Do you talk to objects?

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I have a green iPod named "Lucky." I used to carry him around in a little green shamrock hoodie, made especially for iPods. I would refer to him as Lucky, and if my boyfriend dropped him, I'd say: "stop, you're going to hurt Lucky!"

So, yes, I personify inanimate objects all of the time.

I think in terms of talking and/or yelling at an object that is malfunctioning, though, that it's pretty common, even among NTs, and not crazy at all!

Yes. When i was a child, i was afraid of my parent's clock radio - its digits were red and it would frighten me in the dark. I would talk to it in order to make it feel ok with me.

Wow, I sound like a total nut case, but oh well.......

I still talk to various things (although I tend not to be afraid of them any more !) , and also feel empathy for objects.

I talk and tend to emotionally attach to plants....

Yes I always talk to my mentioned hot toys War Machine and Iron Man figures I kiss them as well and say goodnight to them.

I talk to everything except for people.

Does swearing at objects count? Not just talking printers and photo copiers here. T-shirts for refusing to sit still when being ironed is one example.

Sometimes, but I have seen many people do this.

I will sometimes says "What did you shut down on me!" to the computer, but I have never been to concerned about because I have heard other people do a lot.

I talk to objects constantly. Especially my POS computer at work. I hate it.

I also talk to things that couldn't possibly understand me, like plants and insects. For some reason, most people think this habit is cute/funny. Probably because I'm a girl.

I talk to objects occasionally. I think talking to your computer is a very common thing though.

I picked up a bad habit from a very gruff manly workmate I had a couple of years ago. If I hurt myself with something or slip off a bolt with a shifter/spanner etc I let out a nice big 'F**k you!'
I'd like to stop doing it now but I still do.

Yes, I mentioned in another post once that I practice a sort of animist fantasy, where I slip into imagining inanimate objects as having thoughts and emotions. I sometimes communicate with them telepathically, or, if I'm really frustrated with an inanimate object, verbally abuse it (as Dan Undiagnosed has mentioned above). I usually find a single obscenity not quite sufficient, though. Sometimes I threaten objects with physical harm or spiritual harm, too. If people are around, I do this under my breath, whispering my obscenities and threats to the object.

This is all quite conscious, I do not actually believe that objects think and feel, it is simply how I relate to the physical world.

There was also a thread discussing how we actually think, where a poster mentioned that he assigned personalities or emotional states to abstract concepts (for me, things like torsion or speed or responsibility) as well as things like electrons etc in order to understand them. I do this as well.

i talk to all my things, mostly my winnie the pooh. i say hello, and i say "nightnight" with a kiss.

to me, every object has feelings.

my ex-boyfriend talks to his posters.