Obsessive empathy for inanimate objects

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parts, that is how I found most of my door closers and other hardware. from all the years of garage and yard sale-ing. after that it was people just giving me the old or used hardware. my face just lights up with joy when someone does that. you won't believe this, the most I ever spent on door hardware, 1.75 (yes a doller 75 cents US) and that was for 2 storm door ones! since I dont have many friends they are I guess a substitute for the lack of human friends in real life. I don't go out in public with them because I don't need somoene stealing the closers or making fun of me. the only people that know about me and my closers was the teachers I had for last 2 months of school in 2002, my parents, and whoever I feel comfortable telling. I feel soo attached to them they are always in my bedroom either in bed or under it. I hate it when they fall because I don't need any hydraulic oil leaks. I cannot stand the smell of that type of oil. the scent of it makes me loose appitite and I almost fainted once when in midde school because of an odor of a closer leaking oil. I check them about 2 times a day to make sure im not getting any odors or oil leaking from them.

my mom is cleaning out the closets right now, and i'm the only one hanging on to old clothes beacuse i feel like if i give them to the salvation army, they'll feel sad. i also can't go to that store to drop things off, beacuse i always see the one sad looking stuffed animal that i want ot take home.
i have a bear named bobby i've had for 18 years. i talk to him all the time.
i never realized other people were like this.

I apply emotions to inanimate objects all the time .

We bought a much-needed new refrigerator. A friend wanted to buy the old one. I wasn't too surprised when my daughter said that she would miss the old fridge and didn't want us to sell it. When the guy came to pick it up, she hugged it, and wouldn't let go. We had to physically hold her so that our friend could take this old refrigerator! She cried awhile, and then settled into a pout, saying that this was the worst day of her life.

what i dont understand is why my mum and dad never had a problem with me cuddlin and kissing and loving a stuffed rabbit but when it comes to doin the exact same thing to one of my drums they tell me that i need to grow up and that im not normal

Yeh, my stuffed toys have life-stories too, they even have personalitys.
Talking to myself in my bedroom one day I didn't achive what I was after. (don't ask me what, I've forgotten now) I turned around and talked to my stuffed toys. That worked. I never did grow out of it.

I've always anthropomorphed stuff.
However, I'm mostly angry at them because they're in the way, trip me, poke me, etc.

I know inanimate objects can think. How else, for example, would they know just the right moment to break?

Ed, you should seek out a book called The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects by Lyall Watson. You'd love it! Some inanimate objects, apparently, do know just when to break...

On the thread topic, yeah, I ascribe emotions to objects all the time. I think my rock collection is 'happier' after I wash and cleanse the rocks; I've bought things because I felt sorry for them, and feel badly for things that aren't used or worn on a regular basis.

The more I read stuff here, the more I realize I'm SUCH an Aspie, lol. I, too, did this all through my childhood and yeah, I still do it today.

My youngest does it, and will even cry if her stuffies fall on the floor (she has at least 20 of them). She's my huggy-lovey-sensitive baby. And I love her for it.

My daugther, diagnoses with ASP. attaches emotional responses to stuffed animals. I would check with a child pscyiatrist RE: OCD questions you may have. It's worth looking into.

EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK.

I've recently bought myself a Little Red Friend on Canada Day.

great cockney, how many routies do u have now???

i bet you were soooooo happy and thought you were dreaming when you found it.