Did anyone else get this too from other people?

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I got this a lot when I was growing up and still do sometimes and it's really peeving.



I be obsessed with movies. I was obsessed with Home Alone when I was 8 and I liked Kevin a lot. I liked all his traps and I could relate to him he was always getting into trouble just like I was always getting into trouble. I can remember imitating him and I talk about him a lot and I was always saying I wanted to meet him and marry him. That was my childhood dream at that age. Meet the star and marry him. But my mother thought I thought he was real simply because I was calling him Kevin instead of by his real name? I like Kevin better than Macauly Culkin.


When I was obsessed with Jurassic Park, I had a fantasy about going to the is;and and I can remember being told it isn't real, the place doesn't exist, the people in it aren't real so I actually thought they were saying the people in there were a fake and when I got told they were actors I got confused because first my mother says they aren't real, then she turns around and says they are because they are actors. That was pretty baffling for a nine year old, me.
Now I know when my mother said they weren't real, she meant the characters, not the actors.

When I was obsessed with 101 Dalmatians, I kept being told Anita isn't real, Roger isn't real, they don't have dogs in real life, and I can remember my dad's cousin telling me Glen Close doesn't have any dogs and she doesn't wear fur. Duh I know that, what am I? Stupid? Maybe I should say they were the ones who are stupid for believing me in the first place when I wasn't even serious.

When I was obsessed with Benny & Joon at 17, I got the same crap except it was a little different. I got "She doesn't work at the diner" (talking about Juilianne Moore) and at age 21 and 22 I got the "he isn't a mechanic" (talking about Benny) and I say "yes he is, look." and I point at the TV where Benny is working on a car and my boyfriend said "He is pretending" and I said "no he isn't, it's what he does for a living" and finally my boyfriend said "he's an actor, it;s his job" then I realized he was talking about Aiden Quinn, not Benny. It made me so mad soi said "I was talking about the character, not the actor."

I am so sick of this. Even saying "In real life...( and I start talking about the actor so the person would know I am talking about the actor, not their character) and they still don't seem to grasp the concept because I still get the "he isn't this" He isn't that" and then i realze they are talking about the actor because they did not say the words "real life." Does anyone else get confused too when people do that to you?


When I talk about Joon in the movie about the actress, I say "She isn't sick in real life" or "In real life she isn't sick. She is just a regular person except she is an actress." If I said "She isn't really sick." The person might think Joon is faking her illness (I mean the character, not the actress. I said that just in case someone on here thought I was talking about the actress instead of Joon and I get the "She really was faking her illness").


I guess my imagination is so wild, so good, I actually trick people into believing I am that naive, to think it's all actually real and they all actually exist so they think they have to correct about something I already know.

Back when I was obsessed with Naruto at age 15, my friend went to an anime convention and told me that he'd seen a great cosplay of my favorite character (Might Guy). I felt really, really sad that I didn't get to see the cosplayer, and was almost in tears over it. When I told my mom that I wished I could have been there to hug that guy, my mom said, "Honey, that wasn't really Guy. That was just somebody in a costume."

The thing is, I knew that Guy wasn't real, it was just that the idea of seeing somebody dressed up like him really excited me.

Also, many many years ago when my oldest sister was talking about getting married, I started talking about how I was going to bring my imaginary friends to the wedding, and all of a sudden my sister burst out saying, "your imaginary friends aren't real!" and I started crying. When that same sister came to visit last summer, I recalled that incident for laughs, but she wound up feeling really guilty about it.

Yes! I have 'is it real?' difficulties too - & not just movies or actors. Even recently, in a lobby, one said, "That plant isn't real." I remember saying/wring, "It is real since it is not imaginary." Makes sense to me. I guess other meant the plant is plastic. True, the plant is plastic, but it is nevertheless real. It exists.

I love certain movies too but apparently I can have lousy taste in movies - I cannot know the difference between a good actor and a bad actor. I even like bad props! The movie IS real when I'm watching or recalling.

I hate The Wizard of OZ film. Here's why: In the beginning Toto gets a death sentence from the witch - this is a given. Then, separately, Dorothy gets hit on the hard really hard (brain damage?) and becomes delusional. She recovers. Back to the original premise: Toto will still get a lethal dose of phenobaritol. The green witch already had a document mandating Toto's euthanasia. The fact that Dorothy had a bad accident via window sash is irrevelvant to this reality. Personally, I like Toto better than Dorothy, by far. Dorothy was ditzy BEFORE her head injury anyway. Sigh.

It's not your/our imagination, it IS real.

IdahoRose, I cannot imagine why your friends were not invited to the wedding too. I take certain stuffed animals to my lab on occasion. They're invited, by me. Spokane_Girl, why can't you know him as Kevin? He IS Kevin. I stand firm with you on this one; Kevin is real, not imaginary.

Unsure if this is related: I do not understand James Bond movies. Is there a plot? I do love the special effects though, but if one asked, "What was this movie about?" I could not begin to know. Just a whiz of colors, shapes, creative weapons, jumping off cliffs, lots of cool security devices, traps......is it supposed to mean something?

id obsess over movies all the time too... to the point where i would draw out full length comic strips of the entire movie... thinking i could sell them ect.

i don't remember when i understood that movies ect were acting... but i do distinctly remember thinking that i could never act cause i would try to put myself in the position of the actor and no emotions would ever come. oh i'd definitely get emotional over the tiniest emotional trauma for the characters and their situation... but i could never pretend to be in their situation. i thought actors were disgusting for the longest time... especially in love scenes ect.

How to understand James Bond movies

Harrowing escape (that has to top the last film)
roll opening credits
Mystery explained, bad guy identified
infiltrate, seduce 1st girl
1st girl dies
seduce 2nd girl, the important one trusted by the bad guy
get in on the plot, infiltrate the secret hideout
confront bad guy, and/or henchmen, kill them, unless they have metal teeth..
blow everything up, save the day
get caught making out with 2nd girl by authorities

There you go...

I tend to have daydreams of movie or book situations; what I'd do in them (this is called the Mary Sue syndrome by those who write fanfic.., but I never take it that seriously...

I obsess about video games, it borders almost on mania, I mean I couldn't tell you everything I learned in school on any given day, but ask me about a video game and I could talk about those for hours especially the ones not out yet.

I just remembered I got it too. I said something about cats thinking something about finding mates, what I really meant was not thinking as humans do, but my mother jumped to conclusions and said in a tone that told me she was thinking I was odd and there probably wasn't something wrong with me but in case there was she should keep an eye out for it in the future: "You're naive, Kate, cats don't think like that like people do." So annoying and embarrasing.

I can't really say that I am.

that did happen when i was younger but not anymore. which is good.

because seriously, how dumb do they think I am?

I still fall into books that way. I know the characters aren't real (usually), but I don't like to admit it! I get very attached to book characters. And when I read books based on real historical events/people, I look up all the non-fiction information I can find on them.

Once when I was talking about trapping my enemy from school in a trap book, which is a device that exists in the Myst games, my father got really really mad saying the law says you can't trap someone anywhere without their consent, whether for a minute or a day or whatever. False Imprisonment. He was mad; he was yelling and distressed. He yelled at my mother that I wasn't living in reality anymore, that I was living in a fantasy world and that people make up fantasy world in self defence when real life becomes too boring or miserable/intolerable for them, and then he shouted at my mom that it was all her fault for never letting me go out anywhere when I was a kid, that I was always locked up in the house with her.

OMG, YES, you have described me perfectly!! ! And my Aspie son is and always has been exactly the same way! It's so nice to know there are others who are the same and that we're not really crazy. Hey, maybe it's the NT's who are really crazy!!