This Man Threw Away His Autistic Best Friend’s Security Blanket Because His Girlfriend Was Jealous, and It is Pure Evil

We need to talk about the definition of friendship. Usually it involves having each other’s backs and keeping secrets and being a safe space. It definitely does not involve breaking into your friend’s home to steal their most prized possession and throwing it in a literal dumpster. But one “best friend” on Reddit just did exactly that to his autistic friend and the level of betrayal here is actually nauseating.

Our narrator starts by describing his best friend. He is a 24-year-old guy who is high-functioning autistic. By all accounts he is crushing it. He has a strong social group and he is considered handsome and he has a good paying full-time job. He is a success story. But like many people who are neurodivergent or who have just survived childhood trauma he has a coping mechanism.

He keeps a security blanket in his room. He talks to it and hugs it. He says it got him through traumatic moments in his childhood. This is a harmless and private comfort object. It stays in his room. It hurts absolutely no one. It is his safe space.

But apparently his safety is a threat to his girlfriend of one year. She has decided that this piece of fabric is her competition. She claims he “gives more love to the blanket” when he is stressed and she feels like he loves it more than her. Instead of asking herself why she is jealous of an inanimate object or maybe trying to comfort him herself she decided the blanket had to die.

And she recruited the OP to be the hitman. She asked him to get rid of it, and instead of telling her to grow up, the OP actually agreed to do her dirty work.

I need you to process the sheer cruelty of how he handled this. He didn’t just hide it in a closet or put it in storage. He waited until his “best friend” was at work, entered his private space, stole the one item that provided him comfort during trauma, and threw it in a local dumpster. He treated his friend’s most sentimental possession like garbage.

When the friend came home they “explained everything” to him as if they were doing him a favor. As if this was an intervention and not a theft. The friend broke down in tears. He has locked himself in his room for two days. He is missing work. He is not speaking to anyone. He is spiraling because his two closest people just violated his trust in the worst way possible.

And the OP’s reaction? He is annoyed. He thinks the friend should “take responsibility” because he is an adult. He thinks the friend shouldn’t be “fixating” on this object.

Let’s be real here. The only people who need to take responsibility are the two monsters who conspired to traumatize a man they claim to care about. You do not cure a fixation by forcefully removing it without consent. That is not how psychology works. That is just bullying.

So is he the ahole? Yes. He is the king of aholes. The girlfriend is the queen of aholes. They took a functioning happy man and broke him because they decided his coping mechanism was embarrassing to them. That isn’t friendship. That is abuse. And frankly I hope that friend never speaks to either of them again.