Do you hide your hobby from certain people?

I don't particularly try to hide this hobby, but whenever someone reacts badly about my doll... I just delete him from my friendlist and life xD.
The nerve of some people~

 

My friends are totally aware and bery supportive of the hobby.

My mom and niece are aware and facinated by them... buuuuut only because I haven't told them how much it costs lol.

MY COWORKERS WILL NEVER KNOW. I DO NOT NEED RUMORS SPREADING IN A JOB I INTEND TO KEEP UNTIL I RETIRE. I have full confidence many would LOVE them but there's a nasty few that I don't want to have to deal with.

...Which is a shame because I'd like to take one or two to work on occassion and keep them on my desk as I work

 

I hide it from most of my family. I'm too shy even to show most of them my little chibi figures, so a resin doll is off the table for now. Plus my sister is the type to be weird about it. (My mom is the exception; she's awesome and helps me maintain our figure display.)
I also haven't told any of my friends; after I showed them a deertaur doll and getting a lot of "ew creepy" back, I figured it was a bad idea.

 

When I first started collecting (even back when I collected Pullips), I didn't really tell anyone unless they came to my house and saw them or something. Now, I'm a senior in high school, with two SDs and a tiny (small doll fam, but I'm working on it lol), and talk about it super casually. I also post about them super often on my personal Instagram. If people act shocked I just shrug it off and answer their questions. I've had a few people try to use it as an insult, but personally if someone's not mature enough to understand that people have hobbies then they need to take a step back and reevaluate themselves.

 

I share. Lots. Every new doll goes to work with me at least once. Even my coworkers who call them creepy still manage to come up with "dolls are so creepy...but that is an awesome sweater, did you make it?" And such... eh...I've converted a couple too though. Tons of support for my triathlon entry, ideas and supplies... people are pretty awesome if given a chance. But then, my enthusiasm can be contagious.

 

I hide my hobby from everyone except my brother and one of my friends. They're the only people I talk about dollies with actually (in real life at least).
I'm usually talking at my brother, and I'm pretty sure my friend just polite listens to my plans for projects but that's okay.

 

While I don't necessarily HIDE my interest for this hobby, I don't exactly go around bringing it up on every website I'm a member of or talk about it with every person I meet. Generally, I keep pretty quiet about it. There have been a few times where I've been excited about something so I post a picture to my Facebook--and you would think that being friends with other lolitas would mean I'd have a lot of FB friends who'd be interested, but nobody cares lol, so I just stopped posting about it there.

Recently I've started to make the transition over to Instagram, so now between that, Flickr, Tumblr and my DeviantArt, I feel much more comfortable posting about them there since that's what I created those places for.

Most of my friends know that I collect BJDs, and a select few know how pricey they are. My mom knows, and accepts it, and is often interested in what I'm doing with them. She seems to particularly like my Iplehouse guy. My girlfriends (I have two, we're poly ) both know about my hobby; one is a little creeped out by them, but she can stand them so long as she's not touching them (she likes my little Soom YoSD though) and the other wants to get dolls of her own, so that's kind of nice. However they have mentioned it to their friends that I'm in the hobby, and then their friends ask me how much I spend and then look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them how much--funny, considering they spend thousands a year on their own hobbies, but what can you do I suppose?

 

honestly i keep my hobby mostly a secret, but i do share it with people i really trust, like very few friends and my mom

 

Yes and no? This hobby is not something I mention to people I meet right away. It's usually when I feel more comfortable around them that I will tell them about it. I do tell everyone eventually.

 

I don't hide my hobby for people, but I don't go around bragging about them all the time either. If someone asks about them then I'll answer, I don't feel any shame in collecting dolls.

I have experienced some people who called me disgusting, mentally insane and so on because I collect these dolls but in the end that is their decision to think like that and since they think like that I have no more to do with them. It is a waste of time to get insulted, and although i get called things I still dont feel like keeping it a secret as such.

 

I hide the hobby from some of my family members. I don't tell my friends at all about the my hobby. I only tell the people who are dear to me.

 

I love your doll. And if you moved forums and he followed you then there was something wrong with him.

 

All of my Co-mods workers know. They asked me where I was going on vacation and my reply was home to play with my dolls and a threat that if they called me i would make there face up also. Since then a couple have asked me for advise on how to geta doll that they wanted as a present for someone else.

 

If I don't want that someone knew about my hobby, I just won't speak to them about my dolls, and also not to show (in principle dolls are all the same stored in boxes). ^^

 

It depends of the person I'm talking. Generally, I don't hide but I don't have the habit to show my dolls or post picture of them. If someone ask me if I collect I just tell the truth. Nobody never bullied me because of this but I know some people that think I'm stupid. I don't care about this, it's my money and I will spend with things that makes me happy

 

I neither hide from anyone nor go out of my way to show anyone. If someone happens to see one of my dolls, or something related to them in some way, it doesn't bother me in the least. But I also don't advertise it. In general tho I'm a really private person and pretty indifferent to making stuff about myself very social. Even online, I enjoy looking at other people's dolls but am terrible at bothering to update my Flickr/post my own dolls. It's not out of shyness or hiding, it just doesn't occur to me except sporadically.

 

I don't mention it unless someone asks me. My family knows but I don't care, it's what I like so it's no ones concern about I do or collect.

 

My mother's side of the family is pretty okay with my dolls. However, my father's is less than supportive. This isn't new as they have been rather harsh about all of my hobbies and interests. The weird thing is that they then get surprised when I don't tell them personal things anymore. My friends all know since I got all of my current dolls while in college and they were in my dorm room. I have since gotten one of those friends into the hobby.

 

My parents were a little iffy on them, especially my dad when I mentioned some of the prices, but then he remembered he collects trains and spends hundreds of dollars building layouts for them.

My brother had the best reaction cause we do a gift exchange where we each buy one gift for a sibling to get them something nice, rather than spend the same to get three not as nice gifts and I picked a doll outfit. He called, confused, because a doll didn't come with it.

Other than some of those reactions, most people have been pretty supportive.

 

Nobody from school, or My blood family don't know about my dolls, except for my brothers. My boyfriends family knows and I continue to freak them out with my face-upless MNF Miyu head.