#tomharlock

I'm getting pretty tired of the increasing amount of celebrities/people with a large following, publicly hating on fidget/stim toys, and calling them and the people who use them dumb etc. Not many extremely high profile people are doing this as far as I know, but people with a large easily influenced following are. This includes everyone's favourite... what does he do again? Yes, Tom Harlock. Now I mean no offense to him as a person, but he has somewhat communicated before that he has some form of mental illness which could include anxiety. So surely, you would think, he'd know not to influence his absolutely massive following to hate on these toys that as well as being stim toys, help people with anxiety. The same can be said for (ex-My Chemical Romance guitarist) Frank Iero, who I know for a /fact/ has dealt with depression, and had close friends with anxiety. His following is also largely mentally ill teenagers. Despite this he spoke negatively about fidget toys, and multiple friends of mine told me that made them feel kinda shit. The main issue with these somewhat high profile people speaking negatively about fidget toys is their ability to influence their following, which in one of the two cases I've experienced first hand**. I would just... rather that a large demographic of people my age would stay on favour of mainstream stim toys, for mine and others' sake.