Does your child with asd have good imagination?

[Blossomhill]

I am not disputing my dd's dx as I know 100% that she has an asd.
I was just wondering how common it was for a child with asd to have such good pretend/imaginative play? Also her drawings are extremely detailed so for example if you ask her to draw a street there she will include a lady falling over with all her food strewn across the floor lol
Her play skills have always been very good. She will play imaginatively, dress up that kind of thing.

[mixedemotions123]

Hi Blossomhill.
My ds 7yrs has ASD dx and he has quite a good imagination. He loves dressing up, particularly if the clothes are 3 sizes too small . He is very detailed with his drawings too. He seems to concentrate more on the little details than he does on the main part of the picture.

[Blossomhill]

mixed emotions - funny isn't it? Maybe it's the asd side of them that makes them concentrate on the finer details then?

[mytwopenceworth]

ds1 has become very imaginative and has developed amazing pretend play. he role plays and sets up the most brilliant games. he gets lost in his little world sometimes! only the other day he organised us all to help him build a rocket and he pretended it took him into space!

ds2 displays little or no pretend play and tends to repeat play - if you show him how to do something eg you roll a car across a floor, he will repeat that over and over as his play and not, for example, move the car around the room in a different direction, or make it crash or deviate from the set play i any way iyswim. however, he is a little photocopier! the detail in his drawings is amazing - even down to putting in the the tiny little 'tm' when he draws logos and cartoon titles!!

[octavia]

yes he has a fantastic imagination and is now excellent in school plays and assemblys.He loves making things and will act out a story with the models, loves playmobile,again doing different voices & facial expressions.He used to love playing "house" when he was younger,serving us tea,playing shops ,resturants etc.I was told that he can't possible have an imagination and that I must accept his autism by the consultant

[onlyjoking9329]

i have three with autism and my youngest has a fab imagination & a brill sense of humour, i read somewhere that they may change the bit about ASD kids not having imagination and changing it to lack of theory of mind.

[stapo1]

ds2 poss ASD only copies his brothers imagination, so if his brother says the settees a boat then he will go along with it but lately he has started carrying on with the same make believe games when he is on his own!

[mixedemotions123]

We have to pretend that our house is the Mary Rose Ship quite a lot and walk around with ds as the tour guide! He went there on a school trip, and has had a fixation with it ever since. I always remember when he started playgroup at 3yrs he was convinced he was spiderman and if asked his name by anyone, he always replied "peter parker"

[coppertop]

Ds2 loves dressing up. Apparently he and the other boys at pre-school all race to get to the dresses first. He makes me join in with his game when he pretends to be either Boots or Diego from Dora the Explorer. The game tends to be a repetition of "Come on, Alicia/Dora" and "Yes, Diego/Boots" until I'm ready to claw my own eyes out but it's a start.

Ds1 loves to type his own stories and generally has a good imagination. At school for one of the class topics he had to draw our house. He told me his was the best because "Our house transforms into a robot". I wish....

[redbull]

ds (5yearsold) has a fab imagination

he has just started drawing people with little legs and big arms with the eyes on the body and on every picture they have a big smiley face

when it comes to toys he blows us away!! he acts scenes out with them and makes them talk, he will also pretend their is say a monkey in the room and its being naughty!! so if he has spilt his drink you ask him he done it he will say the cheecky monkey!!!

when we got ds diagnosis nearly 2 years ago now at first we all thought thay had it wrong as hes allways had a fab imagination.