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Have your dolls been mistaken for real people?

Jan 17, 2009

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    1. Dude, the baby thing happened to me and E. Hadrian AGAIN at a doll meet in Seattle just two days ago! We got out of the car and this dude was like "WHOA!! FOR A SECOND I thought that was a REAL BABY!! You SCARED ME!!" He was like really loud and startled :XD: We kinda just laughed...
       
      #81 raemanzu, May 11, 2009
    2. I use pictures of my dolls for my profile pics on facebook, and one time one of my friends commented on one of them that at first she thought she was a real person. But that was probably just because the icon format always warps the pictures
       
      #82 Yuuki, May 11, 2009
    3. A nice man in the street stopped me once to ask 'Is that your baby?', quickly realising that it was a doll, and not a freakishly thin infant XD
       
      #83 starfruit, May 11, 2009
    4. Not in real life, but I've had a few mistaken for real people in photos. A lot of the time on dA I get comments like "I thought that was a real person in the thumbnail" or "I thought that was a person until I saw the joints". Some people think it's really cool, others find it extremely creepy. I like being able to trick people's eyes that way, though.
       
      #84 Erandir, May 11, 2009
    5. I posted a picture of Miyuki on deviantart.com. There were comments left by people saying that they were surprised it was a doll, when they had clicked on the pic they had thought it was a real person.
       
      #85 keekster, May 12, 2009
    6. One of my Fiancees coworkers mistook my DZ Hid for a baby :sweat it was pretty funny.
       
      #86 TokyoLynn, May 12, 2009
    7. my mom and my friends talk about our dolls like they're real people. . . confuses the hell outta some people, too~
       
      #87 Blue Enamored, May 12, 2009
    8. I have some photos of my dolls in an album on Facebook. They also wound up in a picture I used as my profile photo for a while, in the background.

      My friend, who is my supervisor at work, asked me who the two "people" in the back of my profile pic were, and was astonished when I explained they were dolls. He said they looked so real. The thing is, it's clear in the photo that they're MUCH smaller than me -- they're sitting on the shelf behind my head, feet dangling off and everything!

      I mean, in some photographs dolls can look quite realistic, but they really did just look like dolls in this one. Honestly. And I'm all for pretending to be a great photographer or something.

      It made me laugh.

      Judge for yourself: http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i70/littlebrokenbutterfly/Dorries.jpg
       
      #88 littlebrokenbutterfly, May 12, 2009
    9. When I first saw a BJD on the internet I thought it was human, xD
       
      #89 takki sunshine, May 12, 2009
    10. Everytime i take Azure to the store, they think i have a kid with me. lol
      ~Oh, i thought that was a baby.
      ~Yeh...it's not... ^_^;
       
      #90 AzureRedemption, May 12, 2009
    11. Hahaha, once I was walking into an apartment building and carrying my doll and the security guard was like "Is that your baby?" It was hilarious because it seemed like he was serious! I think some people I pass on the street also think my doll is my baby. @_@
       
      #91 pinkfrappuccino, May 15, 2009
    12. well,when my boyfriend says "honey, do you thinck this colour will fit Nemyn?"people thinck that my Dia is one of our twins)))))))
       
      #92 Arnorien, Aug 17, 2009
    13. One day I was in a garden with my best friend and we had talking about my tinies calling them by name. A nice old man was sitting near us and he started to tell about his grandchilds! :lol:
       
      #93 avluela, Aug 17, 2009
    14. Once I took my boy D (a 90cm AoD Bo) to a meetup @ a bookstore. We were hanging out up front, waiting for the others to arrive. A lady walked in and saw D~ I don't know if she thought he was my kid or what, but she stared at us so hard while she was walking that she almost plowed into a display of books.
       
      #94 renee_chan, Aug 17, 2009
    15. This happens if I take a 1/3 out in public all the time, especially if I carry them on my hip.
      (gawker) "HOMG is that a kid??"
      (Me) *without missing a beat* "Wouldn't you feel like an idiot if my answer was yes?"
       
      #95 Rosslyn, Aug 18, 2009
    16. LOL
      best response ever.

      I can't say I've had that problem... I don't think 4-inch dolls pass very well as human XD
       
      #96 Kiyoshi45, Aug 18, 2009
    17. I kinda ended up with the snappy comeback after a rather maternal train of thought:
      What if I DID have a baby who was unusually small and thin, perhaps because of some condition the poor child can't help having? What kinda idiot sees something they think might be someone's CHILD and the first words out of their mouth are "Is that thing a baby??" :doh If I was actually carrying a tiny child I think I'd probably have to deck the gawker.
       
      #97 Rosslyn, Aug 18, 2009
    18. Well my friends ask me sometimes, about them like How they going and those stuffs, and call them for the names.
       
      #98 Harumichan, Aug 18, 2009
    19. I didn't have a carry case for my doll for a long time and once I took him with me to a con in another state... People in the airport kept thinking I was holding a baby x_X It's like, "what kind of babies have YOU been looking at..."
       
      #99 evilnekohilda, Aug 30, 2009
    20. The first time my friend saw my doll she freaked out a little bit. She thought I was holding a 'little person or something'!

      He's only been mistaken for a person in photos twice, so far. He's too pretty to look human, I think.
       
      #100 refia, Aug 30, 2009
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