Do you like playing with small children?

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No. They are noisy and strange.

And kids having a meltdown while you are trying to focus on something? That's a killer.

If I didn't, I wouldn't have chosen to work with preschoolers. In general, the five and under set is the age group with whom I connect best. I particularly enjoy reading to children, being silly with them, and making them laugh.
I wouldn't mind having children, but it's not likely that I ever will have the opportunity to have children of my own. If I were to have that opportunity, parenting would most likely become increasingly challenging as the child/ren matured, as I don't connect as easily to older children.

I love playing with kids. Legos, rough housing, butt jokes and other immature humor. I choose them over grown ups.

I did care to be around them at all earlier in my life but then at a late age had two of my own and just love being with them althought they are now almost 12 and 13, looking forward to grandchildren too if I am blessed with them.

I like kids but I get burned out real quick when I'm around them.

Most people replied that they like playing with small children. This leads me to consider the possibility that most people with autism like to socialize in non-threatening settings.

LOVE kids things and being a kid. If my adult children (they are 26 and 28 years old) and I walk past a playground they know that one of us is going to go play on the swings and the merry-go-round and climb on the bars. Kids tend to love me too.

I DO!

I can play with them up to an hour. That's about it. Then they better go play by themselves and not make too much mess. Luckily I've got two kids so they can play with each other most of the time instead of following me around. With other people's kids I can do 30 minutes at most. A lot of the times what I can't handle is their imaginations. I know it's important and fun, but somehow pretend play is uncomfortable to me.

To be honest I find them just as uncomfortable and demanding to be around as adults are, and without the politeness that adults at least tend to have.

I find small children adorable and can enjoy playing with them for about ten minutes at a time, but in general, no, I do not like playing with children and find it to be a lot of work. And I'm no more at ease around them than I am around adults. Children are put on a pedestal as perfect little humans--friendly, kind, compassionate, lacking cruelty, guile, or judgmental-ness--but in reality, they are just little humans: They all possess the above qualities (and their opposites) in varying degrees.

I've had trouble with many small children but have often got along well with babies. People have often told me how well their babies respond to me. One of them (a stranger in a museum where I'd been sitting on a bench with his baby and started interacting with her before I realized what I was doing) told me it's because I don't get loud and get in their faces and talk a lot. I just interact with them on a instinctive level and often it works.

I get confused by anyone older than a baby though. Always have. Unless they just really click with me. Plus many children older that babies know I'm different and hate me for it.

when i was about 12 or so, i used to like playing games with little children. i liked playing games with them because i always won. when adults started to tell me that i should play dumb and let the little children win, i lost interest.

so i do not presently like to play with children because i have to fake stupidity in order to let them win to satisfy their parents requests that i let them win.

what a preordained ritual is that?

I love playing with kids. Their imaginative games seem to make more sense to me than adult social conventions. Kids can be difficult but at least I can always return them to their parents.

I get along much better with kids than adults.

I teach kids' classes now and notice that my students seem amused by me because I am always talking to myself or making comments out loud about what I have just done, like "Oh no, I dropped that!" or "Where are those cards?" I also make noises for actions, like whenever I move the table I hum the Jaws theme.

Of course these are kids under 10. My older students think I'm pretty weird!