1. Have you ever felt like your characters were ‘living in’ your head?
2. Have you ever felt like they were very bad houseguests?
3. Did you have imaginary friends as a child?
4. Have you ever felt like you know you have a good character when they move into your head and first start talking to you?
5. Have you ever given up on a character because they didn’t do that?
6. Have you ever lost control of a story to the characters in it?
7. Have you ever started a story without knowing the ending assuming that the characters will just take care of it?
8. Have you ever had a character flat out refuse to do something for a necessary plot point?
9. Have you ever bribed a character with something to get them to do it?
10. Have you ever made a character do something they didn’t want to do and had them sulk at you?
11. Have you ever had writer’s block not because you didn’t know what was going to happen, but because a character wouldn’t *talk* to you?
12. Have you ever had the character not be talking to you not because you were tired/distracted/unable to think but because they were sulking?
13. Have you ever written a dialogue between yourself and a character in an attempt to circumvent writer's block?
14. Have you ever had a character go into a squee fit/sulking fit over something you knew but they hadn’t realized yet?
15. Have you ever had a character whine at you when you wouldn’t let them steal your knowledge to meta with?
16. Have you ever had your mood pulled up/down just by the sheer volume of a character in that mood in your head?
17. Have you ever hesitated to do something bad to your character because you felt sorry for them?
18. Have you ever hesitated to do something bad to your character because then you’d have to listen to them angst?
19. Have you ever been eager to do something bad to your character because they’re an annoying little bitch and maybe it would shut them up?
20. Have you ever had a character name themself?
21. Have you ever been unable to rename a character even when their name was stupid or too confusing/alliterative/rhymed with another character’s name because that was *their* name and they weren’t going to let you?
22. Have you ever had characters fight with each other because of having to share your attention?
23. Have you ever had characters from totally different universes interact because they happen to be living in the same head?
24. Have you ever had other characters offer peanut gallery commentary on the actions of a character not in their own universe?
25. Have you ever argued with a character?
26. Out loud?
27. In front of mundanes?
28. Have you ever called yourself schizophrenic?
29. Have you ever been called schizophrenic?
30. By mundanes?
31. Have you ever altered your food preferences because of your characters?
32. Have you ever seen clothes or jewelry items and had a character tell you they wanted them?
33. Have you ever bought them for a character?
34. Have you ever bought things for a character that couldn’t even be rationalized as costume items (see above)?
35. Have you ever dressed up as a character?
36. Have you ever not been allowed to dress up as a character because they thought you couldn’t portray them correctly?
37. Have you ever listened to music/read books/watched shows that you wouldn’t normally have watched because a character talked you into it? (Not just for research purposes. Only check this if you did it even when references to the thing probably wouldn’t even have come up in play or in the story)
38. Have you ever had a character listen to music/read a book/watch a show with you and comment on it?
39. Have you ever been unable to continue listening to a song/reading a book/watching a show because you couldn’t concentrate with the snarking going on?

Diagnose me!