Emotional Attachments for Objects

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Does anyone else feel a strong emotional link to an object, such as a character in a story, a pet, or maybe the computer? Example: I would much rather die than have my video game consoles stolen, destroyed, or otherwise unusable. I also feel a strong attachment to the characters within the games, and I often find that I feel their joy, misery, rage, relaxation, hatred, courage, etc.

Another example: We used to have kittens (A pregnant cat gave birth to them in our garage), and I loved them with all my heart. Unfortuantely, my Mother's allergic to cats, so we couldn't keep them inside the house, and Winter was coming, so we had to give them away, and I can remember the intense sorrow I felt as one by one they were taken from me. I could always tell what they wanted. Whenever they approached me, I always knew whether they wanted affection, food, water, etc. It was odd, but I was happy.

Does/has anyone else ever experienced something like this? And if so, what's the object?

I'm an artist and I had this special mechanical pencil that I loved just about as much as I love breathing. I really felt bonded to that thing as it was my lucky pencil. I had done some of the best work I had ever done with that thing.

Me and my fiance went out to eat one night and the next day I got up and couldn't find that pencil anywhere. And then to my absolute horror I realized I had left it at the restraunt. I go racing back there but they never found it. So it was gone forever and always and I swear to God I miss that pencil like I miss my dead Mother.

I have a CD I bought while on a date with the only girl I've ever had feelings for hidden in a drawer in my room. I'm afraid to open it.

I always get intensely attached to fictional characters.

As for physical objects, I love the computer, my videogame consoles, my DVD player and my iPod.

I also get attached and feel close to fictional characters.. most often in books but at times in tv and movies, also.

And I am much more attached to MUSIC and INFORMATION than PEOPLE.

When listening to music, I often feel the most emotional, the most alive and get very attached to certain cds, sounds, lyrics or songs that I feel I completely connect with and understand to the core of my being...

I know music and information are not physical objects, but these things are what I feel attached to.

I did used to have a toy, a stuffed "Lurky" (if anyone remembers the rainbow brite characters) that I had for years that I was very attached to. As an adult, My logical brain decided I was way too old to still be sleeping with it in my bed and got rid of it. But then I became very distressed and upset with myself when "he" was gone...

I'm attached to my character, Kyo. Mainly because he's a half-demon and I'm obsessed with all things demonic. I'm also attached to Diablos from the Final Fantasy games, as well as Ifrit.

My attachment to 'things' leads me to believe I am merely responding to the energy I give some inanimate object and because they are infused with what ever energy I give them I think they are far more important than they actually are.

1. I notice object
2. I give it my energy
3. I respond to the energy I have 'loaded' it with
4. think I am somehow 'interacting' with the thing
5. I think it special because it feels familiar (I don't recognize my energy is being reflected)
6. Mistake actual value of the thing with the value of the thing to me.
7. refuse to somehow deal with it long past it's time to go.


how is it for you?

I'm attached to Ingus from FF3. When he get's KO'd, I throw a fit. Also, when someone makes fun of him, I defend him, even though he's not real.

I'm attached to childhood toys but willing to give them up if necessary. I try to shun consumer goods and develop my own thoughts and social bonds instead.

I'm very attached to my Transformer collection, and become very upset whenever I find that one has broken or turned yellow.

I once heard some psychologist say that one way in which an Aspie brain is different from an NT's is that an aspie brain processes people and objects in the same way, whereas NT's relate to them differently.

This could also explain times when I've gotten just as pissed at forces of nature and abstract concepts as I do at annoying people.

I have my two twin Sid dolls and my buses that I'm emotionally attached to. Here's a picture to demonstrate what I'm getting at:

Yes. My laptop and my books. I like to hug my books sometimes. I get very upset if my books are lost or the computer crashes.

Well... I kinda have this unnecessary emotional attachment to my old Pepsi bag I am yet to chuck away.

I just feel so sorry for leaving that old tattered, pathetic bag in favour of my really groovy emily the strange bag

/sigh... I'm looking at it right now, lying there all helpless with holes and broken zippers.
Much like a hobo. How depressing.

i recently found that i had developed an attachment to my daughter's stuffed animal. i've never been attached to things really in the past.. but she lost this particular stuffed animal "Duckquack" and i think i miss it much more than she does. it's the strangest thing ever. i offered $50 for an identical one, (it only cost $9 originally) i've wanted to put up fliers, and i've asked the store i bought it from for the name of the company they order from... called the company... they said that they could only order those seasonally, and that's if they even made them anymore. sooo.. that's about the time i realized how freakin weird my attachment was, and called off the search. i still am baffled by why on earth i was so attached to this thing.

Ha, I bluetacked an empty cough lolly packet to my wall cause I didn't want to throw it out (still there). I hate throwing things out. Especially shoes, very much hate getting new shoes and throwing the old ones out. So what if they have twenty thousand holes in them, I still want them, cherish them.

All these things I thought were unrelated. My social awkwardness, my sensory annoyance, me taking years and years to learn to ride a bike, my general oddness. It has a name apparently, ha, what do you know.

I'm new by the way. You can call be Beorn.

I guess that if I had one it would be my truck. Every time I think of getting rid of it, I get very sad. I have a lot of memories in it and it just "fits" me (even have a groove in the driver's seat where I sit). I built it online and special ordered it 10-years ago. I'm the only one who has ever owned it. It has no mechanical problems (except that the A/C doesn't work) and always gets me to where I need to go.

Yeah, the more I think about this, the more I realize that I'm very emotionally attached to it.