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Am i scaring myself?!! Please read!

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chazzy87 · 13/04/2012 00:17

Ok so i dunno if im over-reacting over this but i cant get it out my head. My daughter is 2 and a half and i think very bright for her age. We were in our back garden the other day and i noticed her talkin to the gate at the bottom of our garden, i thought nothing of it. Then as she walked away she sed 'bye mike'. I thought how cute she has n imaginary friend.. Then my mind started working. We live in a mid terrace house and all the way along the gardens is a walk way to the garages. Anyone can walk down. So i asked her about mike and she sed a few things but then she sed dont b scared. I asked her what he looked like and she sed he had a hat on and slippers, then something along the lines of come back. I really cant think where shes got this from, she likes mike the knight on the tv but thats all i can think of. I thought imaginary friends followed you about, not hung around at the bottom of the garden.
Am i bein mega paranoid??!! I dunno wot to think!!

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chazzy87 · 13/04/2012 00:28

Also the back gate is high so i dont know how she would have known he had a hat n slippers on. Im jus freakin out! X

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hellymelly · 13/04/2012 00:29

Can you ask her again in a more roundabout way? Say you wish you could meet her friend Mike, something like that, and see what she says? Wouldn't you have seen an adult over the gate though?

Tranquilidade · 13/04/2012 00:32

All you can do is keep an eye on her when she's near the gate just in case. If it helps, apparently I had a dog when I was about that age, used to terrify my mother with this invisible creature.

Morph2 · 13/04/2012 00:38

at 2 years you are gonna have your eye on her pretty much 100% of the time (i would hope) so i wouldn't make a big fuss for now and assume it was an imaginy friend but keep an extra good eye on her next time she's at the game (for info my 2 year old DS has a fasination with gates although he doesn't talk to them)

IAmBooyhoo · 13/04/2012 00:42

yes i agree with morph. you wont be leaving her anywhere that someone could take her away from. my sister had an imaginary friend who lived in a house in a local village near to where we lived, she really believed she lived in that house and used to cry when we wouldn't let her go visit her 'friend'. it was very real to her and she knew what she looked like and what she wore.

i wouldn't be worried about this.

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