It's Teddy Bear Thursday, MKF 1/9/03

[TheBunnySlayer]

When my parents found out I'm transgendered, the first words out of my dads mouth were 'But you can't be a boy, you sleep with stuffed animals!!!' Damn straight I do.

When I was little I had a little monkey named Chipped. My dad would go on business trips and bring back little shirts for him. I carried him everywhere. Like Linus and his blanket. I lost him trick or treating one year and screamed until they agreed to backtrack to everyhouse we'd hit. And at McDonald's once ... I was seriously terrified someone found him and made Monkey McNuggets. He now sleeps on the bedside table so I don't squash his stuffing's out.

For the last four years at least, I've slept with this enormous stuffed bunny named ... Bunny. She's a bit of a butch in her plaid vest and bowtie, but it suits me I think. I didn't start sleeping with her til I fell in love for the first time. Then she got to stand in for my unrequited love everynight. She's stood in for many an unrequited love now ... heck, lips or no lips, that bunny taught me how to kiss I think. I used to have to take her with me when I was staying with female friends just to ensure I didn't accidentally cuddle a person.

And yes, I realize the irony of calling myself the Bunny Slayer and sleeping with the bunny. Way too much Buffy for me I guess ...

[duck shoot]

I used to have a Velveteen Rabbit that was given to me by my aunt when I was around seven or eight that I slept with. When I turned ten, I figured I was too old for such things and just put it on my shelf. It wasn't until three years ago, when I was sixteen, that my parents bought me a Pooh bear and I started to sleep with stuffed animals again . I have loved Winnie the Pooh since I was little, so can you blame me? His name is P. Dub (short for Pooh Winnie as I called him when I was five). So, taralicious, I too sleep with my Pooh bear , but under my Pooh blanket and occaisionally in my Pooh bear boxers. Maybe I went a little overboard with the boxers...


-duck shoot

[Twisted Minstrel]

Hmm...lovely thread, this. I had a teddy as a child, whom I compulsively ripped the stuffing out of now and then. Call it anger management for tots. His name was Slappy and we had some good times being intolerant of one another. How I miss him.

Since high school, however, I developed a thing for penguins. Yes, it can happen.

Maybe it was Bloom County, I don't know, but I now have some 15 or 16 large stuffed penguins in my home, including, of course, dear Opus himself, with his red bow tie and mortified expression. Sometimes, late at night, we just stare at one another...and wonder what we've gotten ourselves into.

And how are we going to get out of it.

[Nix42]

I stole one of my brother's bears at some early stage of childhood (I think it was when I was about 5 or 6), and he's been with me ever since (the bear not the brother!). He's a panda, who was called Percy .. I have a horrible feeling he was named after Blue Peter's gardener

He stayed on the bed until I got cats, when unfortunately one of them took rather too much of a shine to it, and tried to hump it! Suffice to say, Percy is now locked away (and the cat has surgically lost certain parts of his anatomy)

[JulesP600]

I got a white knitted polar bear when I was christened and real imagination went into naming him "Poly". I still have him too....he doesn't sleep with me but sits on top of a cupboard in the study.

I also have a mouse like bear called Robert after a friend

Lots of others but they don't have names.....just the special ones

[KittenPokerPlayer]

I have a huge menagerie on stuffed toys on my bed with me. Most are kitties and puppies though, no teddy bears. I do however have the Klondike bear but hes huge so he sits on the floor. But my favorite stuffed animal is Rajah, the tiger from Aladdin. I got him from my mother when the movie first came out cause I thought he was so cute.

I think W/T have stuffed animals. I usually don't check out backgrounds and scenery of shows so I wouldn't know. But I don't think they would keep and special ones out cause MKF might scratch them.

~Erica

[Consolata]

I sleep with a pluto dog from disneyland named Maxwell (after the singer) I bought him for my bestfriend and recently when she came to visit she left him with me for company 'cause I live alone now.

[kbk3022]

I have a lot of stuffed animals, I usually gain one every year. This year I got a stuffed moose.

When I was a kid I would sleep with 5 animals, I would rotate them every now and then, but the ones I remember are 2 rabbits from past Easters, a panda, a koala, and a monkey. Every night I had to line them up in a certain order across me so I could be holding all of them, I had a fear that if I didn't do this then something bad would happen to me.

It was always neat to see how far I had flung them during the night when I woke up the next morning. I don't think any made it through the night staying on the bed.