Do you hide your hobby from certain people?

I hide this hobby from everyyyyone, lol. I can really only share it with online dolly friends im still in school and kids arent really mature and dont get it, how theyre different from barbies etc. so really only my parents know haha

 

Honestly I don't tell anyone but my close friends. I really love the hobby but I don't want to throw it in peoples faces.

 

When I first started the hobby, I was a little shy to tell my friends. And even well into my 20s I was careful when I was taking pictures in the park or when I had guests over. Now that I am 27, engaged, and have my own place...I don't care. I display my dolls proudly on my dresser and my fiancé, although creeper out by them, accepts them and my love for the hobby. As for everyone else...who cares. We are all weird in our own ltitle way.

 

I did hide this fact when I first started in the hobby, but I really do not care who knows now. I actually have had many opportunities to educate people on the BJD hobby.

 

I guess I hide my hobby from my friends. I'm just afraid they'd think I'm stupid for spending so much on a doll. My boyfriend knows and he thinks its a really cool hobby. He says that if they weren't so expensive he'd buy some of his own.

 

Well i upload pictures of my dolls on my facebook. But it is not something i show people or talk about. Don't know why . i think they wont understand so better not talk about it. I willOnly talk about it with people who actually understand a little bit about the Doll hobby

 

I don't hide it per se, but I don't usually mention it to people I don't know well. So far only one person had a negative reaction, and he's someone who has always liked being a jerk for the fun of it, so I kinda expected it.
It's such a big part of my life there's no way I could hide it from someone close to me cx

Certain people, yes... once I was photographing one of my dolls in my backyard when I heard my boyfriend's family arrive at my house (his mom & dad are pretty conservative, esp. the dad. But he is also into legos & model-painting, so I don't really know how he would react). They probably wouldn't have cared, but I just did not want to deal with the questions and the weird looks at the moment. So I did the sensible thing by panicking and buttoning my doll up into my shirt and then I scurried past them up to my room and put him away. Luckily they didn't question me about my weird behavior. But I like sharing my dolls with my boyfriend and friends, who are supportive overall
Another thing I forgot to say in my original post was that I don't mind people asking about my hobby and I will gush on about it if they give me the opportunity, but I can't stand when they go straight to the price question. In fact I think it's rude for them to ask the price at all, let alone immediately, unless we are fairly close friends. I don't ask people what their hobbies cost. I know it will probably make them uncomfortable, which is how it makes me feel. I hate telling people how much the dolls cost because they just go berserk and it makes me feel so bad, and I want to be like "look please don't think I'm a rich spoiled brat, it's just that these dolls are my main 'thing' and they are what I put all my spare money towards." And I always try to explain the quality of the dolls, and the creative appeal and the work and imagination that goes into developing dolls and characters, but a lot of people just don't understand or can't get past the price tag. They don't have to love the dolls but I hate when they are rude or demeaning about it or get weird about the price.

 

My mom doesn't like dolls at all. We watched a trailer for that horror movie The Boy that is coming out soon. She freaked out and I asked her how she felt about dolls and she said they are creepy. I thought that would be a good opportunity to tell her but I guess I'll have to find another time.

 

I don't really hide it from people although there are certain people I don't talk about it in front of (like my grandmother). She's one of these types that considers everything that's not food or mortgage payments to be a waste of money so if I breathed even a fraction of what the dolls cost, she'd lose it. She knows I have dolls, she just doesn't know anything about them. Fortunately she lives on one end of my city and me the other so she never sees them.

 

I don't hide it from anyone, but there are certain people I don't discuss it with.

I'm not ashamed of taking part in a hobby that makes me happy, so I don't feel I should have to hide it. However, there are always those rude coworkers/family members who will say whatever they can to cut you down. If they happen to see them, I don't care, but I won't intentionally talk about them around these people.

 

My parents are very open-minded about dolls, my mom in particular loves practically any and all dolls and is familiar with the costliness of art dolls. I do have some friends who strongly dislike dolls though and would give me a hard time for it. I have already been ridiculed for other unconventional hobbies by friends or strangers so I keep this budding hobby of mine very quiet unless i know certain the other person is open to it.

 

I am lucky to share this hobby with my mother, and I found new dolly friends on flickr. At the begining I was afraid to share this with people outside of the dolly world but now I don't care. Some of my closest colleagues and friends know about this hobby, and even if they don't find the difference between all these doll companies, they find them beautiful and fascinating. I am proud to have a hobby that makes me happy.

 

I don't really have to 'hide' it, but I try not to bring it up. Not because it upsets people, but mostly because they might be rude about it, haha.

 

I definitely am selective about who I tell about this hobby... My friends all know about it but I talk more about it with some than others and some of my friends don't know the extent to which I am involved.

 

My family all knows I have dolls, I bring them to family gatherings but no one really is into them. The friends I have aren't into dolls tho, so I don't really show them if they are over. My online dolly friends are the best I must say!!

 

Ugh yessss. Tho I should correct not necessarily hide but I refuse to talk about it with these two friends. One is really nasty about how she finds it so expensive when she can get (it don't know what it is) some doll for 200 with clothes and everything blah blah. The other is more annoying with how incredulous she finds the price. Oh well at least one of them isn't malicious lol

 

The only person that knows is my husband. I don't have many friends. Just people on facebook. I don't have family. His family doesn't know. I don't know if I will ever let them find out lol. They are all so judgmental. I did mention bjds once to a friend on facebook and she freaked out about how much they cost. This coming from a woman who has entire bedroom floor to ceiling FULL of generation 1 My Little Ponies. She has spent thousands on getting all of it. But me spending a couple hundred on 1 doll is "crazy"

 

I kinda of hide it from my husband. He does not like my doll "looking at him" he says so I try to keep her put away when he is home. My parents know that have a doll and they don't seem to care. My other sibling don't know that I have them, would I tell them if it came up in conversation, maybe. Other then that I don't talk about it.

 

My mother loves dolls so much that she outs me at every opportunity. My siblings out me too. I can't hide.

 

Other than my family, I've never told dolls to other friends. I don't use twitter or facebook, and I don't display doll in my home(always store them in box), so I don't think my friends will get chance to know I'm into dolls.