Hello Aspies,
I am a 37 year old male who lives alone and I have an interesting obsession or special interest. I love to collect LEGO sets of all kinds, put them in clear boxes, label the boxes, classify them according to theme, put the spare pieces into little bags. I love doing this as much as purchasing them as well. My parents were upset at first, but they eventually gave into my obsession. They said what I do as an adult is my business. Also, I love collecting the modern theme of the Playmobil German based toy. I have tons and tons of sets still in the un-opened boxes too. I like sorting the boxes according to theme and size as well. Who else has an "organizational-like" special interest. Also, i'm the teacher of an autism support classroom at a local middle school where I live. I have found my niche working with this population, but I have my days where I feel that I didn't work hard enough. Do other Aspies feel depression or anxiety when they "assume", "feel" they didn't do their best or hardest as well? I would like to know if i'm the only one out there who is like this.
Troy in Downey, Ca
AspieTeacher
Do other Aspies feel depression or anxiety when they "assume", "feel" they didn't do their best or hardest as well? I would like to know if i'm the only one out there who is like this.
One of the sad things about this modern age is, who doesn't?
Oh yeah. I remember what I was going to write. Lego is wikkid. (But didn't it always get so annoying when you couldn't quite find the right pieces to build what was in your imagination?
Also, I used to love those lego exhibitions that were sometimes on at shopping malls. With the gigantic lego figures about half to two-thirds the size of people. There was one about dinosaurs, and another about pirates and they would make diaramas out of Lego, which was brilliant.
When I was a kid I used to love collecting Lego.
I still like playing with Legos and Playmobil. I especially liked the Playmobil animals because they are articulated (a very important characteristic for me when it came to toys).
ack,i could never find the perfect piece to 'top off' a model.
i built all sorts,but very rarely houses or anything from real life,always quite abstract,stuff like spaceships,starforts etc etc
I used to collect Playmobil too. I didn't play at all, at least not like NT's, but make some kind of mini world. I loved to build some kind of Roman based city. There was weapon sellers, patricians, a tavern, gladiators, of course a coliseum, houses....etc. For buildings I used film's boxes. Some times I represented the buildings in 2D; the boxes represented an area, which was the interior of the building. Other times I make up 3D buildings. But usually 2D, for it was more easy and I had more space, area, usable.
In order to represent money transaction I used three pack of cards. I stablish taxes, salary for soldiers and other public charges. But usually it ended with a crack
the weapons sellers gained so much money that the rest didn't have nothing at all. The emperor had to raise up taxes in order to be able to pay salaries, as 70% of the people who will usually pay the taxes didn't paid because they were poor. The senators killed the emperor, redistribute the money, elect a new emperor, and it start again
All this, I played alone. I didn't was one of the playmobil's guy, I was more like a god who controls everything. Like player in nowadays pc games.
Well, now you have had an aspy boring guy telling about his old obsessions
diaramas are so cool!
I used to make them out of Fimo or Modeline. (Anyone use those?)
OMG, I USE TO LOVE PLAYING WITH PLAYMOBIL! ^^
I love Lego and I loved Playmobil as a child, but I don't get why you would collect a bunch of unopened boxes. If I owned your collection, I would probably use it to build my own LEGO-world in some spare room, with self-built buildings and objects to go along with the retail ones.
Basically, I would build something like this :
I used to collect Playmobil too. I didn't play at all, at least not like NT's, but make some kind of mini world.
I read somewhere that's quite common for people with AS. It's definitely the case fore me.
Whenever I played with Playmobil, Lego, plastic soldiers, I was mostly active in building my own world like it was a scene from a movie and I did little else but that. Even with computergames like the Sims and Command & Conquer I enjoyed the building part more than anything.... and even as an adult I sometimes still dream about building my own lego city in the future, as in the image above.
My son (s) both loved playmobil - (better than lego, lego kept falling apart to the point where it upset him. - I did not care for stepping on them either)
My aspie son had no interest in any other figures becasue the faces were not smiling and he only liked "friendly" looking figures. Playmobil is the best made figures, they are so well balanced - and go so well with blocks etc., (they) played with them like crazy but then my aspie discovered his next - let's call it an interest- star wars.
He would like to "collect" star wars and not touch them, but is, so far, unable to not play with them. He tried not to but after all he is 11 and his brother is 9.
LEGO!
I'll nominate it for the best toy ever made!
I live in a family with me +4 brother who all loved lego at some point, so we got lots of it, spacestations were my speciality, I never really played much with it like most kids did, I build up a huge structure then let it be til I got some new idea and redid it. But I never had enough pieces!
Lego <3