People relate to different concepts in different ways and for a lot of disabled people, it’s one of those things.
All of our experiences in life affect how we interact with fiction and we want different things out of the same concepts.
SBS evokes just as much love as it does ire!
What I want to know is why mamas will favor them, considering they often reject runts or babies with bad colors or other problems. What makes sensitive babies so different?
The movie character is loosely based upon a real man named Kim Peek if you want to learn more about him.
Every time I read SBS I think people are referring to shaken baby syndrome
I wonder if we could connect the two…
They’re a lot of the worst aspects of fluffies, especially the things abusers particularly loath rolled into one fat fuck
Hot freaking take time.
S.B.S foals, at least using No Miwkies as the defining element? Are in some ways almost better than a “normal” fluffy without going into the problem territory of “fixing” fluffies.
Yeah, the little guy is a touch on the overfed side but that could be corrected with formula.
He’s still affectionate, and the suggestion is he still plays. And as for his fear reaction when Carl first picks him up and the mother’s response? He’s barely a week old, and some random weirdo picked him up without warning. Fear makes sense.
The lack of verbal communication is an issue, sure. But no obnoxious demands for sketties or enfies. And unlike a majority of foals or hell, even full grown fluffies? When he’s gotta use the litterbox he actually alerts that he needs to instead of going “nah, just gonna shit and piss here”.
If he hadn’t ended up in Carl’s hands? Quite possibly could’ve grown up to be a rather solid pet with some slight dietary needs.
Oh, I mean, I love sensitive babbehs. They’re basically super-chirpies. When I say I hate them I’m talking about that weird irrational cute aggression that fluffies tend to induce. People do tend to deliberately write them as infuriating, too; although I’ve read a few stories where they’re portrayed more as tragic.
I actually really like the rare stories where they’re portrayed as being somewhat mentally handicapped, but the main reason they can’t do anything at all is because the mummah wants a forever-babbeh. She takes advantage of her child’s disability to get what she wants, and in the process she massively worsens what could have been something manageable. A typical tale of fluffy self-defeat.
I’m kinda confused about your comment that lots of people love sensitive babbehs, as I have not seen many stories about people adopting and hugboxing them… I’m assuming I just came off as though I hate the subgenre, because I’m not good at communication. Herp derp.
Exactly. Like I said, they’re super-chirpies. Even after, dumber, more useless, and more gluttonous than the regular product.
I hate that trope so much. I think it’s a parasitic relationship, not that the baby is a literal parasite on the mother. Although it would be funny if the parasites from that Wolfram series turned into obese sensitive babbehs at the end of their life cycle lol.
Yes, this is what I’m talking about—sort of. The foal is babied excessively by the mare and never allowed to grow up in any meaningful way.
Somebody ought to perform some experiments based on that. Like, a lot of experiments.
Experiments… cue the clip where Bart shakes up Homer’s beer tin… yes. Yessss. Oh, the science we’ll do!
Long and short of it?
A foal that was born retarded. Well… MORE retarded, I guess.
They never develop, mentally, and in a lot of cases physically, past being a chirpy. That’s about the size of it.
Fluffies are animals that can talk and display human intelligence, how is it a surprise that people see parallels? They’re mostly interesting BECAUSE of the parallels.