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IntenseMagic

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My mom and I were talking the other day about my Crazy Uncle Bill (he named himself that), and she was telling me that he used to have an imaginary friend named Asparagus :giggle. I really feel the need to ask him one day what the meaning behind that was! Then, I was telling my youngest that I had an imaginary friend when I was little and her name was "Other Girl". So any time I got in trouble, I would just tell my parents that Other Girl did it :giggle. I'm still trying to decide if I was super creative with that name or terribly not creative since I couldn't seem to give her a proper name. I did a layout about her once, I'll have to see if I can dig that one up haha. I don't recall any of my kids having imaginary friends, at least they didn't tell me if they did.

Did you ever have any imaginary friends? Do/did your children?
 
Nope, not me or my children. My best friend, who is an only child, did have one though.
 
I don't remember having an imaginary friend, but I remember telling myself stories in bed before I fell asleep.

My kids didn't talk about imaginary friends either, but they had a whole, detailed imaginary world with their friends. They each created characters and acted out complex stories every time they got together for a few years when they were little.

Now, as I type this, all my kids (ages 13-18) and a few of their friends are playing Pathfinder, a role playing game like Dungeons and Dragons. They still have great imaginations!
 
I do not think I had any imaginary friends but my daughter did. She was possibly about four years old and she had 3 friends. She would say that one was named Rhonda but she said that she could not say the others. Then one day out of the blue she says to me " I can say my friends names now. They are Sharwah and Tuffothy ". Strangely once she shared that she never talked about them again.
 
I didn't have one, and neither did my daughter, but my son did. His name was Rudy and he was super tiny. He lived in a hole in the baseboard (made from a door stopper) behind his door.
 
so i'm not sure that DS was really friends with 'it' but we have down lights and sometimes the odd tiny spider will descend from them and during his early superhero phase like 3-4y.o., he would blame random things (like pen and crayon scribbled on furniture or bottles of shower gel emptied out in the bathroom) on 'the spider from the roof'. Not sure whether Spiderman has an invisibility cloak but it was around that time he asked Santa for one at xmas - so yep, not sure if it's an imaginary friend or just a creative and convenient scapegoat !
 
I never had an imaginary friend and my kids didn't either. I know a lot of kids do, though.
 
To my knowledge nobody in our immediate nor extended family had 'imaginary friends'. Imaginary play for me was being Batman, though!!
 
I've never had one that I am aware of. Neither of my kids as well.
 
I never really had one. I'm an only child... so I used imaginary play a lot, but never had a consistent "friend". My son, however, had one for a few years. His name was Shadow Friend. Clara had one too about the same time, her name was Rosie. But I don't actually believe that she had one, she just didn't want to be left out :giggle We moved from our house in Texas back to Chicago and Shadow Friend wasn't ever mentioned again :think
 
Yep, I had an imaginary friend named "Charlie" as a child ... years later my youngest sister (18 years between us) heard about Charlie and adopted him, then added his friend Sally and had them living in our old station wagon. I no longer really remember Charlie, other than he was my imaginary friend.

I also thought that there was a train living under my bed, and that the train would run me over if I got out of bed at night. If I needed to use the bathroom at night I had to jump from one twin bed to the other, then straddle the door standing on the knobs, swing around and jump into the bathroom quickly slamming the door.

Getting back into my bed required a quick dash from the bathroom to the first twin bed then hopping from one bed to the next ... that went on for a number of years, lol!
 
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