There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.
Yes, really. Men and women are literally regressing to a pre-toddler state of mind when the world becomes too much for them, the New York Post reports.
Despite the devices being bad for jaws and teeth and being dangerous to sleep with, people are acting like babies and sucking on pacifiers because they can’t handle the real world.
Stressed adults rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves: ‘I feel a sense of safety from childhood’ https://t.co/S26kAQuDh5 pic.twitter.com/3uGWI7H649
— New York Post (@nypost) August 7, 2025
The report states:
TikTok is sucking it up — literally — with videos of American adults pacifying themselves in traffic, at work, or in the throes of burnout.
In the comments section of a TikTok by @thebentist, one user swore, “I just use an adult pacifier it hasn’t moved my teeth been using them for 4 years.”
Another doubled down: “Just get an adult pacifier I use one! And the ADHD tip it works!!(for me).”
Others admitted, “we gotta do what we gotta do to keep focused. over bite or not getting stuff we need to get done. Lol,” while one confessed, “im so ashamed, I’ve been addicted for 23 years, my entire life.”
A cursory search on the web reveals a whole sub culture of people making YouTube videos about adult pacifiers, reviewing and unboxing them.
The people appearing on camera are often dressed in adult sized baby clothes, surround themselves with baby toys, and have multicoloured hair.
They’re clearly just mentally unstable and need help.
Something has gone very very wrong in the childhood of these individuals.
I saw one of these recently in on a college campus in North Carolina.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) August 7, 2025
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
Adults with pacifiers is a mental illness.
Please @nypost,
— Common Sense Todd (@CommonSenseTodd) August 7, 2025
Please conduct a poll of the adults with pacifiers and ask what political party they all vote for.
We all know the answer, but just to prove a point, please do it.
PLEASE!!! https://t.co/OVHoaCdpk2
If you need a pacifier as an adult, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote. https://t.co/wJJLIi8h52
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) August 7, 2025
When I was younger, people who were using meth and other drugs would use pacifiers to soothe them until they get their next ‘fix’.
— Savannah (@BasedSavannah) August 7, 2025
Now it’s progressed from drug addicts to mental illness.
No, stressed adults do NOT rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves.
— ????? ??? (@2CynicAl65) August 7, 2025
Mentally stunted, attention-seeking morons rely on pacifiers to soothe themselves. https://t.co/TUdLlcs9aM
send the asteroid
— Bullish Chart (@bullishchart) August 7, 2025
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there are plenty of democrats that trend like a child to pacifier
I guess it was only a matter of time before this happened.
At least those folks are honest. Today, I’m so ashamed to
be called an American that I may have to go out and buy
one myself (cringe).
POOR BABY —
I’m sure in YOUR COUNTRY you’d be satisfied sucking on some other thing
I’m all for bringing back the real thing!! And make it MANdatory. Force employers to give any employee 30 minutes of ME TIME each working hour to allow adult breast feeding in any public area. And force the employer to provide the milk donators and paper towels.
Why stop there? Buy yourself a WNBA neon-green Dildo to suck on.
Just when you think society cant go any lower…sad really isint it.
“You’re all little children playing grown up games.”
What a bunch of babies
I don’t believe this is done by more than a tiny number of mentally ill people, with a bunch of social media influencers magnifying the abberant behavior’s apparent footprint to bandwagon for clicks.
Like all those daily stories about so-called Furries a decade ago. Sure, there were lots of stories about it because it’s weird, but how many times have you actually met someone who dresses up as an animal and mews or barks while rolling around on the ground?
Was hoping for some freshly sourced front page Sydney Sweeney photos frankly. Reliable, non-weird clickbait, that. Bit disappointed didn’t see any.
inb4 it becomes a sexual perversion. Oh wait…
I literally didn’t even used pacifiers when I was a baby or toddler, my parents didn’t believe in them. How could you possibly want to use them as an adult???
If you’re a woman, I would hope you’re using something else.
Definitely called that one.
I’m not surprised there are so many mentally ill people in today’s mad world. But there is one small segment of the population who absolutely need pacifiers – the hateful anti- Sydney Sweeny nut cases.