Imagination and Asperger's

It does not exist.

Asperger's Syndrome is high functioning Autism.  Autistic people find it difficult to lie, they can lie but it is more obvious, often over compensated.  Mostly they just chose not to lie because that is easier.  Lying takes imagination.  Imagination to come up with a new believable answer, even a unbelievable answer requires imagination.  If I wanted to I could lie to you right now and tell you the greatest writers in history were autistic, strangely social and great public speakers all.  I could tell you that the sky is green, but that is a boldfaced lie and not believable.  I could lie, but anyone who knows about me, knows it is just not in my nature, I won't even withhold the truth without having a severe moral quandary.  

Okay lying is not exactly imagination, but what is?  I had a Lego set when I was a kid, several Lego sets and I set them up in the basement and played with them all day, but I played the same thing without variation.  I played space Lego, even the regular sets got converted into space Lego.  But the theme was the same, Battlestar Galactica, the old one with Lorne Greene.  

When I rode my bike, it was the Falcon from G-Force, everything I did was from somewhere else; nothing was original.  I hated playing the games with other people that I had no reference to like original games.  

When I was an adult, I AM an adult and I try to write the scenario for a RPG, or an RPG character, it is based solely on some other character or other story idea.  I can't seem to do anything original.

Dating, I need to know where things are heading before it happens.  If there is no plan, I try to invent one from the available information, like what has happened in the past to me, and watch the subject matter is that we are talking about, if we are talking about sex a lot then I may just get the idea that that is something in the very near future and I will begin to expect it.  If we talk about fairies and trolls and unicorns, i assure you I will not be thinking that sex is going to happen anytime soon.  Except I will always be thinking about it, but I won't expect it.

When dealing with a Autistic person in a school situation it is necessary to let them know when something is going to happen, draw the itinerary on the board to let them know what is going to happen that day.  It is also good to keep things jumping, not to have everything at the same time every day so that they are relying on the schedule, or to make sure everything is always the same, but this is not possible because there are events that occur through a year that break up the time schedule.  If you have the explicit schedule then it should have everything on it including when the surprise fire drill is going to happen.  I know from experience that when the routine of an autistic child is broken the entire day is shot.  

I have told people that are close to me that I detest surprises and to give me advance warning whenever possible, so that I can adjust and incorporate it into my day.

Imagination, I have none.  Everything that I do that requires a bit is stolen from somewhere else.