11 Jul 2006, 9:36 am
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I've been looking into this recently because of reading about autism/AS an lack of imaginitive play.
The thing is i was a really imaginative child and have become a really imaginitive adult. I spent a lot of time with my special interests, reading and writing and stories. Again unlike lots of things i've read about AS i prefer fiction to non fiction
The thing is i was a really imaginative child and have become a really imaginitive adult. I spent a lot of time with my special interests, reading and writing and stories. Again unlike lots of things i've read about AS i prefer fiction to non fiction
You just described me perfectly, also. I've been writing stories since before I could form characters on pages properly.
I think some NT scientists writing diagnostics have trouble with imagination, since they can't comprehend what doesn't fit in with their own perception of 'creative play'. As a kid, I didn't want to play Mummies and Daddies - my friends and I played Zombie Princesses and a host of other weird and unusual things.
Someone please tell me who I was copying, when I was playing that particular game...? Strange family I must have, if I was simply 'imitating' those around me!!
. On the contrary, it was all the 'normal' little children who wanted to play mummies and daddies and pretend cook and pretend kiss and do all of those things!Aspies have wild and very creative imaginations - they just don't always know how to express those imaginations to people who don't speak Aspie. But I've always found writing to be one way of a: learning about people and how people deal with situations and b: a way of communicating emotion and stuff when I couldn't do it through being myself and speaking.
That's been recorded in other examples too - so I think the no imagination clause in the diagnostics is a bunch of baloney
We have imagination. They just don't understand it, because it's so far out of the box
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But apparantly AS imaginative play isn't real imaginative play at all, but copying and rote memory stuff.
Guess you should always ALWAYS beware of believing what you read
Some sources out there will tell you Aspies can't tell their mother's face from a paper plate...which is so blatantly untrue (and scientifically PROVEN to be untrue) that I can't even begin to describe it!
Apple
11 Jul 2006, 10:31 am
Zombie princessess!! now that sounds like my sort of game
