Imaginary Friend
By lizardgod
@lizardgod (443)
United States
January 15, 2010 10:45pm CST
Yup it is me back again with a random question that I am curious about.
Anybody ever have an imaginary friend? Me, I never did but I think a lot of that comes from the fact that I wrote stories as a kid, they were bad but they were probably my way of dealing with things when I was younger. Now instead of having a named entity as a friend if I am by myself and need to work something out I just work the situation out loud. I don't really know why kids have imaginary friend and I am curious how common they are.
Lets see what you guys think.
3 responses
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
16 Jan 10
i had one for pretend in school. if that makes sense. my best friend in the 5th grade used to have one. i'm not sure if he talked to it at home but he joked about it in school. i think he was just making it up and playing pretend in school. i don't know though, because he turned out to be gay, so maybe he really had one to deal with that. but we played in school and he thought i should have one too. so really it was just something we did at recess, i never took mine home with me, not sure if he did.
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@lizardgod (443)
• United States
16 Jan 10
Interesting, so you had one at school as a way to connect with a friend. That is a pretty interesting reason. I am willing to bet though that connecting with a friend is not the common reason. lol
@lizardgod (443)
• United States
17 Jan 10
Hey that means you weren't a lonely kid...seems like a good thing. I am starting to think that maybe this was more common in the past. I wonder if maybe it has something to do with there being more children these days, and that consolidation efforts are pushing smaller school together to create larger ones. More interaction with other living kids might have made this a thing of the past.
@janeajozelle (197)
• Philippines
16 Jan 10
i have not met it yet and hoping to find soon. good things your kid see it. all kids with no sibling like to imagine a lot they usually get pass after thy grow old.
@lizardgod (443)
• United States
16 Jan 10
Heck I was an only child, everybody seems to think that means that you don't have as many people to play with as a kid, I think it just taught me how to make friends faster and better. Who knows but I was a pretty popular kid :)
