<p>Well, kids have imaginary friends, play with dolls and action figures, believe in magic, etc. </p>
<p>However, It makes me sad, makes me think he’s creepy and I wouldn’t be comfortable sitting near him. I’d also wonder what his day to day life looks like. </p>
<p>Sheldon Cooper might have joined the faculty of Chicago. </p>
<p>I am with those that say - he is is not harming anyone, so let him be. </p>
<p>I saw a TV show about this. I guess you’re right… it’s creepy but at least he’s not hurting anyone.</p>
<p>“If he’s a family member you probably have a lot better idea of the history that led up to this.”</p>
<p>That’s a good point, and hopefully there would be a therapist around familiar with the guy’s history who could provide some better perspective on whether you should enable it and invite her to Christmas dinner, or insist she stay at home.</p>
<p>Members of our party were asking how does he travel with her, if you need identification to buy a plane ticket? My guess was that just as I could buy a plane ticket for an expensive musical instrument and strap it in next to me, maybe he does the same. But that would be pretty disturbing to be sitting in a 3-seat section with the two of them. Remember, he talked to her. The same way a guy might talk to a date. </p>
<p>He might be harming himself in the court of public opinion. Would anyone trust such a wacko? </p>
<p>Most restaurants will serve anyone as long as they wear shoes and a shirt. Wonder if she’d be charged a cover charge at clubs?</p>
<p>He never has to worry that she will cheat on him.</p>
<p>Well, there was that evening when the puppeteer showed up … </p>
<p>It sounds like the scene before the opening music in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit!</p>
<p>Update: Apparently this guy has been bringing her to Brookfield Zoo for quite a few years now. According to a story on Reddit (take that source for what you will), he does indeed consider himself married to the doll and she wears an engagement and wedding ring. Creepy - but just really, really sad. </p>
<p>I wonder if they had a wedding.</p>
<p>I had some serious imaginary friends when I was young- and an imaginary horse. My pre-school carpool was frequently delayed while we loaded the horse. I outgrew it, though. (whew)</p>
<p>Johnny Manziel calls his dolls ‘action figures’.</p>
<p>The need to “show her off in public” would be the most abnormal part to me. Lots of folks have fetishes, but most don’t pursue them in public if they would freak others out. Like dressing like Napoleon or wearing only a diaper.</p>
<p>The movie Mannequin was basically Pygmalion, who made a sculpture that came to life, assumedly due to his love for her as a statue. The cop out in the movie is that the mannequin was possessed by a ghost or something.</p>
<p><a href=“Delusional Disorder: Signs and Symptoms | Psych Central”>http://psychcentral.com/disorders/delusional-disorder-symptoms/</a></p>
<p>Thus, the guy clearly shows signs of a delusional disorder, only at best, and possibly schizophrenic. Such a public manifestation of a mental illness which is pretty substantial is rather alarming.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is the same as personification of pets, like talking to them and worrying about what they feel. </p>
<p>I’d rather sit in a restaurant with him and his mannequin than someone who is rubber dolling. Now that’s creepy. </p>
<p>That said, I’d probably be quite taken aback if I had encountered this in a restaurant. But, as others have said, he is not hurting anyone (except himself perhaps).</p>
<p>I don’t think it in anyway compares to talking to and loving our pets. </p>
<p>GA2012mom - oh my goodness - from reddit I followed a link to the Jerry Springer show years ago, when it was filmed here in Chicago, and they were “married” on the show. </p>
<p>Oh my goodness is all I can say. Google dollman and Jerry Springer if you want the video; I’m not linking to it.</p>
<p>“I had some serious imaginary friends when I was young- and an imaginary horse. My pre-school carpool was frequently delayed while we loaded the horse. I outgrew it, though. (whew)”</p>
<p>Was that “whew” or “whooooooaaaah”!</p>
<p>Wait a minute, aren’t all of you imaginary friends? LOL.</p>
<p>What percentage of the closet does her clothes take up? Does she wear a nightgown to bed? I don’t even want to think about them being intimate. X_X </p>
<p>“I don’t think it in anyway compares to talking to and loving our pets.”</p>
<p>I don’t either. </p>
<p>Wasn’t there a movie where a guy falls in love with Siri? </p>