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

I get lonely, too. I am someone who thrives off of talking with people about hobbies we are both passionate about.

My mom likes Petunia, she actually chipped in to help me buy her. But she's so busy she never has time to hear about my plans for them, or my goals at getting good at faceups. I don't blame her for that, it's just lonely. My dad thinks they're ugly wastes of money, but typically doesn't bother me about them. It also doesn't help that my brother thinks that my dolls are "evil."

I'm glad this forum is here, and I'm going to make an effort to go to more meet ups, since I enjoyed the one I went to.
Hopefully that helps with the whole feeling alone thing.

 

I shouldn't feel quite so lonely because there is a community about 3 hours from where I live. I've spoke to a few bjd owners there and we have plans to get together for a meet in the upcoming weeks. But I still feel lonely because I don't have any friends in my immediate area who are into dolls.

 

My family isn't negative about my dolls, and they appreciate the things I make for them, but I don't really talk to them about my dolls. I've been to a meet-up and hope to go to more of them, since that makes me feel less alone.

 

aye same T__T i know no one in my country who is in this hobby and i would really want to go to a doll meetup one day!

 

Hi! I just moved to Spokane recently and have been wanting to find more dollminded people/geeky people to talk/hang out with. Feel free to message me to talk about dolls. Or whatever! ☺️ I can be hella shy though...lol. Bear with me!

 

I think in terms of the forums it's hard to build friendships, this isn't the busiest forum. As much as I would love friends in person who are into the hobby, it would also be fun to have online friends to see their journey from their own part of the world

 

Yes. All my friends have very different interests and I always feel lonely *sighs*

 

yes I do at times, especially that i'm a shy type in real life so conventions either make me excited or anxious and overwhelmed so I just kinda fangirl myself

 

Sometimes... All my friends don't understand why I spend a lot of money on the dolls.

 

I'm rather lonely because i dont have any friends in the hobby lol, but ah well, I still enjoy it.

 

I haven’t never ever felt lonely when I spend the time with dolls. they give me a lot of positive energy, opmastic and stress out.They make me accept myself who I am and beautiful from inside to outside and have empowered to go day by day and love myself more and more. I am more tender, more friendly and sweeter.

I might oppose with others. I feel more lonely when I hung out with friends, chit chat and listened them to talked about their life more because I calmed down and made my life much more simply. I am no boyfriend ( which the most gave me more stressful, mad and lonely ) and I don’ t understand how to make guys pay for Louise Vutton or travelled trip as them. I know the effective that when I faded down from night life , alcohol, label, fake social , competition for hunting guys and some bad stuffs( I think, you guys can guess what it is) , they look me strange and gossiped about my eccentric that I am crazy ( about dolls). I feel happier than I hung out and 3 hours later, they was gone with strangers and gossip me with words as slut or bitch and how many guys I got last night.Don’t worry that if I am not hot enough from the group, I would be kicked off, or stressed about guys , talking about money, brand name and high end life style. All is enough for me.

Dolls make me know a lot of people by face to face and online. I met a nice auntie who I bough her vintage doll and gave me 1 more, know sweet outfits seller on Facebook ( maybe , I am lucky) or people around myself who I though they was jerk or useless, now I think they are smart and cool , and we respect each other a lot. They gave me positive feedback when I put dolls on my office desk.

 

Haha.. That is correct! I give the same questions to my friends with the that I don’t understand why they spend a lot of money on drinking.

 

For me it is not a matter of "feel", i am alone in this hobby. The last time i met other doll owner in real life was back in 2015.

 

I agree with you! I also think the same way, and feel like it too. I live in ksa, and people would consider this hobby strange and weird. I haven't told my friends either.

 

I'm lucky in that my roomie and a few of my close friends are in the hobby [after seeing my dolls] and my sisters are both very interested in their own eventually also. So I don't really feel alone in that aspect. As for the online presence I do feel much more alone within the community. Such as forums or on instagram and what not... but that's because I'm not incredibly active as i used to be.

 

It’s so nice that you have people close to you interested in the hobby! I get what you mean about the forum though. It’s not like Discord it a messaging app where you’re constantly connected (at least for me) so it can be more alienating. But, the people on DoA *are* still really helpful imo, even if we’re all a bit scattered. ^^

 

My boyfriend said the dolls are creepy and ask me not to show any of them to him. I don't have any friends who like BJDs in reality. Still I've been loving BJDs for over 10years.

 

Sometimes. Mainly because where I live there's very few people who collect bjds and live near me.

Some are in a few cities over and in South Carolina (which is only a few hours away) but there's plenty of people that I know who have bjds that I'm good friends with even if they're not in my state.

 

Fortunatly no. I have friends in the Italian community who live in Milan, like me.

 

Mh sometimes I'm feeling a bit lonely in this hobby but watching youtube videos of people talking about their dolls does help. I'd love to go to a meetup with other doll owners one day!