AS & Imagination

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Do you find that you use your imagination more than other people your age, just as much or not as much as others?

Mine is very strong for a 17 year old according to most people.

I don't know where the myth came from that Aspies have less imagination, I certainly have far too much imagination for my own good and people are left going "What?"

Anyway, I hate writing short posts but there isn't really much more I can say on this...

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I can have a lot of imagination, tough at most in a way, that it would be good for writing fiction books, movie scripts, coming up with game concepts and maybe songs kinda.

I think the myth comes from our lack of interest in playing imaginary games with other children. Personally, in addition to the social issues Asperger's presents, I didn't/don't like playing imagination games with others because their imaginations are so boring compared to mine.

Yes. I have an extremely active imagination. Since I am an inventor, that works out quite well.

Very active....... Which makes it possible to think of a heap of things to go wrong, which serves my anxiety well.

Dreams are very very vivid and the oddest things are in them.

A riding instructor once told me to use my imagination to write books instead of using it to make myself suffer.

I think maybe our imagination is slightly more concrete and grounded in reality, which represents our thinking at large.

I found than when I was little, other children either wanted to play at imitating social roles (which I had no interest in,) or play games involving concepts that were so abstract as to make no sense to me.

I read a bit of The Silmarillion by Tolkein the other day, and I put it down after it said something like "Melkor made the rivers freeze with his hatred..." What a stupid nonsensical world we would live in if people could make rivers freeze with their hatred, I can't begin to list all the contradictions that this would lead to.

Or maybe I just have no limagination

I have always been good at imagining things. I created my own fantasy worlds and people to populate them. I always think up silly theories that provide alternative explanations to very simple phenomena (it's more fun in practice than it sounds in theory >.>).

I would call myself fairly imaginative. I'm another who creates fantasy worlds, complete with geography, language, customs, etc. I used to draw maps, but I kept losing them. There was one copy of a map that I had on a computer but that vanished when I fried that computer.

I did a bit of imaginative play as a child with others, but inevitably they wouldn't want to play with me. I tended to want to boss people around.

I tend to do that too.
And then enjoy observing the survivability of them against each other.

I remember the Dungeons & Dragons (pen+paper) era and that I had so much fun drawing the world and figuring out which people/tribes/creatures would live where and why. Politics also, even though I do not like real life politics at all.
The different inhabitants would then evolve like it was a real world in my head.

That was all relatively easy.
Problems arose when I had to act out the encounters.
Internal panics even though I had everything figured out.
I just did not know what to say (praise to oozes and the like for not having speech).

Luckily I figured out that I could ask someone else from the group to play certain roles and also ways to make the players interact alot, fading me to the background just providing material for discussion.

But yes, I reckon I have imagination

I also have a good imagination too! But I struggle to express it. I have a lot of trouble with my storyboarding homework because of that.

Personally, I think my imagination is my strongest asset. When I was a child I was on my own a lot and my imagination was my playmate, so to speak. Furthermore, I loved playing pretend with other children, but I didn't want to play house or any other game based in reality; I wanted to play fantasy/superheroes/science fiction games, usually where I made up the story as I went along rather than based on anything in particular. I also made up stories combining characters in TV shows with my brother; they didn't call it fanfiction back then but that's basically what it was.

I think that where they get the idea that AS people have no imagination is because we're literal thinkers in real life situations. That doesn't mean we can't have rich imaginary worlds.

Ive always had quite the imagination... which is hard to express in words for others to understand... my thoughts are to abstract for most of my friends to comprehend...

I've always had a broad imagination, but all my thoughts (and even fantasies, including sexual ones) had to be based on reality. Maybe that means my imagination isn't as nutty as most other kids, but then again, truth is stranger than fiction.

I have a very wild imagination for an adult. I was looking through my old sketch books and I'm astonished bythe imagination that went into those drawings.

I'd say I'm pretty clearly creatively gifted. I have won contests for creative writing, and I have five or so unpublished novels waiting for me to get the thermals for publishing them.

In my case as a child I played pretend more than most children. I would carry twist tye people with me everywhere I went and act out stories with them. In school I got into trouble for pretending to be an animal instead of doing schoolwork. At recess I had a couple of friends who I'd play pretend with all recess long, though I usually dictated everyone's roles.

That's part of why I think I have Newson Syndrome.