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These Disney Adults are Insufferable…

Misha Petrov

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Today I break down the rise of Disney adults through the lens of Main Character Syndrome. I discuss infantilization, emotional regulation, coping versus avoidance, and why workers and families should not be pulled into someone else’s fantasy.

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20 Comments

@sharkpoolbolt662 8 months ago

There is a huge difference between “an adult who likes Disney“ and “Disney adult“

@ratherrazzOWO 8 months ago

How so many people afford this Is beyond me

@lefweakshow871 8 months ago

I brought my 3 year old daughter to Disneyland. She loves Stitch. We happened to find Stitch's mascot, and lined up to take a picture, just to be pushed away by a GROWN ASS woman with lots of Stitch stickers and stuff pinned on her clothes. Not my 3 year old crying "Stitch, I love you..." in repeat while the woman was giggling and jumping around. I had to stand my ground otherwise it would have happened again, lots of people were pushing and trying to cross lines. My 3 year old didn't understand it's a human inside. BUT YOU'RE GROWN UP PEOPLE, WAKE UP FFS

@thehoneybadger1223 8 months ago

Theme parks ARE NOT therapy. Therapy is not something to be enjoyed, it's there to try to correct a problem, it's there to challenge you

@dragonhex3832 8 months ago

I am a man with bi polar and anxiety. I have spent most of my life taking meds and learning to self manage and not shove those problems onto other people. I hate when people make their dissorders (if they actually even have them) other peoples problems and using it as an excuse for bad behavior.

@amymckinley3214 8 months ago (edited)

Girl, we did disney for spring break last year and paid for our kids to meet the main characters. And we had to awkwardly wait for these disney adults to get photos and have conversations with the characters (who can't talk back to you.)

My 6 year got emotional meeting and hugging Donald and he still cried LESS than these people.

@cdtnfufkfehlj4284 8 months ago

Girl you look like 80's rockstar
Love your hair and makeup

@JepMasta 8 months ago

Here’s something nobody talks about. These Disney adults with all this disposable income are the reason why the price is at the parks are going up so much because Disney is actively marketing towards them and it’s squeezing out middle-class families with children.

Look, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with loving amusement parks if you’re an adult, I am that to a certain extent. But this right here isn’t just loving amusement parks. It’s Arrested Development and it’s openly hurting the intended audience for these places.

@JaePlay 8 months ago

Disney adults are merely the symptom. Society so cooked 😢

@vanillapinkfluff3477 8 months ago

Just because everyone is mentally insane does not mean rules don’t apply to them and does not mean they get to behave however they want. They’re adults, not babies.

@derrickmcadoo3804 8 months ago

Getting emotional over the 5-foot Chinese woman inside the Mickey costume 3:41 🐭

@ivyrose_writes 8 months ago

As someone with diagnosed GAD and MDD, and who also has some kind of undiagnosed mental thing going on on top of those two things... Can we PLEASE stop making mental illness a personality trait???

@martacristina9097 8 months ago

Went to Disney for the first time on 2023. It healed my inner child and i was super respectful with the characters and everyone. And i cried there lol, mostly because i was in is a small world and the song made me remember when i used to sing that to my grandpa and how happy he would be that i was living my dreams😢

@GenXfrom75 8 months ago

11:35 I’ve lost babies. And grieved at home. 😢 that is someone in need of therapy.

@lydiatheclikkie 8 months ago

It's like... I'm a massive fangirl, I love buying books and CDs and merch for my favourite shows. But Disney adults are like, taking this to a whole new level. Forcing their irrational fascination on others, spending way too much money on million dollar companies and validating it all using mental health disorders. There is nothing wrong with using things to cope but that doesn't give you a right to force your obsessions on other people.

@kavinaderrow3269 8 months ago

The only time I almost cried at Disney was in the Tower of Terror. My skinny ass does not do well on gravity-utilizing rides.

@moonhowler15 8 months ago

The girl at 4:58 being all 'Quickly! Quickly!' while clicking her nails at the camera is unbearable. She could be talking about saving the planet and I'd hate her for that gesture alone.

@benadams3569 8 months ago

The so-called therapist who was explaining why we make fun of Disney adults is no more a therapist than I am.

@spookkay8401 8 months ago (edited)

I went to Disney at maybe 21 or 22, and it did genuinely take me off guard just how fluttery and excited I was to run into a cast member dressed as my favorite character. However, it made me smile a bunch, not cry.

@ninefs2give 8 months ago (edited)

As an adult who is brought to Disney by people much less financially responsible than me, it is completely possible to have fun interactions with the characters. Just saunter up, play up the ridiculousness, go in for a fun hug, and bring good energy. Those cast members will mirror your vibe, you can have a fun time, and then move on with at most a minute spent.