How are you at role-playing?

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I can't really roleplay. If I do it has to be an obvious game, like charades, and I've never been able to live roleplay in a D&D-type game.. I just feel too silly saying 'I run over there' or whatever.. what am I talking about? Strangely though I roleplayed a bit on bulletin boards and I play computer games all the time where I'm pushing keys to move a pretend person around.

I am a good actor though, maybe everyone is to 'get along' in social situations, or maybe people just humor me even though they can tell I'm horrible at it. Me and them are socializing after all, right

But yeah as far as live roleplaying, I generally feel like a huge idiot to even try and so don't

Yes I feel like this too.

A couple of therapists I've seen have tried to do get me to do some role playing of social situations but even just that I felt ridiculous. I'm not very good at thinking on my feet so I guess that's one reason, among quite a few for the difficulty.

My daughter also LOVES being on stage. Since she is very little (the first time she was on stage she was about 1.6 years old, and she had tantrum when we had to leave the stage - we had to leave the restaurant because she did not stop screaming). She does not like teather (although she's being on stage at school plays and she is pretty good), but she is in ballet, and what she likes the most is the show at the end of the year. She endures the whole year just for that. She glows when she is on stage.

The last time I tried role-playing online, many of participants started inventing charges of me "playing god" too often and kicked me out. Yes, it happened one time as a n00b mistake, but I'm pretty sure that I learned after that and then they kicked me out because of other reasons, some of it probably subconscious.

So, I guess my experience suggests I suck at role playing. Though, I'm willing to practice and try again before coming to any permanent conclusions.

Everyday that I have to pretend I am NT I am roleplaying.

At work training sessions we always had a role play part. One time I was playing the supervisor. I was handed a scenario and it was awful. I had to tell the other person that she smelled. I actually managed to offend her, even though she was just playing a part and didn't smell. The trainer had told me that I had to ensure she knew it was coming directly from me, so that she wouldn't think that people were speaking about her. So I mentioned that no-one had spoken about it and, because of that, she thought the opposite. I found it quite difficult to have it come from me alone, because then the other person may believe I was lying. It's much easier if there are others to back you up, but in a delicate siuation like that, the advice was not to involve any others.

I can Roleplay, quite easily I think.

I couldn't role-play if my life depended on it.

I tried getting into Dungeons and Dragons when I was in my late teens, but I truly sucked at it.

I dropped an English course on Oral Interpretation because I couldn't bring myself to try to perform a story while portraying its characters.

I will never try role-playing again.

@Mummy_of_Peanut LOVE your icon.

I'm not really into D&D-type roleplay, or games, for that matter. I'm more of a Magic the Gathering girl.

But I am very good at acting. It's the one thing I take advantage of the most when around *shudders* people hehehe
I take acting for film classes at classes and I took a professional acting class last summer, and the teachers there really liked me. They even went as far as wanting to refer me, although I was wary of getting into that business. :/
I'm also good at improv, as long as it's not comedy-based. If I were to play D&D, I don't think I'd have much of a problem with it. I just wouldn't bee too interested in it, because I mostly do online roleplay with RP groups in which I play one of the characters from a certain fandom, like a Harry Potter character, Disney character, etc.

That does sound hard. I would have difficulty too. I have done role playing in the past and found it fun but sometimes it's hard if someone makes it challenging such as in your OP you were put in.

I remember being in high school and we all had to role play about student performance like what a good student does and what is in between and what a bad student does. I watched other kids perform and someone played the teacher and another student played the student who came back from being sick and was getting their assignments they missed. Then it was my turn and I had to play in between the good and bad and I found it difficult but I decided to try my best. I went in and tried to be in between and then I left the classroom and I was surprised when my teacher said I did very good. I asked her what was good and she listed things and I realized I did do good. I didn't ask for when my work was due. That was unintentional I did but I still did good thanks to that. So sometimes I do happen to do the right thing and not even know it but I am still not good at it because you have to think hard what to say or how to act or think of how another person would act and why and it gets tiring. I used to do online role playing too and then I quit because I would get RP blocks and I never enjoyed being someone else. Only myself.

I guess if it's by my own rules and standards I find it fun but if it's under someone else's rules and they want me to be another character or want to do things in it I don't enjoy, then I suck at it. I just don't enjoy it and I find it tiring.