Is your doll habit a dirty little secret?

Hmm, my parents know, a few friends know. I don't bring this up unless it's relevant but I don't hide it either. There are people I prefer not knowing about my dolls for various reasons, I just don't mention my dolls and it's better that way with them.

 

Yes and no. My friends know because a few share the interest. Immediate family knows because I still live at home and they see them. Beyond that I tend to not mention it. Anything picture or conversation wise I keep private on fb or in closed groups. I just don't care to share with a lot of people I know wont get it. I'm very private like that.

 

It's a bit of a dirty secret. None of my friends know (apart from the ones who introduced me to dolls), my mom and brother know, but that's about it. I don't really feel the need to tell about it to people. I guess I am just a very private person.

 

Its more of a dirty secret. Some of my closest (non-BJD) friends and a few of my family members know about my dollies. Other than that, I dont feel like sharing this with people, since most of them wouldnt care or they would doubt my sanity.

 

It's not really a big secret but I tell people selectively, one of the scariest moments of "coming out" as a doll owner was to my current boyfriend he finds them a bit creepy but said "as long as it makes you happy and it isn't a room full of snakes then I have no problem with it". I don't quite understand the whole "I can never take them out EVER" mindset, they are going to yellow anyways over the years it is inevitable so why not take them out and take photos and stuffs. I took one of my girls to uni I got mixed responses but I am an art student so naturally my classmates were mostly intrigued.

 

To most of my friends, yes it is. My family knows and two friends know. But as for the rest of my friends, it has never really come up in conversation but I'm also wary about telling most of them. If I ever do tell them though, I doubt it would be a big deal.

 

What I keep on my external hard drive in the folder in a folder in a folder with a password on all of them is a dirty secret. The box I really should keep taped shut but take careless refuge in the fact that it's in the closet is a dirty secret. My mousepad that I reaalllly shouldn't keep out in the open but always do is a dirty secret.

But dolls, not so much. People who've known me long enough just shrug it off, and to those that might give me that weird look I can make excuses about how making clothes for them is profitable. That said I don't go telling everyone about it like I would some of my other hobbies.

 

I think I have the same kind of mousepad!

Is my doll hobby a dirty secret? No, not at all. I can't think of a person I know who doesn't know that I play with dolls. I even brought them with me to work sometimes at my last real job. (Well, until a dolly-phobic coworker threatened to bring it to HR... ) I take them out in public, either for craft store runs or dollmeets. I have a tiny that I take to D&D and sometimes just in my pocket. They actually help a little, somehow. I've gotten more and more afraid of people, but when I have one of my dolls, things are just... better.

 

My first kinds of dolls were porcelain clown dolls so you can imagine the backlash that gets when people come into my room and see the clown pit. I love to talk about my dollys but most of hte time is met with disgust, even my roomate always looks at me funny when i baby my dolls which really bums me out, I guess that makes me less likely to take them outside.

 

I don't own one yet, but just liking them is a secret to friends and family (besides my dad) It's mainly because when I first found out about the hobby I didn't really get the most positive reaction from family even from my dad (that hurt the most). SO I took a break from it or looking at it in front of them, tired to hide my screen so they wouldn't know. I haven't told my friends or anything, I was scaried by just having a pullip around in my room! i told my dad about how I found a doll I really liked and tirying to rasie money for it, I was surpried he was okay with it since his previous reaction. Now I'm only with looking at it online at home, but besides telling friends or anyone else no... so yes it is my secret.

 

No...my dolls could be seen on a reality show so it is not a secret!
I have collected dolls my whole life so it was never a secret.
Most people think it's interesting but some have been freaked out.
That's OK, they don't have to visit!

 

I don't really care what other people think of my dolls and I, but I don't bring it up in conversation unless I'm super excited cx
I love my dolls, but I know my friends don't care soo... LOL

 

To put it simply, no. I don't like having secrets and I don't like having to hide things. As soon as I saw the bjd of my dreams (which was only the 2nd one I'd ever seen and is the one I ended up ordering) I said to my husband "You do realize I plan on buying him" and his response was "Yep, knew that was going to happen".

 

Well for me it is a foreign concept that unless I take my dolls outside the house that means I'm trying to hide them, I tell my friends I collect bjds so I wouldn't say I'm trying to hide them. I think of my dolls very differently, for me I put my dolls in a display cabinet most of the time and I can't fathom people why people would want to bring their dolls out, it's like playing with an expensive antique tea set or something LOL but to each their own

I may consider bringing them out for a meetup though, but that's only because I'd like to meet other people in the hobby.

 

I mostly hide the cost of them from my family (but not parents cuz I need to use their PayPal). My cousins for example don't know the cost because they're tight on money and wouldn't understand how I could spend $$$ plus accessories on dolls. My other relatives aren't tight on money, they just wouldn't understand it.
Other than that, I tell my friends and others who are curious about BJDs if and only if the topic comes up.

 

Not sure if it's a dirty little secret...

My partner knows. He seems very neutral on the matter. On occassions he doesn't like them and on other occassions he's the one pushing me to say something about dolls. I guess he's a weird one and that's just the way I like him.

My partner's children think I have one doll, the YOSD girl I'm currently selling. They're young and think they're pretty neat. It's lovely to see how accepting most children are. They understand that they're not dolls to 'play' with in a traditional way.

My mother semi-knows but she doesn't care either way. She always said to keep a healthy saving account and spend the rest on the things you like best. She didn't mind the very first doll (Pullip) that I got from someone else as a gift so I'm sure she wouldn't mind my ball-jointed dolls. The only thing she'd be bothered by would be their price tag, not to mention the price tag of their clothing and accessories.

My dad doesn't know and doesn't need to know. I'm not close to him and he doesn't seem to care one bit about me.

My sisters know and think I'm weird. I don't mind, they thought I was weird before I got into the BJD hobby anyway.

I'd love to find some friends who like ball-jointed dolls as much as I do. It must be so refreshing to be able to talk to other people about your interest without getting funny faces. I'm not very talkative but I love to listen to other people talk about their dolls. I hope to someday be able to do the same. A meet would be so exciting and scary as hell for me seeing I'm so shy. I would be busy admiring everyone's dolls anyway though. I would love to take my dolls outside but so far I haven't done it yet. Someday!

 

I would love to share my dolls with anyone who would like to talk about or see them....unfortunately there is no one in my area who collects bjds.

I do show my daughter who is now in university photos of my dolls and she is always willing to talk about them.

My young son thinks they are cool and is just use to having dolls around ( I've been collecting different types of dolls since before he was born)

My husband just accepts them as it my choice to collect them ( i pay for them with my paycheck ) and it's also my house too lol

I'm fine with taking them with me to different places for photos...I don't really mind the strange looks I get sometimes ( I'm too old to care anymore about what other people think. Lol)

 

The only secret I keep about it is how much $$$$$ I spend on it....although, even though I think I'm sneaky, the mountain of packages in the mail just miiiiiight ​be giving me away

 

My hobby is a bit of a secret amongst my family, I keep her displayed in my room and everyone knows about her except my dad (Maybe because he just doesn't care?). I don't often tell people about my dolls. I just don't like how whenever I buy one I feel like I'm committing a crime amongst my household. I don't tell my parents and I won't until I've "made up" what I spent through working.

 

I'd be terrified to take my doll out in public where she could be damaged if I drop her (I live in a country where the majority of paths/roads aren't paved, so she'd literally hit the dirt) or she could be grabbed/stolen from me. I'd love to show her off to people in the safety of my home but I don't think most people would be interested - and I definitely don't want to tell anyone how much I've paid for her!