Do you still have imaginary friends?

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I have an awesome imaginary friend. She's my BFF!

Never had them in the first place.

I did when I was younger, but I outgrew that phase a long time ago.

Me three. I always make sure they are comfortable before I get up each morning. I also envy them for getting to lay there in the bed all day.

Yeah, same here. I love that part in that one Mr. Bean episode where he's about to leave for the day and then he tucks Teddy in and the show audience goes "Aaaawwwww."

Peahawk gives you a love bite, than he's your friend for life.

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Aaaww, he's a cutie, all right.

Just out of curiosity, CockneyRebel, have they ever made plushies of the little guy? He looks a lot like "plushie material" to me.

Interesting that people here have had imaginary friends. I recently saw on The Project a doctor talking about what type of children have imaginary friends and he said one type are highly social.

I've never had an imaginary friend but I have thought of movie characters as being real and I sometimes treat my toys like they are alive. I don't play with them but talk to them like they are real people.

I play with my Viper star ship from Battlestar Galactica though.

Actually not long ago to better cope with having hallucinations I dreamed up this Australian Shepherd. He kept me protected. My hallucinations were pretty scary. Can't really remember what his name was. It only lasted a few weeks.

I think what the doctor on The Project said about social children having imaginary friends makes sense, Pensieve. I can recall being a little kid seeing Who Framed Roger Rabbit on the Disney Channel for the first time, and because I didn't understand how the animation and human actors had been combined together in the filmmaking process, I thought that it was possible for cartoon characters and human beings to coexist. For a long time afterwards, I kept telling my parents, "Mommy, Daddy - Dumbo, Pooh and Frosty the Snowman CAN come and play with me!" I don't think I would have wanted my favorite cartoon characters to come to life and play with me that bad if some part of me hadn't had a deep craving for social interaction - that is, social interaction in which I felt safe, secure, and in control at all times....something that interaction with "real people" didn't entail.

I don't think I have ever had imaginary friends. It would take a lot of effort to pretend the existence of a person who I know and understand doesn't actually exist. I don't know why someone would want to do that.

As for dolls, I feel kind of uneasy about them. I don't like them to be face down or underneath things, but I don't like them to be around me, either. I'm kind of scared of them. It feels like their eyes are looking at me.

I've never had an imaginary friend. I can't comprehend how/why people create them, it seems totally illogical to me. I can't even picture how it works... do you try to imagine someone then somehow pretend to yourself they are real? How are you able to interact with them - do they ever say anything unexpected to you - i.e. that you haven't made up for them to say?

Thanks for starting this thread and giving me the input I needed for an additional trait in the Aspie contact group.

And this obviously is an neurodiversity-trait.

I've thought about it, but I can't sew. I could try to make one.

My imaginary friends are just there. I don't think I made them, or maybe I did but it was before I can remember. I love them, they are all I have, or they're all I had anyway. I think they are still there but I just can't contact them anymore.

They didn't really feel imaginary to me, they felt real.

My daughter has never had imaginary friends, so I don't see it as a family trait.

That's quite interesting. I didn't realise they were just there without being deliberately created. I wonder if its like a split personality except the personalities are aware of each other... or you are aware of a minor personality. So could you hear them talk to you in your mind?

I have often wondered about it being a multiple personality thing with me. I've had a lot of trauma in my early childhood life. Certain personalities are protective and more dominant.

That is all I can say.