust me...I scream at my real mom alot. >_>

It's a new thread, a mod uncorrectly assigned it to Chatterbox of all places, can't say I was happy about that...Had a temper tantrum about it. v_v

Aww. That's too bad. As insane as the topic is, it was certainly appropriate for ED.

I don't see how picking an age that is an accurate reflection of your activities has anything to do with "just being true to yourself". Either your chosen age makes sense, or it doesn't. IF you like sucking oin pacifiers, that's one thing... but you are not "four". At most, you're play-acting a developmentally stunted four year old, which is obviously silly. You might as well claim to be play-acting a developmentally stunted 16 year old who likes sucking on pacifiers!

[Mobster Lobster]

EliteDanneh

I do own three business', Bespoke software, web design and graphics design.

If you incorrectly use that apostrophe ONE MORE TIME, I will... give you a harsh spanking. neutral

[EliteDanneh]

kaijupaziuri

EliteDanneh

kaijupaziuri

Hang on... did you all just make a NEW infantilism thread? Or did the last one get consigned to GD?

You still haven't convinced me that "your" age is four. It seems like nothing more than an arbitrary designation betraying a general ignorance of children... why, for instance, are you still sucking on pacifiers when you're four? Most children ween off of pacifiers between the ages of one and three. And where's all the screaming at mommy and hogging your toys?

Also, forty year olds who pretend to be teenagers are not "involved in age play". They're "sad, creepy old people". At best.

Not really, they are just true to themselves...

And that's just your own opinion really...I could say you being normal is creep, and trust me...I scream at my real mom alot. >_>

It's a new thread, a mod uncorrectly assigned it to Chatterbox of all places, can't say I was happy about that...Had a temper tantrum about it. v_v

Aww. That's too bad. As insane as the topic is, it was certainly appropriate for ED.

I don't see how picking an age that is an accurate reflection of your activities has anything to do with "just being true to yourself". Either your chosen age makes sense, or it doesn't. IF you like sucking oin pacifiers, that's one thing... but you are not "four". At most, you're play-acting a developmentally stunted four year old, which is obviously silly. You might as well claim to be play-acting a developmentally stunted 16 year old who likes sucking on pacifiers!

Haha! You have a good point, but I was still sucking pacifiers at 4 years old...Infact, most people I know were.

I choose to be 4 because that's what I relate closest too...I could close it at calling myself mentally stunted, but I know i'm not and that I enjoy what I do and that it makes me feel well and safe...So i'm obviously mentally developed enough to know what I like...And other jargon...And...Stuff?

[EliteDanneh]

Mobster Lobster

EliteDanneh

I do own three business', Bespoke software, web design and graphics design.

If you incorrectly use that apostrophe ONE MORE TIME, I will... give you a harsh spanking. neutral

Promises promises...

It was incorrect? I could of sworn it was correct...Instead of using an extra 'S', I simply punctuated on it to state more than one business?

[Maverick Wolf]

EliteDanneh

Mobster Lobster

EliteDanneh

I do own three business', Bespoke software, web design and graphics design.

If you incorrectly use that apostrophe ONE MORE TIME, I will... give you a harsh spanking. neutral

Promises promises...

It was incorrect? I could of sworn it was correct...Instead of using an extra 'S', I simply punctuated on it to state more than one business?

No, that's isn't correct. The proper plural form of business is businesses. It looks horrendously wrong, but that's actually how it's spelled.

[Eshmasesh]

EliteDanneh

Mobster Lobster

EliteDanneh

I do own three business', Bespoke software, web design and graphics design.

If you incorrectly use that apostrophe ONE MORE TIME, I will... give you a harsh spanking. neutral

Promises promises...

It was incorrect? I could of sworn it was correct...Instead of using an extra 'S', I simply punctuated on it to state more than one business?

The correct plural form of "business" is "businesses". Apostrophes are used to show possession.

"I've worked for three different businesses before."
"This is the business' net income for the month."

[Mobster Lobster]

EliteDanneh

Mobster Lobster

EliteDanneh

I do own three business', Bespoke software, web design and graphics design.

If you incorrectly use that apostrophe ONE MORE TIME, I will... give you a harsh spanking. neutral

Promises promises...

It was incorrect? I could of sworn it was correct...Instead of using an extra 'S', I simply punctuated on it to state more than one business?

The apostrophe is used to show ownership.

Quote:

More than one owning something:
My businesses' offices.

Only one owning something:
My business's office.

More than one.
I have three businesses.

Only one:
I have a business.

[EliteDanneh]

Maverick Wolf

EliteDanneh

Mobster Lobster

EliteDanneh

I do own three business', Bespoke software, web design and graphics design.

If you incorrectly use that apostrophe ONE MORE TIME, I will... give you a harsh spanking. neutral

Promises promises...

It was incorrect? I could of sworn it was correct...Instead of using an extra 'S', I simply punctuated on it to state more than one business?

No, that's isn't correct. The proper plural form of business is businesses. It looks horrendously wrong, but that's actually how it's spelled.

I do believe my English teacher taught me incorrectly then, anyways, back to the topic before we lose the context.

[Eshmasesh]

Mobster Lobster

The apostrophe is used to show ownership.

Quote:

More than one owning something:
My businesses' offices.

Only one owning something:
My business's office.

More than one.
I have three businesses.

Only one:
I have a business.

Bad Mobster Lobster. Now you need a spanking for adding an "s" after the form to show possession, which is also bad grammar. Shame on you!

CORRECT EDIT: Last I check, the plural form of business to show ownership is also business'.