Is this really an AS thing?

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Yeah that's right, this is another "is this an aspie thing" topic.


When I was a little girl, I be playing with my Barbie dolls and I be pretending the mother was abusing her daughter. She hit her, spank her, took away all her bedroom furniture by throwing them all out the window as a punishment. I also did other abusive games during pretend play. I don't understand why I had such an abusive imagination, I wasn't abused. Well by my nanny and day care teacher but

But when I was 17 my shrink told me that's how aspies play with their toys, they do abuse play and I never bought it was an aspie trait because I have never read anywhere in books or on the internet about aspies doing that kind of pretend play. Then last year my ex boyfriend also said it was an aspie thing. Still I did not buy it.

I don't think my mother was ever aware I did this.

When I had my first Barbie dolls, I would run them over with my bike, have them abuse each other by beating each other up.

Of course I can remember my Dad catching me running over my dolls one time and he told me I can't do that to them because it is no way to treat my dolls.

I never really considered this, and I do not know! I think I was a rather macabre child, and now a macabre adult....never wore off. When I was little I had a pet goldfish. He died. Somewhere/somehow I knew about cremation. Of my own accord, I cremated my dead goldfish on a cookie sheet with the kitchen oven set on 'broil.' Just do not do this.....I ruined a cookie tin, of course, but set off the smoke alarm and nearly caused a fire. My dead goldfish turned into a blackened chard of oxidized carbon soot.

I did not really play with dolls but I had a raggedy anne doll which I converted into a voodoo doll, complete with pins. I do not know how I knew to do this, I just did. I beheaded certain toys if they had a head....ok, this post is inadvertently sounding sick, but not on purpose.

It's not my fault. Spokane_Girl started it. She's braver than me by confiding this to her doctor too. I would so be committed.

Hard to say. I dont recall much about play. I mostly just sat near by brother as he played.

I do recall walking along the road in winter. The snow had melted forming little shelfs of ice. This constituted little alien cities in my mind, and I was a giant. Each twinkle was them shooting their lasers at me. and I crushed their city-shelves beneath my feet.

But thats just a boy thing.

I vaguely remember I sometimes played that my Barbie dolls were poor abused servants whose life was very hard, that they had difficult, complicated childbirth or sustained injuries or that they were in Auschwitz or that they were crazy chicks obsessed with erotic sphere of life who had sex with my Ken dolls . But even though I used to be a macabre kid as LabPet called it I prefered spinning my sinister fantasies in my head rather than during pretended play.

im a boy so its natural that my toys fight.

I used to dismantle my Barbies and put their limbs back in the wrong sockets.

I'd pull apart action figures, and put them back together wrong on purpose. Man, some of them were just bizarre.

Other that that I'd love to make things out of stuff, like snow, legos, and I'd scult my food sometimes. I even took a sculpture course in early High School. My best works were a grotesque mask, a cross, and though someone trashed it, a battle scene between little monster-things.

I picked up writing, and it's a great outlet for me. I like it, and I'd love to be writing books for my bread.

Gosh, I wonder if this is why my shrink and my ex thought this is an aspie thing.

Corroborative evidence suggests a positive response to your hypothesis.
I mean, I guess this is why.

I remember pulling heads off my Barbie dolls. The first two I had, their heads had already fallen off and I took out the white thing that held their head on and I put their heads back on.

I used to pull off my Barbies' heads and switch them around, but that was only because I was too lazy to change the outfits each time. I think I used to make them fight a lot or fall out too.

I demonstrated a similar thing when I was younger, I used to put Barbie in the car and crash it into the wall and walk away, I never actually played with them (according to my Mother), the strange thing is I was very possessive and wouldn't let anyone else touch them.

never heard of that being an aspie thing.. i never did that to my barbies. i tended to play with the same stuff a lot and got upset if anyone else tried to switch my rountines. or took an interest in a toy i had purely because i had it.

I never really played much about dolls,i had soft toys that where well looked after because they looked like real animals almost.I played with spiders but never took the legs off.

I don't actually remember but apparently I didn't really play with action figure or human like toys. I liked machines. I dismantled the air condoning unit. I was always taking things apart so I wasn't given very many toys to play with just bits of junk, string, etc.

I've never heard of that being an Aspie trait before! I've heard of people doing all kinds of weird things to their Barbies and other dolls, and thought I was weird because I didn't. I thought maybe it was more a generational thing or something.