High Imagination

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Wow, just today I was reading yet again the diagnostic criteria for AS and that it includes 'lack of imaginative play' / imagination. Unless everyone here is not AS that's pretty much destroyed that myth.
Glad to read the bits about fanfic, I have really enjoyed some Stargate fanfic in the past and keep threatening to write my own

My mind has been my refuge, my escape, a boredom-antidote and very often the only thing that keeps fears and phobias at bay. It probably gets in the way of me doing real things, but if I can find ways to let the creativity out then it would be a wonderful creative force.

Great to hear about all the imaginative WP'ers out there.

Just to confirm the mantra, I lack imagination. When I am "imaginative" in the sense of story-telling, it's a crazy assemblage of various elements and not really related to existing stories, themes or "universes". I'm suspecting this is really just a sign parts of my memory related to "story telling" just aren't that good, lol. (Or, maybe it's a sign it's *sooo good*, that I purposely avoid the common themes for the sake of originality, albeit one of a bizarre variety.)

I also have an overactive imagination. It might be because I have ADD, OCD, and maladaptive daydreaming, even though I've only been officially diagnosed with AS.

When I was younger, I had little to no imagination. I do remember having an invisible friend though, but as I got older I grew out of him though. However, I moved on to different imaginary friends I made up due to trains, and two of them somehow became human and followed me to Arizona when we moved from Maine. I think it's possible as we get older, our imagination somehow develops, but it's just slower because there's somewhat of an impairment in the way we think.

I know as a kid, I never played very many of the pretend games such as house or school until I met my cousins around thirteen or fourteen. I used to play those games with them a lot because they were much younger at the time and under seven. However, they are much older now and are no longer little kids. :P I do think now, my imagination becomes overly active because it's developed so much more over the years.

I have a vivid and wild imagination - and sometimes it's a very nice place to be

I have a very active imagination and I used to daydream in school a lot. I saw that in the DSM V it says that one of the criteria for Autism Spectrum is lack of imagination. I think that as many of us on WP who have said in past threads that we have very good imaginations and have always had them, the DSM needs to reconsider that part of the criteria.

I think they are referring to imagination as in playing social pretend games as a child.
Also people with alexithymia have a less spontaneous and more controlled imagination and alexithymia is common in autism.
Here is a link to the two factor imagination scale test>link