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12:15am October 9, 2013

Is it really weird…

That the first plushie toy I’ve owned in my life that just AUTOMATICALLY makes me feel joyful and happy and want to interact with it…

…Is a stomach?

Like, the I Heart Guts stomach?

I mean I know anyone who’s gone through feeding tubes has a more intimate relationship with stomachs than most people but this is ridiculous.

Prior to now I’ve mostly liked stuffed animals for sensory qualities and had to think to interact with them in any other way.

This one on the other hand I like because it’s so happy and it makes me happy just to look at it and touch it. 

…But it’s a stomach.

An orange stomach, as in the internal organ. With a smiley face on it. 

And it’s adorable.

I sleep with it every night and it makes me feel happy and safe and loving.  I’ve never felt this way about a stuffed animal before.  Usually the objects that cause emotional reactions in me are… different somehow. I’ve always had stuffed animals but I’ve never felt like this about one.  It’s like a little piece of happy. I think I might be driving people around me a little nuts with it honestly.