Treat dolls like children, friend, or simply just as an inanimate object?

I feel the same as Denise in AZ above

 

I treat my dolls like my own children. I nurture them, spoil them, scold them. Even though I'm barely 18, I already have a motherly connection to them. Call me crazy. xD

 

I like to treat my dolls like my friends! I love them a lot in now that I think about it, I kinda do treat my doll like my child. I'm constantly fixing her hair and changing her clothes. Is there anything wrong with that though? If someone wants to treat their doll with love like a child of there own I personally think there is anything wrong with that. It is There doll. If they want to treat the doll like a child, a friend , or just an object it's not a big deal in my opinion. I love my dolls and try to treat them with respect. It doesn't bother me if people don't do the same with theirs, because it is theirs!

 

I treat my doll like a younger friend that I take care of ^^

 

They're art to me really. They have names and a sort of overall story/theme, but i don't pretend they're alive, i don't have conversations with them. Like a lot of other people i will yell or mutter at them when they frustrate me (mostly i call them names. :P). They mostly just sit on the shelf and look pretty and occasionally i take them down and play with them a bit. Then they go back up on the shelf. :P

 

I treat them like a kid will treat her teddybear, they are an emotional support to me. Also before knowing BJD world I already had the weird habit to talk to my stuff, call it dragons, plush toys, dolls...

 

Hmm... Well that's a tough question. As BJDs are very special possesion unlike pets or laptop. How shall I put it. Let's say that their is a character that I like. It could be a character that I had made up in my mind or from published artwork from movies or anime. My BJD represents those character or the character might have been driven off from the BJD I possess. I mean everyone fantasizes about the perfect boy (if you are a guy, girl) and BJD sort of helps me to do that.

 

my mature dolls are my friends, my child dolls who are my mature dolls children, I treat like I would treat like children. some dolls sit on the shelf and look pretty because they arevintage dolls and I don't really play with them, so I have the best of all world I guess.

and I really d love my dolls. they all make me happy and I would miss them if I did not have dolls in my life. I knoow I would because when my first son was born, I had gotten rid of most of my bigger vinntage dolls, and I realized I missed them.

 

o3o Ohh tough question...! I guess a mix of everything to me.
In a way, they are like my children because i've in a sense created them, or more accurately created their characters. Because i've created and developed them as character, it feels a bit like i'm their mother. But I guess that all writers/character designers feel that way to a certain extent about their own creations.

But I still of course I know they aren't really alive, and I don't mean it literally if/when I call them my "babies". Its just a term of endearment. And of course, I say "created" but of course I respect that the sculpt itself is not literally my creation. It isn't the doll itself that I attach the "motherly" feeling to I guess, but the character because that is what is truly my own. The idea of modding the doll etc. doesn't bother me because I ultimately feel they are creative outlets and not real living things.

But I think more than anything I think of them as friends. I want to buy them nice things and help them when they are damaged/etc. They will always be there for me sitting on my shelf when I need them, so I like to be there for them too and be a good friend as I feel they are to me.
So its a real mix of things for me :3

 

I think I treat my boys like they are my kiddos... but I do know they are inanimate, so i don't consider my own children..
I call my F60 Chloe "baby boy" and my Miho "pretty boy". I also "chat" with them, just as an outlet for when I need to get something off my chest. So in a sense I also kind of treat them like my friends...

 

I like what Arkelle said above. In a sense by bringing my doll from Korea to my house with a specific face-up and a name and character in mind, I feel that I engaged in a relationship of sorts. Such as we have with everything in the world, whether it's our car, our pets, our family and friends. We start things and then embark on whatever happens and towards whatever we want. Initially I was attracted to this from an art perspective but now it's different. I feel responsible, I've built things, bought things and to be honest, like having her around. I suppose in one sense I suppose I treat her as some people treat a pet. On the other hand because of her character I attribute more to her than I would a pet. It's complex, but then the interest in dolls goes way back specifically because of the complexity of emotions they stir within us and the imagination that they inspire in us. So while she's a doll, an inanimate object per se, I've invested time and energy and imagination in her and through this she exists as more than "just a doll" for me.

 

I treat them more like friends, but this does not mean that I do not realize that they are inanimate objects. They won't respond, they're just pieces of resin that have been made to look like a human.
However, if I take poor care of them, I feel like karma will kill me. Lol!

 

Really difficult to say. I wouldn't exactly see my sweetheart as my child or a friend, but I feel like every piece of advanced art he has his very own character and charme. So even if he is an inanimate object, I feel that it's okay to feel that he has a mind of his own sometimes. Just not to an extend that I'd imagine he is real like my human friends. :'D
I talk to him, but I talk to my laptop a lot, too. (it even has a name, like my PC) but I can draw a very clear line between what is real and what is fantasy, even if I tend to be quite childish and have a very creative mind. :3

 

Really difficult to say. I wouldn't exactly see my sweetheart as my child or a friend, but I feel like every piece of advanced art he has his very own character and charme. So even if he is an inanimate object, I feel that it's okay to feel that he has a mind of his own sometimes. Just not to an extend that I'd imagine he is real like my human friends. :'D
I talk to him, but I talk to my laptop a lot, too. (it even has a name, like my PC) but I can draw a very clear line between what is real and what is fantasy, even if I tend to be quite childish and have a very creative mind. :3

 

At first i really though i'd treat my girl like a doll without a soul. But very quickly i began calling her by name and getting mad if she didn't sit properly and such. Eventually if she held an akward pose for to long i found myself actually appologizing to her and putting her in a more confortable position until i needed her to pose again. I have no idea where this realistic attachment has come from... odd.

 

I treat my dolls like friends, so I basically treat them like they're alive. I've spent so much time developing their characters and stories that it would be weird if I treated them just like objects. Granted this is how I've treated all my toys since childhood, so it's just more of the same for me now.

 

I treat my dolls like dolls. I will tell them how they look, or what irritates me about them or something but I don't pretend they talk back to me. I like to sit them on my lap, play with them, brush their hair and change their clothes and eyes and stuff. I don't really have set stories or anything for my dolls.

It doesn't bother me when people treat their dolls as children or friends.

 

This is a very though question! Hmm... they are very special to me, more special than just any other ordinary object like a computer or a car. I deffinetely treat them more specially and delicately than anything else that I own. I buy them things, I give them names and characters, and I feel like they are always there for me when I need them. I know they are not alive, especially since I am the one who put so much effort into creating their backstories, but I guess you could say sometimes I do look at them as a friend of sorts. Sometimes I do treat them as just dolls, but sometimes they feel like more to me than that, but definitely not a child or anything living. It doesn't bother when other people act that way, though. I can understand why they might.

 

I gues I could say I treat them all like dolls, but in different ways. Hrm- My SDs I treat more like my collection of actor/models, and I dress each character with a mind to a Movie Set mentality- They are portraying my writing characters.

...Except Copernica, she's like a grown-up elegant stand-in for a ragdoll or teddy bear- I actually talk "to" her all the time, it's what she's there for.



I treat the tinies more the way I used to see my dolls as a kid- cute little friends I can dress up and play make believe with.

 

i do that too^
i can't even begin to tell you all how many times I've accidents bumped Albe into something and then said "oh my god I'm so sorry"