After reading this thread, I’m inspired to take a poll. So please kindly answer the following questions:
Did you ever have an imaginary friend?
Were you an only child at any point?
Did you many friends?
How old were you when you ditched your pal?
Thankies. 
Oh, maybe I should answer the questions myself.
No
No. Youngest of 5 children here.
Yup. Seems like all the couples on my block decided to have children at about the same time. There were gaggles of kids my age around.
N/A
1. Did you ever have an imaginary friend?
Tons of 'em.
2. Were you an only child at any point?
For about thirteen months after I was born. Then my dearest Sister was born.
3. Did you many friends?
No, not really.
** 4. How old were you when you ditched your pal?**
'Bout ten or eleven, I think.
I’m going to learn how to proofread one of these days. Really. As you may have already gathered, the 3rd question should read “Did you have many friends?”
Yes. See the other thread for the story of my mostly-invisible Siamese twin, Karen. I also had imaginary children for a while – quintuplet girls named Laura, Robin, Aleesha, Vivian, and Leslie. (No, I don’t know why I was so fascinated with multiple births; we certainly didn’t have any in my real family.)
Yes, but my brother was born before any of the imaginary folks put in an appearance. It should, however, be noted that I longed for a sister and didn’t have one.
Not really, although I had some friends up until junior high.
Not sure – I think around six.
No. At one point I actually tried to make one up because I thought I was supposed to have one, but I could never really make myself pretend to have one.
No.
I guess so.
N/A
1.) Yes. A little boy named Straps, who had 20 twin brothers and his dad was a snowman.
2.) No, but my sister was 6 years older and ignored me.
3.) No, but I had lots of relatives my age to play with.
4.) Shortly after starting school.
I had an imaginary little brother. Having two older sisters I resented not only being the youngest and having no authority, but being the only boy in my family. If you count stuffed animals then yes, I had them as"friends", too. They were real, animate beings who could walk and talk and do everything a person could do in my young little mind.
I never was an only child (see previous).
I had very few friends. I hated most of the kids I went to school with for reasons I won’t go into in this post.
Probably around 7-8 years old.
Not an imaginary friend, but fairies lived by my swing tree. They only came out when I was there, and we’d sing.
I might as well have been - my brother was 8 years older.
Lived in the middle of nowhere outside of a small town. Yes, I had plenty of friends in school, but was (and am) perfectly content to entertain myself.
They preferred to stay at the swing tree, as fairies often do. I miss them. I hope they have befriended others.
Yes and what trips me out when I think about them is how complex I made them out to be.
I had seven of them at one time but I could only actually talk to one of them. the rest I had to speak through the one guy and if they wanted to talk to me they had to speak through him as well. He was somewhat of a medium I guess you could say.
Also they were not humaniod either. They were all little balls of energy about the size of my thumb.
I was not an only child, I had an average amout of friends and I think I ditched them around eight or so.
[[[ SHHHH! I can’t tell them I still talk to you guys; they’ll think I’m crazy!! ]]]
Yes.
Yes, and I remain so.
Not until I went to school, and then I did have lots of friends.
When I was about 5, I think. (Same time I went to school, what a coincidence…). I had my “dream friend” when I was about 3 years old.
1.) Yes. His name was Blue. He didn’t have a physical form, per se. He just was there.
2.) I was an only child until I was almost six.
3.) Yes, I had lots of friends. There were tons of kids in my neighborhood.
4.) I was probably around seven or eight when he “went away.”
Yes - Demon was his name (pronounced DEMMON), who was a butterfly and lived behind the clock face of Big Ben (which for some reason I thought was in Newcastle). He was very clumsy, it seems, since many spillages and breakages were blamed on him.
I was the first of four children, by about 2 years.
Lots of friends.
I can’t remember - I definitely didn’t have one when I was 5.
1. Did you ever have an imaginary friend?
Yes. Annie.
2. Were you an only child at any point?
No, but I am the youngest by 7 years.
3. Did you have many friends?
Yes. There were a lot of kids my age in the neighbourhood, and we used to roam about like a preschool gang.
4. How old were you when you ditched your pal?
5 or 6, I believe.
Yes, Spidey…a giant nearsighted daddy longlegs
Yes, for 2 years until my sister came along.
No, just my next-door neighbor and my mom’s friend’s kids.
4 or 5ish…before school anyhow.
Sometimes I think all my friends are imaginary. 
Yeah, mostly they were stuffed animals who could talk to me. Though my favourite one was a miniature screwdriver. They had names and everything but I can’t remember them because I changed them almost every day.
Nope.
Not many, just a few, though they didn’t always live close.
Around 10 or so.
I had imaginary older brothers, Fertel and Greggy. I didn’t so much play with them as talk about them and how naughty they were breaking stuff - and not stuff I broke either, just stuff. I had a twin sister and a baby brother at the time. Since I was about four I was too young to really have friends, but there were kids I played with. Fertel and Greggy didn’t last long.