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I hope this quote from C.S. Lewis helps. He's the guy who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia. I personally find it awesome. “Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”― C.S. Lewis
They certainly don't make me feel guilty for living here, they openly welcome it, but I guess just where I am now..an adult with no real home to call my own, no boyfriend or any foreseeable chances at finding one (and howdy boy, trust me I have tried for way too long), and a clueless future, it gets overwhelming and sometimes I feel like the toy collecting is only making it worse. If I had my own home, a steady partner or even just a real job, maybe I wouldn't feel this way.
Toy collecting isn't something overly unusual or strange by any means. If you ever feel judged by anyone, come here and we'll make you feel better
Its an individual thing - some people love their ponies loudly and proudly and for others its a private and personal thing. There is no harm in either and people collect wilder and weirder things that toys and My Little Pony. I agree as others have said it could just be seeing them altogether in one place. I know when some people see my collection its "woah...too much" and perhaps sometimes to some people it can be.