Pretend games and AS

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What were your favorite pretend games as a child?

I didn't enjoy those games as a child. The children would try to force me to play, but then I'd cry so I didn't have to.

The only imaginary play I recall is playing Annie Oakly....riding a broomstick horse and eating fake jerky.I did use to build little houses for bugs I found and make mud pies with a neighbor.Now I cant imagine that I touched mud...I hate the feel on my hands,especially when it starts to dry....Yuk

I was always the one exposing the other kids to pieces of history, like reinacting the French Revolution and Nazi Regime (in second grade)

Guns, but I remember some kids stated you couldn't shoot through 'bushes.' You hate that rule until you're the one being shot through the bush, then you defend it like the finest hypocrite.

House mostly... I sometimes played fantasy RPGs out too, althought I didn't really understand it at the time...

I used to pretend I was a character out of my kid's magazine...by myself, I may add, I didn't NEED other kids to do that. Or I'd pretend I was a cat, and hide under a bed with our actual cat and purr at it...I think I freaked the poor kitty out! It didn't stay under there with me long anyway.

I made dandelion stew for my dolls and the nature fairies I believed lived in our garden.

That's all I recall.

JulieArticuno

I did (and still do) pretend to be characters from history, novels and video games. I've been everyone from Doctor Kevorkian to Solid Snake and Napoleon.

Between the ages of about 3 and 10, it was sorting my large collection of toy dinosaurs into different species groups, populating my room with them and recreating the Mezozoic. I also played with playmobil figures, lego and built things such as boats and kites. Later on (10ish to 15) I built towns, villages and other living areas for the playmobil, lego and "troll" (little plastic trolls with very colourful hair) figures I collected. There were four "civilisations" each with their own distinct ways of life, culture and technologies, which developed as I played with them.

Stretching out my arms and running while flapping them slightly, imagining that I was flying like an eagle.

Like for a lot of aspies, my favorite pretend game was a solo one; I was 4 to 6 at the time. I would sit in empty gazebo or a sandbox on a playground, and pretend I was inside my own house. Every place in the "house" was a distinct room, and the perimeter was a reinforced concrete wall. There were times when I played that game for over an hour, contently sitting in the "house", surrounded by numerous posessions, fortifications (such as massive locks on doors), and guard dogs outside. Throughout the game, I talk to myself as I described each and every thing.

Of course, other kids would enter the sandbox or the gazebo, since, after all, it was a public playground. Every time, I would become upset, because they were entering my "house" and disturbing the game. A few kids offered to join the game, since they thought it was fun. I brushed them off (in retrospect, probably rudely), since in my opinion at the time, a game isn't fun when you can't do things your way. Some tried to reason with me, explaining that it was public property; others taunted me "hey, I'm in your house, and I'm going to touch everything".

I had to stop going to two playgrounds because of this. Eventually, my parents had to lecture me on how to act on playgrounds, to avoid getting bullied. In time, I dropped the "house" game, simply because it took way too much effort to maintain. Looking back, I probably should have had predefined roles for kids that offered to join the game. Buy hey, I was four and an aspie to boot, so can you blame me?

give myself 10 sec to turn on lights in dark rooms... or else monsters would get me

setting up boobie-traps around all my buried treasure... which i had previously buried... and leaving maps to see if other kids in the neighborhood would find them and get boobie-trapped!

i at least pretended i was decent at tracking animals in the forest... think this stemmed from my parents being archaeologists.

when i was much younger (under 10)... i used to pretend that i was a guy... in just doing things... whatever it was

I can't remember playing any pretend games as a child.

I know this sounds weird, but I used to pretend I was a POW, playing the part where I was captured, taken to prison, interrogated, thrown in a cell, escaping, being recaptured, and being tortured some more.

...I thought I was the only one who did stuff like that!

I also created a civilization in my head, and would pretend I lived there; I don't remember much of it, but it was a mix of tribal culture and futuristic technology. I would wander around the playground and pretend I was in this world, interacting with its other citizens (who only existed in my head). There was no room for other people in this game.

I hardly ever did stuff like play house. I would try, every so often, because I knew I was supposed to be interested in games like that, but it always bored me.