Taking dolls to school or college?

Not to be rude but...Newsflash, most people DON'T care about the person carrying the creepy doll for longer than 5 minutes generally. I've taken my doll out before. To school(university). No one gave a frick. They looked for about 3 seconds then continued doing whatever if they even looked at all. Kind of hard to "start a movement" when the people you're trying to "convert" don't even care ha ha!

 

I want to, but I dont have him yet. Oh and the fact that the guys in my class break the things I bring to school that arnt attached to me. I will once for this when I get him, but only to show him off to my art teacher. Plus the class eccentric will pumble him to death checking him out. -sigh- People are so crule to the lovely-strange.

 

Haha! ME! Nika's always on my arm, at least once or twice a week, at school. ^_^ I'm not afraid of people thinking I'm weird, or even caring what they think of my doll. I'm the only person who's opinion matters to me or to him.

And guess what I did? I got voted Most Unique (a kind way of saying "YOU ARE WIERD!") for my High School Yearbook Hall of Fame. So what did I do? I brought Nika, my Bory, with me on the day they took the picture, and he sat in my lap, waving at the camera, in the picture. That picture is going to be seen by EVERYONE who buys a yearbook from my school this year, wether they knew me and Nika or not.

 

Actually due to me talking to my teacher today I have to bring two of my dolls with me to school tomorrow. I am just hoping they don't pull down my boys pants and see what he has down there.

I think its actually really cool to take your doll to school!~

 

I've taken three out of four of my full dolls to school. It doesn't bother me much. They get locked in the classroom at lunch, and the rest of the time they stay with me. I don't play with them. They sit on my bag and stay out of the way, or in my lap in a crowded room. Now that I have a tiny, if he goes with me he stays in a purse with me. The worst I've had happen was in a pottery class when someone decided to give my Kalix a tiny crown made of clay when I wasn't looking. No harm done.

Do I take them often? Nope. I only take them when I needed a doll for an art project, and very occasionally have a doll with me when we have anime club.

School may be a place for learning, but if you don't care about odd looks and comments, take precautions to keep them safe, and (most importantly) don't let them be a distraction, I don't see the problem. If you don't act like the doll is a big deal, other people tend to not make a big deal of it either.

 

My teacher asked me to bring my doll once. ^_^ hahaha and all this time I thought that it was weird. LOL

 

I'll drag my 27cm obitsu anywhere, since he fits in a fanny pack, purse or whatever.
BUT people make fun of ME because I have a 'glorified ken doll'
and people make fun of HIM because he looks like a 'tranny', but he doesn't care what they say, and neither do I, though I am making him a black feather wig so he can look a little more manly.

 

I have the issue of having a "freak" reputation already, bringing my pupiless 70cm. doll to school might make that worse XDDD

I have brought him once, but I put him in his case (which is an old Guitar Hero controller bag that fits him PERFECTLY -it's made for the old PS2 controllers which were smaller, btw) so everyone thought he was an instrument XD I just brought him to show a few of my other dollie friends

But I started caring less lately about what others think, so I might bring him again, and show him off a little.... ;D

EDIT!!!!!!!!!!!
BE CAREFUL WHO YOU SHOW YOUR DOLLS TO!
I know the person who made this thread said he/she "didn't care what others thought" and wanted everyone to see his/her doll, but there ARE people with phobias of dolls, and it can cause problems.
So seriously, it might not be a good idea to bring your dolls out in front of people who are deathly afraid of dolls. I know a girl who saw my doll and I had to put him away before it got ugly >.>

SO maybe we should be more courteous...?

 

...I am not a "mint in box" type person and I plan to love my doll... probably to death (Or a doll hospital) ...I plan on taking excellent care of him... but not to the point of fear... he will be coming with me everywhere... most of the time. However... I am no longer in school. My 13 year old daughter has absolutely NO intention of bringing her doll Saomi to school and believes it could go VERY badly... so there you have it... house divided (Slightly)

 

well... I don't leave the house much, but so far since I've gotten Yue I've taken him everywhere. I've noticed I get a lot of "oh gods" looks from asians >.< I was even scoffed at by one at the craft store when picking out beads for Yue!!

