Strange games/strange behavior

[mityaman]

I remember some strange thing I've been doing since I was a very small kid (5 yrs old or so). in my mind I imagined some action movies or cartoons with lots of fighting, shooting, chasing and so on. sometimes there were some existing characters like batman, spiderman, ninja turtles, but many were invented by me. but the point is that I actually acted everything that was going on in my mind. To those who saw it (mostly my relatives) it looked really weird: a boy jumping around the room making strange moves with his hands (something like Ian Curtis' onstage dancing maybe) and making noises of shooting, explosions, kicking, punching, screaming etc. i only stopped doing this when i was 14 or 15. and i think do something similar when i compose songs in my mind and imagine myself onstage with a band, though I don't have one and obly use a PC to write songs.
When I've found out I was an aspie or someting very similar, I realised that this kind of strange behaviour has something to do with my disorder.
Did anyone have similar experience? and maybe somebody knows if such "games" were already studied by psychologists?

 

[Sabertooth]

I make sculptures and model life choices & situations, and technical processes, in my head, all the time. Does that count?

 

[mityaman]

It doesn't, I think, if you don't try to act out everything going on in your head with your whole body

 

[joris]

I didn't do that, though as a little child I was making up some stories, "thinking" them instead of playing with others, or kinda out-loud or so, telling myself... something like that. Guess it was a weird mix of impressions of movies and such, and fantasy

 

[mityaman]

Guess it was a weird mix of impressions of movies and such, and fantasy

Yes, my stories were also made of this, but I couldn't just sit and fantasize...

 

[FLBear]

Yes, I also acted out my games and fantasies, at least while alone or with friends of my own age. You learn to control the uncontrolable when enough pressure (pain) is applied, by those chosen to raise you.

 

[Tinkerbell33]

I haven't been diagnosed with Aspergers but I did the same thing as you except the acting it out bit.

 

[CruBoi]

First post I keep deciding what I want it to be, I guess here is a good start. Since it is kinda about my childhood.

Last year I started looking into aspergers when I heard there was a girl on ANTM with it. I started thinking to my self, I deal with that sometimes(not being able to open up, obsession with certian hobbies, I even read somewhere that cuffing your wrist could be a sign).

I guess when reading these posts, a lot relates to me, including this.

I think I know what you are talking about, I did the same thing as a kid only with Power Ranger figures. But instead of power rangers, they were on there own sitcom/drama show I made up. I was in it, some of the power rangers were characters from Digimon, some I made up. But that was really all I would do all day.

After that phase, came reality TV. I would cut pieces of paper into tiny squares and put Survivor characters names on them and act out reality shows with playing cards, I don't think I stopped till Senior year when I started playing games like this against real people online(I seem to go from one addiction to another)

I don't know if this is the type of behavior you are speaking of, I've never really connected the two. But in school these "games" did hinder a social life for me, and became quite obsessive

I've never talked with someone about aspergers or OCD though. I'm sorry I can't offer any insight.