Speaker 1: I haven't there.
Speaker 2: Talk to me about this hair?
Speaker 3: Who is andros?
Speaker 2: Today we're talking about blankies. Yes, those decrepit stained, tore
Speaker 2: up blankets and cushions and stuffed animals that you've kept
Speaker 2: since you were a wee child.
Speaker 3: I think it's cute, you know. We listen to show.
Speaker 2: We shared a listener DM that was talking about how
Speaker 2: a date of theirs after a one night stand had
Speaker 2: come across their blanky, which led me to post the
Speaker 2: question number one, who has blankies? Frims and I are
Speaker 2: pushing thirty. Yes, so we are out of the demographic. Also,
Speaker 2: it would seem we are not this is key blankie demographic.
Speaker 2: And I also made the generalized statement that I thought
Speaker 2: that blankies wore Caucasian activities. Come to find out based
Speaker 2: on our listener dms, we have a few people who
Speaker 2: aren't purely Caucasian who own blankies. Listen to these we
Speaker 2: have three this The first person says, I'm mixed raced
Speaker 2: African Australian. I don't have a blanky, but when my
Speaker 2: twin and I were born in the hospital, they were
Speaker 2: giving out stuffed panda toys, so we both got one
Speaker 2: and we've held onto them. Since I think they're particularly
Speaker 2: comforting because we moved into nationally every few years growing up,
Speaker 2: and these little pandas are a constant in our lives.
Speaker 2: Oh my panda is not a daily comfort object and
Speaker 2: usually lives under my bed, but she comes out for
Speaker 2: special comfort requiring occasions, especially if we twins are separated. Example,
Speaker 2: one of us is in hospital. Okay, I'm a redrun
Speaker 2: more out. Then we'll go through the rest of our podcast.
Speaker 2: It's flex and rooms anywhere you get good podcasts. This
Speaker 2: person says, I'm a half Asian woman. That's I'm seeing
Speaker 2: for both people. These are half Caucasians. Still, my point remains, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm a half Asian woman who had a blank until
Speaker 2: I was twelve. I don't think it's a Caucasian thing,
Speaker 2: as more of a neurodivergent thing. Okay, I'm diagnosed ADHD
Speaker 2: and suspected autistic and now I have my adult blankie,
Speaker 2: which is a shawl from India. Okay, I have a
Speaker 2: neurodivergent urge to things around myself really tight when I'm panicked,
Speaker 2: and I now and I know I used to do
Speaker 2: that with a blankie.
Speaker 3: Okay, so it's like a personal weighted blanket that has
Speaker 3: some sort of like necessary sentimental value.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, again, I'm happy to make generalized statements, and
Speaker 2: I'm always happy to be to be proven wrong. This
Speaker 2: is in a situation where I stand by what I said.
Speaker 2: Though on the podcast we're going to discuss if blankies
Speaker 2: aren't purely Australian, though I think they might be. I
Speaker 2: want to read about this third listener DM because it
Speaker 2: does prove my theory wrong. And I wasn't prepared to
Speaker 2: dox myself on radio, but I'll do it in the potty.
Speaker 2: I am Japanese and not Caucasian, and I've had comfort
Speaker 2: stuffed animals since I was little. That being said, I
Speaker 2: grew up in not just Tokyo but also Ipswitch, so
Speaker 2: maybe Caucasian behavior has rubbed off on me. I think
Speaker 2: this is very interesting. The neurodivergent angle is one I
Speaker 2: hadn't considered before. And I do understand the habitual element
Speaker 2: of having this thing that's been with you from life.
Speaker 2: I don't think I really truly understood the concept of
Speaker 2: sentimentality and objects and music until adulthood, when i'd gone
Speaker 2: through like I don't want to say extreme times, but
Speaker 2: like emotionally significant times where I could be like, oh,
Speaker 2: that has stuck with me. But if childhood felt emotionally
Speaker 2: significant and these associated animals and blankets also feel emotionally significant,
Speaker 2: then I guess that makes a bit more sense to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to think about my own proclivities to it.
Speaker 2: You're gonna say proclivities, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit of slash on that one. Do
Speaker 3: I say that long?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But it's it's it's where you say it more than
Speaker 2: how frequently you say it. But that's like when there's
Speaker 2: a pause, I know it's coming up.
