Counterstrike: do you have SOCIAL imagination

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There was this poll about whether Aspies kids have imagination or not. I believe the question there was not specific enough. Inventing a light bulb can be seen as imagination as well as talking to your imaginary girlfriend inside your head. So lets differentiate here.
I propose that AS people do not have social imagination, or very limited social imagination, based on my own experience. By limited I dont mean they don't do it often. I mean that the subject/depth are very simple and shallow.
For me, i may talk to someone im my head (even very often). but actually it's all a monolog without ever trying to imagine what the other person would think, how he would react and what he would answer. I call that shallow.

What about you?

I do have social imagination....and I 'rehearse' social situations in my head but just like you I don't think of what other person is going to say....and I only practice of what I'M going to say when those specific social situations comes up (which is probably why when other people say things....I don't know what to say next, because I didn't expected them to say that and when I say my 'scripted monologue', I talk endless....)

I can spend hours (without realizing it) 'rehearsing' of what I'm going to say, like 3 to 4 hours while pacing/walking back and forth my room

I also have 'fantasy world' in some parts of my inner universe, but that's another subject (since your only talking about SOCIAL imagination)

I have some difficulty with most social anything...what rehearsing?

Definitely limited. Even making an attempt at it makes my head spinny and tired.

You're kind of forced to "rehearse" ahead of time before a social interaction--especially if the social interaction involves some sort of interview. That takes imagination.

whats a social Imagination?

i think i do, i would roleplay in my head, for example,

Person: Emily, where do you go to school

Me: -insert school name here-

Person: oh, thats very good,

ect ect ect

i would think of possible topics another person would talk about and prepare an answer, this isnt a very effective tool but i guess it helped with some things.

I have fairly decent social imagination; I do often imagine how other people will react or what they will say (there is also the whole "intense inner fantasy word" going on).
The problem is that my social imagination often isn't very accurate; I tend to expect that people will react much more harshly or cruelly than they actually do (probably due to my low self esteem), which increases my social anxiety.

I never rehearse for anything. I've tried but I just can't.

Even when I've had to do presentations or interviews and stuff like that, I just make it all up as I go along.

I don't really like to think ahead of time, if I'm totally honest.

I think maybe I have TOO MUCH social imagination. Because things generally don't turn out the way I imagine them happening.