I don't like babies

[Karoshi]

I never liked babies until my little brother was born. Mother instincts kicked the very first day I held him in my arms. Now, I find babies very adorable though every time I see one I think "Yup, mine is much better."

He's a really awesome kid and I'm hell as proud of every little damn thing he does. It's pretty irrational and weird feeling. Now I get why every parent gets obsessed over diapers and other bullshit...

So yeah, I think things might change if your own child gets born. You'll have a totally new prespective on children.

 

[jetriot]

A lot of it is about empathy. If you are a naturally empathetic person there is a good chance you will like kids and babies. If you are more interested in yourself and your own comfort than you will likely not care for the 'hassle' of a life being entirely in your hands. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that hardcore gamers are selfish with their time and have limited patience with others shortcomings. These are traits that are generally not baby friendly, thus the baby hate.

What surprises me is that gamers with these traits also tend to lean politically left(economically, socially left leanings are there for obvious reasons). I would expect far more gamers with libertarian leanings than socialism leanings but this is not the case. Obviously, it is silly to link hardcore gamers into categories and treat them as all the same but it is still fascinating what common traits gamers can have(even more when you break them up into different categories of gamers). Not liking babies IS outside the norm in the real world, especially with those over 25. Yet in this community, liking babies is out outside the norm. Makes me want to dissect some gamer brains.

 

[EeveeElectro]

"Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 50th wedding anniversary."

It's not for everyone. I know several women who don't like children/don't want kids and it's completely fine.

I love seeing pregnant women, they always look beautiful and I like babies (when I can hand them back after a while lol).
I love the thought of being pregnant but I know I'm not ready for one yet but I would like one within the next 5 years.

The thing that annoys me is when mothers won't shut the hell up about their kids ;_; I do enjoy hearing about them but bringing them into everything? They're a huge part of your life, but not all of it. When mothers tell me their baby did something other babies do like they're the cleverest little person and get worked up about it, it annoys me. People who talk about the same stuff over and over annoy me. There's more to you than your children >.<;

 

[TheOrb]

I hate babies, hate the taste, hate the smell, hate them tiny little bones.

 

[AngloDoom]

I'm pretty standard man - babies make me awkward because you can't hit the side of them to fix them and the only way to soothe them is to sound like Barney the Dinosaur.

I'm also pretty standard man in that if anyone so much as brushes the leg of my niece with vicious intent I will fucking end them.

 

[Amaury_games]

Whenever pictures of a baby are brought out, I feel awkward. Society says as a woman I should gush and be enthralled by them spitting up their food while eating. I especially feel almost broken when there is a baby present and everyone around me is jiggling things in its face and doing "baby talk". Youtube videos of babies doing things reach millions of views and I wonder why I don't have that maternal instinct.

I should have prefaced this saying that I would love my future child, but I wouldn't expect people to be amazed with my child either, especially after something banal like them using a diaper. Baby animals of all kinds are very cute to me. Perhaps that is because when I see a human baby, I can see them growing up to be self centered, whiny, cruel, and selfish. At least sharks don't grow up to bully and be cruel; they just hunt, because it is their nature.

Then there is all the marketing that uses babies and play on people going crazy over them.

So when a baby is brought out, I feel pressured to act like I care. I feel like Elaine from Seinfeld when she is around babies. Who else?

Hey! You just described a bit of me (or at least how I felt for some time), although I'm a man. I say "how I felt" because I stopped caring about people thinking I like babies just like them. I went throught some discussions at work with my collegues when I told them I like puppies and kittens more then babies and they were apalled. I'll love my own child, but I'll try my best to remember to not be a dick about it and not expect everyone to like him/her too. I don't believe I imagined them destined to be crappy humans and I don't hate them, but I still see them as a bunch of wrinkled flesh, bones, muscles and organs that will grow up hopefully becoming a good person.
Bottom line is I just don't care. They're alive, and they're there. Good for them. Hope they have nice parents to raise and educate them well.

 

[Spygon]

I can't help but to post this

I don't have a problem with babies other than if they cried loudly and the parent/ carer can't calm them down no matter what they do.

This is exactly the scene in my head when i read the title.

But on subject kids love me for some odd reason but i don't really care for kids.Then if they start screaming there heads off then i cant stand them and have to leave the room.

 

[Raggedstar]

I made the mistake of saying unborn children lead a parasitic existence...even though it's technically correct. TECHNICALLY the child can only live in the womb of it's host (ie mum), cannot exist on it's own, takes nutrience, and doesn't give anything in return (no, "love" doesn't count). This is not unlike the worms I see crawling around in vomit/puke of pets :3. I've only found one mother who actually understood what I was talking about and actually said I was right lol. I get the same kind of response when I call white tigers "mutants" (because...yanno, they are). Calling a beautiful, sacred thing such an "ugly" word. Just some food for thought.

I hate babies, especially newborns. Put googly eyes and hair on a hot dog and make it scream and poop and I'll have the same emotional response. Apparently they like me (at least that's what the gushing mothers tell me), but the feelings aren't mutual. Well-behaved toddlers are fine too as long as my interaction is limited and I can give them back. The older kids I can tolerate a lot more because that's the age they can understand right vs wrong and maybe I can play games or watch movies with them (a lot of movies and games I like are G or E).

Some people like babies, some people like puppies and kittens. I prefer puppies and kittens, and hell, newborn puppies and kittens smell twice as worse AND need to be stimulated in order to poop for the beginning of their life.

 

[ThatRandomGuy42]

I dislike children in general, which is weird since I'd like to be a father one day.

Crying babies is my number 1 pet peeve, I'm surprised I haven't yelled a tone yet. But I'm not sure if it's the parent I'm more annoyed at sometimes or the child in question.

