Its just imagination! Or is it?

[SomeLameStuff]

So I've been thinking back to my childhood recently when I realized something weird. I used to tell my mom stories about how my school was magical or how my teddy came to life and brought me to the land of chocolates or something like that. My mom used to tell me what an active imagination I have.

Now? I'll bet you if I tell the exact same story to her, she'd call me a bloody liar. So my question to the escapist is this: At what point in a child's life does it change from "Active Imagination", to "Bloody Liar"? Or are they more or less the same thing?

 

[DigitalSushi]

11 to 12 years old is when people's disposition for cuteness changes.

Also at 12 is the point is when all potential is squandered, basically having potential is great at that age, but if someone described a 34 year old as "having potential" we'd all think he was special.

 

[crudus]

Or at what point does an imaginary friend turn into schizophrenia(around age 20)? I think there is a break where we stopped thinking that and telling stories like teddy bringing us chocolate. After that break you become crazy or a liar.

 

[EeveeElectro]

My imagination has never left me.
There's a difference; a lie is something that seems plausible.

 

[Corpse XxX]

Im guessing bout the age of four.. After that youre brain should have evolved pass the borders of imagination and plain stupid

 

[LostTimeLady]

I think it's not the age but the honesty. A child can honestly believe that they actually go to Hogwort's not the local county primary school, or that the saw a TARDIS in their back garden last night and that's imagination.
But if the child (or adult) is concious that what they are saying is fabrication then it's lying.
That's my theory anyway.

 

[Marter]

I believe it's around the age of 10. After that point, children have a better approach and understanding to life. It's different for everyone, but this is the point I see as the average.

 

[Kenni-chan]

I think we don't lose our imaginations more that it becomes constranded by society and adults at about the age of 10 to 12. It seems that at this point we are made to grow up so other poeple (Mum/dad/teacher) will imagination mafestation to be a lie or sign of metal illness. Society just doesn't have a place for open imagination

 

[capin Rob]

When I smack them and say SHUT UP! HAR HAR.

More serious. That a varialbe time in the respective indivudals life expericence, at some stage in their life someting triggers them mentaly to start acting right, there is no set point for this to happen.