Poor Imagination

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Anyone else here has really poor imagination? Even as a child I had a poor imagination. I remember I had a toy stove, I couldn't very well have a real stove as a child, but I wanted it to be real tea in my kettle, or else it wasn't fun. Pretending wasn't fun. I wanted it to be as real as possible. I never really got the hang of Barbie's. Their size weren't really realistic. Dolls were better. I always wanted a Baby Born doll, because those could eat and pee.

I'm not really fond of fiction either, because it's something I can't relate to. There has to at least be a connection to the real world. As with Harry Potter for instance; it's about wizardry, so not exactly realistic, but at least they live in a world where wizardry isn't considered normal, whereas in The Lord of the Rings; elves, hobbits, dwarfs and all that stuff is normal.

when i played with toys as a little boy, i was always copying my favorite video games with them. i wasn't really thinking of the adventures myself; the adventures were always based off a game.

my imagination now is just fantasies of things i wish could happen. nothing unrealistic though.

Always did and still have problem imagining things or visualizing them in my mind.

My favorite thing to play when i was a kid before computer, was with tiny machines, like digging machines, dump trucks, then i would make roads, dig holes, make cities and stuff, instead of thinking about stuff, just doing it, and see where and how it went.

Its still a problem today when i wanna build stuff, i cant visualize how it is, thus i always make stuff to big for some reason.

I didn't do much with toys either.
I mostly just stimmed with them by spinning wheels or moving parts back and forth.

There was a book I read back in 3rd grade and I copied a lot of imaginative ideas I've had from it since then. Not to mention various video games and life scenarios.

I go the opposite way, having a surplus of imagination and visualizing things.

Had a vivid, rich imagination as a child (obsessed with stories), but it all went away as I grew up. Now I can't even visualise anything any more.

I think I've always been a very imaginative person, maybe not one that can be molded by others tho. As a child, I was kind of in my own world and blazed my own trail.

One time when I was in Grade 8, my science teacher gave us an assignment to do. We were supposed to write an essay about a made up planet, the weather and air conditions and how we thought we'd look. I wrote that I would live on Millmack, eat cats and spend time writing a book titled '101 Ways To Kill a Cat' by Alf. I also composed a coloured sketch of Alf. My mum said, "I want to take a look at your completed assignment." She told me to start over and use my imagination and that my assignment looked like something that a seven year old would come up with.

I did the same assignment over again making up a different planet where humanized Beetles would spend their day listening to The Beatles.

Everytime I try to imagine things the pictures I get in my head are "weak" (They are not very visible) and details keep on getting removed if I try to rotate in my head. Is that a sign of weak imagination?

I can't see pictures in my head either - just flashes of details of things. Even what I see with my eyes is fragmented and put together.

I don't think Aspies have much originality. We are good at following patterns and solving problems.