Wiz has had many emotional attachments to things.
Stuffed animals were some of the strongest. He has one bear with a special name that I found at a yard sale before I knew I was preg. TWICE it got put with toys and clothing for our town's Christmas Store.
TWICE we came back from the delivery of these toys and found it sitting on the couch. My dad wasn't home either time, husband was at work, and gfgbro was off in another state. My mom and I were doing the delivery.
The second delivery was just after I learned I was pregnant. husband and I hadn't figured ourselves and the situation out. When mom and I saw the bear the 2nd time we felt it must be a message. It was to be Wiz's special item.
He didn't react to stuffed animals much as an infant. But he would latch onto this bear and not want to let go. The music box inside it plays teddy bear picnic and it would soothe him almost immediately when he heard it. finally he was old enough to drag it around and then even to sleep with it. If he didn't have it, well, we were not getting sleep!
I replaced the music box. I didn't know the tune offhand. I wound up playing it over the phone to someone at a place that sold a bunch of htem. They figured it out and I was able to make him sing regularly again.
He also became attatched to his beanie babies. He would like them up around the mattress he had on the floor. They all had to face away from the bed and "guard" him while he slept. It got rather creepy. He would tell me what they were saying to him. Not all of it was stuff you wanted to hear from someone "guarding" one of your kids.
He truly, deeply LOVES that bear. Thinning out the beanie baby herd was always physically painful. He had stories about their lives, what they "saved" him from, etc....
And then there were the pokemon things. They were creepy in the depth of the "life" he gave them. It was truly an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) thing. Even one of his psychiatrists was creeped out hearing him talk about and to his pokemon.
Not sure if this answers what you want to know, but there it is.
Many times Wiz would rather have his family die rather than get rid of his "friends".
