Do you Talk to your Dolls or Do you not Talk to your dolls?

I do talk to them, but I am also conscious of time and place. For instance, this is not something I do in the general public :P Unless I'm scolding them for falling over while taking photos or something . . . (which is actually a bit more like cursing at the in practice).

It's probably good to note that I talk to inanimate objects in general, so it's not something special to the dolls.

 

I don't see anything wrong with talking to dollies, animals, chairs, whatever. As long as you don't stop talking to living humans, it can't hurt. There are always extremes to watch out for though, I guess.

 

I talk to my cats all the time and unlike inanimate objects they do give me attitude. I talk to my doll when I'm sewing for her, dressing her or moving her around usually stuff like "Come on now Clara, let's sit you down here" and of course the usual "for gods sake sit still and let me dress you!" I swear it's like trying to dress a wriggling toddler sometimes.

 

I talk to my cats and rabbit, but also to my dolls, and other inanimate objects...usually to the latter when they aren't "behaving" as I'd like them to.
It's a habit that's got me into interesting conversations, especially when I talked to a distillation set-up in chemistry once

 

I talk to my doll sometimes. Granted, I talk to other inanimate objects and to animals, too. My own spiritual beliefs contain elements of animism, so I tend to personify other things a lot, especially if they have unique personalities (as in animals) or if they look like people (dolls, figurines). While I can never be 100% sure whether or not there's a spirit in the 45cm chunk of resin sitting on my headboard, it does feel very natural talking to it as if there were.

 

Nope. I have to remind myself to even talk to my dog (she likes hearing me talk). I don't get any satisfaction from talking to inanimate objects (unless I'm cursing my computer).

 

sometimes i talk to my dolls. I know that theu have no soul and can't hear me, but I have a lot of animals and believe that this is a habit. Besides it's easier for me to take it as part of the world around me when I'm talking to them.

 

I don't hold conversations with them, but if I'm moving them it's habit to say "sorry" or "no, this way" if I bump them or they won't move the way I want. Sometimes I comment on something. I'm not much of a vocalizer.

 

no, i never talk to them, i'm just not able to talk to inanimate objects; it doesn't work for me or interest me.

sometimes i talk through them in the sense of using them in photos or stories to try and show emotions or personalities that i imagine they might have. i can certainly write dialogue between their characters if i'm writing a story... but characters based on dolls are a degree removed from the real world, where they're just expensive things that can be manipulated this way and that.

 

I talk to her all the time....same way I do with my pets. Everytime I initiate something....like posing for a photo, etc.

 

I talk to myself, not to objects. The dolls just happen to hear me. I talk to my cats and friends, not to dolls that won't respond, unless it's to curse and harangue them as I'm restringing or trying to get eyes to stay in. I'm not sure that counts, however.

 

A part of being a mature individual is finding out what things you have heard that you wish to ignore and what things you have heard that you think is helpful for you.

When you are older, you care less and less about what people have said in the past. You learn to do what works the best for you. And those should be POSITIVE things, not negative things that you hold on to for your life.

Adults learn to be strong and to not listen to EVERYTHING people say, because experience tells you that not everything that is said is good advice.

So-- If you think you are listening to negative voices from your past, you need to try and ignore them, or learn new behaviors and new maxims that make you happy and fulfilled as a person.

If you wish to talk to dolls, I see nothing wrong with it. Others may think it is strange, but you are not hurting anyone, including yourself, so it can't be that bad.

I don't talk to my dolls. Maybe I will say a word or two in a year or more, but it's not like I do it a lot. But I don't care at all about what other people have to say about it! I am my own person and am old enough to know what I want to do! If I wish to talk to a doll or not talk to a doll, that is my decision.

 

I do sometimes....A few words "Why won't you pose dang you!" Being common .__.

 

I don't have full blown conversations with them. It's mostly just simple stuff. Like my new girl Sydney, I tell her how damn pretty she is. Or like "here hold your kangaroo" or to my drow girl "here's your spider". They each have their own stuffed animals. And I like to pretend that Danifae, my drow girl is mad that she's still wearing this lame skirt and top when she's supposed to be a drow priestess. So I occasionally apologize to her lol. And if I sit 1 or 2 of them out on my nightstand at night, I tell them goodnight. Like a lot of people I talk to them when they don't seem to want to put clothes on. It's like "Damnit, Penny just put your pants on"

 

There's only so much crazy my husband can take before he starts giving me that concerend look, so I keep my conversations with my dolls in my head. I love talking to them and find it helps me get my creative juices flowing and flesh out their characters.

 

I talk to everything: inanimate objects, the people on television, my rats, an empty room (I also make up songs as I do tasks which I never noticed until someone pointed it out to me at work). The desire to ramble is just something I've always had. People bring their kids into my work and act embarrassed or scold them when they chatter about nothing and everything, but I generally find it cute and see no need for shame. Some people just need to do it.

 

I'll absent-mindedly talk to my dolls sometimes. Usually when I'm doing something they wouldn't 'like' if they were animate - for example, I'll say something like "I know, I know, it won't be for long" to my doll when I take her wig off temporarily. Stuff like that. It's not really doll-specific, though. I say stuff like "oh shh" to my laptop when her fan whirs too loudly, and things along those lines. I think it's pretty normal to talk to objects in this way - it's just a very 'human' way of interacting with our environment

 

I don't talk to them in the sense of having an imaginary conversation.

That said, I do sometimes say things like "Stay. Stay." while leaving a doll standing somewhere and backing up to take a photo, or "Yeah, that colour works." when putting a new wig or outfit on them. I think of that as talking to myself, but I'm sure a bystander would think I was talking to the doll rather than just musing to myself about the doll.

I do not understand this kind of patronizing comment - if someone has no interest in doing something, there's no loss of creativity. People having different ways of expressing creativity is not sad, it's just different.

 

If you want to talk to them then go for it. If you are worried about what others will say/think do it when they are not around or talk quietly. I have always had a way active imagination and enjoy using it (probably way to much). Do what makes you happy as that's what is important

 

Yup, like they were my kids and I'm not ashamed to admit that at all. My cat got up on a shelf today and knocked a few of my nicer big fashion dolls down. I was all over the place apologizing to each and every one, checking them over for damage and then chastising the cat too. I kiss my dolls as they join my collection, on the forehead, like Glinda in WOZ blessing Dorothy. Obviously I'm totally bonkers, but I don't care what people think. I'm often considered eccentric I think, but I love my cat and all my dolls and I'm completely shameless about it. :P