Do you have imaginary friends?

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Yep, his name is Bob, he appeared one day when I was twelve (I'm nineteen now) in an empty spare chair we had at our dining room table. He was my first experience with imaginary friends, so I treated him like a pet the whole first day I knew him (I had experience with imaginary pets; my real friend and I had a whole menagerie of them). I didn't really expect him to stick around, but there he was the next day, sleeping next to me. It's strange, I've found a few other imaginary friends along the way, mostly imaginary creatures who could talk, but they never stuck around for more than a day or two. I also create stories in my head using my neopets characters (yes, I still play neopets). I've written a lot of them down too - I have thirty-five short stories based on them now, with my role as their mother. Even though they don't "exist" in the real world like Bob does, I still feel a strong attachment for them, as if they really were my kids.
And they say people with AS have no imagination!

Yep, I do - The characters from the Cars movies, Holloway (a character I created based on late RL actor Sterling Holloway - did the voice of Winnie the Pooh, if you remember) and Susie the little blue coupe (see my avatar).

I know I posted in this thread a couple of years ago:

But it's kind of sparse, and my roster of imaginary friends has changed since then. So I will write a more detailed post and update my list of imaginary friends:

I have had imaginary friends for more or less my entire life. I've never let the fact that society would consider me much too old for imaginary friends affect me in the slightest. In fact, no one's ever made fun of me for it even though I have been fairly open about it. I believe that a lot of people have imaginary friends but simply choose not to talk about them.

As a preschooler, I did some roleplaying with my family members as my favorite cartoon characters, but I got my first true imaginary friend at the age of 5. I've had them every year since then, and they are always characters from whatever TV show and/or movies I happen to be obsessed with at a given time. I've never invented my own imaginary friends, because I've never been good at creating my own characters.

My current roster of imaginary friends includes Ghoulia, Spectra, Operetta and Jackson from Monster High; as well as Beetlejuice and Lydia from the animated adaptation of Beetlejuice (who have actually been on-again, off-again imaginary friends since childhood). I still have a couple of imaginary friends from the list I made in my previous post from a couple of years ago - Sweeney Todd and Edward Scissorhands.

Furthermore, I have been considering taking on Operetta's father, the title character from Phantom of the Opera, as an imaginary friend. I am still unsure though because my first exposure to that character was in the 2004 Gerard Butler movie, which I did not think was a good movie. But I am going to give the character (and the PotO story in general) a second chance by watching the stage performance that was recorded for DVD at the Royal Albert Hall, which I've heard is superior in every way to the 2004 movie. Only then will I decide whether or not to let the Phantom haunt my imaginary world alongside his daughter.

I used to have lots, normally I made up siblings and pets for myself, I actually miss it a lot. As I got older I began to kind of change it- I write fanfiction stories and I either become the main character from that and have mental conversations with her family. I do really miss having an imaginary friend though, it just doesn't really work as much any more- I think I'm just getting to old to be able to come up with a complete character on my own.

Yeah but they hang out in an imaginary magical world . Sometimes they come out to talk mostly the human ones guess imaginary lands too fun for the puppies to leave. If they all leave chaos is certain, about 5 horses 3 small animals 2 dogs 8 humans 1 fairy 6 basement monsters. oh but basement monsters live in the basement not a magical land!

I'm coming up with one right now. I've been bored lately, and it would be nice to have a subconcious to help me make daily decisions.

I heard somebody say their imaginary friend had got a restraining order on them. Is that normal?

I have an imaginary sister called Gabby, 2 imaginary friends called Regan and Izzy, an imaginary boyfriend called Carlose and an imaginary cousin called Ellie

I also have 3 imaginary animal friends. They are an animal I made up which are a cross betewwn a lion and a dog

I have imaginary pets; I often draw them, also. I also have imaginary friends that are antropomorphic animals.

I talk to myself sometimes, I feel like that is somewhat relevant.

no. i have imaginary enemies, and they are lucky that they are only imaginary.

LOL^
i have an imaginary best friend who comforts me, his name is Han Lin and he's always on my side of things, as far as he is concerned i'm always right. he does what i want him to do. he's my best friend and boyfriend. he looks asian, has darker skin than me...personality-wise, he's a little reckless and very sweet. he's a clown. but, he is also very smart (we share a mind) and he can be serious about people and relationships whereas i can not. his name is Han Lin because that is the name of the very first boy i ever saw cry. that was in kindergarten.

That's my favorite kind of imaginary friend, right there.

I draw characters that i imagen being with in my head as a seprate life & i draw one that is my alter ego & i plan on being with them in the after life& i will look like what i realy want! I made up 2 races & a whole planet with lots of differant races of beings complete with lore even. & there is a modern age & a more mideveil 'fantasy' type age. & i also em only sexauly attrackted to certen guy characters,not 'real' guys. yup u read that right! I am crazy & proud of it!! ! oh & did i mention they are also spirit beings?

I don't exactly have imaginary friends...

I always catch myself talking to imaginary time travelers various past decades, explaining in my head how different things work, and trying to figure out how people from various decades would react to electric lights, the internet, and modern vehicles. I imagine myself explaining airplanes to zeppelin pilots, and things like that.