Always ending up crying when playing games as a child

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I was all right playing games with other children that involved lots of imagination, or just with toys, or even doing activities like climbing trees, but I never seemed to get on playing games that had team-like rules, like ''Hide and Seek'', ''It'', ''Duck Duck Goose'', ''The Last One To [insert place here] Is A Rotton Egg'', those sorts of games. I loved playing them, but I never seemed to have got on, and I always figured someone was cheating (usually a boy) and then I got upset and angry and quit the game, having an angry temper aswell. Or I used to complain if I went last, or was It a lot, and accused everybody of make me last or It on purpose, when really it was only luck of the draw. I don't think I could cope with those sorts of games.

Anyone else like this as a child? Or did you find team/skill games more easier than imaginative games?

I hated team games and sports. I would do what I could to avoid being sucked into them. I had a great deal of problem keeping up with the other children too.

I loved games involving imagination. I would make up a story and usually other children would just fall in place to play the parts. After a while they would take them in their own directions, however, leaving me bewildered at how quickly the consistency and internal logic of my original idea would dissolve. I never complained and usually just tagged along anyway until I lost interest.

I was terrible at sports, partly because I didn't know enough about the rules, and partly because of minor motor skills issues. I also had a problem with board games. It tends to take me longer to mentally process input and output. This causes me to take longer to decide on what move to make in board games where there is a choice. This drove other kids nuts, and they would start to play around me. I didn't realize the problem I was causing at the time, so naturally I accused them of cheating, and this led to fights, and my getting upset. I am not big on playing games with people any more. I prefer to play against the computer. I wasn't good at playing games with others that dealt with using the imagination. I have plenty of imagination, but so do other people, and they would take the game one way, while I would be trying to take it a different way. I don't think imagination based games are good when played with others for this reason, with the exception of acting out plays, that use already existing stories/scripts.

This all happened decades ago, though, as I am now in my early 50s. I am an introverted hermit type person, who lives alone, and I don't socialize, so I don't play with others any more.