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13 May 2011, 7:21 pm

Or did you have one for an unusually long time/at an unusual age?


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13 May 2011, 7:23 pm

Yes, through high school and during my time at a residential college.

I gave it up sometime around when I began cohabitating with my ex; not right away, just gradually.



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13 May 2011, 7:27 pm

I never had an imaginary friend. I remember being quite young and thinking that lots of kids had imaginary friends, so I picked a cartoon character and decided he would be my imaginary friend but it was more of a 'trying to be like other kids' thing. I never really understood imaginary friends. I couldn't think of them as real, so I just didn't bother with it.


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13 May 2011, 7:31 pm

Dots wrote:
I never really understood imaginary friends. I couldn't think of them as real, so I just didn't bother with it.

Same. Imagining someone that I would interact with required too much of a suspension of disbelief. I invented imaginary characters, but they inhabited their own universe, not mine, just like in a work of fiction.



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13 May 2011, 7:31 pm

Yeah I can't think of imaginary friends as real either.

I do carry characters around in my head that I'm writing stories about and when I go places I imagine them there and how they'd act and so on.



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13 May 2011, 7:42 pm

I tried to several times. I don't put forth any effort to maintain an imaginary relationship any more than a real one. :)


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13 May 2011, 8:13 pm

I have an imaginary husband. He has a name, quirks, regular interests, and favorite movies we watch sometimes.

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13 May 2011, 8:17 pm

I've always had some imaginary friends. I'm 29 now so I figure I'll always have them.



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13 May 2011, 8:51 pm

I have like 6 or so quite honestly, and I'm 16. They rotate in and out lol. Many when I was younger were either wolves or based off of movie or videogame characters, but know I've got the creativity to just make them up.

When I was like 5, I was terrified of nightmares, and so I "created" my first imaginary friend. I figured if Freddy Krueger was my friend, he'd keep the bad dreams away.

Ironically, it totally worked.


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13 May 2011, 9:53 pm

I'm 20 years old and still have imaginary friends. I've had imaginary friends my entire life; though whichever ones I have at a given time always reflect my current obsession/special interest.

Since my current special interest is Tim Burton movies, well, that's where pretty much all of my current imaginary friends have come from. I have loads of them spanning from Burton's entire filmography, from his well-loved classics such as Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, to movies which were less well-received such as Planet of the Apes and Mars Attacks, to everything in between - Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Pee Wee Herman, etc, etc..

My imaginary friends have always felt very "real" to me. So much so that during times when I don't feel particularly close to them and they take a break from hanging out with me, it causes me great heartache and I sometimes actually cry over it.

When I was a child, I went through a phase where I talked to my imaginary friends out loud and voiced their responses back to myself no matter where I was, such as at school or the grocery store. I've recently started up the "talk and response" thing again, but this time I only do it at night when everyone else is asleep.



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13 May 2011, 11:18 pm

When I was pretty young, I had an imaginary friend/person.

I do have imaginary conversations with both real and imaginary people. Do any other aspies here have imaginary conversations with both real and imaginary people?



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14 May 2011, 1:42 am

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Since my current special interest is Tim Burton movies


Wow, that is an awesome avatar! :D

I loved him in Cry Baby!


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14 May 2011, 1:55 am

Downtown wrote:
I do have imaginary conversations with both real and imaginary people. Do any other aspies here have imaginary conversations with both real and imaginary people?


Yes! I used to be in school to be an attorney, and I still write summations and practice my delivery.

I must be good, because my kitteh listens attentively. :D


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14 May 2011, 2:29 am

I had lots of imaginary friends until I was about 14-15. Some of them were huge translucent grapes that I imagined following me around wherever I'd go.



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14 May 2011, 3:11 am

I had a whole world of imaginary friends from the ages of 9 to 13. While I was being rejected by my peers in real life, in my imaginary world, I was the most popular and capable kid. My parents forbid me from playing with my imaginary world saying that it's keeping me from coping with reality but I did it anyway.



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14 May 2011, 5:39 am

I never had imaginary friends (though i tried) but i have loads and loads of character, most of them live in an immaginary city in Tuscany. And i can create new character in every moment (last week i've invented two norwegian professional wrestlers).
My characters are protagonist of my fictions.


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