...Then again, if I see a disobedient child in public, I'm tempted to volley it with a swift kick...

...I'd make a great dad

 

[kortin]

No one likes any other person's baby. You tend to love your own children to death, but others' are annoying as hell.

 

[sinsfire]

This is sort of an odd discussion given that everyone here (baring stupid quips and jokes) was at one point a baby. Everyone who hates babies went through tat period where they themself were a slobbering stinking sceaming little kid. That is just a fact of life.

But I am confused that most of the onus has been placed on the baby. Like they are somehow to blame for crying or craping themselves. Baby's can't speak, its not a choice in that they know how to communicate but don't just to piss you off. They cry because it isthe only way they know of to say that something is wrong. They crap themselves because they don't know how to say "I need to go to the bathroom" I'm pretty sure they don't enjoy sitting in their own waste (usually made clear by crying about it).

I get that the OP seems to have no real affinity for babies but it seems extreme from the people here who HATE babies just for being babies. They didn't ask to be born, they are new to the world and don't understand language or most forms of communication. They are trying to learn and survive and like most other young in the animal kingdom they require a bit of help and a lot of luck. To hate them for that seems obssured.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I don't like babies much myself though as a man I guess that is not much of surprise really. I find kids a little older to be better though, they do more than eat, cry and smell then.

 

[Waaghpowa]

I'm kinda in the same boat as you but for slightly different reasons. I feel pressured to like kids, not just babies, because, in my experience, people are so incredibly irrational when it comes to children in general.

Basically I hate the double standard. If a child does something remotely intelligent, it's all "he/she's so smart!". If a child does something bad, it's all "He/she doesn't know any better!". Well which is it?

I don't hate them, I just don't like how people react to them.

 

[Snowbell]

Memememe! I can't stand the blighters! Ever since I hit the age of thirteen I've been completely certain that I don't want to birth my own babies (I have about 20 reasons, the most relevant one here is why make more when there's so many that need adopting?)

The reasons I dislike them are:
1. The damage they would cause to my body coming out of it
2. The terrify me, I was invited to hold one once and nearly cried from the responsibility and worry of damaging it
3. I really don't get what's so cute about them, they're bald and creepy in my eyes. Give me a kitten any day.
4. Society expects me to, as a woman, love them and be enthralled by them. Screw that.

I wholly intend to surrogate/adopt at some point in my life, but it will be because I want to raise a person with love and affection, not because babies are so cutsie wootsie. Bluh.

 

[chadachada123]

I had been thinking of starting a thread somewhat related to this, actually.

I have an unfair prejudice against pregnant women. Specifically, pregnant women in public. Whenever I'm at a store and see a pregnant woman, my brain immediately conjures disgust.

I know that these thoughts could very well be irrational or unreasonable, but there's just something "gross" about the sight. This also applies to infants and toddlers, which I see as nothing but balls of sticky disgust well over half of the time they are present.

Funnily, baby delivery is absolutely fascinating to me, and I plan on attending med school to be an OBGYN (obstetrics especially). It's not as though I lack respect for all of these people, only that my mind is unconsciously disgusted by all of these when in view of the public and not, say, in a doctor's office or at home.

OP, I don't think that it's a lack of maternal instinct. You seem like you are based more around practicality and not guided solely through emotion or social norms.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I dislike them. They inspire little to no emotional response from me besides annoyance. I think they're noisy, icky-looking, icky-smelling, disgusting, fragile, useless little burdens. I intend to never have kids. If I want something to take care of, I'll get a kitty. Kitties are cute, and they don't wake you up in the middle of every night because they feel like it. Also, kitties stay cute. People... well, not so much.

If you want to have kids, that's fine. Just don't bring them near me.

 

[cerealnmuffin]

My dislike mostly stems to societal expectation that I should be enthralled and delighted by babies. As a girl, I feel a bit broken while all the girls around me are giggling in baby talk and actually acting like YAY BABY MADE A STINKIE! I can't muster that enthusiasm and I feel fake when I try to do all the things people expect of me (ie jiggling keys, baby talk) If one doesn't gush over a baby, people might criticize me for lacking empathy.

As those who say I must lack empathy, I cry when I see a deer that was hit by a car. I have gone out of my way to help injured animals, even paying for a costly procedure when my bird had a tumor.

I do want a daughter someday. I'm going to adopt, because many of those kids won't get a home due to the fact people prefer a clone that looks like them. I don't hate kids; after all, I'm an elementary and middle school esl teacher.

I also don't like how some people use a baby to brag about themselves. Also I have come across those who adore babies, but think animals don't deserve to be treated well, because they aren't humans.

 

[Olas]

Oh, thank the lord. I thought I was alone.
What the heck do we see in these little things?

Unfortunately, it's a sad fact of biology that we all were babies at some point so I guess we have to lay off and let them develop before we can fairly judge them.

Still though, I can't help that I sometimes just wanna...

 

[game-lover]

I'm rather fond of babies. They're so cute and all that.

But for the most part, I don't ever want one of my own. Ever.

Hell, I just plain don't want children.

They're adorable when they aren't mine or around me for too long.

 

[Lunatic High]

I'm not particularly fond of babies either, you ever gone to see a movie at the theatre when some dumb ass teen mom who thinks she's still free to have her own life brings her baby into the theatre to watch so it can scream and cry and shit, and piss and moan or whatever else when every one else is just trying to enjoy X-men first class in peace. Babies have sensetive hearing (to the best of my knowledge anyways) and don't belong in movie theatres. Toddlers are awesome but babies.... just the kinda thing I suppose that are annoying when they're not your own.