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Hit your T with it? Pillow fight!!!

I would be someone who likes the idea of using those things but too embarrassed to do it.

My T's office does not have a blanket or pillow... But if it did I likely wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Other people's yuck on it.... Ackkkkk!

I would not see it as care. What an odd concept to relate a blanket to care. Odd to me I mean.

Nah, I know what you mean. It makes sense in my head, but it's kind of like, "don't you (T) dare care about me enough to offer me a blanket when I'm cold." Earlier on when I first started seeing her, I once mentioned being thirsty and she offered me a glass of water, which I swiftly declined before she finished asking. IDK. It makes sense to me yet makes no sense at all to actual functioning adults.

I sometimes bring my own stuffed animal in and hug it when I'm stressed. If I didn't that day I could see hugging the pillow.

It seems my no hug policy extends to inanimate objects as well.

It's funny... I don't mind hugs. So essentially that's touching another person... But I would not want to touch a blanket and pillow that has touched another person. I make no sense!

How about your cat or dog?

I pet them and give the dogs flank rubs which the adore - hip checking me so I keep doing it- I don't usually hug them. The cat doesn't like to be picked up (but he does like his belly stroked and he likes to lie on ankles - so he is not at all a lap cat or possibly even a usual cat) and the dogs are also not keen on hugging. We are a standoffish lot.

Dogs don't like hugs
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Ah ok. I had to ask.

My cat is very independent. He only snuggled me when I was pregnant; he was obsessed with me.

I am still a little unsettled at the notion of being trapped in a blanket near a therapist.

I'm more hung up on the blanket itself. A blanket wouldn't help me anyways... I fidget and adjust my position too much. The blanket would hinder that and cause more discomfort.

You are concerned with cleanliness of the object?

Yep. The thought of someone else's yuck on it grosses me out.

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I quite enjoyed reading Patricia McConnell's books.

Omg...me, too. Ewwwww.

I know right!! Glad I'm not the only one that's irked!

Would a blanket unsettle you if you knew it was clean?

Perhaps we are pbutton's experiment.

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Oh god, this too. According to T, she has around 35-40 regular clients (though not all are weekly). All of them using that godforsaken blanket???

Hmm... Yes. I would likely feel restricted by it. I often fidget (with my hands, shoes, buttons on my sleeve, bracelet), adjust how I'm sitting, or get up and adjust something in the office that is bothering me. The blanket would make me feel confined... Less comfortable.

I think that makes sense.

Yesterday I found a photo of me at about 8 years old with the dog I had growing up. I was hugging her. She looked really unhappy about that...or maybe it was the dress-up clothes she was wearing. Poor dog was such a trooper.