On television and movies kids always seemed to have imaginary friends, in my childhood I don't remember ever coming across kids with imaginary friends, I know I didn't have one.
I ended up recalling today that I was a really weird kid (compared to being a weird adult). I remember around the age of 10 I pretended to have a split personality within my mind; I would have internal discussions with an identical version of myself. I’m never really sure why I did this, I had friends, can't really say I was lonely or anything, maybe I was just bored.
It's pretty strange though, I did this knowing (and discussing it with this pretend split personality) that I would have to quit when I turned 13 (that was the age I had decided that watching cartoons, playing with toys, and pretending were no longer socially acceptable), so I did this for probably 3 years. I even said goodbye to this version of myself when I turned 13, right at 8PM (the time of my "official" birthday (I think)).
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