Do you hide your hobby from certain people?

I haven't hidden my "Doll Hobby" at all XD. I enjoy to post my dolls photos on my social networks and all my friends, family, relatives, professors, etc... know about it. Since I don't care what they think about me because this is who I really am and I won't change too. If someone come out with an idea that I'm weird or say bad to my hobby, then...that is their things. People can be friend, can be close, all are up to how to accept each other. I believe that everyone has their own interest or preference like fan of football teams, movies, photograph etc, so to laugh or abuse other's hobby means that this person has nothing to interest and sometime just envies others who have hobby and own interest.

 

Hi, I also recently starting collecting the pukipukis and realpukis and there are certain people who think I'm out of my mind paying so much money for a little doll....but I'm having so much fun with this new hobby I don't care ;-} I've joined groups on FB of others who share this same joy!

 

I don't hide my BJD hobby. Usually I kind of 'warn' people first then introduce. There are people scared of realistic eyes.

 

Honestly, I hide my hobby from just about everyone.. I would like to be brave like some of you, but I simply can't find the courage to be open about it! My close family and boyfriend all love the hobby and are very supportive about it, but I don't care to share it with anyone else besides them! ^^" I love this hobby and everyone in it, but I'm simply too timid!

 

It is hard for me to hide anything. My wife doesn't like dolls, so i don't really share them with her. My dad makes belittling comments to me about how ridiculous it looks for a guy like me to be "messin' around with dolls". My girls love me for it though, that's what counts. I need more friends in the hobby.

 

yes i think i pretty much hide it from everyone i know in real life.. except a doll friend i met online... work people just gave me some looks and ugh nobody understands *cries* lol

 

Except from close family, I hide this hobby from everyone. I don't really mind people thinking I'm strange (they already think that), it's just I would probably be inviting a whole lot of lectures my way concerning how to spend my money if I were to be more sharing of it.

 

This. I don't care what other people think about my dolls, and I certainly don't need validation for owning them. I also think it's just as rude and annoying on my part to blather on about them to people who don't care about them or don't like them as someone telling me my dolls are dumb.

Your friends don't have to like or be interested in every single thing you do, so long as they aren't jerks to you about the things they don't like. There are plenty of things my friends enjoy that I think are stupid. I just don't participate.

 

Only my mom right now, but that's because I know exactly how she'll react. She'll more than likely try to give me a talk on spending money and such and I just don't feel like having that conversation with her just yet. So until then, she doesn't need to know~ It's not like I live with her anyway.

 

I don't really tell anyone other than other people who are in the cosplay hobby. Weirdly, it's easier for me to say, I dress up in elaborate costumes that I make myself than it is to say that I collect dolls. I think it's easier for people to understand that. My coworkers know I cosplay but I don't think any of them know about my dolls. I don't really talk about it because of the money factor. We all have stuff we spend mad money on, but few people really get the appeal. I probably won't even mention the cosplay hobby when I get a teaching job though, I need to project a put-together and confident image so I don't know how that would go over. I think with time I'll be more confident and care less what other people think, but right now I need to project the image of the kind of person that you would hire.

 

I don't hide my hobby, though I usually test the waters before I tell people how many I have. I take my dolls with me just about everywhere, from shopping to work. My coworkers are so used to them at this point they think I'm sick when I don't bring one to work with me. It comforts me to have one sitting at my desk next to me as I take phone calls, reminding me why I work a sucky job is to afford to live and have some pretty things.

Though I do keep in mind people that don't like dolls, like a few friends of mine are disturbed by them, so I simply keep the bedroom door closed or don't take them over to them. Simple as that. Respect goes both ways. Though I did almost murder someone at work because they threw a ball and it hit my doll in the face. It was my most expensive doll too (Soom FC Chrom at $700+) so I let him have it until I backed him into a corner. From then on they stopped throwing the balls near me.

 

I wouldn't say I hide it, I haven't gone posting my doll on FB or anything. But I do talk about BJDs occasionally with friends or co workers. I actually became better friends with a coworker when we found out we had a lot of the same interests including BJDs. I've had some negative responses as well, like people saying they're creepy, or gross, or "not worth it" I did get kind of lucky that once I bought my doll, the S/O got his doll, then my mother bought 5 OT dolls and bought mine and my S/O daughter an OT doll. So it became a fun family thing. Honestly once I get my doll all straightened up I'll probably become more open about her, and hopefully expand from there.

 

I don't feel the need to hide it entirely... I do, however, hide some of the crazier aspects from certain people. I know there's people would think I was super weird for having a doll based on my own characters (because apparently that's dumb - well how do you think books are written, sweetheart) and getting so involved in her, and I know for certain there's a LOT of people would think I was insane for spending so much on them.

Having seen the prices of 1/12th doll house stuff I no longer feel bad about that!

I do have a couple of relatives who find dolls creepy, and I don't hide it from them but I do keep it away from them since I know it creeps them out. More comfortable for them, not offence caused to me. There's only so many 'thats creepy' comments and horrified looks I can take!

 

I enjoy them all proudly. I feel that when I stand up for my tastes, people respect them more.

 

If somebody asked me about my hobbies I would probably tell them. I have many hobbies so I don't think it's sounds so 'weird' if you have other hobbies, particularly if they are of an artistic nature. I mostly have dolls to customise and photograph. However, I don't just bring it up randomly, because people would probably think I was crazy. I think people think they're toy and that you play with them as if they were a barbie or something.....THAT is what annoys me the most

 

I don't feel that I hide my dolls from folks I just don't go around talking about them unless asked. Usually because they just don't come up in conversation. Nearly everyone who knows me on a personal level does know I collect BJDs though. What they think about my hobby is not my problem. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions just as I am entitled to spend my hard earned money on what interests me. I also do not take any snide remarks from anyone personally. If they feel the need to mock me for something that obviously brings me joy then that is their problem to deal with not mine.

 

I got into these dolls because my daughter purchased a doll from Japan that was a 60cm tall Dollfie ; I had only sewn for Barbies and the Ashton drake 16cm dolls Gene dolls. when I saw my daughter's doll I was at first sight wanting one of those dolls which led me to artists dolls and the rest is history. I have had to place them on lay-a-way and whatnot to get them and my older sister thinks I crazy. My daughter only has the one doll but fully supports me.

 

Hey all

I just wanted to ask others in the hobby, do you hide your hobby from friends and family?

Do you quick put them away, out of view if certain people come to visit you?

Or do you proudly display them

 

I have to admit that my dolly hobby is completely hidden. No one knows about them and thats just fine. I have been really burned by judgemental people in the past and dont feel like I want to invite that onto myself. I dont know why people judge, no one is getting hurt by it. It allows an outlet for me to express my creativity through sewing, or knitting or making accessories or hair cutting, or whatever. I have dolls and accessories all put away in my craft room, but they are not for anyone else but me to enjoy. I love them and feel I would have probably gone crazy without them at certain points. This is the first time I have admitted to anyone (you guys) that this is the way my hobby is for me. I suck, such a chicken.

 

I don't really hide my hobby from the people I know, but at the same time I don't put out the fact that I'm in the hobby out in the open. If a friend or family member asks about the hobby i'll talk about it but for the most part I keep my dolls to my self.