Poll: Did you pretend your stuffed animals had REAL personalities?

[Trisha Gaurav]

I did and, in fact, haven't gotten over them. My profile picture is Brownspot, my wise British dog.
This is Orangestripes, my cowardly, evil, lazy British tiger. He made me and my brother his slaves and his catchphrase was "Carry me, slaves".

This is Scruffy, my naive, innocent puppy.

These are just 3 of them.

 

[Borty The Bort]

Is there an option for "No, but other people gave them personalities, and made me use them because it seemed funny for a child to have an imaginary friend?" I never did believe that my teddy bears had any life to them, but for some reason my family was obsessed with giving them some.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Yeah... I loved stuffed animals as a kid. I had a wombat I called 'Patches' because of how they did the nose and eyes. I kind of got bullied a lot when very young, and I knew better than to talk to my parents, so I think I compensated by talking to my stuffed animals and pretending they could hear me. Plus only child syndrome. No siblings to project my insecurity and anger on. Just me and Patches, amongst other toys.

Childhood messes all of us up.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Know this is a little off-topic (no pun intended) but holy shit, guys. It's a new member.

 

[Nuuu]

While I had a stuffed animal, I didn't give him any sort of Personality, just something to hug at night.

Was too busy playing outside or with the Gamecube.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Know this is a little off-topic (no pun intended) but holy shit, guys. It's a new member.

This is like the third new member I've seen in the past couple days, I'm getting a little suspicious. What's going on?

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Know this is a little off-topic (no pun intended) but holy shit, guys. It's a new member.

This is like the third new member I've seen in the past couple days, I'm getting a little suspicious. What's going on?

People are trying to get in their alt accounts before registration shuts down.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I had a toy rabbit whose fur fell over its eyes in such a way that it looked a bit like it was scowling. I thought it really hated me and I would get really upset because I was always trying my best to make it happy but it was always mad at me. And reading this now lol the rabbit was basically my mother.

 

[Souplex]

No, it always felt weird to me, because I knew they were stuffed animals.
When I was 5 I tried having an imaginary friend because it seemed the normal thing to do, but I couldn't force it, because I knew they weren't real and I wasn't up for the charade.
...I was weird.

 

[Queen Michael]

Sure. My plush worm, that I made myself, was pretty cute. I called him Maski. Means "Wormi." I've still got him.

 

[Asita]

Nope. My teddy bear was just "my teddy bear", and my lion was just "my lion". I never really imagined any of my toys and stuffed animals were anything more than...well, toys and stuffed animals. I never really gave them personalities, and I envied those who did.

 

[DarklordKyo]

Well, I sometimes ventriloquize my old Mario doll, impression and all. Does that count?

 

[Loop Stricken]

What do you mean, pretend?

 

[Michel Henzel]

I still have, after 34 years, a stuffed animal sheep that I got when I was born. But I don't know if it ever had a name, let alone any personality. My lego figures on the other hand, they were all characters in some sci-fi space epic.

 

[Majestic Manatee_v1legacy]

As a taxidermist, mine DO have personalities and they converse regularly.

 

[Kae]

No, not really, in M?xico stuffed animals are considered more of a girly toy so I wasn't allowed to have them, I didn't dislike them either but I was very much concerned with appearing masculine[footnote]A bit of a challenge considering I have an uncanny resemblance to my mother and have always liked long hair, so the old pictures of my mother, when she was a kid wearing dresses, did not help.[/footnote] so I did not care much for them either, and I mean if I did anything unmanly my father would beat the shit out of me, I wasn't even allowed to cry, so no, and I don't remember doing anything similar to that with other toys, I did sometimes pretend to have conversations with inanimate objects but that was mostly out of boredom and I don't remember any specific personalities being assigned to anything.

 

[Marik2]

Know this is a little off-topic (no pun intended) but holy shit, guys. It's a new member.

Yeah I'm noticing there's new members and people who never posted are showing up ever since the bots flooded.

Hmmmm

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Oh hell yes I did.

Look at this face and tell me that it doesn't have lots of character:

Spoiler

Seriously, look at that scowl! Look at that smile! XD

[http://s110.photobucket.com/user/absoldragon/media/_DSC0716_zps3lx6mqh9.jpg.html]

Vinny the badass lion, able to kick everything's ass, whether it was other uppity plushies who wanted to be the boss, or invading nightmares! Rawwr! *drop kicks and pile drivers the offending target straight off the bed and onto the floor*

I pretended all my toys had real personalities when I was a kid. Everything from my many legos, to each of my plushies. My entire room had this huge history of heroes, villains, and monsters (good and bad). And I loved it.

I kinda miss the childhood innocence that allowed me to play with them. But as a grown-ass man, that's just not possible anymore. I've moved on to role-playing and making/writing games, which fills the same feeling in a more productive adult manner. XD

 

[Tanis]

I think so, maybe?
Like...when I was in the single digits?

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Did? I still do.

Not wholly like it's an real living thing kind of pretend but if I see a stuffed animal I'll just roll with whatever emotions instinctively arise in me and externalize them.
I've got these Beanie-Babies at the store where I work and they're all cute but I really like the puppy and I'll give her little pets as I walk by, maybe say something, like look over and say "What are you lookin' at?" and I have these kinds of interactions with most stuffed toys, mine or not.

Spoiler: This is the puppy

I mean, look at her, isn't she just the sweetest thing?
Her name is Tracey and I'm gonna be sad when someone eventually buys the last one.
I work at a gas station so our toys are overpriced to hell but eventually it'll happen