Taking dolls to school or college?

Ah, same here Psyphis! I live at home while going to school too I mean. I'm slightly afraid to bring him with me to school not so much because of what people will say(though that is a factor) but rather whether someone will try and grab him and look at him while I'm not paying attention. Or in the worst case scenario hit him or something as I'm walking by. If people talk the easy remedy is just to look at your doll and say "I think they link you ____isn't that nice? We made new friends" but crazy spazzy dorm guys is an all together different problem! I would take him to class in my death note bag though XD

 

not until u got your own room.
Or u got ur friend as ur roommate.

I'd like to bring my dolls with me but I don't hav enough space
I left most of my dolls at home except small one - like Yo-SD size.

 

My doll has come with me to college, and we're fine; I have some really great people in my dorm, but my doll just stays in my room. She apparently scares me roommate though but we get along fine, and my doll scaring her is pretty much a joke to us ("HAY LOOK! She's waaaaving!" at which point I make my doll wave. Quite fun!).

The community I'm in is really friendly and close knit, and although I keep my door locked, I feel perfectly safe. If anything, I expect my doll to protect me with her "creepiness"...actually happened. My roommate and I were getting tired and couldn't think of a polite way to tell our friends to go home, so I just took out my doll and started playing with her.

"Uh, we gotta go."



s'all good.

I don't really worry too much about being "the creepy doll girl" here, because, like I said above, the community is really open since it's an art school. We have people who do weirder things :P.

 

Hey Everyone!
So next year i'll be going to College.. or at least i hope so. haha! But like if i live on Campus im kinda nervous about my doll. ( i dont have one yet but will hopefully be getting one soon) like... i feel like people will look at me strange because im "playing with a doll" or something like that and that they'd find me immature. also... i kinda wanted to wait to get a doll until i had a serious relationship.... i feel that if i dated someone and they "meet" the family that it'd scare them off.

SO what i was wondering is that i want to hear your options and things that have happen to you. like have you lost a boyfriend over your dolls or like has someone at college said something mean to you about your dolls.

Thanks Everyone for reading it. hope to hear somethin from you guys soon. Have n' Awesome day.

 

My boyfriend insists that he wouldn't have started dating me if I didn't have Hayden at the picnic where we met. He said it was a conversation starter. I don't go to college, but I had dolls while I was at school... sooo... people don't really say means this as much as they stare and give odd looks.

And now my boyfriend plays will dolls?

If you want a doll, buy a doll. Other people will always have opinions, both good and bad. Don't worry about them. Is your money, your life, you decision.

 

I agree to that.

 

Your initial worry about having one of these dolls with you at campus should be theft and damage.

Simply owning the doll, photographing it, making clothing for it , continuing to develop it as a work of art and enjoying your doll with other doll owners at meet-ups is as normal as watching a movie with friends, going fishing or photographing scenery.

On the other hand taking your doll with you to class, to restaurants, and out shopping while playing pretend with it would make you seem "strange" to almost anyone.

The question you should be asking yourself is - Do you really want to be around people who would critisize you for having a unique hobby?

I was never comfortable taking something that expensive out of my home. However I did show my class mates pictures I had taken of my doll, and spoke with them about the hobby.

They thought the doll was ugly, that dolls in general were creepy and also thought it was strange that I was interested in them or that I would pay that much to own one. However, they didn't hold it against me and they all admitted that it was interesting.

My personal friends had similar reactions which gradually turned into facination when they were able to handle the dolls for themselves. They saw how much I enjoyed the hobby and admitted that when they went shopping they kept an eye out for doll sized items for me!
My male friend was the first to bring me a doll dress he found at a garage sale!

The people who truely love you care about your physical and emotional well being. Chances are, the people you associate with have similar interests anyway.

It helps that I am an artist and was taking college for an art course. The students could easily dismiss my eccentric hobby because being different is part of the stereotype of being an artist.

