I never played house as a kid

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Notion popped into my mind of playing "House"...as in walking around pretending to be devilishly handsome a**hole medical mystery genius doctor with a limp and a vicodin addiction......if I were a kid and so inclined...if "House" had been around back then....and I actually understood the show...then one would find me completely in character and if asked my name I would respond "Dr. Gregory House"

That is the way I played....I WAS the character I was stuck on at the time....my longest running alter ego was Pinnochio.

As a child I thought playing house was the most boring pass time ever and I abhored the idea of having the "wife role". My favorite thing to pretend was being an animal of some kind. I also liked putting race tracks together. I enjoyed playing games but was lousy at them and didn't win that often. I had some Barbies but I chewed the feet off of them.

Yep, me too. I hated playing house. I had a next door neighbor who would try to make me play it but I thought it was boring and stupid.

Supposedly one of the characteristics of AS in children is lack of pretend play. Sounds like your therapist was trying to determine if you engaged in pretend play or not.

I'm not a girl so I was never involved with playing house but I can remember a friend had a bunch of plastic soldiers and he'd set them up and have them do battle. That always seemed boring to me.

Another example of pretend play for boys might be pretending a piece of railroad track is an airplane. I can't remember ever doing anything like that. I can remember playing with building blocks and stacking them as high as possible until they fell over or making things like wheels or squares out of Tinker Toys. Did I just date myself?

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I did that too and some bonehead shrink thought I could possibly be phycotic.

I am not Aspie but I always thought playing house was dumb. HATED IT!! I hated a lot of girly stuff like that, though. I thought, "What is the point of all of this?" I guess that is the reason why I didn't have many friends.
Perhaps I am Aspie...hummmmm

My son likes to play the dog when others are playing house. He just lays on the ground off to the side where they play and sometimes cries for a bone. Than he is happy for a little while and just quiet. He never plays people.

OK...Yes, isn't House (the character) Aspie?? That is my favorite show!

me too!! !! !