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Default Jan 06, 2023 at 11:36 AM
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I was reading about some kids in the UK who, because of cen issues, kept theirs until they were 11

I kept mine and actively used it until I was 7

I have some lying around still but I no longer use them
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Default Jan 06, 2023 at 02:32 PM
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personally I don't remember when I stopped using one
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Default Jan 06, 2023 at 03:08 PM
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I was reading about some kids in the UK who, because of cen issues, kept theirs until they were 11

I kept mine and actively used it until I was 7

I have some lying around still but I no longer use them
I never had one. back when I was a baby toddler, it was hard time for people, fuel shortages, war, money was scarce.

what usually happened in my location was that when a baby was teething whiskey or rum was rubbed on the baby's gums, or the baby if they were old enough to hold it, were given an ice cube knotted in a cloth.

you might say where Im from in the era I was raised in, parenting styles back then, people were not materialistic in terms of baby clothes, toys and pacifiers. we had hand me downs, and necessities. toys were reserved for special occasions like birthdays, christmas. we thought it was the greatest thing on earth to go school shopping for new clothes and a new pair of sneakers once a year.

most people my age did not have a pacifier as a baby, and it was unheard of to not be weaned off the bottle and pacifiers by first birthday of those that did have one.

if they had one beyond a year old, in the 60's and 70's that left the toddler open to ridicule and that ever popular game of take away give back, and the parents being deemed by society as bad parents, for what parent didnt care about their 3 yr old child being bullied for sucking on a pacifier. back then children were weaned off sucking / teething toys by a year old or at latest their second birthday.

even if my parents would have been able to afford one, I wouldnt have one today due to the sucking motion required would remind me of the abuse I went through.

interesting situaiton around my house at the moment, Its only been the last say 5 years here in NY that you see young adults, and animals walking around with pacifiers thanks to social media like tic toc challenges and facebook.

last time my daughter and I saw an adult with a pacifier on a chain around their neck like a necklace my teen age daughter started laughing and you could just see the gears working for her.

I told my daughter as she was laughing, "before you even think about it consider the fact that this would make a wonderful "block" assignment for homeschooling this year"

I further explained its fine with us, if she wants to try the pacifier challenge that you see on facebook and tic toc of adults baby roll playing, but with that comes a "block" research assignment.

We do homeschooling, where the children pick their own topic then study that topic incorporating all subjects that is required for their grade level, for example history of pacifiers, dental and other health related things, the mathematics of it, sociology, geography and so forth of their chosen topic.

interestingly and shockingly my daughter took up this researching challenge we found out that one of her friends has a pacifier. this researching project is definitely an eye-opening experience for her. its only January and she began this project a couple weeks ago, and she has decided she is definitely not going to follow this fad / craze that has come to NY in the past year.

you might say it's been an eye-opening experience for her to discover that the origins of adults sucking on pacifiers has nothing to do with mental illness or physical health problems.

my wife looked at me the other night after our daughter came to us on something related to this adult sucking on pacifier's fad here in NY. My wife waited until our daughter left the room and burst out laughing and said "parenting done right, next up the blankety blank pleasures" yup our daughter has already reached the part in her research that she discovered the origins of adults sucking on pacifiers and it has opened more questions than she wants.

I see in your post you mentioned CEN. something you may not be aware of Typically found in media-based ways (ie the internet, books movies and so on) now (since march 2022) rules out mental disorders worldwide.

its no longer a CEN, Dissociative or any other mental disorder thing to have pacifiers, baby bottles, dolls, adult baby play.

those things are now considered worldwide a ...normal personal choice.... not associated with mental and physical health problems.

In some cases its being treated as an addiction because like smoking, doing drugs and alcohol, the adult can go through some of the same problems that someone who smokes or does drugs and alcohol go through panic anxiety depression and so on as they wean their self-off their addicted crutch of a pacifier.

in some situations, like my niece its being treated as a dental issue, due to having a pacifier beyond 2 years old my niece's teeth grew in abnormally. she now has to go through dental surgery and braces to correct the problems.

I am glad you find comfort in having them around and do not use them. as my sibling and their daughter are finding out they are not as fun after affects to deal with. Weaning her was a nightmare of many sleepless nights, antianxiety meds, her front teeth have to be realigned, some teeth have to bbe removed to give room to do this. its a horrible situation they are now in because they thought the best way was to let her wean herself instead of weaning when she was a toddler.

I am so glad I never had the opportunity to have one and glad my wife and I chose not to have them with our own children.
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Default Jan 06, 2023 at 11:52 PM
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I don't remember. I think my mother might have told me a dog got it or something and so I didn't have anymore, so I think I was pretty young.
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always took quite a dislike to mine

pretty young I think
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Default Sep 01, 2023 at 08:41 AM
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I never had a dummy but I sucked my thumb until I was twelve which is when I started smoking! Cigarettes are adult pacifiers, I swear! I quit smoking about five years ago but I do have a few comfort things that replaced it.
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