Dear Uncle Bearsac
I’m in despair. My owner denies I speak. I know he can hear me as his ears prick up, and he turns up the telly. A friend of his mentioned that she heard me speak, but he just told her she must be imagining it, and insisted that teddy bears don’t speak. I yelled out, ‘We do’, and he yelled back, ‘You don‘t’!! When he realised he had replied to me, he then insisted it was his friend who yelled out, not me. He also insists that you are not real Bearsac; yet he spends so many hours on your website and sends you insulting emails! How can I get him to admit to himself that I can speak
From a teddy bear that belongs to a twatt
Midge
Bearsacs Reply to problem 6
Dear teddy bear that belongs to a twatt
I receive many emails of this nature. So I hope, in answering your problem, I also give console to other teddies, too.
Your owner does realise you are real, and he knows he can hear you. But try looking at it from the human perspective.
Humans (in their uncertainty about themselves) feel the need to fit how they think society thinks they should behave to be considered “normal”; this means they pretend and deny things about themselves – both to other people and to themselves. Some do not have the strength of character to live their lives by their own beliefs if they consider that they might be marked out as odd to other people. I think your owner feels that admitting you speak will make other people think there is something wrong with him.
I feel that he is dependent on the opinion of other people to feel adequate about himself.
You could try some direct action; turn over his telly when his team is about to score on Match of the Day, this will get his attention; then refuse to give him back the remote control until he asks you for it. If this does not work, then I think you may have to just grin and bear it!
As for his sending me offensive emails, I’m flattered that he is spending so much time obsessing over me! Maybe he wants to follow me on Instagram.