Have your dolls been mistaken for real people?

Once, I carried my doll in my arms, but wrapped in some cloth, so that he won't get damaged.
A person crossed my way, turned around and stared, after a few seconds he said that he had mistaken it for a baby. I can understand that, because it really looked like that from the backside of the doll. But I really wanted to see his face, when he found out, that it wasn't a real baby ^.^

 

Sort of -- twice.

First time, 5 years ago, I carried my Elfdoll Nabee around a Rockabilly festival. Some guy remarked to the effect that my kid looked a little undernourished.

Second time, 4 years ago -- I was carrying a handbag that has a group photo of my dolls; an older man standing behind me in the post office said to me, "Nice family!"

 

A friend of mine who didn't know too much about dolls (more like "Oh, they exists..." and that's all...), mistook my current cellphone wallpaper for a real person.

My current wallpaper is Luts' official picture for limited Regen, fanged mask included...

Oh, and she wanted to pair up Yue and Willow, despite her not being a yaoi fan and them not being gay...

 

Happened to me once, there was a perforated wall and I held Mori up to fix his clothes and two people behind the wall said "Aw cute baby." Of course, this leads to more questions like black girl with an Asian baby? This made me smile.

 

Lolz these are all great posts X3

I had a "Thought it was a baby" thing happen. I was at an anime convention in the game room, hypnotized by DDR. My SD had fallen into a cradling position in my arm. At the corner of my eye, I see a guy walk by, then stop for a double take.
Guy: "Oh! I thought you were holding a baby!! "
Me, dying from laughter: "Nah, only a doll "
Guy: "It's kind of creepy... "

 

I have my Shoyo listed as my daughter on Facebook. This crazy (and I mean had to block her crazy) woman friended me and kept asking stuff about my "daughter" and then talking about her daughter all the time. I had to block her for several reasons, but even though I told her Shoyo is a doll, she was still convinced I had a 1 year old daughter IRL.

 

Someone thought that my Mikhaila was a small dog. Granted, she does have ears and a tail, but she was also wearing a frilly white dress, pink loli type shoes, and a partly blue wig. That was probably the strangest (and funniest) response I've ever gotten when I've had a doll out in public.

 

Lyn and i went to lunch the other day and she handed off a doll she'd painted for me(this one: http://batchix.g36.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/7-7-11_ghostie1.jpg ). you can see the really feathery mohair wig... and two people thought she was a tiny dog! XD;; she's only 42cm, she'd be the smallest dog ever!

but that was a new one. I usually get the "Is that a baby- oh no it isn't."

Once i got chewed out for not feeding my baby enough and how dare i take it out in winter with so little on! I swear if that happens again I'm going to sling the doll around by it's arm and take it's face off!

 

I've personally mistaken a few dolls for real people - usually particular faceups on dA. I've not been convinced, but it's sort of "Oh wow, what a great sho-... heeeeey wait, that's a doll!"

Although I'm really confused as to people mistaking some for babies. I can see it if you're carrying them bundles up, but if you're just toting it around...

 

Uh well I was at a Wendy's with one of my boys, Chase and two women noticed him. I went over to show them to him and they admitted they had thought that at first he was my baby (as in a real living breathing infant). I guess I was cradling him in my arms and it must of been a quick glance, but I thought it was funny. I don't think babies are supposed to be as skinny as an SD boy.

 

Mine haven't been in "real life" but they have been on the internet. I think this moment counts?

I had a display picture for MSN of the back of my Iplehouse boy, Gii, and some friends were alarmed that I got a tattoo.

Of course I was amused. I told them that it was just one of my dolls and they went, "That explains the sudden appearance of back muscles!" Haha.

 

Ummm...my dolls have not been mistaken for real people (yet), but...I was once mistaken for a BJD?! I was cosplaying a BJD at a con, but I was standing up and talking to people...I really don't understand it, but it was fun.

 

i dunno if I posted this before (short-term memory xD) but one time I was getting off the bus to go hang out with a friend, and I had Kelebek with me. Since I took the front door to get off, a man wa sstanding there looking utterly shocked and told me; "omg! I thought that was a real kid!" xD he looked so shocked I had to hide a laugh xD

 

At the airport I've been asked if I've have a baby in my bag at the x-ray. And out shopping for my dolls at the flea market I've been asked if mine our real babies. it's right up there when people ask if my wig is my real hair, when it's bright neon pink down to my butt even with a bit of my own hair sticking out around the bangs. makes me question the IQ level of much of the populace.

 

It's never happened in person before, but I'll get comments on my photos from time to time of "oh man I didn't realize that was a doll!"

happens a lot with my Ryu :P

 

I have heard that people sometimes think mine are real kids or babies.

 

xDDDDDD that made ma laugh so hard.
When I carried my SD Doll Ephraim in his carriage bag back home he had his new pair o jointed hands on and I couldn't resist to open the bag take his hand and play with it (only his hand was visible) untill a man next to me asked if this is my baby..... ....... yeah I carry babies inside of closed bags..... >_>'''' I only answerd: no it's no baby it is my roommate.

 

I had someone mistake one of my dolls for a person in a picture once! But upon closer look, she realized it was a doll. I didn't think the mix-up was possible until then! But I guess I could see how she's mistake it from thumbnail size.

 

Yes! My dad was walking past my mom while she was online looking at pics of my Iplehouse Carina. Dad says to mom "Are you buying that outfit?" (Mind you--this is a 70 year old couple, and my doll was wearing some sexy lingere.) My mom turns around and says, "Are you kidding? NO! I'm not buying that outfit! That's one of Laurie's dolls anyway." Dad made use of his bifocals and put his face up to the monitor and said, "No way! She looks like a real person." (My mom found it amusing that dad was asking about the lingere especially. LOL I'm thinking she might need to stop at Victoria's Secret soon. :P)

Note: I usually send pics to my mom AND dad because they get a kick out of my dolls and photos. For this exact reason (of thinking that the dolls ARE real) I did not send these pics to my dad because I was afraid that I might get HIM in trouble if mom walked through the room while he was viewing. Too funny!

 

Yes, in some pictures on Deviantart! It's always something I want to capture, and yet there's something different about a "real looking doll picture" and a real looking figure. There's a really unique doll look about bjds that brings a photograph to a fantasy level. It's more beautiful than the real. The last doll I purchased was an Iplehouse Lee, and though he is unarguably the most realistic looking doll I have, he almost doesn;t fit with my others because he lacks that "doll" level. So I think it's a bit better if they don't *quite* make it to looking lifelike.