asperger kids have a lack of imaginitive play

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The part that I made bold, makes me want to cry. I have been wondering latelly, when did those times end> I can't put my finger on it. When did I quit haqving that innocent, wonderful imaginative, personality. I know we all grow up. This has been bothering me, I just can't figure it out.

Maybe...when we quit creating our own worlds and told ourselves we had to live in theirs. I also find that I have often felt like I left a part of myself on some dark deserted island just to try to fit in. The key, and maybe the reason for our existence, is to bring to life for others the worlds within us. For example...I throw at least one wild theme party a year that is so fookin over the top that people beg to come to the next. The truth is...this is just some small part of me that I grasp to make real for other people. Life CAN really be like a musical if you get past the drones that guard reality.

I have always had a great imagination. I used to make up Pokemon stories about a Pokemon master going out to get new Pokemon, with lots of drama and action based Pokemon fights. It was pretty fun to make up these stories, and it didn't have to have something to do with Pokemon, I just remember the Pokemon ones vividly. I didn't really do anything special when making up these stories, it was mostly about just laying out the Pokemon cards in front of me and then using the Pokemon cards to imagining them in the story.

I also remember taking part in it with other kids, but I guess it wasn't that much about my imagination, but more about what was happening. We used to take my dinosaur toys into the garden and then play with them. Good times.

Now reading fiction has always been hard for me. I have a hard to imagining what I am reading. I never seem to establish how the Characters look, behave, talk and what kind of environment they are in. I have to have pictures to imagine it, such as when reading manga. Thus I have always preferred fact (I loved dinosaur, evolution in general and astronomy books when I was younger) over fiction.

I did that also. I used to take inspiration from the soap opera I was watching when I was younger. Making up my own dramatic stories with the stuffed animals as the main characters

I could never bring myself to play house and that's what kids always wanted to play. House. I thought house consisted of stuff I hated doing like washing dishes and making beds. Why on earth would someone want to pretend to do such boring things?