Why do I make up stuff in my head?

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i am being serious now and i find what you said to be sad.
if ever i had known you i would have given you things.
i do not really deserve to be in such a rich family i realize when i read things like what you say. it would have been good if you had toys.

i hope your life is filled with much nice things from now on.

I don't intend or wish to live in my imaginary countries. I just like making up stuff just for the sake of it.

Its weird though that many aspies actually "had a life" in their childhood and talk about stuff they were into and stuff they liked. Honestly, if you asked me about the 1990s, I didn't know much execpt for watching The Simpsons and a little bit of memory of playing crazy bones and pogs (I don't even remember how to play them and the only reason I had pogs or watched the simpsons was because my brother introduced them to me. If I was an only child I would know nothing of my generation since I doubt my parents would suddenly say "Hey, lets watch The Simpons!", although they did watch it before in Chinese version in Hong Kong.)

There's nothing wrong with having a rich imagination. It's better than having none.

I imagine a ton of stuff. It's usually gone when i have to snap back to reality though, but it dances in my head randomly.
I wish i could sit down long enough in that "imagination zone" long enough to write a plot line right out... that way i'd be able to write a novel... cause creating the events or situations to fill in an extant plotline would be very easy for me... but I've tried several times now, and not able to put together a plotline. Once i snap out of imagination land, then ... well next time i go back in, because what i've observed of reality since then has given me some different ideas, my imagination takes me on a trip to a different place.

Short stories would likely be something I wasn't too bad at.. but you can't make a living at it. And... I think at some deep level I lack respect for short stories. Not artistically do i lack the respect... it's just they won't profit me, therefore a waste of my time... (however somehow sitting there imagining isn't?)

Its why I got into roleplaying games.

Even though my obsessions have always revolved around TV shows and movies, I've never been completely satisfied with the show ending at the credits. I have a need to put the characters in new situations.

Though as a childhood friend once observed, pretty much the only situation I put the characters in involves "what if character A and character B got together and had a baby?" Then I go on to imagine what the baby would be like as s/he got older and I make up stories based on that. I like to refer to it as a mental version of playing with dolls.

Pretty boring I guess, but what can I say - I'm easily entertained.

You sound a lot like me. I have had several different "alternate lives" outside my reality. I actually become very attached to my own characters as if they have taken on a life of their own. Its why I started writing. Ive found that I can write very well what I imagine. Its exciting when I let friends and family read my stories and they look at me in disbelief and ask "Where did this come from?"....I just point to my head.

OMG, I thoug was the only one!

I made up a country called Parthia (yes I know the name isn't original) which was a bit like a US in a parallel universe. I drew up really detailed maps (I'm talking REALLY detailed, as if it was a real place!) not just of the country, but each state, city.etc. I wanted it to be realistic, but just like those fantasy maps that just served the purpose of the story (I also made a detailed fantasy world). I would also spend HOURS (this was a brief phase when i was 14-16) drawing up charts of demographics, climate statistics, lists, maps.etc you name it of this imaginery country. I'm also very interested in real life geography, meteorology, demography, mind you, but I'm also intensely creative in all fields of art, so this was the same. I've always had to make stuff up too.

Hey, you can be most creative/thoughtful on the john or in the shower, lol. In this modern life you need time to just zone out. These days there's always something to have to be DOING.

PM me if you wanna see some of the maps etc I did. I'm not boasting (if it's something to boast about) but some of the maps are did are as detailed/professional as atlases/maps. It may sound sad but at one point I wanted for my imaginery world to be real so I could explore it!

I never really considered it to be strange or abnormal, I never really thought of it at all to be honest but yeah, I do the same.

Usually a demi-fantasy conflict or alternate timeline fantasy, I didn't think to write them down but I suppose that would be a cool idea .

I'm always making stuff up.