People on the spectrum and Fantasy worlds

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as some of you know, i attend camp with other people on the high functioning end of the spectrum, at the time there are 9 of us, I dont get along with ALL of them as much as i do with two, these two are about the same level as me, one with PDD-NOS and one with Aspergers and they both share my general interests. but theres one thing the three of us have in common that is making me wonder, we all have fantasy worlds, fictional characters and 'alter egos' or as we call them, 'the protagonists'.

I have 6 main characters in my world, which is mostly Sonic Fan Characters.

My PDD-NOS friend has over 10 main characters in his world, and all are different species and are based off the 7 deadly sins plus three others he added

and my aspergers friend has- s**t i dont even know HOW many he has, and most are human.

so, the statistic appear to go, 3 out of 9 people on the spectrum ( to my understanding at least)

so how many people here have made fictional character(s), and a fictional world inside their heads?

Never had a fantasy world, unfortunately.

[Not diagnosed]

I've had many fantasy worlds. They were copies of fictional universes with people of my town transformed into fictional characters.

For example: one of my mental worlds was a copy of Star Wars during the Old Republic era (just with more logic ). All kids I knew were Force apprentices, including myself. Adults were Jedi, Sith, mercenary, soldiers, etc.. I invented two planets with a detailed geography and lots of maps and starships.

There weren't enough options.
I don't think it's nonsense at all. It sounds quite lovely, but my brain doesn't do fantasy.

I disagree with your definitions. What you call a fantasy world is the REAL world. This place where our physical bodies are now is the fantasy world - a hell actually.

well, I don't create fantasy worlds per say but it is fun to daydream living in one already made just before going to sleep. Its rather relaxing and engaging. Its almost like when you're a kid playing with toys only this is much more awesome.

By already made I mean like a movie or tv series.. kind of like if you were 'dropped' into that world type of thing.

http://anilinkz.com/series/log-horizon

^ kind of like that.

don't even get me started, darhien.
look at my location.
look at my signature.

I often fantasise about having a better job for example being a famous comedian or being a billionaire and owning Liverpool football if that's what you mean. Try putting your fantasies in writing. You might make some money as an author.

I used to do it all the time when I was younger, though nowadays the number one thing I daydream about the most is probably what I would do if I were able to visit the past. See Nirvana in concert, see my parents when they were still together, warn people about 9/11, those sorts of things. I guess in a way I still drift off into a "fantasy world" quite often, but it doesn't so much involve a fictional scenario in a fictional world with fictional characters, as a scenario where I'm seeing people and witnessing things that happened in real life, revisiting old events and seeing things that happened before my time.

As a child I was relying on my dreams when creating this. For example at a time, when I was about 10 years old I was pretty sure the world I am visiting in my dreams really exists and I am able to get there. I was surprised when creating portals in real life didn't work although it was working fine in my dreams.

Later on I was an alien that was sent to Earth because of a experiment (to see how twins will differ when they get raised in different environments). I got an imaginary friend that was my twin sister that was left on the other planet. I couldn't really see her but I felt her presence and could talk to her. I was hoping that she, our parents and older brother come to Earth one day and take me home.

Around the same time I got fascinated by Harry Potter books and I was thinking I am a witch too and I am going to get a letter from Hogwart or a similar school one day. I was imagining how it is going to be, how a Polish witchcraft school might look like, how they would inform me about going there (I was a "muggleborn" afrer all) and stuffs. It was really funny. I could write a nice fanficion out of it if I wanted but I didn't.

Then I got lured by my dreams again. This time I was a demon in human skin and I was doing my best to control my powers so I don't hurt anyone while being happy I am in fact not a weak human child. 8th grade syndrome ftw.

Then I got back into aliens. I was "getting kidnapped" by them at night and they were doing experiments on me which I couldn't remember but I believed they are not going to do any hurt to me and I was happy to be used for science as long as I don't remember the pain and embarrassment. I was thinking aliens must like me because not all humans are that accepting.

Then there was period about me imagining stories about a demon girl in human world. I wasn't believing about being a demon anymore but it was still a nice idea to work at. So I was writing short stories, doing photo stories out of The Sims 2 game screens etc. But I didn't publish any (well, I published one photo story but it is lost in time already).

Currently I still enjoy imagining myself as a character (self made, kinda "Mary Sue" but with my own idea of marysuism) in books/movies/animes I read/watch. I even write a fanfiction of a anime - Ao No Exorcist - right now. My story about a girl that realizes she is a daughter of Death and can control a black flame that can kill anything by destroying a soul but can't affect any material thing so the body is untouched. It sounds familliar? The manga book that shows black flame of those properties got released a few weeks AFTER I published 1st chapter of my fanfiction... But I don't think it is possible the creators got the idea out of my work. I doubt Japaneses people read Polish unpopular blogs.
Of course the girl is pretty much like me. However her personality changed a lot (I write it more than a year already, it got 30 chapters) and she is getting less and less like me with the story progress. She lives her own live now. But I often imagine how she and her friends would react to some situations.

My fantasy world is subatomic world of uncertainty and chaos.I can just imagine the superposition of particles the entanglement of all things and the fact that reality is just the internal cogs and gears working a movie projector. Anything is possible when I can see that. As ive grown up my fantasy worlds have become grounded in science more and more. This matches up with the fact that ive drifted away from fantasy literature toward scifi.

I fantasize about my future and 'what if' situations with friends and family all the time.

I've had a fantasy world that I've spent considerable time living in and writing about since approximately the tenth grade. I'm not personally involved in it, but I watch the lives of my characters unfold in front of me. The basic premise involves Neopets characters ("pets" for a kids' online game site) as children, living in our world, being raised by human adults. I have four such pets -- Zafaras who look like this: http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/neopets/ima ... fara-photo -- brothers between the ages of four and ten, who live together with their single widowed mother (who has my name, as, in the game, I am these creatures' "mother", though she is nothing like me in real life, except perhaps the sort of mother I would want to be.) They go to school with other pets and make friends with other species; the adventures are simply the goings-on of their everyday lives. I started writing my stories down when I couldn't keep track of them all in my head any longer, and I now have 45 and counting.

I have a pretty elaborate fantasy world that is sort of a mix between sci-fi and middle earth. It definitely prevents me from getting bored.