But, I generally don't care what people think of me, I've always gone out 'oddly' from wearing fairy wings for no reason, to my cat ears. I've always been the 'gothic punky' girl when I was in highschool. And now out of high school... I'm just 'weird' and have fun with myself.

 

I already brought my doll's head to school as a test and EVERYONE loved him! I was not bumped by people and I was not distracted in class because I brought his bag. I took him out to show people but thats it. I sat with him at lunchtime and I drew him in Art class. I got many compliments and I was admired for being brave. The boys thought that it was alittle odd but no one cared that he was there. I heard no bad remarks, and no abuse. Your doll wouldn't get damaged if you have it in a carrierbag and coverd in blankets, all you need to do is be careful and not take them out in the crowed hallways.

 

I would never take my dolls to school.
My school is full of thieves and vandalize-ers. And the hallways are way too overcrowded for that.
All in all, it's a pretty bad idea.

I did it once or twice, and was terrified for most of the day that something would happen to her. D:

 

i think you should remember that not everyone lives where you live or goes to a school where people will simply glance and then walk away. it's different for every individual and every place you go to.

but to the poster of this thread? i think it's perfectly fine as long as you have some sort of carrying case you can keep them in. the first time i brought my boy to school i simply poked him out at lunch time, let people see him, then put him back in his case for the rest of the day. just remember that not everyone will like it or accept it, and please be careful!

 

Me too! I used to take an elephant stuffed animal to school every day when I was in 10th-11th grade and people called me crazy but F that

 

SAME THING WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am saving up for my first one!!!!!! and when i do im gonna take her to school with me!!!!!

 

This, exactly, plus what was said about forcing/impressing one's hobbies upon others. No school, even a university, is in my mind a good place to bring a doll--sure, some people might be interested, a few people might get into the hobby themselves, but mostly, neither your doll nor you will be much respected afterwards, for the simple reason that it's not a common hobby and they probably won't know what to think of either you or your doll. There's also the possibility of damage to your doll, since as we all know, not every human being is mature enough to accept the interests of others.
(All forms of "you", "your", etc. are in the general sense and not the specific sense.)

EDIT: Just wanted to add--my views are pretty influenced by the school I go to: it's a uniform-policy school that's horribly strict with every rule, and the kids that go to it are... rowdy, to say the least, and not exactly willing to accept oddities.

 

I've brought one of my girls, and my old tiny with me to school. For me, it was the "Whoa, that's kinda creepy, or aww, that's cute~" kind of answers. I'm fairly well-known through my school, also. Some of my friends I hang out with all the time are now trying to get me to bring the other two with me. They're a bit too big to bring with me on a regular day, maybe on a holiday when teachers assign little work and I can go bagless? xD

Either way, it's honestly up to you what you do, no one else can tell you not to, they can simply say why it's not a good idea. I personally keep an eye on mine every second, and get someone VERY VERY trustworthy to hang on to them when I have to leave them for any period of time.

It's really not a good idea, but I know my school very well, and I know my classmates and teachers well enough to know if they're going to keep an eye out for it as well.

In the end, you can't force something on people. If they don't like it, or think it's creepy, then that's their choice.

 

i've had my girl with me to school 1 time, since i was going to a meet-up right after school.
I would never take my two darlings with me to school if i wasn't going to a meet-up afterwards. The reason for that it, i don't want them to get hurt.
The boys in my class are pretty violent, so the chance of my two darlings to get hurt is bigger. >.<

 

i don't have guys in my school so violence isn't a problem

 

Not to go off topic here, and I'm glad if your school is a nice place, but I went to an all-girls private high school in a nice area and there were a few violent incidents and violent students there, as well as jealous people who maybe didn' t respect others or their things, so I don't think that generalization is always going to work.