Now let’s think about the message we send to children when we value the cleanliness of the transitional object (“it’s covered with bacteria!”) above all and banish the lived-in griminess of it.
Others are a source of danger! A disease vector! A source of microaggressions! I need a safe space! I need a lockdown!
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Now you’ve got me wondering if my mother did psychological damage to me by washing my stuffed animal lol (it was beginning to smell bad I believe)
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