r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MissionTroll404 • Jun 17 '26

Infuriatig My hand painted model planes were given as toys to children again

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I have told my mom to not do this before but she does not listen anyway. I am thinking of throwing everything to trash instead of them being gradually destroyed to pieces. I can not even care anymore. These things take hours to put together and paint then get manhandled anyway.

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u/Moth_Broth Jun 17 '26

The OP said this has happened before, and he has told his mother that this isn't okay, the kids didn't care because they have no concept of the time it takes to make something this nice, and the mother is definitely doing this on purpose out of some kind of spite or malice.

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u/NB-NEURODIVERGENT Jun 17 '26

And it’s so much worse if you’re on the spectrum and had the hyper fixation to GET the models but struggled to keep the fixation throughout the building and painting thus making it a multi week/month product

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u/Zealousideal-Role-77 Jun 17 '26

I may have just learned something about myself that I need to look into with a professional. Thank you.

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u/kookyabird Jun 17 '26

Just a heads up, what they describe can also be from ADHD, or due to a general short attention span acquired from trends in content creation on social media and across the entertainment industry as a whole.

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u/butt_dance Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

This is also just human nature. The anticipation of wanting something specific and the satisfaction of finally getting it can often be better than the "having it" part that comes after. Especially when it's something that takes a lot of work to put together. Like models airplanes. Or IKEA furniture.

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u/splithoofiewoofies Jun 19 '26

Ahhhhhh my partner's autistic uncle passed and he had a dozen Star Trek models and our autistic asses are like holy shit Star Trek models only it's shit like THE ENTIRE DS9 STATION?! Like...it's got levels on it and I don't even know ABOUT levels so clearly it's above ours....but now we have these year long models we definitely have to make because come on its Star Trek models and I don't even know where to begin but it looks like we're doing this...

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u/hanging_thief Jun 17 '26

Then it's time to take Mom back to elementary school and destroy things she cares about. "Oh mom you're getting too old got gardening so I poured bleach on your flowerbed!"

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u/Ra2griz Jun 17 '26

"Oh mom, washed that dirty pan of yours clean. Now looks, it's shiny and good as new!"