Having parents/adults pretend to be movie characters?

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When I was a kid, I was really into the dwarves from Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, and would sometimes pretend that the people around me were different dwarf characters....whether they were aware of it or not.

For instance, my parents and grandparents once took me to this diner in Minnesota when I was about 4, and our waitress had the most grouchy-looking expression on her face. I should have taken this as a cue not to do anything that would annoy her, but instead when she bent over me and asked what I wanted to order, I smiled at her and greeted her with, "Hi, Grumpy!" My parents were mortified, but after that, the waitress seemed a bit more cheerful.

Afterward, my aunt took me to the University she worked at, and one of her colleagues (who seemed to have a perpetual smile) bent down in front of me and said, "Oh, hello! Aren't you cute!"

I smiled back and said, "Hi, Dopey!" My aunt later told me that I couldn't have been more accurate (apparently she WAS kinda dopey) but I still feel kinda bad about it. xD

This kind of continued on throughout the day...anyone who wore glasses became "Doc," if I saw someone yawn or rub their eyes, they were "Sleepy," If I heard someone sneeze, I called out, "Bless you, Sneezy!" If someone didn't look up the first time I greeted them, I would try again with, "Hi, Bashful! You must be feeling REALLY shy today!"....you get the idea.

When I was obsessed with the character Mushu from Mulan, my dad and I would do this thing where he would pretend to be Mushu (he actually kind of enjoyed it cuz he liked Eddie Murphy) and I was Mulan.

I read the book "A Friend Like Henry" when I was in high school (in my free time, not as an assignment) and was fascinated by how the parents in the book were able to entice their son with autism into going to bed, sharing, and getting ready for school if they asked for it in the dog's (Henry's) voice. For instance, the boy's mother or father would say in a deep, dog-like voice, "Dale, let's go for a walk," and Dale would go and get his shoes on, because it was the dog who was asking, and he truly felt comfortable and at ease with the dog...with Henry, there were none of the uncertainties/anxiety associated with other people.

I remember reading about it and thinking to myself that I would have been all over that approach when I was a kid, if my mom or dad had tried that to get me to comply with their requests. Then again, I was actually really compliant as a kid (almost to a fault) so they must have figured it wasn't a necessary thing to do. However, I do remember my mom trying to entice me into getting into the bath sans dawdling by saying lightly, "Don't forget to warsh behind your ears!" a la Doc from Snow White.

Did anyone else ever do this as kids? Like, pretend that you and others around you were movie characters?

When I was a toddler, I was really into Beetlejuice (the animated series). I would often pretend that my mom was Lydia and I was Beetlejuice himself. I was also into the Mario Bros cartoon around the same time, and would pretend that my mom was Luigi and I was Mario.

When I was in elementary school, we saw a movie of some kind involving a prince rescuing a princess (vague I know, because there are a lot of movies like that). When we went out to recess, I pretended that I was the prince and the girl that I had a crush on was the princess. I didn't even ask her if she wanted to play, I just started running around her, swinging my imaginary sword at imaginary monsters, saying "I'll save you, princess!" She wasn't impressed.

I used to get my dad to make films with me. We did a "Tomb Raider" one where I was Lara Croft and he was a bad guy. We also did one based on the game "Shadow Of Memories", where I played a random character, and the bad guy and he played the lead character. We also used to go to a forest and attack the trees with sticks, pretending that they were bad guys.

I used to have a really good imagination as a child which I seem to have lost. I'm even having three appointments this month with the Adult Autism Team so that they can teach me how to do imaginative play with my daughter.

Not exactly the same, but I did have a very vivid imagination. I imagined that there was this race of very small people (a few inches tall) that were visible only to me. They were everywhere, and I always looked at objects and considered how the small people might use this object (for example they'd ride on birds as a means of transportation). I also thought fantasy worlds were so much more interesting than the real world and often imagine that I was in another world right now.. for example if I was eating pork, I'd imagine that it was meat from a mystical fantasy animal. That's something I still do sometimes, actually.

I also had daydreams of me and other people that I knew personally, and we'd go on epic adventures to save the world... I had a collection of plastic animals and used them to reenact stories of books or made up my own weird scenarios. Once a plastic horse fell on the ground and one leg broke off, and I integrated that into the story - that horse was now disabled, and all the other animals supported it.

So I just had a really vivid imagination. A good aspect of Asperger's, I guess.