anti figure collecting

anti figure collecting
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Off TopicHave any of you found people making fun of the hobby of collecting/customizing yet they think its fine to collect baseball cards and such? It annoys the $$$$ outta me. A friend's ex recently attacked the hobby, and me for being disabled which he thinks I'm just fat and lazy, anyhow have any of you found that problem?

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Everytime I go to Walmart, they imeadiately think I go straight to the toy aisles. The heck, I collect anytime I want, maknig me stop now will only make me waste more money in the future collecting figures I couldn't now.
Never had a problem.
But I do enjoy some of the hilarious looks the cashiers at retail stores like wal-mart, zellers and TRU when I tell them in great detail about te figure I just bought and a brief bio about the charater.
I have to admit though... I sometimes try to keep my toy collection on the down-low. but really, I'm not afraid anyone's gonna find out about my collections, and call me a geek or nerd or something. I go to a private school anyways, and I gotta say, not many people there are in the position to talk sh!t about me, when most of the kids in my class don't even know what, like, a gstring is. it's surprising, however, that people can be fine with me owning 800+ comics, but that I have like, 40 action figures that I pose and stuff is just weird... I wanna start telling people though. I mean I talk about comics all the time with everyone around, I wanna be able to do that about my action figures.
If I like them-"Pft, I'll never grow up...LOOK, THERES A SALE ON ML'S!!!"
If I don't-"And turn into someone as boring as you? I'll stick with staying childish"
'Sides, most people close enough to me know what my personality is like so it doesn't suprise/bother them much when I have to go to the toy aisle everytime we go to a store
Also attacking you for disablites is just plain low mean and being a general asshat
The guy is a plain loser.
Why should he care whither you buy toys? It's better than buying drugs or drinking yourself stupid at the bar every night.
I have never had problems with people not liking my collection. If there has a been a person who didn't like it they have been quiet.
I wish people adopted a "if it doesn't affect me I don't care policy" with stuff like this.
I'd just ingore him he's a fool.
Ok maybe not jealous, but its a hobby, keeps us (mostly) sane. Collecting gives people something to look forward to and something occupy our downtime. Some people collect coins, or clocks, or stamps or cars. I chose to start collecting action figures because A) I wanted to be able look up at a shelf and see my favorite heroes in 3 dimensions and B) Action figures today tend to be cooler than what I had when I was a kid.
If people can't understand it, f**k 'em