Roleplay When Should it No Longer...

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This is what I do for fun.
http://alonsy.tumblr.com/post/657469735 ... sterday-on

Posing my comic book/ sci-fi figures to illustrate a scene.

One of the benefits of being an adult in a free society is that we can choose what we do, when, and with whom, so long as others' rights are not being infringed in the process. It's why we put up with childhood.

That said, they should stop if it's interfering with what they need to do to function day-to-day. Generally speaking, that means their definition, which may not match your definition.

I'd say just leave them be to do whatever they want unless it's infringing on another's rights, or if they're addicted to the behavior and it's self-destructive.

The same might be said of many who pursue a hobby be it riding rollercoasters or collecting Ninja Turtles.

I think a more relevant question here is why are you so obsessed with other peoples lives? What makes you so judgemental about other peoples preferences? Where do you get your ideas that having fun has an age limit?

I personally don't role-play - simply because I suck at it But I have plenty of mature friends ranging from 20+ - 60+ who love to role-play, either in historical re-enactment or as steam punks, or just dressing up for comic-cons. I actually love the whole steampunk scene and I'm 51 years old. I go to steampunk meets and sometimes dress up a bit, I just don't do the roleplaying part of it because of aforesaid lack of roleplaying ability. I also go to comic cons and love to see all the people dressing up.

Personally the two people you describe sound like a lot of fun and I'd love to meet them because they are being so creative and enthusiastic about what they do

If you think role playing in adulthood is so strange consider this, what do you think people are doing when they play air guitar? not by any chance role playing the part of a rock star?

The more important question is: what can be done to stamp out the scourge of professional acting? These stage and screen actors only encourage the others, but without the supporting infrastructure of RADA or Hollywood, what do you get? Am Dram!

Village hall performances. Otherwise normal adults doing Shakespeare or Tennessee Williams!

Some crummy old church or factory now vandalized with a sign declaring that it's a "playhouse" or "theater"--

Oh! The humanity!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU[/youtube] I suppose role playing isnt allowed when your surrounded by NTs in a normal setting unless your at an anime convention or at a ren fair star wars convention etc.

I role-play with friends all the time, and most of said friends are neurotypical.

Leave them alone! They're having fun and they're being more creative than most people are. That's how writers, storytellers, and artists get started. And even if they never do anything professional with it, storytelling is something people have done for fun probably since before we invented fire.

What makes people do this? Well, simply, it's fun. We like asking what-if. We like making up whole worlds inside our heads and then pretending to live in them for a while. The ability to ask what-if is one of the things that truly makes us human--thinking ahead, planning, considering hypotheticals. Other animals live mostly in the present and near future, or plan for the future by mere instinct. Humans, on the other hand, have the ability to think and talk about things that not only have not yet happened, but things that will never happen. It's that sort of imagination that let us invent new technology and think up new ideas.

This ^^^

I don't society does. Well normal society. Also the two people discussed are closer than to me, than what I have let on.

I was more curious for the sake of the devil's advocate side of the story. The people in question feel like if they told people they would be weirded out and wouldn't like them.

Also they like to be actors. One of them even took acting classes in college.

That's the flip side of being in a free society. People are free to dislike things, too.

Luckily here I'm not afraid of being judged to be a 46 y.o. professional-looking man who loves playing Dungeons & Dragons. I usually wear business casual clothes when I play, because I don't like to change clothes mid-day.

I've also been involved in many role-playing communities in many video-games I've played throughout the years.

I don't care if anyone or everyone knows that.

As you can see, I like a form of role-playing, too. I'm intrigued by what you do. It sounds to me like you're very creative, and love to write and/or act-out your scripts.

I think the technical term for what you're doing is called "Storyboarding." People get paid a fair bit of money to do that professionally. In case you were wondering.

Come on, Knave. Spill it. Whatever your hobby happens to be, I'd bet someone here also shares that interest. And it's clear you're dying to get it off your chest.

The two people in question in the thread were my brother and I. Kind of obvious considering I knew so much. heh

Yep, south OC, San Clemente to be specific, although I'm not sure I'll be able to find a place for next month down here and I have to move again at the end of the month so I might be elsewhere in OC in December.

It's been a number of years, but I used to be into WoD a lot.
Mostly Mage because it had the best freeform magic system EVER, but I played most of the old WoD games (Vampire, Mage, Werewolf, Changeling, etc) both tabletop & LARP.
I also like D&D w/e edition, Shadowrun, Aberrant, and just about anything else.
I even played LoTR back in the day when it took a day and a half just to create a character and a homeless guy's homebrew game up in Berkeley a number of years back.

I've never heard of Traveller, but I'll play just about anything given the chance.

If you're in OC and have a group, I'd LOVE to join you guys.
Feel free to PM me about it if you want.

@AspieOtaku: Awesome video!! !! !!

Not really - we are all ASD here

Now, doesn't that feel better to get that out there?

I scrolled back and cherry-picked this post of yours:

Now I feel I can better answer this. They're doing it because they both enjoy it. And there is definitely a point where it should stop: When they no longer enjoy it, when it interferes with life so drastically that it stalls day-to-day functioning, or when they die of old age.

Ace, there are so many people who were told "stop that, it's childish" and have gone on to make careers out of it. There's even a radio DJ floating around these forums somewhere, I believe, who has made a career out of his unusual voices & silliness (I may be remembering this incorrectly, but I'm pretty sure it was these forums.)

I even turned my passion for computers into a career. In the 80s, I was told to "stop it and focus on school."


Now, answer this: How awesome would it be if you and your writing-partner/brother got a job doing what you both love? It wouldn't be easy, but it can be done. We know it can be done because it's been done before. The Coen Brothers, The Wachowskis, etc.

Chew on that idea for a bit.

Because unlike other people, it still causes them to be happy?