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Why is it assumed that children with Autism/Asperger Syndrome don't play Pretend when they are children?

I had an Imaginary Friend when I was 5 years old. My dad asked me who I was talking to and I became embarrassed because I was alone in the living room sitting on the couch. My dad was in the kitchen. I said "To myself." He said, "Well you're talking awful loud to be talking to Yourself." "So you need to stop that."

I continued to talk to my Imaginary Friend. My dad became angry and said, "I said Quit It!" and slappd me off of the couch. I ran to my room crying and embarrassed.

He also said that wasn't Normal and that other kids didn't do that. (later he told my mother this and asked her why I did that. My mother said she didn't know why and assured him that nothing was wrong.)

Your mum is right. There is nothing wrong.

Most children have imaginary friends. I had one according to my mother and its perfectly natural and normal.

Remember though, having AS does not mean that you can not imagine.

my parents ignored me or either worked or sent me to a babysitters. my mom was a refridgerator mom. my stepdad was an abuser, i found ways of dealing with my "odditys" by going to my grandmas house were i could ESCAPE

I had a whole world of imaginary cats. We had an imaginary castle and imaginary giant drainpipes to slide down. It was fun.
I still have imaginary friends now.

I played "pretend" all the time....strange thing is though I found it almost impossible to ever pretend with other children.

NEWS FLASH

Nearly everything "THEY" say about Asperger's Syndrom is wrong!

My son has a new imaginary friend every single day-I have to buy imaginary ice cream from the ice cream man when we get ice cream, and get special popsicles once in a while just for them all... lol. I play along when it's nothing too bizarre he's asking for. Yesterday he told me they need imaginary booster seats for the car, one for each of them-I had to draw the line, lol. Sheesh, he has 5-6 imaginary friends, no way I could fit all those booster seats into my car. He's been on the look-out for imaginary cops that might pull us over and see his imaginary friends out of the booster seats, lol. All of his imaginary friends are characters from his favorite shows-mostly from Blue's Clues though. I've honestly forgotten where his other friends came from...

When I was little, I had E.T. as an imaginary friend until I was about 12.

hi shadowcat!

how old are you?

i used to have lots of imaginary friends... nothin's wrong with you!

im sorry kids get into trouble for these kinds of things... but what you will have to learn is that most other people will find this "imaginary stuff" very strange... and it scares them... maybe cause it's they who have no imaginations.

I never had an imaginary friend until my parents encouraged me to, in order to help overcome my fear of... everything It used to be so bad that I wouldn't climb the stairs in my house on my own!

I had imaginary friends. I also had inanimate object friends as well. I had several little friends made from hair curlers.

Hey! You got to do something when the other kids don't want to play with you.

Although my memory isn't the greatest... I think I had an imaginary band.

I think I played the drums in this band.

Although my memory isn't the greatest... I think I had an imaginary band.

I think I played the drums in this band.

Can an NT join in? The happiest memories of my childhood are the times that I played with my imaginary friend Rhea.