Title. I never had one, so I wanna hear about it.

  • residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Our child has one. Her name is Kiki and she lives on a farm where she drives her tractors in a village called Plamplams. She speaks also an imaginary language. It seems like she represents experience he lives through vicariously expressing some image he has on how he fits in this world. We as his parents have always encouraged him; it is wonderful how he develops such creative images.

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        1 year ago

        One day he was going on about Kiki, how she does things in a certain way and I kept him going by say how interesting it was. He then turned to me and asked “You know that Kiki isn’t real, right, I made her up?”. He doesn’t like lying or being lied to, so within that frame I guess he wanted me to confirm that it was just play.

  • Vedlt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My girlfriend in high-school had an imaginary friend when she was a child. By the time we had met and got together he was in jail for murder I think. That was the end of the friendship.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hmmm me and my twin had an imaginary triplet. I don’t know what he was upto now. Or how he was identical to us when we always called him him when we are not male, generally.

    I feel he’s doing well. He was our evil triplet, so this economy he should be doing great. Thriving and stuff.

  • double_quack@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I know somebody that had. Their imaginary friends died of a drug overdose… so, yeah…

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      1 year ago

      That’s…brutal. Are they okay? Did something happen to them? Or is that just what they decided should happen?

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        1 year ago

        I mean, the imaginary friends took their decisions and got their consequences. The (real) person is ok. I guess it was just a dramatic end to their √(-1) friends

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I remember them. My my imaginary friends were stuff like The Looney Toons (I was really into Space Jam) and Sailor Moon. I remember “Playing with Bugs and Lola” at recess. I had them until around late middle school when I started to make friends here and there. I would think back on them with embarrassment, but now I’m thankful for the “support.”