Imaginary Friends

...I personally value friends over family.
You can choose your friends, not your family. I you are like me, your family pushed you away, spoke awful things behind your back, and they were never there for you. Unlike most families, man has an awful relationship with me. I broke contact with them quite a long time ago, though my stepfarther does retain minor contact with my uncle Stephen/Steven.

Because of my rather, I mean terrible, relationship with my family, I have come to see a higher value in friendship than the average person. To me, friends are crucial things that you must hold on to no matter what. For me, lossing the smallest friendship is like having a divorce, so I have have experienced over 20 "divorces" sinse I became closely attached to friendship.

I retain only 1 in-person friendship at this time... but I don't care. I have actually come to realise that, if you truly reach a critical point in loliness, using your own imagination to make your own friends and even family can save you from going one step too far into something much worse than lonliness. Most of my friends are either online or imaginary, as I spend my utter free time with my imaginary friends, where I live my lost childhood, where they actually know what playing and having fun is, unlike when most people get older. My inner child screams from deep within my heart, wanting me to be a young child again.

People sometimes say to me, "Why do you act like a little kid?"
I say, "Because the child within me is the restless spirit of my childhood. All he wants is to have fun, friends, love, and play forever. No worries, just a world to have fun in... and enjoy until time's end."

I will clearly admit that I am a child deep down, and I am proud to know that I haven't let today's society of work and maturity ever take the free spirit away from me. Like I say, my inner child is like a restless spirit, so he will be with me forever, until I do, and we become one again in death, to live on in darkness, but never forget the light.

Do any of you have the inner child, the restless spirit longing to play, within you?

I used to have an imaginary dog but it would piss all over the carpet, so we got rid of it.

I've had imaginary friends but hell no, I'm not proud of it.

I try to forget stupid **** like that.

It's something that grows with you as one evolves as a person.

Originally Posted by fratey

It's something that grows with you as one evolves as a person.

I often consider one of my corrupted imaginary friends that I made as I almost had my face smashed in by an alcholic demon as a demon itself, because it never goes away now. It stands there in dark corridors, tormenting me about the past.

I lack the imagination to have real 'imaginary friends'. I generally have long conversations with myself in my head. I can't for the life of me imagine faces. Everything in my head is sort of represented by a single entity, which morphs to suit the occasion if you like. Anyway, I try not to let real people see the 'real' me, and I wouldn't be able to stand having a friend that knows all the things I try to hide...

my imaginary friend is super furby but right now she is on a trip

I play out conversations with people in my head before I have them with people quite often. I suppose that's a trait I have from my Aspergers - very useful as I can sandbox situations a couple of times to figure out where it can go. ^_

I tend to sandbox impossible situations. It generally ends in dissapointment and pain, I don't recommend it.

I like to think that I keep in touch with my inner child, but my need for constant hugs and human contact makes it easy to feel lonely when I'm not around people.
Why settle for imaginary friends when you can pursue real ones who buy you things and make you laugh?

Horny Dogg Matt, you remind me of the kid from The Little Prince.

Originally Posted by fratey

I play out conversations with people in my head before I have them with people quite often. I suppose that's a trait I have from my Aspergers - very useful as I can sandbox situations a couple of times to figure out where it can go. ^_

I do that too, and plan out witty jokes or comments that I can make, but they never go how I wished or expected.

I had an imaginary friend when I was very little named Pinky Winky. He was a dog of some sort, and I even drew pictures. LOL

My imaginary friend was an Irish Leprechaun who sat on the rock of my sandbox who told me to burn things and set everyone on fire.

I don't recollect having an imaginary friend at all when i was younger.

Originally Posted by Snow_Storm

My imaginary friend was an Irish Leprechaun who sat on the rock of my sandbox who told me to burn things and set everyone on fire.

Man Ralph you're crazy.

I never had imaginary friends. Waste of time.

I've never had an imaginary friend. When I was little, I often played alone, because I liked being alone(and I still do). But that's how I wanted to be: Alone. So no, I never had any imaginary friends, otherwise I'd tell them to go away. That's what real friends are for.

Also, I do still have a little inner child in me. I'm sure most of us do in some way or another. Sometimes I do wish I could go back... But I don't think I really would if I could.

Can someone explain this "inner child" thing? What is it some sort of desire to be dependent on someone or something?

No, for me it's just like, the wanting to be young again, and be able to do the sort of things that were more acceptable when you were young. Like roll in the mud and have fig wars. And play tag and hide and go seek. And run through the corn fields. And slide down the hill on a flattened card board box lol. I did all of these things once ago. Now that I'm an adult I would look and feel silly doing them, despite how fun they can be.
But I'm sure it differs from person to person.

I never had imaginary friends but I do agree with the OP that sometimes I value my best friends over my family. Or at least consider them to be just as important.

Yeah. I found out that I had an imaginary friend. His name was Tyler Durden.

My brother had one, his name was Baul.