Most children may have had an imaginary friend at some point in their childhood. Everyone has at least some form of entity on their mental capacity in which they talk and express emotions to. The whole purpose of an imaginary friend though is for a child to have a specific and exact figure that they can relate to for one reason or another.
Now of course this all may sound as if I'm specializing in child psychiatry most of this can be attributed to speculation and personal preference. Obviously there's no exact way to generate an idea of every child's imaginary friend, or whether they even possessed one.
Parents on the other hand have notoriously tried to discourage this in some cases. I'm not saying every everyone does before I get angry comments (ha, as if I'd get comments at all) but some do rather than desensitize their children to reality like a Fast and Furious movie. Some of them may also be based more on a fear endued fixation, less of an imaginary friend and more of a manifestation of terror.
But studies indicate that having an imaginary friend may significantly improve the social skills of a child. Their ability to communicate and interact could already be at an advantage having been communicating with their own entity for such a long time. So if you talk to yourself you're actually more sociable, wait a minute...
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