If you had to diagnose what a "waifu" is,

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What would you say that condition it called? I'll explain.
A waifu is someone you take as your wife. Except this someone is usually a cartoon character and you form a relationship with this "person". I mean going on dates, buying her stuff. Oh it gets deeper. Attaching feelings to this "person", getting jealous when another character in the show talks to your waifu. Getting angry when someone else on the internet claims your waifu as their waifu, then doing mental gymnastics to think that your waifu exists in a different reality than his waifu, even though they are the same drawing. There is more.

The picture below is an example of a body pillow with the subjects waifu printed on the fabric. It is not uncommon for these pillows to be ordered in pornographic poses printed on the on the length of the pillow. As you can imagine, they do stuff with the pillows.


Something else I noticed. They refer to women are "3d". That stuck me as a bit odd. Why are they 3d? Does that mean they think of the world in terms of bits and dimensions relative to a screen? I have so many questions.

If you do a google search of "waifu" and look at the images, some of the captions are describing "my waifu is going to be such a good mother" and things like that. This person plans on having a family with their waifu.

The waifu thing came from people who are fans of anime, some refer to themselves as "weaboo". Picking a waifu is some times practiced on forums and youtube videos and advise on a waifu's behavior and rules of how to treat that specific character are exchanged. What is that all about? Is it like a rite of passage for a person in this tribal group to pick their waifu? I dont know.

This is a forum on reddit about waifu's and people who all support each other and tell each other what they are doing is natural and is a healthy behavior, falling "in love" with a fictional character. https://www.reddit.com/r/waifuism/

Can someone tell me if this is a delusion or a symptom of a mental illness. I just want some answers. Stuff like this fascinates me. I can't believe you guys get paid to study this stuff. Keep up the good work and thank you for your time.

Seriously, I'm not making fun of these people. If they need help, and this is unhealthy, I want to help them. I feel like it is, but I have no scientific background anything really. I was hoping you could lend your expertise.

Thank you again,
You Lie
(thats my google+ name.)

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No worse imo than bronies or is that bronys..lol

Fantasy stuffs have become all the rage these days since people can online easily find others with similar interests. So you really only need diagnose them if they are an insurance paying patient.

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Is there a functional impairment? No need to pathologize an atypical behavior. Atypical and abnormal are different.
 
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This reminds me of an article I saw just yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...fe-of-the-human-pups-the-men-who-live-as-dogs

If you can dream it, there is an Internet community for it.

That one was SUPER interesting because it seems like there might be some association with anxiety and avoidance--like, not having to make any of your own decisions and being completely taken care of.

Also, 30 Rock had a hilarious episode about what was discussed in the OP.
 
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Im not ****ing trolling. I got into it with someone about this in my personal life. They said "There is nothing wrong with it! what are you a doctor?! How would you know?!" So here I am, asking a doctor. I'm not trolling ****.

Does behavior like that have a name?

I kinda imagined if you got a waifu, you dont have to risk your ego or getting embarrassed by speaking to a woman and she declines your offer for date/number exchange etc. So I can imagine that makes them feel safe because they dont have to think like "omg im 22 an never had a girlfriend" or something self deprecating like that. I'm serious guys, this is not to troll anyone.

I'm trying to prove a point that it might be unhealthy and effect a persons ability to interact with people. If you're constantly having one way conversations and the "person" you're talking to always agrees with you, are you not conditioning yourself in a negative way?
 
Is there a functional impairment? No need to pathologize an atypical behavior. Atypical and abnormal are different.
I dont understand the question.

I dont know if this person is impaired by it. From what im told, they are receding more and more into this "relationship" with their waifu. The woman telling me about this person is like sticking up for him using an argument like "a lot of people do it" so that some how makes it ok. When in reality, this person used to be somewhat socially active but had trouble pursuing and being around women. Now they have adopted an "oh im married now i dont need to do X my waifu loves me the way I am" like proper hygiene and keeping up appearances when going out in public have slipped.

Like I said though, this is all second hand info. I'm sure there is more to it but the person telling me this stuff is like on his side.

Did that help?
 
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