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Teddy Bears

It was Pride and I was sitting in a bar with a large group of friends when a sleuth of lovely bears, weighty, beardy and dressed in leather, walked past and, inspired, I just happened to ask to anyone who was listening; “Who still has their childhood teddy bear?”

One of the guys who passed stopped and said that most bears still have bears and lovingly treasure them. I happened to mention that he wasn’t the only one as I also still had my own sitting on a shelf in my study at home. Now this may not surprise you but it’s actually in my bedroom but I felt too embarrassed to admit that little fact. The bear said he wouldn’t dream of keeping his anywhere but in the bedroom where, when he falls asleep, it is there to protect him. He explained to the group that as a child his parents had told him that when he goes to sleep, his teddy would be there to look out for him, fight off any monsters and prevent bad dreams. Even now it his age, early thirties, he wouldn’t like to spend a night without being under teddy’s watchful eye.

Slowly it emerged that quite a few of our gay number still had their bears and wouldn’t part with them even for the best shag in the world. Well, in truth, it was only one person who admitted to that particular thing, the rest of us decided that it all depended… and we left it at that.

It would appear that teddy bears, our bears, are perhaps one of the few things we keep from our childhood. We cling to a memory of that sweet fluffy creature that saw us through every moment of our young life. It offered friendship, comfort, safety and to some protection, when the adult world seemed really gross and scary. We sucked on it as a baby, we hugged it as a toddler and we travelled with it as we grew up - a journey simply wasn’t worth taking unless our best friend, our teddy, was right alongside us.

The group then got down to discussing our individual teddies; our childish names for them, how big or small they were, the fur which had disappeared over the years, the repairs that had been made, the clothes we sometimes dressed them in (and some still had them wearing the same outfit) and all the trials we’d gone through with him or her. It was never an ‘it’, it was never an inanimate object, it had a name, it was real and he or she was our best friend.

One of our group laughingly suggested that ‘one fine day’ we should hold a teddy bears picnic and bring all out furry friends to meet each other. We all joked about the idea. We all pretended it was a great idea but not really what grown-ups should be engaging in. However, the thought has hit some deep spot in so many people’s psyche, we don't have to be grown up all the time, so that it now looks like we will be taking to a wood shortly and having a picnic surrounded by our most intimate and loyal friends.

 

Do you still have your childhood bear?

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I don't know if I ever had a childhood bear.   I have many of them now.     Right now I have one of my favorites (Brighton) sitting on my desk and my 56" costco one sitting in the extra chair in my office (Bob).    There's also a teddy bear wrapped around my computer monitor and a bear holding a stack of post it notes on my desk.    My wife restricts the number allowed in the bed at any one time.  

Odd thing, more people know of my bear interest than the AB.    I get bears as gifts from my wife's sister who's about as straight-laced as they come.

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My childhood bear went AWOL from the family home after I'd left at 17.  I'd had him in my bed until I left home for a fairly itinerant life for a year before I went off to college.  He got thrown out in a house move while I was at college. Nearly half a century later, buying my new Teddy was a big step for me.  He symbolised a sort of coming out for me.  The decision that I was finally going to be in nappies whenever I could, & be as much of a baby as I wanted, as long as it didn't upset anyone else too much.  That trip to the Teddy shop was so important to me.  He's upstairs in our bed now, & if I'm away from home overnight he comes along, whether my other half is going or not. I never had a collection of bears, & never wanted one.  One Teddy's all I need.   ... & perhaps a Moomin or two now I think about it...

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I always had a rabbit named Rabbit, got him when I was three, can you tell? He still sits at home in my nightstand, he’s too old and fragile to stay on the bed. As of now though, my stuffed friends are all horses, and one pony (guess what character from MLP it is). My mom knows of my love of stuffed animals, she correctly guessed that it was a childhood thing I couldn’t get rid of. 

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I only have a few stuffed animals from when I was little- my old, ragged Starlight horse, and Simba and Nala.  My other plushies are ones I've collected as a grown up- most from Build A Bear, which I never got the opportunity to visit until my twenty's.  The last plushies I bought were a few years ago at the zoo- two pink and purple tiger cubs.  

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I have two "build a bears."   My wife and my daughter took me to Build-A-Bear for my 40th birthday.     The put a sticker on me saying "I'm the birthday bear!" with my name and age while I was escorted around the store to make Latte.

 

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I still have my bear that I was given right after I was born. He is named after me and is a big yankees and rangers fan. I refused to sleep without him till I was in high school and only stopped because I realized that most people found that odd.

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Oh yeah, I still have my childhood teddy. XD My mom's friend Michelle bequeathed him to me when I was really little, shortly before she died of cancer. Later, when my brain developed enough to start naming things, I named my teddy bear Michael, after Michelle. She was really old, and got Michael when she was a little girl from her grandparents. I'm not sure where her grandparents got him from, but I like to think that they got them from their grandparents, and so on and so forth haha. No idea how old he is, but he's definitely getting up there, behold:



 

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He has brown eyes like me. XD

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4 hours ago, cnodnvn said:

I still have my bear that I was given right after I was born. He is named after me and is a big yankees and rangers fan. I refused to sleep without him till I was in high school and only stopped because I realized that most people found that odd.

I hope you and your bear get back together now you've  ordered a pack of diapers.:D

It's funny that at a certain age everyone thinks it's time for you to put away your childish things... I wonder what they think gives them such a right.

Leave us and our teddys alone.<_<

4 hours ago, Little Johnny said:

Oh yeah, I still have my childhood teddy. XD My mom's friend Michelle bequeathed him to me when I was really little, shortly before she died of cancer. Later, when my brain developed enough to start naming things, I named my teddy bear Michael, after Michelle. She was really old, and got Michael when she was a little girl from her grandparents. I'm not sure where her grandparents got him from, but I like to think that they got them from their grandparents, and so on and so forth haha. No idea how old he is, but he's definitely getting up there, behold:



 

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He has brown eyes like me. XD

Now that looks a comfy sweater :)

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I'm sure it is; it's a bit tattered though; unraveling a bit on his right sleeve haha; also has a little hole on his head behind his ear, fortunately it's not unraveling though; whatever he's made out of doesn't seem to come apart like his sweater does haha. Mom and I have been having a very solemn discussion about taking him to a dry cleaners to get him professionally cleaned and repaired. I don't wanna. I'm scared, lol. XD It's like....sending him into surgery lmao. I'd be on the edge of my seat the whole time. 

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A friend of mine told me he knew he had to get rid of his teddy when his older brother stuck a knife in and pinned it to his bedroom door.

He was horrified, he was nine, cried every time he went to bed, but got no sympathy from his parents. 

What a terrible way to treat a teddy.

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12 hours ago, Les Lea said:

A friend of mine told me he knew he had to get rid of his teddy when his older brother stuck a knife in and pinned it to his bedroom door.

He was horrified, he was nine, cried every time he went to bed, but got no sympathy from his parents. 

What a terrible way to treat a teddy.

That reminds me of an old prank my cousin's fiance played on him- got him one of those Peek A Boo Terror Teddies.  Freaked my cousin out. xD 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeXRhKobKdo

 

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