It's Autism Awareness Month.

[CedarBranch]

This might be a personal question for some of you. But anyone with asperger's here- do you have...imaginary games?

As a matter of fact, several years ago, I used to imagine there being extra items and challenges and enemies and everything--mostly with Super Mario 64.

Many other things too, but I do not recall them ATM.


...I was so imaginative in my past.

[SuYo1141]

Imaginary games? Not really. However, a more odd thing I notice that not many others are able to do is the ability to lucid dream. I don't understand why some say it's so rare for them, I'm able to mix and match events or rewind/replay my dreams as they're filtered through my head. Does anyone else have dreams like this?

[Raz]

I used to make up my own stories and "roleplay" and pretend to talk to other people when playing OoT. I could do it all day.

[MessengerOfDreams]

I don't know about imaginary games, but over the 18 years of my life I have deconstructed and reconstructed Portland's transit system multiple times in multiple notebooks. I'm doing it again right now in my spare time.

[Venexis]

Imaginery games sounds more like a quality of using imagination, not anything to do with autism.

That being said, yup, I've done it a bunch, as well as the lucid dreams. I've never been diagnosed with autism or anything, although I've never gone to a doctor to be diagnosed for it and have no intentions of such a thing either. I know how to deal with my life, and anyone who tells me that I need to take meds because I don't feel like conforming to the majority of society can go jump off the bridge of ♥♥♥♥ you into a pit of lemon juice coated acid spikes. I'd hardly consider an imagination to be a disorder of any kind- it's pretty useful in situations that require sitting around for hours on end.

[-BY]

Not imaginary games, but imaginary worlds. I mainly reconstruct those in levels, drawings or some years ago, little stories.
About the lucid dreams. I get them quite frequently.

[*Emelia K. Fletcher]

Lucid dreaming? Damn, only once, and I completely ruined it right after. I've dreamt of "this is a dream" a couple of times though

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

I'll give you an example of my imaginary game (it's a little bit different than plain imagination, Ven ):

Okay, so there's a world map in my bedroom because I adore travelling, countries, populations and cities around the world etc.
If you point to any city or location on that map, I could tell you what it was almost instantly, and there are thousands of names on there.

This is because I read them to myself every day. I usually listen to a song which begins with the same letter as them on a random playlist and just memorise them. I'm like a human GPS unit when it comes to travelling- in fact I'm probably more reliable. Give me a map and you will NEVER get lost. I can stand in my room for hours doing that too, and I would never get bored. It's like...a part of my life now, a very big part.
I dunno about others here but I used to hold up my hands if I was concentrating on something. It was instinct, like, I couldn't not do it. The kids used to make fun of me because of it.. ._.

Also with autism I think it's rather rare that you have to take meds for it @Ven. Though I know fully how you feel with that whole idea in general. Only difference for me is I was diagnosed officially when I was 5 and my parents suspected it when I was 3. :3 And lucid dreaming is awesome, I'm not a natural lucid dreamer, but I have trained myself to get them. I am a regular dreamer in general though- I dream every single night and I realised that when I was keeping a dream diary.

[*Emelia K. Fletcher]

Being a lucid dreamer would probably be one of my life goals fulfilled :<

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

You can train to. It's not actually that tricky once you get the hang of it, only a bit tedious at first.