[Trontine]

Anyone else here has really poor imagination? Even as a child I had a poor imagination. I remember I had a toy stove, I couldn't very well have a real stove as a child, but I wanted it to be real tea in my kettle, or else it wasn't fun. Pretending wasn't fun. I wanted it to be as real as possible. I never really got the hang of Barbie's. Their size weren't really realistic. Dolls were better. I always wanted a Baby Born doll, because those could eat and pee.

I'm not really fond of fiction either, because it's something I can't relate to. There has to at least be a connection to the real world. As with Harry Potter for instance; it's about wizardry, so not exactly realistic, but at least they live in a world where wizardry isn't considered normal, whereas in The Lord of the Rings; elves, hobbits, dwarfs and all that stuff is normal.

[rosska]

A lot of people say I have a good imagination, but in reality I don't. My 'imagination' is all based on either real things, or on things I'm really interested in. Science fiction is one of my special interests, I think probably because my dad liked it when I was a kid so we watched and read a lot of science fiction things together. It was one of the few things we had in common. I didn't really know it was a 'special interest' until I was diagnosed with AS and had it explained to me.

Whenever I played 'make believe' as a kid, it was always about some science fiction show I liked so even though it was 'imaginative' to a degree, it really wasn't because it was based on something I'd seen.

[JoyDivision7680]

In my case, it depends. When I'm reading, it's easy for me to create a picture in my mind, some sort of an animated movie (I rarely read with real images), but if you ask me to invent a scenario, that's rather difficult.

[Trontine]

Originally Posted by MotherMan

In my case, it depends. When I'm reading, it's easy for me to create a picture in my mind, some sort of an animated movie (I rarely read with real images), but if you ask me to invent a scenario, that's rather difficult.

I have a hard time creating a picture in my mind when I'm reading as well. It's a bit of a blur, really. I get some ideas, but I can't properly put it into pictures. I find it easier to get a feel for their personality.

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[-jimi-]

I don't know how other people's imagination works, but I suspect when a spectrum person has good imagination and thinks they don't (I was like this myself), they don't realize that normal people's imagination also is built on real stuff, I think the difference is that we know it and they have a bigger subconscious and they are unaware more of their own mental processes.

I might be wrong.

Anyway, I have good imagination skills, I mean, normal people don't really imagine much do they? So why should spectrum people HAVE to if the can't?

It's all a bit confusing to me.

[JoyDivision7680]

We're smarter than them

[Trontine]

Originally Posted by jimi...

I don't know how other people's imagination works, but I suspect when a spectrum person has good imagination and thinks they don't (I was like this myself), they don't realize that normal people's imagination also is built on real stuff, I think the difference is that we know it and they have a bigger subconscious and they are unaware more of their own mental processes.

I might be wrong.

Anyway, I have good imagination skills, I mean, normal people don't really imagine much do they? So why should spectrum people HAVE to if the can't?

It's all a bit confusing to me.

I'm not saying we have to imagine things, only that I find I'm not able to leave the reality I know, to enter a new one. Normal kids doesn't care that their toys doesn't have a greater function. I don't really know how normal peoples imagination works, but I have a feeling it's more than I have. I have one friend, who have a vivid imagination. She's more in the other end of the scale, which I also find unusual.

Now I'm confused as well.

[JoyDivision7680]

I can't tell how NT people's imagination works, but the least I can do is give examples. It's actually only one example, generally available. The NTs I know have a poor imagination comprised mostly of things they have seen in movies, cartoons, books, computer games. I have yet to find out if it's because they are too lazy to think, or because that's their capacity. Mind you I have yet to meet a NT whose IQ is bigger than 130. Or at least one who seems to have such thing.

[phaset]

I had a very hard time writing fiction when I was in school. Mental models of how things work is no problem, but coming up with a story was next to impossible. My wife thinks I have a good imagination, though I think that is just because I can come up with convincing ******** answers to questions like "why is the sky blue".

[-jimi-]

Maybe it is mostly a difference in childhood. NT kids might have more imagination than at least some spectrum kids. As we grow up, imagination seems to disappear away....