What is it that you liked about lego?

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I'm fascinated by the interest that the children with autism whom I work with have about lego. As adults now I was wondering if anyone can explain exactly what it is about lego that attracts children and adults with autism?

I co-edit a magazine for parents of children with autism - our view is very accepting and positive. We love to hear from adults and would love to print some quotes so if anyone has anything they would like to share with us - that would be fab!

I think this website is absolutely brilliant - it inspires me for my articles as well as helping us neurotypicals gain some more insight into an AS way of thinking.

Our magazine is called AuKids

Any comments - good or bad will be welcome and respected

Thank you

Tori

I liked Lego because of the many different colour combinations one could make- I used to like building houses in all-red bricks and got angry if I ran out. I also enjoyed the Lego people, with their switchable bodies (I used to stack heads on top of heads on top of heads... )

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You can build anything you want with it. It's fun.

Hi, Tori. welcome to Wrong Planet

lego is great!

as a child you are able to create almost anything from the pile on the carpet or from the contents of the box before you; making something representative of what you can see in your mind, exploring concepts of symmetry, proportion, and scale... i have lots of happy memories of building space ships, cars, trucks, houses, and towns (albeit small) using lego.

as i grew i developed an interest in lego technic; and so technic, pneumatic, and compressor pneumatic lego was added to my collection. even as an adult, i still have my lego and have added to the collection with lego mindstorms, the star wars collector series models, and more lego technic.

I liked the different things I could make.

Never liked how there were never enough Legos to build what I wanted most of the time, and I hated mis-matched stuff.

The thing that I've enjoyed about Lego, growing up, was that I could sit there for hours, building a variety of different things with it, and not get bored.

colour and feel

I liked Lego a lot, but it made me extremely frustrated sometimes - trying to follow the instructions could send me into a raging tantrum - mostly I liked the space sets. What I didn't like was when you only got one example of some pieces, when I would have liked to have lots of them all the same - instead of having two different unique sets, I would have been just as happy, possibly happier, with two copies of the same set. Or ten copies. But we had a lot of second-hand loose bricks as well as the sets.

Later I used to represent people with two of the "one stud, ordinary height" bricks of different colours stacked together, and make models to that scale, rather than to the usual Lego scale. I've still got a few models like that in the bottom of a cupboard. No real urge to use Lego again though.

Because you could build anything you wanted with them. However, I did like to keep to certain colours for certain things, so this was my only restriction e.g. for houses, it was the red bricks, for pyramids, it was the yellow ones. I never got bored of using lego, it would amuse me and keep me quiet for hours.

Hmm-- I seem to be an aberration so far, but I liked them because you could follow the instructions step by step and end up with exactly what was shown on the box, with no pieces left over. I liked the numbering of the steps (sometimes there were sub-steps, and sometimes even sub-sub-steps!), and I loved seeing the castle or pirate ship take shape.

I don't think I ever tried to build something other than the main thing the set was intended for. There were pictures on the box of other things you could build with the same pieces, but there were no instructions, and you'd end up with leftover pieces.

I'm more of a Bayko man, and I mean the definitive Plimpton Engineering sets made of bakelite, not the later polystyrene ones that Meccano produced after 1960.

But I warmed to Lego after a few years of knocking it. I like the way the pieces interlock, and the colours of the plastic, and the cute little men. My son loved it - he was mortified when his huge Lego castle fell off the cart and collapsed when we moved house, but he was very pleased with himself when he managed to put it all back together again

I don't see how Lego is an autie thing. You'd be hard pressed to find a child that DOESN'T enjoy lego.

LikED? I still like them.

Still play with them.

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I grew up on legos. I guess it's because I could build anything I wanted. I stopped playing with legos about 5 years ago, but I'm hoping sometime in my future I'll take them out, start collecting again, and make a city.

I like to build things, especially towers. I once built a six-foot tall tower with at widest 4X4 bumps or whatever you want to call them (2 2X4 blocks next to each other)

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