dolls just for lonely people?

I like being alone, but I am not 'lonely.' I generally don't enjoy being around people, I'm very introverted, and like quietness and prefer not to speak...that's all. ^^ Dolls are not a type of replacement for me, because I like relative solitude

 

I don't know if I am LONELY.

My fiance and I live together and we are apart from each other maybe 24 hours out of the whole week while I am at work and school. I don't get to talk to or see my friends very often though, because our schedules don't exactly work out.

However, I have talked to inanimate objects (plushes, toys, dolls) since I was very young, sometimes its just nice to be able to rant and complain about something without giving that stress to anyone else as well.

 

I don't think that dolls are just for lonely people. They are for everyone who have dreams and imaginations (creative I mean, more or less).

 

Well, for me I would say I love dolls for the creative aspect and also because they help fill a void because I am lonely at the moment....but from my association with other doll lovers a generalization cannot be made that doll people are lonely people.

 

I see dolls as an expression of artistry! People make such wonderful things for them as clothes, wigs, jewelry, wigs, tattoos, face ups and so on. And people make lovely pictures, telling stories, letting their imagination speak! Something that normal grown up people do too little!

 

I totally agree with this. I couldn't have put it better myself.

 

Most of my friends are otakus, so they are pretty cool with it. I do feel lonely sometimes, and she is there for those times, but I am always able to find a friend to hang out with when I have time. Even when I do hang out with friends I will still bring her with me.

 

Lonely? Nope! Sometimes I have so much going on around me I just want some alone time. I played with dolls when I was a kid, loved making houses from cardboard boxes so I guess now that I'm older and it's the old 'been there done that' it's my time to enjoy what I loved as a kid. It's just me being me and I adore this hobby. Wish I had more 'me time' to get to do all the things I want to do!

 

I'm not lonely and I have lots of dolls. Sometimes I have so much to do that I don't get to pay a lot of attention to them. I have them sitting around on the furniture in little doll chairs so I can enjoy them while I'm otherwise involved. I have dolls now because I didn't have many during my childhood. I love to see their little faces. They are a positive influence on my life.

Merci

 

just my two cents, but i think that's something that most people who don't have hobbies say about people that do. i, personally have received this sentiment about painting, drawing, sculpting, graphic design, knitting, crocheting, anime/manga, sewing and every other hobby that i've been apart of.

i think, like many others, that if you're happy doing what you're doing then people shouldn't bother you about it. that being said dolls=lonely people, or hobbies=lonely people is just ridiculous since it is in the things that we pursue for pleasure are those which friendships can be made and happiness can be found.

 

I wouldn't say that. O____O;;
I'm certainly not lonely. And yet I like BJDs. =w=;;

I mean, it can help someone that's lonely, but it's not JUST for that.
People get BJDs for many reasons, so you can't just categorize everyone. ^^

 

well i think i am kinda lonely.. thou with friends i can be social with them well enough.. but at home.. my parents only cares about my brother more.. and left me in the dirty.. so i actually got Rini, Sani, Remi and Semi to accompany me.. even they are just sitting there.. its good enough for me.. at least.. someone is there for me.. haha.. *sounds abit sad, eh?*

 

I have plenty of friends who are also into dolls, and there's few things I enjoy more than hanging out with them and discussing dolly issues, taking pics of each other's dolls and just generally playing around with them. I can see why introverted or lonely people would enjoy BJDs, but assuming that every doll fan is into them because they're antisocial is quite a stretch.

 

I admit that Im not really good at socializing, and I do feel lonely at times and all since I dont get to go to school often.
But... Dolls can bring happiness to people who aren't and make happy people happier
Like whenever I feel down I just have to look at my doll and some dollie pics to feel all better again.!!!
Beautiful things tends to inspire people.

 

I have been housebound for almost 10 years now, living alone and never seeing anyone except my grownup children makes for a quiet life. I have always preferred my own company most of the time, only child introverts are like that.

But even when I was younger and did have a social life of sorts, I have always collected. Not dolls necessarily, but something. My collections give my mind something to focus on, the beauty of whatever it is that particular time (dolls - colours, clothes, hair, artwork - just sheer beauty) whatever - the only pleasure I get from life now is from my collections but over the years I have met the best friends I have ever had online, at those times I was not lonely.

 

Really, I'm sort of hoping my starting to collect dolls will actively contribute to scaring people away, haha. I'm not terribly social. Dolls'll be a hobby, though...for companionship I think I'd prefer the stereotypical cat route.

 

On my teenager years I was a pretty evasive teenager myself and even but now I have reasonable social skills and I'm really fine. I'm not a lonely person, not depressed, constantly insecure or whatever. Since I was young I was always collecting something, specially pretty small-scale things. And these dolls are higly appealing for someone like me.

Dolls can help lonely people, but it also seems there is a general belief that people who feel lonely or insecure about their social abilities can potentially use dolls as psychological clutches, otherwise we wouldn't see so many threads broaching the subject on dolly forums more than we see on other similar hobbies ones. It's up to everyone to check how they feel about the sterotype and think how to overcome it, if needed. Our hobbies are meant to be ways to make things joyful, not to hide or deny the rest of the world.

 

I was antisocial before to have dolls.
I had not known dolls, I'm still antisocial.
But, I never talk to my dolls... these are beautiful objects for me, a leisure.

It's all~~

 

I will admit, there are some days I want to talk to someone and there is no one else around. I would talk to my plushies or my dolls knowing I will have sense of security knowing what I say won't haunt or come back and bite me . Everyone has their lonely days ya know? I don't think anything is wrong talking with your dolls especially if you view them as your best friend(s) or your child. ^_^

 

(I don't know if your answer is for my message or not, but I answer ^^)
Oh no, I don't critizise people who talk with their dolls, I react for the fact that the antosocial people would have dolls for satify a solitude and they would talk them. It's not forcing the case ^^
Myself : I'm unsociable and I have dolls but I don't them for fill an eventually social void ^^
(but I go in internet for this for example)