Surprisingly Positive Things People Have Said!

I was at a modle/arts and craft group amd one of the girls there said that like the way my cat girl (fantasy doll) was sitting and she thought it was funny/cute also she was sitting with her hands in her lap. Last weekend when l want to my dad's flat he asked were cat girl was and l said she was at my flat.

 

You can tell they're alive. From a lady who met Xavier and saw pictures of the rest of the family.

 

Well, iSparrow came over to hang out and we went skating! A bunch of my friends were there too!
She brought in her doll, alot of the girls thought he was great, most of the guys just kept their distance. But my friend Tyler (who had seen pics and though they were creepy and weird) came up....kinda looked him over, and even began playing with his arm!! "Huuh, that's pretty cool..." And that's coming from a real "man's man"!!

 

I brought Liam with me one day to a course that I'm auditing for the prof I research for, and one of my guy friends saw him, and was really interested... he sat there looking at him for awhile, asked if he could hold him, and did, really carefully, then wanted to know if Liam was gay, which made me laugh.

A few days later, he and his boyfriend/fiance came over, and they both sat there playing with him, and posed him very "interestingly" with the other boys... lol

They were most excited about the blushing I had just done on him... they stripped his shirt of very quickly, and spent great lengths of time just giggling over his nipples. (It didn't hurt that I'd given him a nipple ring, and they thought that was so much fun...)

 

A nurse practitioner at a Planned Parenthood where I got a minor procedure done (birth control implant removal) heard I collected BJDs and thought it was cool, and she wants me to bring one to show her my next visit next week.

So I will. (:

- Mel

 

I had to go to the after hours clinc lastnight and since the people that normally would go with me where all busy (work, school ect.) I took Rosalie with me (my Soony) and people where rather nice about her. Some kids wanted to play with her but their mothers where all like 'no, she looks strange'. It was a pretty good night though, I told people where I bought her and about other dolls like her and my little Lysander who is coming soon I hope.

 

Yay! I can post in here now! Well, I could before but I went a meet-up at Morikami in south Florida during a festival. I was so super nervous about taking my dolls there that I nearly turned around several times (luckily my sister told me to keep going). I brought my four "kids" with me; Lucas, Chris, Dae, and Miles. I don't have any doll bags...so I carried them in my arms and marched into the park. My sister offered this sage advice, "Dude, just carry them around like it's totally normal, flash them a smile, and everything will be ok!"

The ticket lady was probably about 150 years old, but I had to show her my sticker to get in. Her eyes went wide and she practically squealed "What lovely dolls you have!". The rest of my day went upward and onward from there. My sister said several times we'd pass a group of people and one or two would say "oh she has dolls!" or something like that. I had about a dozen people stop me to ask where they could buy the dolls in the park - I wish I had a handout but I told them a little bit each time, where to look them up, etc.

Two ladies stopped to talk to me for about fives minutes, and one really started chatting it up with me. Apparently while that was happening the other woman was fiddling with my dolls while I was holding them. They eventually left, and my sister busted out laughing! Miles doesn't tie his shoe laces, but the woman tied them for him!

And an older couple asked me if they could take pictures of my dolls and show them to their grandaughter. I said sure, but explained the cost and stuff. The older lady laughed and said it was her job to spoil her grandkids rotten, and her granddaughter loves dolls...so! Then I watched the taiko drummers with aernath and her crew.

Later on, after the meet-up, I was tired, sweaty, sunburned, and dehydrated so it was time to leave. I went up to the front while my sister went to find a restroom. This lady rolled up in a golfcart and said, "I've been trying to hunt you down ALL DAY!" I was like, omgwtf...WHY? The lady said someone else had seen me earlier in the day and wanted to find me to ask about the dolls and take pictures and stuff. I told her I was on my way out but told her where to find the meet-up where everyone else and their awesome dolls were! I almost died laughing when she pulled away.

It was...probably the best day I've ever had in public with my dolls. And I am DEFINITELY going back.

 

Awww thats adroable! *squee*

I'm glad you had such a wonderful time!

 

My big sister (who, though I'm 22 years old, still sometimes treats me like a child- she's 8 years older than me, and tends to be rather condescending) was surprisingly supportive. She never seemed interested when I was collecting Pullips, but last time she was over she came into the bedroom and noticed that I had more than last time she had seen, and really liked Amariel. I showed her the puki dolls and later she asked me how much they cost. I was almost ashamed to tell her ><;; because she can be weird about spending money on things, but she said that $300 was around what she expected, because collectibles are expensive! It made me happier than it perhaps should have to have her acceptance... sibling relationships are so weird.

