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Has owning BJDs increased your tolerance toward other people's 'weird' hobbies?

Dec 9, 2014

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Has owning BJDs increased your tolerance toward other 'weird' hobbies?

  1. Yes

  2. No

  3. Maybe

  4. I don't know

Multiple votes are allowed.
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    1. I've never really had a "problem" with people's whatever passion/hobbies. I consider them a healthy part of imaginative existance in our, mostly, dull life, filled with routine and duties. It is a good thing people find a way to breakaway form ordinary life. I can't force myself into judging what is weird and what not, as people find fun and pleasure in many activities. Dolls are just one of them.

      But, since collecting dolls, I have witnessed far more INTOLERANCE towards people and their hobbies. Not within the community itself, but I have somehow became more focused on how people perceive different things. And this is also where I noticed that people tend to try hard to be tolerant about dolls (and other rare hobbie), but then seem to have limits of trying to understand others and become judgemental.
       
      #61 Asatee, Aug 15, 2015
    2. I voted yes, I definitely think being in the doll trade has given me a different perspective on many things and toleration of other niche hobbies. I was already into model cars and display foods so I'm just a weird person when I started keeping dolls around people were really receptive of it, luckily. :)
       
      #62 AshGUTZ, Aug 15, 2015
    3. My rule to go by for anything is as follows:
      "If it doesn't hurt people or affect anyone negatively, do whatever you want."
      In the end, a hobby doesn't (shouldn't) make anyone uncomfortable or feel bad about themselves or such. Like with furries, for example. I couldn't care less what they do with their hobby because it makes them happy and doesn't effect me in any way.
       
      #63 ivory-inked-bones, Dec 29, 2015
    4. Dolls didn't make me weird, I was born this way :cool: so no dolls didn't affect my tolerance for anything. I may raise my eyebrow at certain hobbies but I would never laugh at or condone them being hurt or bullied.
       
      #64 Nefla, Dec 29, 2015
    5. No, not really because I have a pretty high tolerance for other people's hobbies. I may not be interested in those hobbies, however I'm not going to bash those people for having weird hobbies. If you're not harming anyone then IDC. You be you and I'll be me.
       
      #65 AnyungBunny, Dec 30, 2015
    6. I've had a pretty good tolerance towards any hobby. Some of them would make me thing "why?" but I wouldn't judge it too long or say anything negative. As long as no one gets hurt, or anything negative happens, I don't care. But there is one hobby I utterly despised and now I have a better understanding of. GARDENING. Why plant a tree waste resources and complain when it sheds it's leaves??? BECAUSE IT LOOKS PRETTY?? THAT'S IT?? But then the same goes for dolls. There was a time when thread and fabric were sought out and cherished by people who had little to spend. My great grand parents basically. Saved every bit of threat no matter how small and used it. But here I am throwing away thread and feeling bad. Just so a dolly can look pretty.
      So I have a better understanding of gardening now.
       
      #66 CeeKay, Dec 30, 2015
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