Obsessive empathy for inanimate objects

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my mom is cleaning out the closets right now, and i'm the only one hanging on to old clothes beacuse i feel like if i give them to the salvation army, they'll feel sad. i also can't go to that store to drop things off, beacuse i always see the one sad looking stuffed animal that i want ot take home.
i have a bear named bobby i've had for 18 years. i talk to him all the time.
i never realized other people were like this.

I apply emotions to inanimate objects all the time .

We bought a much-needed new refrigerator. A friend wanted to buy the old one. I wasn't too surprised when my daughter said that she would miss the old fridge and didn't want us to sell it. When the guy came to pick it up, she hugged it, and wouldn't let go. We had to physically hold her so that our friend could take this old refrigerator! She cried awhile, and then settled into a pout, saying that this was the worst day of her life.

what i dont understand is why my mum and dad never had a problem with me cuddlin and kissing and loving a stuffed rabbit but when it comes to doin the exact same thing to one of my drums they tell me that i need to grow up and that im not normal

Yeh, my stuffed toys have life-stories too, they even have personalitys.
Talking to myself in my bedroom one day I didn't achive what I was after. (don't ask me what, I've forgotten now) I turned around and talked to my stuffed toys. That worked. I never did grow out of it.

I've always anthropomorphed stuff.
However, I'm mostly angry at them because they're in the way, trip me, poke me, etc.

I know inanimate objects can think. How else, for example, would they know just the right moment to break?

Ed, you should seek out a book called The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects by Lyall Watson. You'd love it! Some inanimate objects, apparently, do know just when to break...

On the thread topic, yeah, I ascribe emotions to objects all the time. I think my rock collection is 'happier' after I wash and cleanse the rocks; I've bought things because I felt sorry for them, and feel badly for things that aren't used or worn on a regular basis.

The more I read stuff here, the more I realize I'm SUCH an Aspie, lol. I, too, did this all through my childhood and yeah, I still do it today.

My youngest does it, and will even cry if her stuffies fall on the floor (she has at least 20 of them). She's my huggy-lovey-sensitive baby. And I love her for it.

My daugther, diagnoses with ASP. attaches emotional responses to stuffed animals. I would check with a child pscyiatrist RE: OCD questions you may have. It's worth looking into.

EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK.

I've recently bought myself a Little Red Friend on Canada Day.

great cockney, how many routies do u have now???

i bet you were soooooo happy and thought you were dreaming when you found it.

ive always liked certain inanimate objects thru my life though the obsession as gone from one to the next
from age 3 i was obessed and stuck by a car garage toy, in which there wa sa lift, and a yellow downhill ramp that encircled the garage building back the to the bottom. i would play wuth this toy every day at daycare and not bother trying to talk to the other children. i wasnt interested in them at all. just the toy and myself.

when i was 3 or 4 i got a cuddly stuffed rabbit who i named rachel. i took it everywhere with me, and sneaked it to school in my bag most days till i was about 1 or 15.
then the rabbit obsession moved to the drums... which id been playing since age 13, bit i got myown when i was 14 and it wa only about 3 days b4 i kissed one of them, and then they made their way next to my bed, then on the bed, then in the bed with me cuddling them. usually only one drum at a time, but sometimes i liked the bass drum, with the 2 rack toms attached to it, and id lay down and lay the bass drum on my stomach then kiss the 2 rack toms. i have doneother things with my drums awell that ive enjoyed... for one ive used the drumsticks (use your imagination lol)
always an old pair that id never touch a drum with again lol
bit i also liked the drum themselves touching on me in bed. if i wasnt kissing or cuddling them theyd be still touching me where it kinda feels good (yep its imagination time again foks!)... an that was confession time for me... not even my parent know that i ever did anything besides kissing them and taking them to bed to cuddle. so there you have it. im all open lol

over the last 2 years or so ive slowly become more and more obsessed with America. th country, and the people in it and the way of life. i just love it.
the inimate objects thing plays a part here because ive become obsesed with the American Flag. i like my flag alot and i often wear it, even thoigh i know its against flag etiquete rules. this is the only one rule that i break, but im buyin clothes with the Flag on now so that i dont break the rules anymore. there was a Flag on ebay i liked alot.. it was huge and well priced, but it was pictured layed out on the floor, so i didnt buy it, because the Flag isnt supposed to ever be put on the floor. i love the Star Spangled Banner.. i can hear it 50 times a day and not get fed up of the words or the tune i sing it about 3 times a day.... im evengoing to have a tattoo done with the Flag on it. it is goin to be in a heart shape with ''America the Beautiful'' above and below it and placed on left side of my chest. i hate needles. but im prepeared to go though it to get my flag on me forever.