Did You Have An Imaginary Friend?

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I was watching a movie where they were saying how common it is for a child to have an imaginary friend. As friendless and solitary as I was as a child, I certainly didn't. I'm thinking that an imaginary friend is more likely with NT kids than AS Kids?

I had several. I'd pretend to be a character in book series I read or something and the other characters in the series would be my imaginary friends.

Do the children that have imaginary friends really believe that there are some beings there or do they know they are just their imagination? I've never had imaginary friends. I can't even imagine having such things. If I know it's just my imagination, then it's boring and there's no point in doing such a thing. I could only see reality even as a child and I believe most children are like that whether they have autism or not.

I had a lot of them. Especially when I was 14 and having kind of a mental breakdown because of all the bullying. Members of a band became my imaginary friends at that time.

He was and is always there and here, but we don't speak anymore, he's an alcoholic, sexist, murdering jerk who can pretend to be nice. I know he's there, but because of how he is, I avoid him as much as possible.

I had several imaginary friends.

When I was a kid, I had several imaginary friends and enemies. I use to play Cowboys and Indians and pretend I was riding a horse with my make believe pistol drawn shooting at Indians. This play disappeared before the family moved from Chicago.

<--- Had no imaginary friends. None, zero, zip.

None in the sense that I imagined a friend that I would talk to and play with as myself. I tried to have one but failed because I couldn't imagine one.

Yes in the sense of pretending to be a character interacting with other characters, but that was more like telling myself stories not playing with friends.

As a boy, I had several different imaginary friends. I can even remember most of their names, now!

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An Asperger's man who has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1- mild, with a sprinkling of Synesthesia.

I didn't get an imaginary friend until the age of twelve, and he's still here today. His name is Bob and he goes with me literally everywhere, and it feels very strange when we're apart, even briefly, as if I'm missing a part of myself. Logically I "know" he's not real, but emotionally I can't bring myself to think too deeply about it because he's such an integral part of my life now that I don't know where I'd be without him and his commentary in my ear. Reading this, I know it makes me sound completely insane, but it's all well in hand, and it's not like he whispers murderous thoughts or anything, he's just a regular friend, who happens to be with me day and night as if we were literally glued at the hip.

Looks to be 50/50 so far. So I guess an imaginary friend can exist wither NT or AS.

I've always had an alter ego, a second self. He's usually the one who warns me not to do something and is the one who says "told you so" when I do it anyways. He also cheers me on, "attaboy!" or lends comfort, "everything's going to be okay just relax". He's a good friend but can be a bit of a nagging prat sometimes

Yeah, but mine wasn't human, he was a dragon. I mainly only saw/mentally talked to him in the car, though, as I would imagine him running alongside our car as we drove and I would imagine him dodging other cars, trees, obstacles to keep up pace with our car. We'd mentally talk. =3 Nowadays I don't really have any imaginary friends, but the closest I come to it is pretending I'm a character and then having conversations(again, usually mental) with another character from the same show. *shrug* Never thought much of it.

Never had an actual "human" imaginary friend, but I still voted 'yes'