Pretend Play Queestions

From what I've been told, most kids with aspergers never really played games that involved pretending and if they did, it was slightly different for them. So, I have never been really able to explain it so I'm sorry if it sounds kind of weird. I remember that as a kid, my pretend games that I used to play with my brothers were always taken to the extreme. For example, if we were playing that we were the rulers of like a world or country or whatever. I would have to research like "countries with the lowest population numbers" and stuff like that and then look at maps and if we were doing one as if pretending involved a castle or something, I would have to go and look for floor plans of a castle and then draw them out. I found that that was the only way for me to really imagine it properly and not be overwhelmed by all that information which is another reason why I would search up "lowest population" and would often try to get them to change their minds about playing "ruler of the universe" into something smaller like a city because I would get anxious about it.

So I mostly want to know if you guys did something like this as kids? or if your kids do/did this?

not really. when i was young there weren't the resources for such research. undoubtedly, i made best use of the information available to me. but i can't say that i consciously pre-planned any pretend play scenarios. and i can't say the lack of such planning was a source of anxiety to me either. what pretend play i did engage in was most likely informed by media like books and television. also, a lot of pretend play revolved around cuisenaire rods and lego.

Yeah, thats kind of what I have been told, I didn't pre plan every pretend play ever, I guess I just felt more comfortable and "normal" when I did, it just kinda made things feel not as forced and it would help me imagine things better. I was thinking about it recently and I guess I just never knew if it was an Aspie thing that others sometimes did or if it was just a me thing.

i wouldn't take my reply as definitive of AS. it's just what i remember of my childhood. i was more into solitary activities than interacting with other children. indeed, i dreaded things like parties.