Speaker 3: Because I'm like sifting through the rolodex, and I might
Speaker 3: be like, wait, do I a word for this? And
Speaker 3: also is it a word that I send me? Don't
Speaker 3: understand the meaning of we love?
Speaker 2: Those should be Google what proclivities means?
Speaker 3: Please? Oh guess while we're here. Yes, proclivities is like
Speaker 3: a like a natural leaning towards something because you're good?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: We do have a writer in our myths soon to
Speaker 2: be published author, current published author. It's a tendency to
Speaker 2: choose or do something regularly, an inclination or predisposition towards
Speaker 2: a particular thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, babe, Yes, but go on, I definitely see the
Speaker 3: like I'm a person that needs a little comfort items.
Speaker 3: I must admits I have been known to get into
Speaker 3: a routine quite heavily in a way that is perhaps maladaptive.
Speaker 3: What's this accent that was actually not even meant to be? Okay,
Speaker 3: people get this. You just get into a rhythm with
Speaker 3: like oldie weldy type speak, like my friend Ricky is
Speaker 3: always like you speak in a very particular way. That's
Speaker 3: like giving oldi weldy vibes.
Speaker 2: Which I love.
Speaker 3: I need to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say, if you were to pendulum swing
Speaker 2: in any direction, let's go further oldie worldy, and let's
Speaker 2: also bring in some letter writing and some public pining calligority.
Speaker 2: Fine enough, I've taken yurn out of the vocap because
Speaker 2: I google the definition and it feels a little bit
Speaker 2: like unrequired vibes. But pine, you know, let's let's pine
Speaker 2: for things.
Speaker 3: All I see is a tree. But also I appreciate that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's fur is there a fer tree? Like if I are,
Speaker 3: let's keep it going. Gram gam cam gamma. I understand
Speaker 3: this from all my girlies and boy bosses. I just
Speaker 3: understand being in a routine, and like being in a
Speaker 3: routine that you like, You could throw it out if
Speaker 3: you want. You could like give it away if you want.
Speaker 3: But you know how like, yeah, you like grow out
Speaker 3: of routines, but you're still need a little push to
Speaker 3: get out of it. And the push doesn't have to
Speaker 3: be negative or like sad. You can just be like,
Speaker 3: all right, I'm willing to like try and not sleep
Speaker 3: with my blanky for a few nights.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is an addiction, you know. I was asking
Speaker 2: before what does having a blank you say about someone?
Speaker 2: And initially I was like, perhaps it means they're emotionally stunted,
Speaker 2: but maybe it actually means they're emotionally the opposite of stunted.
Speaker 3: What makes you think that.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm thinking about people who yet, let's use the
Speaker 2: people who have dmd US, Right, they have this awareness
Speaker 2: around it being a comfort object and acknowledging that one
Speaker 2: needs comfort that you might not be getting elsewhere. Right,
Speaker 2: And so you've given You've allowed yourself to have this
Speaker 2: experience through a source, which I think is some kind
Speaker 2: of emotional intelligence. Yeah, self awareness.
Speaker 3: Definitely being aware that the blanky of what the blanky
Speaker 3: represents is a step.
Speaker 2: Because it when I see it initially, where if I
Speaker 2: walked into a room of an adult and I saw
Speaker 2: a ton of stuffed animals, I would sooner think of
Speaker 2: what's going on here? Like the surface is like, what's this?
Speaker 2: Are we role playing toddler? But then maybe we're not
Speaker 2: role playing at all. Maybe it's just allowing space to
Speaker 2: have things that give us comfort.
Speaker 3: Definitely, it's also kind of cool to have something.
Speaker 1: That no, I swear, it's like, you know what I
Speaker 1: never see in our generation slash in anyone that wasn't
Speaker 1: born in the eighteen eighties is like dolecre like having
Speaker 1: them real porcelain type dole situation where their heads fall off,
Speaker 1: like I reckon.
Speaker 3: If you are psychologically strong, you can handle having like
Speaker 3: a row of those dolls in the bedroom. But takes
Speaker 3: a very particular.
Speaker 2: To do that. All right, let's go, Missy Baite.