Pretend Playing as a child

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I pretend played. I had whole imaginary fairy tale like worlds. I would build great underground homes and cities with chalk. Of course all this was by myself, but I enjoyed it.

I pretend played a lot alone as well. I'd build houses of Lego, then throw boccia balls at them, pretending that they were hit by meteorites.

I enjoy pretending when it is my games, but someone else's pretend, and I can't do it.

I liked acting out scenes from my favourite Disney films, and inventing new ones. I also liked being a cat, because they were (and still are) my favourite animal.

I did pretend play in a way, but never with other people. I had a very rich imagination and didn't like others intruding into my complex train of thought and giving their ideas: I only wanted things my way.

I loved playing by myself, which almost always involved richly detailed imaginary worlds I had...I would take familiar landmarks and simply imagine they were different places in these worlds...people saw this as daydreaming but I was actually very focused on this and there was vivid imagery and associations going on in my head. With objects, dolls, stuff animals and figurines, I played very rigidly, sometimes reinacting scenarios/scripts from tv shows and movies but mostly sorting them into groups and categories.

There is a home video of me at the age of 4 or 5. It shows me with two stuffed animals and me sorting wooden beads in front of them: one of each color for each of the animals. I have a very serious look on my face and appear to be engrossed in the activity, My mom's voiceover: "This is how Anneurysm plays".

my pretend play involved me just copying tv show storys with my toys or acting out what id see on tv

I pretended I was a horse or a dog.I would tuck a scarf in the back of my pants and imagine that was the horse tail, then I would run around with it streaming behind me.When I pretended to be a dog I got on all fours and barked,even ate some of our dogs food,Purina.I never pretended to be a person and had a hard time playing with other kids.When I rode my bike I pretended it was a horse.

Sure, I pretend played a lot. On my own or with me as the leader, I can't remember ever really engaging in anyone else's. I am the oldest child so I always had my siblings to play with.

When I was a young child on the occasions that "friends" came over to play we often would have a game of pretend. Usually it was about witches & wizards, but it usually ended badly as I'd insist that it had to go a certain way, or that they weren't playing it properly.

I played games like house, dress up, sharks in the sea and restaurant. I also wanted to reenact scenes from The Dukes of Hazard. There was also a week there when I was 9 just after The Summer Olympics came to a close that I was reenacting all the different medal competitions because I didn't want the games to end. I've also played Rock Band by myself while I was in my room for hours a day at the age of 11 and 12 pretending to play the drums.

I created incredibly elaborate fantasy worlds with multiple ongoing quests and secondary stories going on. Sometimes I merged themes, characters, landscapes, and creatures from different fantasy worlds into a "meeting in the middle" purgatory kind of world for a joint quest. Other times, I would "hop" from universe to universe and connect with my different friend characters when I arrived. I read and wrote a lot of novels and poetry-- it's where I found my peace, happiness, and escape.