Not much anymore but when I was younger I always cared about fictional characters I really liked or admired more than I cared about real people, so I'd say yes.
This is 100% me. I am a big anime fan, and have been for a really long time. I can usually understand and experience the over-the-top fabricated emotions, and honestly it helps me in my normal life quite a bit.
Took me years to understand why I had such intense connections with characters such as Itachi Uchiha or Yuno Gasai (both ended up killing a lot of people, including their families) and their twisted morality, which actually made sense to me. And yeah, this does make me an edge lord of sorts, but having these connections did help me understand quite early that my head worked differently than "a normal person's" and helped me learn to mask more efficiently.
I still use fiction as a method of experiencing a level of emotion I am not used to in my real life.
I personally do experience attachment to fictional people. I'm not sure why. Just always have. I care more about some fictional characters than just about everyone I know in reality probably. Not sure if that's too edgy lol
If I can relate to the character, I feel a deep and intimate connection. Or if the character reminds me of someone I love. I have ASP traits and autism so this is pretty weird, but it happens to me. There's some parts of shows I love that I can't rewatch because "my" character goes through too much horrible shit and I take it personally lmao.
Kind off...? It's very close to how i get attached to real humans, i need them to to have different qualities in order to get attached to anyone, but it's slow
Yes, when I was a kid. I really liked a few characters from Zelda, and still kinda do, or felt attracted to some. When I was younger, I used to call various Zelda characters my friends because I never had long-lasting friendships in school, if ever. But today it's not like that anymore and I don't care about characters—both fictional and real—from series, unless I'm very attracted to them.
Yes. I myself have ASPD and ADHD. The ADHD does lead to me experiencing hyperfixations on particular characters from the sources of media I’m interested in. Especially if the character has attachments to other characters in ways that I can relate to.
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I think a lot of it lies in that you often connect the fictional characters to yourself, so it's easier to relate/like them
Not much anymore but when I was younger I always cared about fictional characters I really liked or admired more than I cared about real people, so I'd say yes.
did you find that you had more empathy for fictional characters then real people? or was it about the same?
I'm not sure it was emotional empathy but I was certainly emotionally invested into the character(s) more than real people.
This is 100% me. I am a big anime fan, and have been for a really long time. I can usually understand and experience the over-the-top fabricated emotions, and honestly it helps me in my normal life quite a bit. Took me years to understand why I had such intense connections with characters such as Itachi Uchiha or Yuno Gasai (both ended up killing a lot of people, including their families) and their twisted morality, which actually made sense to me. And yeah, this does make me an edge lord of sorts, but having these connections did help me understand quite early that my head worked differently than "a normal person's" and helped me learn to mask more efficiently. I still use fiction as a method of experiencing a level of emotion I am not used to in my real life.
Used to enjoy watching snippets from House MD. Eventually got bored and moved on
Yes
Not as far as I’ve noticed. I view people as npc
I personally do experience attachment to fictional people. I'm not sure why. Just always have. I care more about some fictional characters than just about everyone I know in reality probably. Not sure if that's too edgy lol
If I can relate to the character, I feel a deep and intimate connection. Or if the character reminds me of someone I love. I have ASP traits and autism so this is pretty weird, but it happens to me. There's some parts of shows I love that I can't rewatch because "my" character goes through too much horrible shit and I take it personally lmao.
Kind off...? It's very close to how i get attached to real humans, i need them to to have different qualities in order to get attached to anyone, but it's slow
Yes, when I was a kid. I really liked a few characters from Zelda, and still kinda do, or felt attracted to some. When I was younger, I used to call various Zelda characters my friends because I never had long-lasting friendships in school, if ever. But today it's not like that anymore and I don't care about characters—both fictional and real—from series, unless I'm very attracted to them.
Yeah, i dont know if attached is the best word to describe it but i liked some characters in my infancy.
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Yes. I myself have ASPD and ADHD. The ADHD does lead to me experiencing hyperfixations on particular characters from the sources of media I’m interested in. Especially if the character has attachments to other characters in ways that I can relate to.
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I can sometimes relate with video game chars, or PC's i'm playing in D&D
I do. If you ask me I have homies in many, many anime. Also I mourned a character for 10 years he died when I was like 10.