Did you do this as a child?

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On the parenting board I've mention my hypothesis on the 8 year old being on the spectrum (from what I see and the traits I understand etc.) Today one I saw popped into my head as again probably Aspie. The 8 year old was talking and planning how they were going to play princess and such on the car ride home. This drove my sister nuts and she said HUSH! Just play when you get home you don't have to plan everything out!! !! I snickered to myself as an Aspie and from seeing a show about an Aspie child (Parenthood not sure your view on that Aspie child) but one trait he showed that the 8 year old did (and that she does) is planning out how they are going to play. Did you do this as a child or does your Aspie child do this instead of just play? Thanks.

I have a very NT sister (athletic, very social blond) who is seventeen months younger than me, so we were always playing dolls and such together as little girls. My parents still recall with laughter how I would dictate every little thing that she was supposed to have her doll say. I'd get frustrated with her when she would make up her own script or if she said something incorrectly. I always wanted to conversation between the dolls to be the way that, well, I wanted it to be. Anything else wouldn't be tolerated.
I've changed now, though. I don't play with dolls anymore, clearly, and I'm the furthest from bossy in a majority of situations. When it comes to something I'm interested in, though...

I'm diagnosed now, but as a child I did it all the time.

I would always script out which plastic fish would be eaten by a little board game shark, and which one would not (the white fish always escaped). I remember trying to share this with a neighborhood boy, and he was so disappointed at my rigidity that he left.

When I would write papers in grade school, I loved to get them all ready to write on; title in perfect position, my name and all the necessary markings, and then i would have nothing to write. I hated starting the writing because it would not be perfect the first time and I knew that it would destroy my perfectly planned paper with it's chaotic "rough draft" routine.

So yes, I did it.

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Yes, I did this.

I am diagnosed now and did plan everything in play [strategically] as a child.

Nope. I was too busy pounding my head on the floor. Or so I'm told.

Yes, I did. I wasn't spontaneous child.

I did this, too, and I still do, to an extent. It drives my boyfriend bonkers. He'd rather just do it and be done with it, but I like to plan. But the issue is, if I don't plan, I forget something important!

Yes I did this!

Only not at being princess, (I most likely would if I were a girl though....) but at other more 'macho' type stuff and plots, pranks and other sceams!

With regards to what I do as an adult I still do this, but not down to the last letter, as you never know what may turn up!

Goodbye Till Next Time

Not exactly, but I did have to be the one in charge of all games. I can distinctly remember playing teacher with my brothers and I created the entire scenario and they were more or less the actors. I also did this game of amusement park in my basement (with my brothers). One hour before playing I set everything up and then I had them come down and play on my "rides."

I used to also make up my own rules to board games.

Nope, not at all. They kept giving me dolls and things like that for gifts. I remember a horse with a saddle, that's all.......What the heck am I supposed to do with this????? I stared at them, I took the clothes off, I put them on- clueless. I watched other girls play with dolls. I wondered what made them think of the 'roles' and tea parties and the like.
I was very angry that my brother got 'useful' stuff. Real Toys. Erector sets and chemistry sets. Now THERE is something I understand! I snuck in and stole them to play with, got in trouble and went back to drawing. I got pretty good at drawing but still lack the creativity to dream up pictures, I could only copy with perfection. I quit drawing years ago and was then told that commercial artists willing to 'copy' things made the biggest money because 'artists' always wanted to 'embellish' things. Darn, opportunity missed.

I just LOVE planning things out and did so as a KID! This is the reason I enjoyed going on vacation so much - because I could have it all planned out in my HEAD before we even WENT! Thank GOD we didn't have the Internet back then as I'd have been GLUED to the computer planning my vacation!

I once belonged to a parent-child organization that started having a lot of trouble, so (as a KID) I devised a plan for them to steer out of the trouble they were in! It became a project that kept me occupied until I was an adult! The trouble was that nobody would listen to me back then. But 25 years later, the woman who was the CEO of the organization back when I was a kid came to me and said, "I wish we had listened to you 25 years ago; we might have avoided a lot of the trouble that happened. We thought we had everything under control, but things kept getting worse." Now there's almost NOTHING left of that group!

The thing that attracted me was all the intricate planning that went into designing the solution (mergers/acquisitions and rebranding). It turned into a 200+ page manual.

This doesn't necessarily make me an Aspie, but looking at it vis a vis those who are diagnosed as such is certainly interesting!

As a child I planned out a lot of things. Let me explain one of them. Before my family would embark on a vacation---to Myrtle Beach usually, I would take Dad's AAA Trip Tik and list on notebook paper every town we would pass. I would write the mileage down, the approximate time to drive to the next town, and the mileage left to arrive at our destination.

As a child, I spent much of my time planning future play - however, I usually did not put in practice the plans when I was effectively playing.

[In general, all my life has been making plans but don't do anything to put them in practice]

When I got past the stage of just setting things up in rows or "realistic" nature scenes by myself, I planned out everything that was going to happen. If the other child/children wanted to do something differently, I expected them to inform me of what they wanted to see happen in our playtime so that we could discuss it. The few times I actually got past the planning stage, I would be very frustrated if they deviated from the plan. Usually, I did not get past planning. I also enjoyed builing sets for my/our toys, and would spend more time on creating castles out of blocks or buidling outdoor cities out of natural clay, sticks, and rocks than actually playing with the other children.

I didn't really play games until I was about 9 or 10. When I did, they were on MY terms. I didn't get angry if the other person/people weren't cooperating, I just wandered off and played by myself instead. I remember playing 'the lion the witch and the wardrobe' when I was 9 and half the year group joining in! It was too confusing and I was the lion so I just ran around the playground roaring and pretending (i hope) to bite everyone!

Before that it was just counters and cars in lines...

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