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Do you have a writing quirk?
Pengi:
I used to RPG too, when I was little. My friends and I always acted out stories we made up using characters from all our favorite TV shows, books, and movies. It was crazy.
A couple days ago, I read a study about kids that play alternate universe role play games (like "house" or acting out stories) and they said that by polling creatives that have won MacArthur Grants, something like 60% of them played alternate universe RPGS when they were children... I thought that was kind of neat. The study went on to say that RPGs actually stimulate the creative mechanisms in a kid's brain and create a lifelong tendency to be more creative than kids that played more "traditional games".
I know I sound like Sheldon Cooper right now. :-X
Rose:
That doesn't surprise me much, it actually makes a lot of sense. I've seen a few studies on children like that too. I know as a kid, I used to have my barbies. The ones my brother ripped the heads off of, ended up as zombie monsters that attacked my other barbies, or ended up as slaves to the witch barbie...
I was always an odd child lmfao. No romance or normal house games, instead it was always witches, monsters, and zombies with my barbies :D.
RokofAges75:
That makes sense, although I don't know of many (if any?) young kids who DON'T play some version of house/school/war/whatever. Little kids are naturally creative, but something causes some people to retain that creativity and others to lose it. It definitely could be the difference between continuing to roleplay by acting things out in real life or with toys vs. relying on TV and video games for entertainment. One requires imagination; the other does not.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Rose on June 11, 2012, 09:46:03 PM ---That doesn't surprise me much, it actually makes a lot of sense. I've seen a few studies on children like that too. I know as a kid, I used to have my barbies. The ones my brother ripped the heads off of, ended up as zombie monsters that attacked my other barbies, or ended up as slaves to the witch barbie...
I was always an odd child lmfao. No romance or normal house games, instead it was always witches, monsters, and zombies with my barbies :D.
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I was an odd child like that too LOL. I loved to pretend, but never enjoyed playing straight-forward "house." I was a tomboy, and most of my friends were boys, so "house" turned into X-Men house, army house, pioneers and Indians house, etc. I had more fun making bows and arrows out of sticks than playing house LOL. My little sister and her girl friends liked playing house, but when I played with them, I was always a killer gorilla that would attack the house or a homeless person that would bother them. The only "normal" pretending games I remember playing were school and restaurant LOL.
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on June 11, 2012, 10:29:05 PM ---I was an odd child like that too LOL. I loved to pretend, but never enjoyed playing straight-forward "house." I was a tomboy, and most of my friends were boys, so "house" turned into X-Men house, army house, pioneers and Indians house, etc. I had more fun making bows and arrows out of sticks than playing house LOL. My little sister and her girl friends liked playing house, but when I played with them, I was always a killer gorilla that would attack the house or a homeless person that would bother them. The only "normal" pretending games I remember playing were school and restaurant LOL.
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LMAO I loved playing X-Men house, I always wanted to be Storm. That, and Power Ranger house, and I think the girliest I got was wanting to be the Pink Ranger :P.
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