Surely this would have been handy during the Grimm Therapy game. A study of childhood “imaginary friends” (which 65% of all kids seem to have at some point or another) reveals:
* While preschool girls were more likely to have an imaginary companion, by age 7 boys were just as likely as girls to have one.
* 27 percent of the children described an imaginary friend that their parents did not know about.
* 57 percent of the imaginary companions of school-age youngsters were humans and 41 percent were animals. One companion was a human capable of transforming herself into any animal the child wanted.
* Not all imaginary companions are friendly. A number were quite uncontrollable and some were a nuisance.
You got that last point right, brother …
Katherine does not have any imaginary friends. That, of course, we know about.
My imaginary friend was Munga, and I remember having very long conversations with him. I don’t recall him as being particularly human or animal (he was, after all, invisible), and I sometimes wonder where he wandered off to.
(via BoingBoing)
My family tells me I had an imaginary friend called Cantaloupe Cheerleader although I don’t have much of a memory of her myself.