lack of imagination?

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ok, your responses are making a lot more sense and fitting with how i thought things are...

I have a very vivid imagination.

not diagnosed, although i am pretty much certain I have AS.

I certainly have an imagination. Sometimes it is too vivid, and distracts me from ordinary reality. I've always been a dreamer.

I think that lack of empathy in aspies comes from a cognitive inability to correctly perceive and interpret subtle facial expressions and body language, as well as some abstractly emotional speech.... the social deficiency. This quality pervades all aspect of the mind, including imagination.

People say things like what was mentioned in that link because aspies can have a hard time being "in someone else's shoes"; or in other words, as Tails mentioned: we supposedly lack "social imagintion."

growing up i was told my imagination was not my own, basically like this... I would watch a movie or tv show, then react what happened on that movie or tv show with the toys. Other then that I loooved to line up all my toys, and put them catergories of families, like mother, father, brother, sister, then gave them names, and that was it lol. My imagination is still the same way, its weird.

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I already noticed that this is a classical thread in this forum.

I have a strong suspiction that what is called "Asperger's Syndrome" is, in reality, an umbrella name for a variety of several unrelated syndromes, with only superficial similiarities, and, because that, there is a big variety of diverse theories about the supposed traits of AS - then, we can have studies saying that people with AS have low imagination and or creativity (like these: http://www.autismresearchcentre.com/doc ... aig_BC.pdf) and other saying the opposite (like Hans Asperger himself, who said the a unusual fantasy life was a typical trait of his "autistic psychopats").

yeah, it's the kind of thing that's confusing me as i look into as. i read descriptions that fit me perfectly and the criteria (which i meet), then read stuff like this that throws me off. i want to get evaluated and know for sure, it feels like it'd be a relieving answer for me, even if it doesn't change much else. so i keep looking up information because i feel nervous about bringing this up, and want to find out more about what it'll take to get diagnosed, then i find this kind of thing. it doesn't sound right, but it gives me cause to worry that maybe this doesn't fit me, and i'm still without an answer, anyway. so, i ask. thanks!

I have no imagination at all. I couldn't tell a fable to a child. Perhaps for the same reason I practically cannot lie.

i am not dx'd..

anyways, i have a very vivid imagination and from very early on i was unable to seperate fiction from reality, and even now my friends say i struggle with this, but i am unsure....will talk to the doc about this though... but i dont know if my imagination is different.. all i do know is that if i see a good SCIF ect i tend to float into my own little world for a while, like i feed of the stuff ive just seen...

am do not have imagination though am autie [not aspie],it affects am in a very big way,but am dont think of it as something that affects quality of life,the worst thing it affects is with having MLD [multiple learning disabilities] it adds to them because am not able to understand things am have not seen happen before.

the lack of imagination thing is supposed to be on the autism/autie side,not aspie side-am remember Danielismyname saying this.

Agreed w/ KingdomOfRats, and others. Yes, I have an imagination!

Not really correlated with the fact that I cannot begin to 'guess' how another might respond at any given time or situation. NTs are basically slot machines (pre-sorry if this is offensive; I do like many NTs) and follow no pattern.

Artists, and those with creativity/imagination, do in fact follow a pattern too. I could not work to capacity without my imagination and creativity and the old correlation that Autists have no imagination is really a discredit.

I have very vivid imagination. But if you want me to explain, draw, illustrate, or tell it; then you are out of luck. I have a hard time doing that.

I hate it when this "lack of imagination" is resented to the public. It's really discredit autistic people-- from auties to aspies; they're basically telling us that we're animals. I'll tell you this: If we have a lack of imagination, how come the most famous and recognized people in history had autism or even autistic tendacies. Kind of strange how neurotypicals, seeing that they can only crap their pants and socialize, tell us that we have a lack of imagination when it is we that persevere on our special interest and actually contribute to society.

I think that part of the problem is the neurotypicals themselves. Since they can only think neurotypical, they see anything different from their thinking is just wierd or deficient or unimaginative. In reality, however, When I read most NTs' writing, they just write about the same thing. Like we have to do this sonnet about a historical event. I wanted to do one on the Wars of the Roses, but guess what most of the neurotypicals chose. THey either chose Abraham Lincoln or 9/11. Sometimes I wonder if they'll just think differently for once, stop socializing, and just work on a topic day and night. Oh wait, they can't; they have to talk; otherwise, they'll die off.

Part of it is our problem too. We don't tell the public that we are imaginative and that we only express it differently. I like to describe things in my stories since I'm a detailed person. Many people don't think I'm imaginative until I show them my paper and BAM! THey just got impressed.

Read this sonnet and tell me if it's not imaginative.

Wars of the Roses

While the Church pulled the witches’ noses,

York and Lancaster— harbingers of doom—

Claimed the throne with spears and doses

To place the other faction in the tomb.

Richard the Third combated Lancaster,

And Henry Tudor did the same to York;

In Bosworth the knights were in the pasture,

Razing one another like piercing pork,

But soon the white rose shall fall on the ground

When the red rose shattered it. But what’s this?

Both roses in hell someone had found;

He plucked them to save them from the abyss.

When peace cured the people of their stupor,

Red and white begot the House of Tudor.