Did Any Of You Have An Imaginary Friend-Or Do Your Kids?

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I had one called "funny monster",he lived under the spare room bed and had to have a place laid at the table every day.I think he was "around" for about a year,then oneday my Mum asked where he wasand I said "he's gone away"....
Having now watched "Drop Dead Fred" I wonder if I had him because I was unhappy....probably not,just weird!

According to family legend I had 2 invisible hamsters called David and Julia which I used to carry about in my skirt (uplifted in front of me.) Aged about 3 or 4 I believe.

I had an imaginary friend called Marley for about 6 months but then she went away. She came back the first month I started school though.

DD had one called "miggle" at age 2 1/2, she went away quite quickly. Every time I ask where she is she says "She's gone on holiday with Roly Mo"

I had an imaginary friend called George, he lived behind the sofa at my gran's (where I was living at the time) I was desperately unhappy though and no one ever knew about him! I used to whisper my woes to him...

I had an imaginary dog called Pretzel, who whne I was little we had to re-cross the road as he had gotten left behind and was too young to cross on his own.
Hoping DD doesn't have this as not sure if i'll have the same amount of patience as my mum!

After listening to dh on the phoen organising some 'fitters mates' (lift enginner) for Pete and Dave, my 2 yo dd now has imaginary 'mates' (not friends) - Pete and Dave. they go to her playgroup and are being invited to her birthday party!! So is Pip from Fifi and the flower tots so it's gonna be a rockin party!! Least it won't cost me much!!

My little sister had an imaginary friend called Lucy for a very long time. She was 5 at the time. After about 6 months she told us that Lucy had been hit by a car outside our house and had been living in our house ever since.

My step mum checked past records and it was true. Not such an imaginary friend after all.

My dd1 had an imaginary friend from the age of 14 months (she was a good talker!)who still reappears whenever she's worried about something.
She's 5 now (dd1 not "Beedie") and hasn't mentioned her for a few months (don't tempt fate....)

Funnily enough, dd2 has her own "Beedie" but I think that's more a case of wanting to be the same as her sister, as opposed to being upset!!

Ds aged just over 2.6 has a frined called Pilchard. Thuoght he was just Bob the builder obsessed at 1st, but Pilchard does all knonds of things with him :) Think he may be linked to the stresses of starting playschool, as he often seems to go there.....

i had an imaginary friend called quincey when i was little.
my mum said i got very upset on a bus one day when a lady sat on him!
one day he just "went away" too.

ds1 had an imaginary friend, although it was a character from the tele (morgan from teddy trucks lol)
he goes ape if you mention it to him now

dd1 has an imaginary dog called tv. he is a pink dog with a yellow bone (poss the other way round, actually - she is not here to ask her) and she likes to throw sticks for it at the playground. leading to classic dd1 exchange with lady the other day
kindly old lady "is that your dog dear?"
dd1 (witheringly) "no, it's a stick"

she also has an imaginary baby inside called sunshine, to whom she chats on occasion (she used to like to tell dd2 things when she was in utero)

I did have an imaginary tv crew when I was a child we had a rolling progamme of my life. I was the first docusoap you see. probably when I was about 3 or 4.

salsa oh freaky

I had 3 who were called Izan, Tutu & Trolley. I don't know where I got the names from but I remember talking to them when I was in my cot! Maybe they were angels or something.

mine (the tv crew) were called Kitty, Tigger and Suki
cats names really

Is this the second thread on this lately or am I going peculiar?

Ds has a friend called Von who is "as tall as Daddy", rides a big boy's bike (like Daddy) and can do things with sharp screwdrivers (like Daddy). He only appears when Daddy is at work. Doesn't really take Freud to suss this one out does it?

Actually Von has not been around much lately, they had a few arguments and Von hit him! Not related to anything to do with Daddy, I don't think, more a way of getting rid of Von to make way for his new friend which is a wooden puppet called Hedge.

Salsa - that was a bit eerie!

I had an imaginary friend as a child - and seem to have turned out all right except for a propensity to think that my cyber-friends are real!!!!

DS had 5 - Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Daphne & Wilma!!! They even went to nursery with him a few times - teacher said they were well behaved though! It was just after we moved to Budapest so I expect it was part of his settling in phase. The funniest comment was one morning when I was in the loo with DS and he was having a pee with a bit of a stiffie - I commented and he said it was because Daphne was there!!!!

lol at the stiffie for Daphne...

So pleased I am not the only one!
Wil be very interesting to see if DD develops an invisible freind...

Sorry F&Z-I managed to post original thread twice somehow

Orinoco my sister had a Beedie! (as well as a Buddibee).
I had some miniature builders called the seven little Dicks (i KNOW) and two ladies called Mrs Mip and Mrs Comfort.
Ds had a friend called Mike for a short while ('Mummy you can't go yet, you haven't strapped Mike in!' grrrr)but he seems to have disappeared lately

Aha! I knew it was not just pram head.

Seven little dicks!...and there was me worrying that people may think I was mad

F&Z-was tempted to say my "friend" made me do it[wink}

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I think I must have an imaginary friend, cos I keep talking but no-one listens to me.

I had 2 - Karen and Susan lived in the top of the curtains, and I used to talk to them at night from my bed. All perfectly innocent!