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In my case (giftie), they called it "asynchronous development".

One moment I will be thinking out some long, detailed plan for whatever. The next moment I will just day dream about climbing trees or jumping in mud puddles.

I catch myself taking a stick or paper airplane and pretending they are flying. I will make noises like a rocket engine or something. lol

My Legos and Star Wars toys are only a few feet away from where I am typing this.

It's funny, it can be a like a light switch in my mind. One minute, something stern and adult, then the next minute silly and goofy like I am 10 again.

Fnord mentioned having a sand box... man that would be awesome to have one again. I remember being in one for hours. Such good fun!

To me kids have more fun in life than adult because they have less responsibilities. I wonder if there is such a way of making responsibilities fur or vice-verse?

Playing is fun, I often find myself going around the house doing action moves, and brandishing things like brooms like hammers and swords, I have even self taught myself things like twirling sticks. I like to play fight with my muscularly stronger younger brother with who is the best at things like it is common for us to do a bit of subdueing each other in the kitchen and my skills are still better. I also like to play with pretend lightsabers or being one of my faviroute movie stars.

Nope, I wish we could hang out though!
Letting your imagination go away with you in the outdoors is always a great way to cast away your worries and even better yourself in some ways. If you think something might be too "childish", don't be ashamed to induldge, but if you don't want others to know about it or see you then you don't have to let them Just go out alone and have a blast.

If that's what they call it, "they" are crazy.
Being well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society is no measure of mental health.
It's their problem, not yours.

I wish I could play right now. My situation is so oppressive that I'm emotionally shut-down most of the time. When I do come out of it, I just want to cry (which is out of character).

Oh yes, I play I've got a mental block on it too, much of the time, but I won't let the idea die. It breaks out now and again and I hope it always will.

I mess about with music a lot, and I can make it anything I like between pure work and pure play. I get dragged into the technical side of it a lot, but I always get back to the artistic side of it, which is playing in both senses of the word.

Nobody should ever stop playing, not for good.

I like playing, too. I'm not sewing a bunch of dolls for nothing.

I don't have room in my apartment for toys but I have some. I just don't have room for all of them. I mostly just use the computer, watch, TV or play video games.


That's my idea of playing. Heck parents play with their kids so I don't think playing with childish things is immature. I bet that's why they have kids in the first place. They want to still play and have fun so having a kid is an excuse for it.

I'm up for a game of Traveller! Anyone got some dice?

Not for a very long time. I was reading recently there are those who say play is essential to the lives of children, it helps them develop intellectually and physically. Good unstructured playtime is something that kids are being robbed of more and more today, it's very sad.

I can remember trying to play as a child, but when my parents got on their swimming kick, play was no more. I used to love to create elaborate stories with action figures, toys, or I'd build something out of blocks or legos to add to the fun. However, my sister decided that these activities weren't "doing anything" so my parents would drag me away from them to go swimming when she did.

When I wanted to play with these things instead of swimming, I'd get told "you can do that anytime 7 days a week," to which I would respond, "then why can't I just go do it now," which would really get my mother upset, and I had no clue why.

The result, playing became harder for me, because I knew at any time, I'd be dragged away from it, which really hurt. I was always sad when I was in the middle of creating an adventure and was dragged away, it was just so unfair. Eventually, I gave it up, and was sadder for it.

What we need in our world is more play, just wish I could bring myself to want to play again.

I'm a teenager, and I always want to play. I still play with Barbie dolls when I can, becuase it's fun to make up stories. I also love legos, and Kapla blocks. I had both with I was in elementary, in the gifted program. I waited everyweek for Thursday to come around, which was the day I got to go to the program, and we'd be able to play with blocks becuase they were educational (building, imagination, creating). I now have my own set of Kapla blocks, which I love more than legos!

I just don't see what the big deal is with kids my age haning out and just talking. The things they talk about are so stupid. And It annoys me in the manner in which they talk "Like, OMG! Did you SEE his hair?!) You get the point. I prefer to be alone, imagining and creating with my toys. It's so much more enriching than just talking about those stupid things.

Am I crazy for thinking this? To most people, probably, but I don't care. I'm probably a lot smarter than many people at my school, and it's most likely becuase I play with toys. I don't waste my time with nonsense.

i still play with dolls and stuffed animals...

but right now, i'm wishing i had some legos or kapla blocks or something.. cause that sounds like fun. maybe i'll dig out my construct-o-straws....

I have toys on my desk and in my bookcases at work. I play with them when I am bored or when I am on the phone. Drawing funny pictures on the whiteboard is fun too. People at work don't say anything about me playing because I normally don't play until I have my work done. I will quit playing and go back to work if there is stuff to do.

Yep, building stuff is fun. Really fun.

Same here. I sometimes feel like I'm 100 compared to people my own age. But there is still so much little kid left in me too. I play whenever I can get away with it.

I'm the NT in my marriage, and my husband is the AS. I LOVE to play (thank goodness for the 4yo!), but he worries that it will reduce his "dignity." His words, not mine. Oh, how I wish he would forget that blessed dignity for just an hour or so every now and then and have some fun. He has such a great laugh, and I'd be thrilled to hear it more often! Our daughter would be even more delighted with having Dad play with her without the inhibitions of that dignity.

Meanwhile, I have a recipe for homeade playdough. I love playdough. And crayons. And paint. Playgrounds. Long walks in the woods (NOT hiking for distance. "Wow! Look at the lizard!" hikes.). Renting a paddleboat at the park and chasing the ducks while my daughter sings the theme son from "Jaws." Dancing at the bus stop to whatever music we want to sing. (A school bus driver once stopped and asked us what we were doing.) Making "Calvin and Hobbes" snowmen in the front yard and then asking our police officer neighbor for crime scene tape to mark it off. (Yes, we had the only crime scene in the neighborhood last winter. People drove by twice because they didn't believe it the first time.) Making snow paint out of liquid food coloring and water and spraying the snow in different colors. I recommend making yellow and then going to your most obnoxious neighbor's house and writing their name in their front yard with it. Sword fights with the insultaion tubes made for water pipes. (Cheaper than the "Nerf" type swords by a long shot and last longer.) I'm making my 4yo her own chain maille out of aluminum rings. She can't wait to have her own armor!