Lack of imagination...how has it effected you??

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I have the concrete thinking of Asperger's with the creativity inherent to ADHD. I'm my own worst enemy in most things.

I love art and fiction and creating my own stories - getting into creating all those little fussy details is quite literally what I live for. Despite that - I need my work to remain somewhat grounded in reality. If I'm going to create something fantastical, I NEED to explain how it functions and it needs to make sense. I get lost in catagorizing and I'll be damned if I can ever finish anything I start no matter how detailed of a start I have. I simply loose interest at some point in the process and flit off to the next shiny mind bauble.

I have always called my creativity my curse.

Don't know. I imagine a lot, and i can be original when i write stories. I also like to imagine 'what if' in real life, in history or what will happen to this planet (Earth) in future. But some people still think i lack of imagination, because, for example i can't guess how love (in romantic sense) should be. And because i have control on my imagination (when i write a story, it's me that write a story or create new characters, it never happens that stories and characters are created by 'theirselves').
My character should be NTs. I don't know how much NT will be characters created by an HFA person. I remember i drew one of my characters stimming when listening what her twin sister was saiyng, i though it was the way to listen things accurately (now i try to pay attention to draw characters that have eye contact, but i fail)

it kills me , i hate my lack of imagination, NTs can think on the spot talk on their feet and do what i cant even imagine, period.

I have a lot of imagination and I really liked pretend play as a kid, or similar things with figurines, legos, plushy toy... At least it allowed me some activities to share with other kids.
Now peoples my age nearly only do boring unmaginative things.

I'm not sure if it is my lack of imagination causing this.

I'm trying to write about a secret military base but I couldn't until I had examples. I suppose I want it to be a secret base that has a lot of theories surrounding it like Fairbairn or RAAF Springwood. Sometimes I think I make my stories too factual.

But sometimes I need examples in order to write about something. It's the same for drawing too. Some things I can draw from imagination but sometimes I need to see examples to copy until it sticks in my mind. Annoying.

Maybe it is more a lack of knowledge in some areas, plus a poor memory.

Thanks for your replies....good to hear about how everyone has different issues and makes me realise i'm not so alone in this.

Personally i'm trying to stay positive as when i found out i had autism it was very hard. I suddenly realised i've spent most of my life alone and my lack of imagining a person had made me push them away and be alone again. Now i can imagine all the positive things i had for three years and having them again but only because i know about autism and how it effects me.

Stay positive i suppose...

For I don't know how long, sometimes in the morning, after waking up but still in bed, my imagination is very active, and without even trying or wanting to I start thinking up completely random things, in the form of word salad. It's strange. Does anyone else ever do that, or is that more proof that I'm insane?

I don't do that. I usually wake up and try to remember my dreams before they drift away. My dreams tend to be pretty interesting, depending how long I slept (longer then 3-4 hours = pretty amazing; shorter than 3 hours = extremely mundane). No word salad, even though I tend to get some interesting and sometimes unorthodox creativity in.