Sometimes I have an urge to play

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I don't mean like a child so much, but sometimes I have a desire to be surrounded by brightly-coloured plastic objects (i.e, toys), and make up scenes and creative stories using my phone video editing app.

I've not been having this urge for long, and I think it's due to anxiety. My mother is battling with cancer and we don't know how long she's got left, plus I'm living in anguish about the global crisis, so I think my mind is desperate to escape to fantasy.

I do age-appropriate creative activities to escape the reality, like drawing, writing stories and playing the Sims 2, but I often wish I had the room and the money to collect as many toys as I can and use that room to escape from reality sometimes.

But when you're in a relationship with an NT guy, paying bills, working, and planning on getting married someday....you know I'll feel a bit silly if you get what I mean....

me tooooo

Do I have the thread for you :

https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=389067

I love playing in the ways you describe! I still buy myself indulgences like that from time to time -- hoola hoops and bubbles to blow and stuffed animals. I'm not obsessed with it but it does make life a lot more fun on the stressful days! I wouldn't worry about it!

I still often have an intense desire to play pretend - and thinking about it, it’s probably also a means of escape for me, just getting to be someone/something else for a little while. I deeply miss playing pretend with my brother when we were kids, and I’d adore having someone who’d do it with me now. I too play The Sims (though I play 4 now) and write, but it’s just not the same. The rate at which enough of an idea will come to me to be able to write it down or otherwise express it is painfully slow, and I struggle with trying to play all the parts at the same time. Plus it doesn’t work out very well when someone with minimal social skills tries to write social interaction Nobody, including me, wants to try to read any of my first drafts. It’s even worse in The Sims, I really can only manage one Sim at a time.

Anyone spending a few days or more around me would at least have to put up with me pretending by myself, even if all they did was ignore it (though of course it would be great if they’d play along and far better still if they’d join in). Sure, I feel silly at times, but it really seems to be an integral part of who I am, I just can’t help it.

And now I‘m not sure if this is really on topic or not