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✨ rat plushies by Citrine Mouse 🐀

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undersea friends baby duo i found at barnes and noble!!!! i have been wanting them FOREVER particularly the mole in the stingray costume. i was so excited to find them i love them so much:)

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some of the stuffed animals i got!!!!! douglas opossum, warmies manatee, and wild republic malaysian tapir. all of these i’d been wanting for a while and am so happy to have!

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christmas usually takes me a long time to process because of autism stuff, but i finally have most presents open and need to show my new toys on here :D

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been obsessed with jellycat birdlings recently, especially the pigeon 🐦

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i love these shiny sand filled animals! nice and heavy grounding friends to carry around :) i have a stingray too. they fulfill both stim toy and plushie roles lol

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AAAAHHH GOT SOME TANGLES!!!!!!

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*packs all my stuffed animals in my bag* i’m ready to go

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hi!!! i gained a surprising amount of followers on here lol. i appreciate that :)

i haven’t posted in a bit but i have amassed more plushies that i should take pictures of, and still have plenty i haven’t posted yet.

i was also thinking i might include my other toys/collections in this blog?! for example, calico critters, pokémon cards (just got started collecting those again), stim toys, putty, little animal figures, etc. i always like showing my stuff to others with similar interests, and seeing theirs!

i hope that is interesting to you and i plan to be more active on here soon 🧸💌

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HE IS SO CUTE I THINK I NEED HIM

Recently I got a nice stuffed animal, specifically an Aurora Snoozle Plush!

It's nicely shaped, has beads inside the ends of the limbs for weight, and it's very soft and fairly good at retaining my body heat and therefore keeping me warm when the room's cold! Its size makes it very nice to hold, and I don't often sleep with plush toys, but this one...yeah I've been sleeping with it and love it! Saw it in Books A Million and I'm glad I got it when I did!

Main downsides is that parts of it, specifically around seams near the feet, had what felt like dried paint? And I caught myself picking these bits off, along with a little stray fuzz. But after that, I now sleep comfortably with it with no issues!

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the mole, lamb, and frog 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

All Nippit Jellycats

(Nippit Owl, Nippit Beaver, Nippit Frog, Nippit Duck, Nippit Mole, Nippit Hedgehog, Nippit Squirrel and Nippit Lamb)

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jelly buddies (among other friends)

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i love well-loved plushies. when their fur is a bit matted and never quite as soft as it once was, but you can tell it's only because of countless hours of cuddles and care and love. when they're adorned with collars, bracelets, pins, or even just a simple ribbon. when you can tell they've been on many trips, attended many game nights, movie nights, and have never slept alone. when they've gone through a couple restuffings or mendings. or maybe they've been loved through all their changes. (there was no need to fix something that was never broken) when outfits for them have been created or chosen with care. i love well-loved plushies <3

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new beckett fox on my cozy fall animals blanket 🍂🧸🦊

my mental health has been pretty bad lately but he’s a nice comforting friend.

considering buying a few more jellycats because i’m sad and they fill the void.

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while i'm happy that the internet is becoming more accepting of autism and trying to kind of normalize it (that's a good thing!), i just want to remind everyone that it's NOT some quirky personality trait. at the end of the day, autism is still a developmental disability/neurological disorder. it's not "preferring small spoons" or bouncing your leg sometimes. *cough cough* @ tiktok.

autism actually affects every aspect your life. not just negatively of course, but it still makes you disabled. autism is a disability. i can't speak for every autistic person, but here are some of MY examples when autism can be extremely exhausting & disabling:

i have a list in my kitchen with things i can eat. the few foods on the list are the only things i can fucking eat without gagging/throwing up. fuck sensory issues.

i can't drive. i can barely even drive a bike. and when i use my bike, i can only drive routes that i walked by foot before.

i am an adult, and i still need my mother to bring me to doctor appointments, help me with grocery shopping and sometimes remind me to eat.

i have extreme difficulty with maintaining friendships, and keep losing friends due to miscommunication no matter how hard i try. because of this i also gave up on having neurotypical friends.

of course these are just a few examples of how exhausting being autistic can be. what i'm trying to say is that i'm all for autism acceptance (i love being autistic despite all the challenges), but keep in mind that it's not all fun and games. it's not just being quirky. the mostly white low support needs teenagers on tiktok should not be the only face of our community. we need to give more attention to autistics with medium/high support needs, intellectual disabilities, who are nonverbal/nonspeaking, who use AAC (october is AAC awareness month btw!!) and those who are POC!

autism is a spectrum and all of our voices deserve to be heard