Imaginary friends/worlds - wanting participants to interview

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Hi! I'm sorry in advance if this is against forum rules, I'm very happy to take down the post if it is considered inappropriate in any way. I also wanted to note that I am neurotypical.

I'm at University in the UK, studying Childhood Studies, and I am about to write my dissertation, which is on the imaginary friends and worlds of autistic children/young people. I chose this topic as I work with autistic children and intend to be a play therapist/specialist, and I wanted to examine why lots of literature about autism discusses a lack of imagination, when my experiences have shown me otherwise. I am therefore wanting to interview a very small number of autistic young adults (aged 18-25) who had, or still have, an imaginary friend, or imaginary world.

I was wondering whether anyone here would be interested in giving me a skype interview, or phone interview, about their experiences with this? If you expressed interest, I would then send you a consent form, a full information sheet, and a copy of the sorts of questions I would be asking (so you could have time to think through your answers if you'd like to).
My email to tell me your interested is: ps410@sussex.ac.uk

Many thanks