>>8811956She wasn't ashamed that you spent it on toys, just that they were from Beast Machines.
lol, I kid I kid. Honestly, I think young toy collectors all go through some variation of this. My family were cool with whatever, but I definitely felt that kind of social change in middle school that it was now not acceptable to be playing with toys.
Then one day a decade later, you say "I wonder what's new?" and you stroll down to the toy aisle and are floored by all the cool shit they've been making in your absence. So you buy some, then more, then a shelf, and you're on here with fellow autists, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
