:( help! Not feeling like myself today!

Do I really have to like classic Disney characters in order to like Disney?

^ no you dont. You dont have to feel peer preasured in to liking something that you really dont. Just be yourself and like what you want to. I havent really grown up with those characters and arent huge fans of them. Hope this helps.

It's just that I feel personally stuck in the past.

Me personally, I'm not a fan of classic disney or those cartoons that built the company.
I get a little annoyed everytime I see them.

The way I see it, Disney is built on their movies (the animated ones, not the tv or direct2dvd tripe they keep mass producing).
Mickey Mouse and the others are just 5 minute entertainments, made for brief amusements.
But Disney keeps pushing those characters (Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Scrooge?) to always be on top, regardless of the situation.

An analogy, it's like going to a restaurant, expecting a 5 star meal and being served a snack cake, then another one and another one after that.
While all the time, you just want a good solid meal.

Also, I've never really been a fan of antropormophization.
If you're going to make an animal humanoid, go all the way!
Don't just do it by half-measures by make a talking animal that stands upright and has hands.

Admittedly, I can't think of many examples where they created a humanoid animal.
Orube from W.I.T.C.H. and Cat from Red Dwarf are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.
They were cats.
But aside from minor differences, you wouldn't know they weren't just like everyone else.

Orube has pointed ears (which she kept concealed under her hair while she was on our planet).
She also has yellow eyes, but nobody really commented on that (even though her apparent ethnicity normally has very dark, almost black eyes). But since it's possible (although incredibly rare) in real life for yellow eyes to exist, maybe they assumed she was one of those people.

Cat has prominent canine fangs.

I do like Mickey as a figure/face of Disney.

But I never grew fond of the shorts... Maybe it's because as a kid a neighbour took me and her kids to see the Mickey-movie. We were looking forward to real movie instead it was one Oscar-awarded short after another. My friend finally asked her mom when the movie would start and she replied that 'this is the movie'.
We both couldn't believe it: This was the movie?
Nothing against the quality of those short movies. But I do prefer an hour length at least.

So I'm half of a Mickey-fan, somehow...

Growing up…its really nice to see a mash of Disney Characters come together from movies, especially like Kingdom Hearts, not only different characters made an appearance or had their own stages, but characters from Square Enix made an appearance as well…MASH UP = GOOD

Hey, SugarGuyWrecker, don't sweat it! I dislike Mickey Mouse and strongly prefer Pixar, and I'm arguably one of the most well-known users on the site! Just because you don't think you belong doesn't mean you don't. Truthfully, my top two favourite animated Disney films aren't classic animated films. ("Wreck-It Ralph" and "Dinosaur", if you were curious.) And honestly, the people like you who have some sort of self-restriction towards Disney are just as fun as those who admit being Disney fans. It'll all be alright!

No you don't have to

^^^ I like his/her answer plain, short and straight to the point lol