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18 years old and still plays pretend??
I'm an 18 year old male and I still enjoy playing pretend. Sometimes I like to think I'm a pro baseball or football player and I go as far as writing out my stats and contracts. I even wear jerseys. I also have a ton of toy cars that I arrange in my imaginary driveway. If that isn't strange enough, I'm actually in the army and I still enjoy playing "soldier" when I'm at home. I've got WWII uniforms I dress up in and I even go camping in the woods as if I were watching the line in 1944 Bastogne.
I obviously don't tell people this and I don't think that there's anything wrong with me, but how abnormal is this behavior? I'm very serious and mature about other things, but in this aspect of life I'm not.
4 Answers
- 5 years ago
I'm 21, I used to do it all the time when i was younger but i stopped when i moved in with my boyfriend. Now that we're not together anymore i do it all the time, it makes me feel happier and just for a while i can pretend my life is okay. I suppose i pretend during the day as well, at college i pretend to be happy and that everything is okay. Everything isn't okay. Just be careful x
- 6 years ago
It is not uncommon at all. See for example everybody that goes to comicon or to civil war reanactment. I personally believe that everybody had the inclination to want to do something like this but they are pressured be preconceived notions of how society will look at them. Everybody has a child inside and its fine and healthy to pretend. The only place where it become unhealthy is when a person starts to not differentiate between reality and this pretending state. I think pretending is important because it also helps create dreams and aspirations in some cases.
