Do you have an imaginary friend OR..

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Or did you have one for an unusually long time/at an unusual age?

Yes, through high school and during my time at a residential college.

I gave it up sometime around when I began cohabitating with my ex; not right away, just gradually.

I never had an imaginary friend. I remember being quite young and thinking that lots of kids had imaginary friends, so I picked a cartoon character and decided he would be my imaginary friend but it was more of a 'trying to be like other kids' thing. I never really understood imaginary friends. I couldn't think of them as real, so I just didn't bother with it.

Yeah I can't think of imaginary friends as real either.

I do carry characters around in my head that I'm writing stories about and when I go places I imagine them there and how they'd act and so on.

I tried to several times. I don't put forth any effort to maintain an imaginary relationship any more than a real one.

I have an imaginary husband. He has a name, quirks, regular interests, and favorite movies we watch sometimes.

I've always had some imaginary friends. I'm 29 now so I figure I'll always have them.

I have like 6 or so quite honestly, and I'm 16. They rotate in and out lol. Many when I was younger were either wolves or based off of movie or videogame characters, but know I've got the creativity to just make them up.

When I was like 5, I was terrified of nightmares, and so I "created" my first imaginary friend. I figured if Freddy Krueger was my friend, he'd keep the bad dreams away.

Ironically, it totally worked.

I'm 20 years old and still have imaginary friends. I've had imaginary friends my entire life; though whichever ones I have at a given time always reflect my current obsession/special interest.

Since my current special interest is Tim Burton movies, well, that's where pretty much all of my current imaginary friends have come from. I have loads of them spanning from Burton's entire filmography, from his well-loved classics such as Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, to movies which were less well-received such as Planet of the Apes and Mars Attacks, to everything in between - Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Pee Wee Herman, etc, etc..

My imaginary friends have always felt very "real" to me. So much so that during times when I don't feel particularly close to them and they take a break from hanging out with me, it causes me great heartache and I sometimes actually cry over it.

When I was a child, I went through a phase where I talked to my imaginary friends out loud and voiced their responses back to myself no matter where I was, such as at school or the grocery store. I've recently started up the "talk and response" thing again, but this time I only do it at night when everyone else is asleep.

When I was pretty young, I had an imaginary friend/person.

I do have imaginary conversations with both real and imaginary people. Do any other aspies here have imaginary conversations with both real and imaginary people?

I had lots of imaginary friends until I was about 14-15. Some of them were huge translucent grapes that I imagined following me around wherever I'd go.

I had a whole world of imaginary friends from the ages of 9 to 13. While I was being rejected by my peers in real life, in my imaginary world, I was the most popular and capable kid. My parents forbid me from playing with my imaginary world saying that it's keeping me from coping with reality but I did it anyway.

I never had imaginary friends (though i tried) but i have loads and loads of character, most of them live in an immaginary city in Tuscany. And i can create new character in every moment (last week i've invented two norwegian professional wrestlers).
My characters are protagonist of my fictions.