Do you feel alone in the hobby? (even with the forum)

Yes, I do feel alone in the hobby but happy with this hobby anyway. I can talk about my dolls with a few friends that not in the hobby, and one of my friends she collected dolls but not bjd.

 

I guess it does sound lonely, though I really don't mind. My introvert is showing
Only one of my close friend know about my hobby and it fine it with. This hobby is for me to enjoy myself and although I would like to one day attend a doll convention, I don't really mind that I can't right now.

 

Yes...iam alone. I go to a doll show pretty close by every aApril and there is a small meet upthat Iis done in the corner of the room in the Aladdin shrine temple...a I've brought my dolls with me every now and then and I'll sit and try to chat with them but it's hard to just insert myself into their conversations. Usually my dolls get overlooked (maybe a couple of comments about them but nothing extensive). I'm also pretty shy and although Ii work very hard on my dolls it's hard for me to be like "this is x and this is the backstory".

My friends and family all think they are creepy and don't want to see them. My husband tries to take an interest but he's about as interested as a brick wall and only gives simple answers "she's pretty", "sounds neat", "she ugly"

it gives me the sads. I wish I had a strong friendship with just one person who liked bjd...who'd share my excitement in getting a new one, or something. Maybe I'll take one along to the local arts festival this year and see if anyone shows interest while we walk around (though that makes me nervous cause it's in dead summer while the sun is sky high...they make doll umbrellas right?

 

I'm in the same boat, I did go to a convention in seattle in 2013 but that was it. I'm thinking of trying to do a meetup but I have a 1 year old daughter now so it makes things a little more difficult.

 

*start singing 'All by myself'*
But in all seriousness, sometimes I do. However, when I went to meet ups, that was the one time where I didn't feel alone.
I don't have any close friends in the hobby. I don't really have many people to talk to about BJDs.

 

I am new to BJDs but have been a dolls house collector for a number of years. I don't work so do feel lonely as most of my friends work and are not really into hobbies. Living in Scotland doesn't help either as nearly everything happens in the south of England. I love having the internet to share my hobbies though and have got to know some lovely people through forums, blogs, Facebook etc.

 

I'm always on tumblr, saying nice things to owners and stuff...
They only answer to that reblog or follow, but never talk with me.
I feel bad :/

 

That's a shame SlaveDan, I've only been here a little while and you seem really active on the forum!

It seems we are all not alone with our loneliness, haha. I do talk to my friends and co-workers about it though, on the of chance they might know someone who shares the interest. I probably talk about it a bit too much tbh V.V I think it's because I'm still waiting on my first dolls. Once they're here I may find some solace in their company :P

 

I sometimes feel alone with the hobby as well. I live in the mountains of Virginia and I know noone nearby that is into dolls. Ive also never been to a meetup though I hope there will be one soon in the meetups section that I can go to, that would be wonderfull.

 

I don't know anyone in the hobby that is close to me. One of my friends really likes them, but has none. My dolls help with the loneliness though, lol.

 

Well getting soon a BJD for ym only real-life friend so it might get better soon.
But if anyone here will ever wnat to talk with me about dolly stuff just PM me here

 

IRL, I have two friends who are also BJD owners, they're my only contacts in this hobby now. Outside that, family and others friends don't care of it, it's just another hobby.

Some years, I was pretty active on the forum of my country, at meets and conventions, until things go terribly wrong with my money being stolen, lies and harassment (while I NEVER did any harm to anyone). It's nearly killed the BJD flame in me, I sold all my BJD except my two favorite ones, deleted my account on this forum and try to stay far away of them.
So now, I don't try anything, my DoA account is my last link with BJD world, while I'm mostly lurking than anything.

 

I am pretty alone here. I know 2 people that have BJDs but they are not that into them anymore so nothing ever happens and since I can't drive to far on my own (personal reasons) I can't go to any meetups. I barely talk online so its hard to insert into any of the threads here but I am trying to get better at it.

 

No dolls yet so yeah it is pretty lonely. My friends are uncomfortable by BJDs though they tried their best to be supportive like asking if I will be buying clothes for BJDs. I don't blame them, some BJDs do look scary.

 

Kinda. I like it here and my sister even has dolls of her own.
But there are no meets in my area and no cons with bjds, it's been years since I could talk to someone (besides my sister) about it in my own language.

 

I do tend to feel alone... I attended a local meetup at a big convention once and while the people there were nice, they had their own little cliques so we didn't talk too much together. I don't think I've quite found my "niche" here either. It's kinda hard because admittedly I struggle with trust issues and real-life isolation.

But I swear, if any of you read this and wanna talk to someone randomly, PM me or shoot me an email. Wanna swap doll/OC ideas? Please do, I've got a story in the works too! Discuss sculpts? Go right ahead. I'll greet you with open arms. \(o w o)/

 

Oh yes, I totally do. Locally there doesn't seem to be any sort of meetup or convention. I know there's an anime convention that's held here once a year but I've never seen any BJDs there (even by attendees) or items in the dealer room. The first big anime convention I went to years ago in Denver was my first experience with bjds (two nice girls with two MSD dolls, I asked way too many questions at the time but they were really cool about it) and I was really hoping to meet someone who would have that same hobby interest in another con but no dice.

My roomie is into the hobby but that's about it. It's still nice to even have that option so we can jabber about clothing or bjd shoes. Otherwise I'm so new to the hobby I don't think I've really put myself out there to get more friends into this sort of thing. ^^;

 

Yeah sometimes I feel alone too with this hobby..but since last year I met some nice people with dolls and hope we can stay n contact ;3;~

 

Yes, definitely. My parents don't really get my interest, so when I go to visit them, they are kinda skeptical. But I've always been interested in really weird things, so I guess I've come to terms with it. I used to buy a bunch of fabric from online and from outside of the country--my parents would only find out when they came in the mail (when I lived with them), and joke that the FBI were going to show up at our house because of the large quantity of bizarre boxes!

 

Yes, I often fell and felt alone... I didn't had anyone to share my hobby so it was really lonely sometimes when you can't talk to someone... But now I found some friends to share it so I hope I won't feel alone anymore in the future