Something therapist said during pre-assessement?????
I wouldn't know. I never played much with other children.
I never had imaginary friends. I did(and do still) like to vividly dream of pleasant situations with real people, things that won't happen in my isolated life, but I wish did.
As a kid I always had good visual imagination of objects I wanted to build, from construction sets, scrap wood, or craft supplies. I was always able to picture how it was supposed to be, and visualize the steps to make it.
But reading clinical literature on autism and self-assessing (before official) I discovered that my imagination is never really original, always imitating something else I had seen, or a variation of it. Seldom ever a new or abstract thing.
During the assessment I did get the infamous Tuesday picture book (no text) by David Wiesner. The one with the flying frogs. It clearly demonstrated that I cannot spontaneously make up an original story from pictures. Nothing interesting like character background, motive or dialogue. I can describe what's in each picture. That's it.
Diagnosed ASD level 2 in 2023.
If others would not play what I wanted to play(anything having to do with horses) I generally would not play their games, although sometimes I did join in, it never was satisfying, compared to the things I was interested in. I spent a lot of time alone with my interests and really did not miss the companionship of others. I am not able to picture a thing in my mind,(aphantasia) so my imagination has never been 'vivid'.
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