Do you have an imaginary friend OR..

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No, but I talk to myself at times.. Its like spoken thinking

I don't think I've ever had imaginary friends but when I was a kid I did have an imaginary dog!

I had one till I was around 10 but then I dropped it for obvious reasons

For awhile, my collection of stuffed dolphins/whales were my imaginary friends...they were sort of a huge, complex family unit with adopted children and boyfriends/girlfriends.

Then in 2006, when the first Cars movie came out, the characters from the film all sort of became my imaginary friends...I collected all the die cast toys of the "Townies," as the Radiator Springs townsfolk are referred to in collectors' circles, and would talk to them when I was bored or having a rough time.

I would also make up stories in my head about all the fun stuff I'd do with them when one of the Cars from RS would come to get me and bring me there....it was kind of a buffer against all the frightening things happening to me around that time.

I'm going to be 20 in less than 2 months, and I STILL do that (make up stories and collect the toys), as a matter of fact.

I'm not sure if this counts, but when I was aged from 8 to about 13, I pretended to be another girl. She did exist, but didn't know I existed. I just stole her image, and pretended to be her, by giving her a name, making up a family, and getting my cousins and some children at school to play along. My cousins thought it was great, and the younger ones copied me by making up other people themselves to be (although they didn't realise that I was only doing this to help me with my social skills). This girl who I pretended I was was an NT, and it actually worked. I pretended I was this girl, and the real me was still with us, and ''she'' was still her Aspie self, and I was a NT. And I loved it.

I can't explain how this worked, but it did.