 

I'm a male, and I'm in the 8th grade, and there are bullies
in my grade, so that's a no way. ​

 

I had a desktop with a tender too-b and a shall on it, and you would not believe how many people I had ask about it. One girl told me she collected porcelin dolls, and she was all excited to show me her collection (even though I've always been creeped out by porcelin dolls).

And it's great, because I'm in teacher's college now, and the people in my "section" not only know about it, they know how antsy I am waiting for my new boy to arrive. This very morning, I off-handedly mentioned that my package from Singapore had arrived in Canada (I was checking the tracking at the time, honest) and one of the girls perked up to ask if it was my boy. (It wasn't... it was his boots!)

I "warned" my roommates that he was coming, a little worried, but instead they're doing the bouncing around "check the mail! Maybe he's here!" dance with me. Maybe even more than me.

 

If I'd known about the hobby back when I was in college, I know that my room mates at the time would have treated my dolls with respect and care. They'd probably be carted off to our common area and posed for impromptu "Life Drawing" sessions on a regular basis. XD One of my former roommates that I got to visit recently, and I did bring my girl with me, said she wanted to make a necklace for her with some beads she got

 

The only thing im worried about is one of my friends taking it and running around in the hallways with it. ^^;;
But, next year when I'm at college and (maybe) in a dorm, I'll buy a locking closet, and lock up my doll(s) in there. (mysister did something like that but only for her laptop)

 

I brought mine. After spending so much I wasn't going to leave him behind. But I do go to a Christian college.

 

Well, I suppose I'm pretty lucky as I actually live with my older sister and while at times she does like to put my boy in some rather embarassing poses, I have no worries of her actually doing any harm to him as she knows exactly what I went through to get him. x3 Not to mention we both just moved to a rather small little town, so the prospect of either of us bringing him doll-ruining friends is pretty much nil.

Although I have considered bringing my boy to my painting class on ocassion as I think he'd be the perfect model I could just set up and use as referance. Of course, it's class I get nervous about people touching him, dropping him, getting paint on him, etc. So I'm pretty sure he's just going to stay at home for now. x3

 

I haven't got my doll yet, but I'm waiting for my Kirill to arrive. My mother doesn't know about him (d'oh) so I suppose I would have to take him to school! Good thing he comes with a bag.. AND my mother leaves for work before me..and comes home after!

I would be too scared to leave him at home..even under the bed or something. but I do know that if I took my boy to school, he would never leave his bag OR my back. Unless someone relaly wanted to see it..xD (Or I wanted to show it off..xD).

Once i'm in uni, I will probably move onto campus, and bring my dolls with me. That locking closet thing is a good idea!

Melaidhrin! In your dresser?! Wow.. xD And nobody goes snooping through it?

 

I have no problem bringing my doll to my Uni, in fact, she has been living in my studio at Uni for a loooooong time. I bring her home sometimes during weekends or semester break, but most of the time, she remains in my studio as my painting subject. My friends and studio mates are all careful with her.

Fuyuko in my studio

 

I don't think it is a good idea to bring BJD to school. In Hong Kong, there are still so many people that cannot accept BJD, especially those in secondary school. I heard many cases that dolls taken to school were damaged by classmates.

When I studied university, I bought my kids to school because of some after school event, but I never took them out in front of my classmates....=0="

 

I just thought I'd let you know I think that's a pretty sweet studio and a wonderful painting. So keep up the great work.

 

My apartment has separate rooms for each of us with locking doors... So, uh, I don't worry about Benu. If I really felt unsafe, I would lock the door. But my roommates are really awesome. But, if you're in a traditional dorm room, I would WAIT till I knew the person... >.> Cause not everyone in this world is as cool as my roomies ?

Good luck with your situation.

 

Nope, my roommate stays out of my drawers. The only other place for them would be in their bag under the bed but I got paranoid about something getting thrown onto them, so dresser it was!

 

Yeah sammi, at first I was a little worried bringing her to school, but after knowing my friends for so long, I trust them to be especially careful with her. ^^

and thanks Lilly Noodle Need to clean up a bit ^_^