Things I have noticed about this forum

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^^^That’s normal kid’s stuff, too.

Both boys and girls used to built “forts” and have “wars” with such things as water balloons and snowballs.

Oh yes. I didn't do the war thing but forts and hiding places were fun.

Lostdragon I was thinking after I went offline that if you always ended up with the leftover roles it sounds like you weren't masterminding the house game. Also that your promotional leaflets to the imaginary world sound awesome. Did you keep them? That would be a wonderful thing to still have as an adult!

Well, I was fairly laid back when it came to playing house, so I wasn't too picky about the role I got. The other kids in the group tended to squabble loudly over who was who, I usually let them decide between themselves, and then I'd get stuck with whatever was left.

I think most of the leaflets got thrown away, but it's possible that I might have a suitcase full of them somewhere, then again it's also possible that they got binned as well since my family, in particular my sister, doesn't approve of me getting sentimental over that kind of thing.

Regardless, I still remember what they were like, and I still add to my World that I invented back then in the form of writing stories, and making drawings.

I wasn’t as smart as you folks. I was only the “daddy” because I was the oldest kid in the bunch. I played with the younger kids because of my immaturity.

We didn’t have all these computer sorts of things in the 1960s. The most “hi-tech” thing I had was a toll booth which flashed red and green lights. I got it when I was about 8. I broke it immediately.

Oh that's wonderful!

I didn't know how it came about either, I just came to the same conclusion you did. I don't think there are any cliques here so to speak. At least nothing where anyone isn't welcome to join in. But when it comes to something like that, I figure you have to be there when it happens to know what's up exactly.

I keep having to go back to the start to read all the points and then as soon as I've read them I forget.

I like the thread though.

Well, you could always go to the current page, and at the top where it lists all the pages you could right click the "1" and press "open link in new tab" (assuming you are on desktop) that way you have said points in another tab so you can refer to them if you so desire.

^^im on my phone usually. Could I use that method if I came on on my tablet?

That'snot how I played doctor. I had a toy doctor set with toy medical scissors, a pill bottle, pliers and some other toy medical stuff and I used them on myself and my plushies, as well as just investigated the content of the doctor set.
I actually had several sets in my childhood, I always found them intriguing. Which is kind of weird in a way since I've always had a strained relationship with actual doctors!

I always thought playing house was boring. Sometimes in daycare I'd opt to play the father (only girls played house among the kids I grew up with) because then I went to work which meant going to a set of trees where I stood around and daydreamed while scraping at moss, which was far more fun that playing house with the rest of the girls!

I never had any real forts in the shape of tree house or the like, but I made my own little forts in bed, using my child chair as skeleton and having my duvet over it and crawl inside in my very own little den.

Well, it is also possible to do so on your phone, although this varies depending on the kind of phone. Is it a touchscreen? On touchscreen phones it often shows a number at the top (often top right) which shows how many tabs you have open.

If you hold your thumb down on the 1 at the top of the current page for the first page of this thread (not to be confused with the tab counter) for a bit, it should come up with a set of options. One of those options should be "open link in new tab", and once you press this then it will do so. However, it doesn't pop up automatically like it does on desktop. (Or it might do, since it varies)

Usually you have to press the tab counter and either slide left or right depending, and then select the tab you want. You can come back to the other tab by pressing the tab number again and selecting that particular tab.

Tablets can vary, they can work via tab counter like a phone, or like a desktop where they open next to the selected tab.

^^Sorted it. Thank you. I got my tablet out.

No problem.

How I played, I used dolls. That was my pretend play. I have played school before and my brothers were my students. Or I would play by myself and I would do some fake school work that was actual work and pretend there were other kids and the teacher. I also played with Barbies and did reenactments. I remember wearing dress up clothes and just wearing them and I remember when I was in a self contained class, I remember wearing dress up clothes in there and playing with a doll and a boy in my class decided to play daddy and he was the father of our doll. The teacher took a picture of us together holding our baby and we were both wearing adult clothes that were too big. I never used kids for house. We used dolls. My mom did tell me a story that when I was real little, I would wear bibs and carry a pacifier in my mouth and my friends too and pretended we were babies and we even tried pushing each other in a umbrella stroller and we broke it because we tried to push more than one kid in it and my baby brother tried pushing all of us in it. I remember just liked liked wearing them and I found riding in strollers fun until I got too big.




I never realized that there was a "right way" to pretend play and doctors also look at how the kid does it to determine autism. Like does an autistic child use dolls when they pretend play or do they do reenactments or are they just wear the clothes and that's it? Where is the line drawn for normal and abnormal pretend play? Plus I read autistic girls are very imaginative so that is why they are harder to diagnose. I was pretty imaginative but never creative except for writing but I couldn't even do free writing or writer's workshop in class. Like if an autistic child plays tea party, do they use actual water in the cups? Maybe that is what they also look for. I never used water.

I'd try to play house with the other girls, but I'd always get stuck playing dad and having to sit in a chair and read a pretend newspaper. I had no idea how to make this game interesting, so after a while I'd potter off and go play with the boys, who were usually doing something more exciting.

I don't recall ever playing house when I was younger... But I did play with toys like fire trucks, Pokémon figurines and stuffed animals. Before what I do now, I would like to imagine scenarios with my toys and talk to them as if they were real. Though, along with that, I gotten into video games as well. Mostly playing with a gameboy color and I would sneak out before I had to go to school to play the Nintendo 64. I didn't have friends back then so, I mostly just played with myself and whatever "imaginary" friends I had.