Online roleplay

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I have recently come across an online rp partner and had rp sessions. Probably this is something others among you have done. I am finding this rather rigorous.

Research (at the University of Edinburgh, of all places) has found that autistic spectrum people use 20 or more times as much brain processing capacity as NT's, when making social decisions. This is exactly how I've been feeling when doing rp, even though it's all verbal/text based.

That's because it still involves - big time - reading social situations, and making social decisions, and intuitive situations, every bit as much as non-verbal interactions, because these situations and interactions are being acted out in rp. I find my imagination doesn't keep up quickly and have to use a lot of brain capacity. What are others' experiences, I wonder? Are there other Aspies who are seasoned enough in rp to be able to say they are good at it?

I used to be RPG gamemaster for a RPG based on a boarding school. I did it for over a year. I loved it! We had 80 people playing at one point and it was SO much fun. I'd love to start a similar thing here, actually.

I've tried multiple times in the last few years to get into role playing.. I just haven't been able to do it. I get overwhelmed whenever I try to figure out what to do. It's just.. uncomfortable.

I've tried to get into it because some of my online friends roleplay. I really wanted to like it because it's like social interaction without actually talking or having to deal with background noise, but I don't. It just feels awkward for me.

Yeah and many of these rp ideas people have are quite bizarre. Often they're about a subject I know nothing about. My rp partner is very into vampire stuff and builds that into her rp storylines. I don't know a lot about how vampires are supposed to behave.

My husband told me about table top RP games, and I liked the idea, and really wanted to enjoy it. But when I tried, I just didn't know what to do or how to act. I always thought of myself as having a good imagination, and being able to do stuff like that, but what I hadn't realized is that it only works if it's confined to MY imagination, with no one else involved! That would explain why playing imaginative things with other kids usually turned out kind of disappointing. The times when it was "fun" were when the other kid found something to occupy themselves and left me alone to play properly. Ha ha! And still I keep wondering if I'm an aspie. I guess that says it all right there!