Do you hide your hobby from certain people?

from almost everyone honestly. right now only one of my friends knows, and i have less shame telling her bc ive never met her irl. my best friend of 6 years knows, and my ex.

im thinking about being more open about it but i feel like theres no point really. Id end up non stop talking about dolls to them and that itself would get annoying. plus theyd have like no idea what i was talking about lol. i think instead i just need a doll friend to vent all of my dollie woes to.

 

I only talk about this hobby with my sister who is the only irl person I know who’s in this hobby too. No one else knows about my dolls.

 

As I've just gotten into it, I tried discussing it with my older sister and she told me it was "creepy", and that was immediately the point where I was like "nope!" lol. The only person who knows I'm interested is my boyfriend now.

 

i don't think you should need to hide, if they don't respect your hobbies maybe it's a better idea to not be too close (other than parents

 

I downplay the importance of my hobbies around family members, because they are disrespectful dictators and I’m a peasant_(:_」∠)_

 

When i first joined the hobby, i was pretty excited and wanted to share my happiness with some friends. It took me some time to actually tell them about the hobby and to be honest I felt pretty weird about it... I almost felt like confessing something immoral... at that time, my friends probably just thought about the hobby about being another one of my weird moments...
I really regret it. I went on to keeping the hobby mostly private but sometimes people come over at my apartment and sooner or later they find themselves confronted with dolls. Lately I got some pretty mean comments and I decided to no longer discuss the topic. In my experience people tend to make fun or say mean things about anything without even thinking about it... many of them just seem to no longer care for what their words might do to others...

So, the short answer is: I don't hide my dolls at home but I usually don't tell others about them. Even if I mention dolls, I don't go into detail and try to avoid and skip the topic as fast as possible.

...wow, this sounds really sad, to be honest... but I have always been a mysterious person who kept things to herself, so I don't care. I love my dolls

 

When I first got into the hobby I was super secretive about it. I was terrified to tell anyone, especially my family. I’d hide my doll in cupboards when friends were at my house and never mentioned it to anyone. “Doll” felt like a dirty word to me at the time. That was 4 years ago though and since then I’ve become a lot more confident in myself in general as well as with my interests and now I don’t shut up about it lmao. I’ll tell just about anyone who lets me at this point, even told my doctor and physical therapist all about my dolls haha. I mean, I collect dead bugs and draw weird pictures and have boots made out of artificial grass, so what’s adding dolls to the mix?

 

I keep it hidden from everybody except some people who I know don’t judge me for it. I managed to help bring two other people into the hobby and now we send eachother dolls all the time and cry over other people’s dolls.

 

No I don't hide my hobby at all. I love my hobby and my dolls. I can sew for them and even some I have done face ups on them, so why would I ever hide my hobby! Plus I spent all the money to buy them, fat chance in the underworld would I hide my hobby.

 

I used to be made fun of by this guy who was my neighbour, and he would tell all of his friends that I still played with dolls and how much I love them is creepy, ect. but I stopped caring because I genuinely love the hobby and I put a lot of hard work and a lot of money into this hobby, so I will not let people's remarks ruin it for me. No, I don't openly share that I have expensive dolls, but when someone mentions it and tries to be rude, I just ignore them

I'm so jealous you have other friends into the hobby! I feel like it's so much nicer when you have support like that

 

I only share this hobby with my very close friends, (and they all become BJD lovers later). I use a different social account to post dolls' photos and infos only so that my classmates or relatives are avoided to see.

 

I don't tell my friends and relative at all. Only my sister know how much they are and my parents will find out I owned dolls but not how much they are. There might be a few best friends that I might show them my dolls but I will never tell them how much.

 

Same

 

I work in a secondary school (11-16 year olds) and don’t talk about it at all there. Not to staff or students.
My friend also works in a school but she embraces her hobby there.
My family all know and think I’m a bit crazy but they always snap my dolls if we’re out and about. ☺️

 

No, I don't hide my hobby from anyone. Of course I don't run around telling everyone about my dolls because most people aren't interested in my personal stuff, but I don't hide it on purpose. Sometimes I order the delivery of dolls directly to the office because I often stay late at work and my colleagues and subordinates enthusiastically watch as I gut the boxes and excitedly comment on each item that I get out of them. These comments aren't always good-natured, but I can always joke back even in a more unpleasant way. Such office unboxing takes only fifteen minutes, but gives everyone an ocean of energy and positive emotions, so necessary in difficult days, so I take it as a free gift from the manufacturer.

 

i don't mind allow certain friends to know ,It's my hobby

 

I don't hide it. It's very easy to see on my Instagram as I use it for my personal and bjd account. I don't follow anyone I actually "know," but they follow me. It's easy to google what a ball jointed doll is too, if they really wanted. I don't publicize it on my facebook, though I'm in groups there. I'm a pretty private person, though.

 

I’ve had a few people look at me like I’m crazy as well when ive mentioned this hobby. I never let them cut very deep, though. I feel like this is my hobby and I’m not doing it for them. I don’t know how to feel about a “friend” saying rude things to me about it. There’s some small part of me that feels true friend wouldn’t go that far.

All things considered, however, you are among friends here! We all share this hobby. Welcome to the site!!

 

It's hard to hide when nobody is looking! I don't socialize much, or have people over in my home. So I can't say that I have much need to hide my hobbies. I've always been the kind of person who happily dragged toys and collectables around with me if I felt like it, and until my friend moved a couple of years ago, we occasionally went to the mall with (off-topic) dolls that we collected in tow. I'm in my late 30s, and I just don't have the time or energy to disguise who or what I am at this point.

All of that said, if anyone in my life seemed like they would make me feel bad about any hobby I had, I would probably feel as if I should keep some things out of sight. However, I kind of hope that I'd avoid having someone like that in my home.

 

Most people in my life support me getting and playing with dolls. But for some reason every single person my best friend dates thinks its incredibly weird and the constantly ask why I would want such things. This strikes me as odd because, well, I'm obviously not the only person who buys them. They also always think I just want them for drawing purposes since I'm an art major and ask if I realize there's cheaper models for that. Nope, I just like dolls. They just don't understand it. But mainly I hide the cost of the hobby from my family.