Giving things human emotions

[delilabell]

Firstly I'm aware I'm completely crazy. Ive always had anxiety, I'm also being referred for adhd.
BUT
Does anyone else gove things hunan emotions?
Like I used a shower gel I'm not keen in because it hadn't been used much so would feel unliked.
I eat the sweet I don't like as much because it would feel jealous.
Does anyone else do this?!

I say please and thank you to Alexa.
However the Sat Nav is an annoying twit so deserves every argument and curse word I throw at it.

It’s not an object, but I do it to spiders. I used to have a fear of them that was basically debilitating and totally ridiculous, and I really didn’t want to pass it to my kids. I started talking to them about the spiders, and once we were looking at a striped jumping spider and I was saying ‘look it is jumping to show off to you’ and I realised I wasn’t scared of them. Maybe just because I’d looked at them so much with my kids!

I have some hoarding tendencies too, I think inherited from my parents, so I have to be quite strict about decluttering. I wonder if people who are bad hoarders maybe give objects feelings and that’s why it’s so hard to just throw them away.

Yes, I have an old chest of drawers that is very much sentient. With my husband it is placid and helpful, but with me it is entirely malevolent and hateful. I live knowing my nemesis lurks in the dining room.

Yes. I do this all the time!

I have got loads of teddies that I just can't get rid of. I also bought an extra pot of hummus as it was the last one and it might be lonely.

Of course. I never talk bad about my car, because "he can hear it". Also, I could never hurt any of those stuffed animal toys, because you know, they will be upset.

I remember when I was in primary school I could never finish a written sentence if there was only one word left on a line because that word would be lonely!

Ut has a fam all crazy too!! 🤣
I did wonder if it was linked to adhd or not.
I frustrate myself with it! I can't even kill an ant or something because it has a family. (Flies not included)
I never choose the best biscuit because the others will feel neglected so I have one that not many people will like. If I have a box of chocolates I couldn't for instance eat all the toffees in one go because it wouldn't be fair on the others
Also realising that a lot of thus is food related! 😳

Fucks sake! Top line was supposed to say "oh phew you're all crazy too!"

Oh wow haven't read all replies but I've been doing this my whole life! Off to Google the name!

I love that Michael Macintyre sketch, it's so true! I talk to my car a lot, she's called Clara. And the sat nav is called Wendy after a very bossy Wendy I used to work with!

My son is autistic. He does this all the time. Some of his anthropomorphised items include:

Pylons (he's named all the pylons local to us.)
Local buses
The badminton courts in our local sports centre (very random)
Traffic cones
Anything with a 'face' on it - eg 'face' patterns in tree bark etc

And his soft toys are almost as real to him as people.

I think it's an indication of a very powerful visual imagination.

I used to but I’m getting better at not doing it because honestly I have enough anxiety and I don’t think it helps. Try being harsh!

I turn cans the right way up so the stuff inside doesn't get dizzy, is that the same thing?