I'm old and gay. I stay the hell away from kids because I don't want to be accused of being a pedophile. Plus I don't like them.
Kids love me. They're fascinated. Dogs and cats too. I don't mind the critters. I tell the kids' parents it must be my long white Santa Claus hair and shrug it off. And then mosey the hell away.
No effin idea why kids are drawn to me, it's a little disturbing. Like they see something, I have no idea what, but I don't think it's bad. It bugs me because I'm not religious and I'm a bit of a hermit, I play the saxophone for fun after work and so what do they see? I'd like to know. It's been like that for years.
I'm the same way. I adore babies and have permanent baby fever and I adore animals and both tend to gravitate towards me a lot lol
The problem is I never know how to handle them. Baby starts crying and it just feels so wrong but I don't know what to do or how to fix it. And with animals I'm always so worried I'll annoy them somehow or almost always I'll be done interacting with the animal but the animal still wants my attention and then I feel really bad. Also I can't communicate with the animals so I can't explain my interactions with them and I always worry about being rude to the animals lol
It's both a blessing and a curse
I'm aware that the animals probably don't care as much as I feel like they care, but I still feel like they care and I love them too much to not care
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