Do you have invisible friends?

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I know there's a thread like this in Kid's Crater, but this is geared more towards the older aspies/autistics who aren't kids.

So, do you have imaginary friends? I'm curious because I feel like I'm the only person in their mid twenties who still seems to have them right now. D: It makes me feel weird, yet I can't seem to get rid of them. I know they aren't real, but I'm still attached to them like a security blanket or something.

I used to have when I was a kid, imagine the person, and everythinhg else... but now I think it's just me having a conversation with my mind hahaa
I feel it's like a part of me more conscious that I use to talk, like an imaginary friend I think so. It's weird?! Idk, but it works for me.

Hmmmm... possibly. I'm not sure if what I have/do is the same. There are a few people that I attach quite closely to (even if I have not seen them in years or decades, I still keep them close). Anyway, when I am going about my day, I kind of talk to them in my mind. Generally, it is moreso like I am thinking out a situation by acting like I am talking to them (even though they never talk back). I often do this when I am stimming (rocking) back and forth. I will picture a whole scene in front of me where I am talking to them. Generally, this will take place with whatever music I happen to be playing. For example, if I am acting like I am my made-up character (in my favorite series), then I have a whole playlist to go with that. Obviously it works best at night (I can't see the things blocking my vision as I have the encounter with the person play out in front of me). Is this kind of what you were talking about?

I never had any imaginary friend even during my childhood

I think about people from my past a lot. Sometimes they are in my dreams. We'll be playing video games or we're in some random place I've never been too. Also off and on I focus on actresses. We don't have a "real" relationship by "technical" standards. Except the fact that they appreciate their fans and hey, that means me! But yeah I think about them and sometimes I imagine scenarios or I dream about them. Mostly I look at pictures or have them on my mind. Makes me feel happier. Like I'm not alone.

You might say that my relationship to other people is, generally, more in my head than not. Even the ones I spent a lot of time with in real life because it was hard for me to talk and interact with them. Whether that counts as anything similar to imaginary friends I don't know.

I am quite curious though what your experience is like. If you didn't mind sharing more details I'd be fascinated to hear as much as you wanted to say.

Hmm, I don't think I have imaginary friends. Sometimes I like to pretend I have a twin brother that I'm really close to and goes everywhere with me and has the same personality as me, but I don't focus on it much at all and I don't take it seriously. I call him Jordan, but I express this more on the Sims2 than in real life.

When I was a child, aged from 8 to 13, I was so in denial about having Asperger's (I was diagnosed when I was 8 ), that I decided to pretend I was an NT girl of the same age as me, and that the real me was the imaginary person, if that makes sense. It helped me get along with other kids well, and it helped me learn to understand a lot of social cues, which might be why recognising social cues comes so naturally to me now. So a few girls in my class and my cousins liked me doing this, and so they played along, and because they were all children too, they began to get used to playing along and it became natural to them. So really an imaginary person was my Aspie persona, while I was an NT person. I even made up her family, and I asked my mum if we could have a little party with my cousins in my garden for a birthday that I made up, and they actually came with some sweets, and my closest cousin actually brought a little present.

You may think that is crazy but it was not. It helped me an awful lot, and the other kids loved it too, and we were only children and it brought us together. When I got to about 13-14 I just wanted to be me again, even though I still hated having Asperger's and was still in denial. But the other kids didn't want to play along any more because they were getting older, so I just grew out of it too. The special needs teacher at school thought it was really good of me to come up with an idea of trying to be another girl to help me fit in better. She said that other Aspies she had known through her career had never come up with that, and I was the first and only Aspie to think up such a good thing.

I need imaginary friend. She will be the only friend in real life I have.

Seriously, though, I have considered taking up a diary of sorts writing letters to an imaginary slightly older woman who could be my confidant and share her years of wisdom with me, like a big sister.

nerdygirl this sounds like an interesting story to write about haha

Most of my imaginary friends do or have existed in real life - they simply are not people I know very well or in some cases know at all. I have an imaginary family based on some people I really knew (but not very well) in real life - A happy, supportive and financially prosperous family - the stark opposite of what I really did have in this life. There are important people and some famous people who in my little own world are close friends of mine.

Imaginary friends, like imaginary family and imaginary lovers have never let me down.

Don't feel weird Loki. I am more than twice your age and I have them. Mine are farm animals. There is no age limit for imaginary friends, at least I like to think that! I know that other people think there is so I don't tell to many people about them but the people who know love that I have them because they know that I need them and love having them and that they bring me much joy and that they are also coping mechanisms sometimes. So if you have imaginary friends, I say enjoy them.

In essence (though it's not completely true):

Anybody whom I "meet" on this site, or any other forum, is an imaginary friend until I actually meet them in person.

I never had any & never liked or got pretend play

I do; his name is Bob and I've had him around since I was eleven. He just sort of showed up one day. I sometimes wish I'd given him a more imaginative name than "Bob"! I talk to him when I'm by myself nonstop. It feels weird not to. If ever he leaves the room and I find myself "alone", it feels extremely strange, like I'm missing a very important part of me. I don't think he's ever going to leave, and I don't mind; he can stay as long as he likes

I have many