 

spamsama, lollollol, that's hilarious. I can imagine that woman hunting you down in her golf cart, and that's so cute about the shoelaces. Glad it went to well for you xO

Beccory, I know, my sister is 12 but I'm still relieved when she doesn't rant about my getting a BJD 8P.


Again I have no story (needs a doll).

 

Well, the first one isnt so much of what someone had said, but how he had reacted. My one friend is really strong on the whole masculinity thing, so when he wasked me if I had made any clothes for my doll yet after looking him over for a while surprised me a little. The, he totally baffeled me by taking me fabric shopping and pointing out some fabrics that he thought would make a good *insert clothing piece here*. He was the person I had expected to give me the most grief over the doll, when it turned out quite the opposite. It was a very plesant and posative surprize :3

Also, I carried around my boy from the minute I got home from school till the moment I fell asleep when I first got him. The day that I stopped ((about a week or two)), my Da asked me why I wasnt carrying him around anymore. Comming from a man who had said that he was sick of him after the first day, this was a nice surprise as well :3

 

Penelope comes to work with me all of the time, since I work in a sewing shop and it's part of my job to hang around using the machines all day. She doesn't go a day at work without a compliment, usually from the older women who come in to buy quilting fabric and thread. Probably the best one was when this middle-aged man and his life partner dropped in and fawned over her, and insisted that I show them her other clothes. I don't carry them with me, but I did have my laptop. They must have been at the counter, scrolling through photos and oohing and ahhing over how "real" she looks for 45 minutes, asking questions about Elfdoll and articulation and tiny sewing notions and faceups, etc.

 

I brought my kid delf Ani boy (whom I do not own anymore) to a party once. I was quite nervous, being a grown up guy collecting dolls.
I got even more nervous when one guy came up to me and started asking questions. That guy is known for being somewhat of a bully and had already had a couple of drinks. I was sure he was going to "mess around" a little with the queer guy and his doll.... but to my surprise his questions were genuine and he was very polite! O_O
And finally he asked with blushing cheeks if he could take a picture of my doll.
More and more people came up to me and asked questions after that and everybody was really nice about it. *^_^*
It made me feel very loved and accepted. It is after all quite uncommon for men to collect bjds around these parts of the world.

 

xD Well, my grandma and her friend were quite taken with my doll and made various nice little comments on him, which I was a little surprised at, seeing as the rest of my family makes obsessively disparaging remarks when I bring him out. @___@;

And then I had a friend who was really very impressed. She said she loved how his face was and how he could pose and things like that. She especially loved the fact that you could take his head cap off. xD But yeah. I'm always pretty surprised when someone I didn't really expect to take to my doll does. :3 I think once my dad gets over telling me that my doll's hat is made out of underwear(s'not) we can start getting somewhere with my immediate family. xD

 

My BF and I went out to eat the other day, and because I was feeling a bit down, we brought a few of our dolls (Yes, my boyfriend has a doll.)

At the restaurant about ten different servers/staff members, and a few customers, came up and asked questions, and gave sweet compliments... an art collector even came up asking if we were selling them, because they were "such amazing works of art!" Some of the people seemed pretty excited about them. It was a real day-booster for me, I came out feeling much better than I had going in.

I also saw a someone I work with say really nice things about my friend's dolls when she brought them to come visit me while I was working one day.

I've gotten several other positive reactions to them, as well. I tend to focus more on the good things they say than the bad, because those are the things that make my owner's pride swell

 

^Cool!
I like reading this thread.
Hope someone can share their experiences with us~

 

I brought lazarus's head to school, because I did a report on him, about a year after i got it, and the boys in class were actually more interested than the girls. i took out his eyes, and he doesn't have a wig yet (still! I can't find any dread wigs in white, it's driving me nuts!) and a couple of boys fiddled with them, and pressed on them because they were silicon, and one bounced on a little, and they came up and looked at him. it was neat and shocking,in a good way, because I wasn't exactly popular.

 

i get "wow.. that's umn.. realistic.." alot

 

That's funny, because that's what my mom says about my anime/videogaming obsession. xD

 

A while ago, my friend and I took our dolls out for dinner on our way over to another friend's house. The lady looked at my bag and asked me what was in it(it is a pretty weird looking bag) and I took Lisi out, and made Luke take Demitrius out to back me up. She was really impressed with them and kept talking about how innocent Lisi looked, and really liked Demi even if she thought he was a girl. I'm always really surprised at how nice people are about dolls around here though, I've never really had anyone see her face to face and say something mean.

(apparently I've posted here before! people are always saying nice things about my doll, I guess)