Pretend play not possible for kids with asperger?

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Among the warning signs of asperger, I read than children with AS have troubles with playing pretend. Actually there was written that "pretend play is not possible for kids with asperger". Is it always so? As a kid, I had troubles with many things, but playing pretend was not difficult to me at all. I liked pretend plays just the same way as kids usually do. Actually I used to play pretend even to the very old age, to my late teens. Even now as an adult, I would like to if I could. I enjoy pretend and fantasy.

I find that alot of thing you read about aspergers in the media ect is a load of **** I have no problem playing pretend and I know many other people with AS dont have a problem with creativity.

I feel like this criterion was originally meant to refer to the social aspect of pretend play and not to pretend play itself, but like other symptoms of mental conditions (especially of Asperger's) the vague wording allows interpretations to drift away from the intended meaning.

While I'm still going through the process of diagnosis, I do at least have a lot of aspie traits and thinking, and while I was a child I was very good at pretend play. Maybe too good? My parents worried that I wouldn't be able to tell what was real and what wasn't. I had some cassette tapes I made when I was about 9 of me playing by myself with my toys, and while the content is rather disturbing, it does show I knew how to do pretend play! ^.^

complete bull.I spent most of my childhood playing and off in space with my daydreams.

I wouldn't say it's not possible, though I would say it's more difficult in some aspects. I remember I'd play make-believe, but it was hard to do something completely original; I'd generally play something like Pokémon or PowerPuff Girls, whether or not it was as a video game or with dolls. (Actually, even today I have some trouble coming up with purely original fiction.) Thankfully, this general type of play seemed pretty popular, though I think I also had more of a tendency to try to correct what the other kids did 'wrong' (inaccurate to the series, at least from what I knew).

But yeah, maybe a little 'strained' or otherwise 'different,' but still possible.

I think that pretend play/imagination is a personality trait, not one of ASD or NT. It seems odd to mark that as a trait though when we are defined as living in our own bubble.

I actually took play/imagination to an extreme and often did it with other children. As long as I was in control, I could play fine with other children in imaginative play, and many other children were fully willing to let this happen because my ideas were so ridiculously good!

I made up elaborate fantasy worlds and characters out of whole cloth and modifications of television shows, fictional characters, and movies.

I somehow lost my imagination around age 13-14. It may have been due to the onset of chronic depression, or other things, perhaps.

As child, no pretend play, because no instinct for it.

As adult, no pretend play, because no interest in it.

Instead, Bejeweled Blitz!

Granted I haven't been diagnosed yet and will not be evaluated for another couple of weeks, but as a kid I was always off in my own little world using my imagination. Though, admittedly, the things that I would play were strange and often involved organizing things or moving things around sequentially (for lack of a better description).

I did pretend play. It was mostly alone. I had my own world, it primarily involved building great caverns and cave systems and pretending I was a prairie dog, or building houses for leprechauns, or building pretend box cars like the first book of the boxcar children. I also enjoyed pretend play with cooking with dirt and leaves. Or pretend play climbing trees and pretending to be an elf or a squirrel. Most of this was done by myself, others if involved were accessories.

It's not true. I spent most of my childhood in my imaginary world.

Kids with AS can't play pretend? Pfft... that's a pile of crap. When I was a kid, I made up my own worlds and animal species. I made a few elaborate characters as well. My sister and I would also roleplay with stuffed animals, dolls, figurines, etc. We even roleplayed the first two Harry Potter movies with beanie babies. I still make up characters, but they have very elaborate back stories that based on my life and other people. As you can tell, I had/have and overactive imagination.

I played lots of pretend.

I think they mean pretending with others. Like girls having a pretend tea party together. Kids acting out imaginary social situation exchanges with each other to develop social skills.