Obsessive empathy for inanimate objects

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It's just that I seem to be the first (or close to the first) on the bus every single year. And them I'm always the last to get off, too! It's super-annoying.

Anyway, I didn't even start talking until I was four. Also, I started reading that year which I'd say is pretty advanced. It was just stuff like "Go Dogs Go" and "The Best Nest" though. Yeah, 1993 was a pretty big year for me... I remember my favorite movies being "101 Dalmations" and "The Aristocats" at that time. I just loved cartoon movies with talking animals. I never really did get into the whole Disney Princess thing. I was actually kind of a tomboy until middle school. Now I'm extremely girly-girl! lol Anyway, back then The Littlest Pet Shop, Care Bears, and Lisa Frank were really in, too. And I, like everyone else my age, had to get my hands on any products I could find. Care Bears was really hard to find since my generation missed the premier of it by nearly a decade. So the only Care Bears stuff I had were the two movies and a bunch of recorded episodes. Okay, now I'm just rambling on. lol

when i was about that age cabbage patch kids and barbie and care bears. same here tomboy if i had a choice of hardware store or a toy store id probably want video games from toy store and hardware from doors from hardware store

when id play id rather play lego or with tools instead of dolls. that then in middle school turned to hardware and tools or car parts. in elementry school about bus i was first off last picked up(silly thing was i was half a block away) but yet still took bus! i was only on bus for maybe 10 seconds??

movies/music i liked some country and favorite movie was flintstones (when fred and wilma adopted bammbamm) favorite tv show was america's funniest home videos with bob saget(from family matters sitcom)

my first word was "more" i was told that i first said it while sitting on a swing in back yard and grandmother was pushing me. and guess what? my next word, DOOR! seems odd i also can remember when i was in pre-k some teacher putting me on his shoulders while talking to my parents standing in hall and i reached for a grey thing on door in hall (at time not knowing what it was) then about 4 years ago the memory of me reaching for grey thing on top came back to me. then i realized, OMG, i guess i have liked door closing devices since before i walked!

weird i think

I put one of my Buses on my Night Dresser, before I go to Bed, every night. That helps me to sleep better. Than I put the Bus back on my Dresser, with its Family in the Morning, when I get out of Bed.

awwwwww glad that works for you it seems many people have good dreams if tehy think or touch thier favorite object b 4 or during sleep (works for me) seems its last thing you do at night (putting bus on bedside table) and first thing you do in morning(putting it back with family) like i said before, its alot better and safer then sleeping pills that can really mess up body.

Whenever I run into something I say "I'm sorry" somewhat involuntarily.

when i was a kid i felt quit a lot for my stufed anamils, whenever i had a faverit one i wouldnt even leve it alone in a car for a minet for fear someone might steel it. I think i got over a lot of the inanament stuff right around when i got a cat thou, it probably wouldn't work for every body, but if you don't want your kid to be quite so atched to objectes you could try geting them a pet.

Also when i was about 7 or 8 we soled the only car i had ever had, and i was really atched to it for some reson. I cried and cried the day we sould it, latter on that day my mom bought me a new stuffed animall and i got over it after awile. so if you've got to sell a frige or something else your kid likes it might help to buy them something they can transfer their fellings to, maybe.

Kind of funny around here. My kids and I are definitely attached to our 'things' in ways that make little sense to my wife, who is NT. She makes a joke, sometimes about having to Sneak garbage out of the house or we all have a fit.

We have made enormous strides at solving toy clutter issues by having them donate 'to a more needy kid' some of their older stuff. No big deal really, but to us, this is huge!

I feel sorry for objects, but I'm not 12. I'm 20.

Yes. I feel bad for things in trash cans yet don't feel anything for homeless people. For years my mom said it was as if I loved my stuffed animals more than my own family and I probably did. They may not be able to love back but my stuffed animals didn't rebuke me either. I have always been labled materilistic. If there was a tornado warning I would be more worried about protecting my toys than my family. I think it was because objects could be trusted more than people and were predictable. If I express empathy for an actual human being it's usualy just an act. I don't feel anything for people.

As a child I use to be best friends with my teddy bear Fozzy. I took him everywhere and we did everything together, even swimming. I told him my problems, and he always had a shoulder for me to cry on. As I grew up I felt intense pressure from my family and friends to "put stuffed animals away". So In my teen years Fozzy would hide under my covers incase a friend came over, but he would always be waiting for me.

As I got older and pressure from home and school began to effect me everywhere I went, I adopted two old and beat up Star Wars figures I found in my back yard. Nien Nunb and a protocol droid from the first movie I believe. I felt sorry for them both because I thought no one liked the characters from the movies, so I was extra nice to them and brought them everywhere with me. They were a huge comfort to me when I was in school or away from home. They fit in my pocket just nice and I could clasp them in my hand without anyone noticing.

I throw out all the sentimental stuff and guard my toys with my life. I worry about them when I am at the store. I think they bring me nothing but good things and ask nothing of me. They aren't ever annoyed or disappointed.

my daughter does this kind of thing all the time, and she's on the spectrum.

On the other hand I used to do it too and as far as i know i'm NT.

I feel empathy for manga characters, especially misunderstood ones. I don't know why...

Eep. I do this. Not so much now as in years past...
Likely because I have [insane number] pets that have helped fill this need...

Surprising to me that this is a common Aspie thing.
I was under the impression that this was one of the things that made me less Aspie.
I need to stop looking at medical diagnosis sites... they really don't have a clue do they?

Geez---this fits me perfectly. I know that inanimate objects don't have feelings, but yet I feel they do. I have been this way since I was a child. I am embarrassed to admit to you all---but I am a grown adult, and I still feel this way with inanimate objects. I even get things out of the garbage my wife throws away that I feel sorry for. I could go on here, but I don't want to. Some things are too painful to talk about. But I am just telling you, yes, I am this way. I didn't outgrow it. It can be painful.

I have empathy for my stuffed animals and die cast Cars, too - I can relate to them and talk to them in ways that I was never able to with real people.