Can you imagine this?

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Hi, I'm new. I have never been diagnosed. So far, from all my readings in regards to the "myth" about people with AS having a lack of imagination seems a bit odd (where did the myth come from? I have to wonder). It seems like no one person admits that he/she has trouble with imagination.

I have trouble imaging the follow? How many of you are with me?
Here it goes...
1. Imagine a room
2. Imagine three chairs in the room
3. Imagine two people sitting in two of the chairs
4. Imagine yourself sitting in the last chair

I totally could not do #4 after so many tries, and felt frustrated trying. Can you?
I'd like to know
1. Is there anyone out there who could do all four? Are you a diagnosed AS or otherwise?
2. If you can't do all four, at what step did you fail?

Ask your friends (AS or not) to try it and I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know.
thanks,
Jenn
p.s. Thanks for the replies. Looks like I need to clarify. What I could not do is to place myself in the room as a first person. The entire room seems to be "stuck" in front of me so I can't get in. So there is no one out there like this?? ;-(

I just picture myself sitting in the last chair and I have AS.

To be honest I'm not sure what imagining things is like. It might sound really weird but what's it like to imagine something? Do you see a clear picture of something in your head? Is that what imagining something is? For me it's really vague. It's like the picture's faded. It's really difficult to explain but when I try to imagine something (the room for example) I'm not sure I "see" it. I try to imagine it and I think "okay, this is a room and those are three chairs" but it's not like the picture's clear or anything. When I tried to imagine two people sitting in two of the chairs I didn't really see the people. I decided that two people were sitting in the two chairs to the left but I don't know what they looked like. Also, I found it difficult to imagine myself sitting in the last chair. I really wish I could explain what I mean because I really want to know if I imagine things the same way as other people. Do you understand any of the things I'm trying to explain? Sorry if it's all really messy and incoherent.

I'm not diagnosed yet. All the psychologists I've met think I've got AS and I'm waiting for an assessment. Personally I'm not sure if I have it or not.

EDIT: I should add that I'm quite bad a visualizing things in general. I believe I think in words. That's probably why I talk to myself a lot and when I for example imagine future conversations with people I go through the conversations out loud instead of visualizing them.

I can easily imagine myself in that room, no problem. But I find your post very interesting nontheless. I wonder if your difficulty in this area has anything to do with AS, or if it's something completely different. It seems that your visual-spatial reasoning is severely limited or impaired.

Easy.

I can do it all. What exactly did you mean by "imagine yourself", though? Third person or first person? I mean, I can do both, but I'm still curious.

I can visualize the room, the three chairs, two other people (nondescript people, although I suppose I could pick any two people I know), and then myself. I can view the room from any point in the room and even from outside the room, with or without the walls blocking my line of sight. I can visualize myself in first or third person. I can add as much detail as I want and maintain it. play it like a video, rewind it, fast forward it, etc.

I have no idea why these people are sitting in the room, though.

I am diagnosed.

Many people on this site talk about being able to 'see a whole car engine, and all of its workings" in their mind's eye.

I thought aspies were supposed to be too much into their own heads with too much daydreaming and imagination. Though we may be weak on social imagination.
That was a big part of why I was driven to seek a diagnosis- getting crap about daydreaming too much as a child.

About that excercies: okay - imagine a room, three chairs, two are occupied, then I enter the room and park my ass on the third chair ...

Is THAT it?

Is that all we have to do?

Whats hard about that?

I must be missing something.

Easy. I would have preferred more explicit chair arrangement, e.g. in a line facing sideways or in a line facing the back of each other chair or a chair facing the other two chairs or all three chairs facing towards a centre point etc.