Our child has one. Her name is Kiki and she lives on a farm where she drives her tractors in a village called Plamplams. She speaks also an imaginary language. It seems like she represents experience he lives through vicariously expressing some image he has on how he fits in this world. We as his parents have always encouraged him; it is wonderful how he develops such creative images.
residentoflaniakea
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From your writing it seems you have a lot of insight and are very self aware. Use this as your strength. Not sure how you're faring in regards to alexithymia but this tends to be a blindspot for folks with trauma and autism spectrum condition. Matching your needs with your internal states (vis a vis your emotions) will go a long way to manage your life so it's worth living. Don't get hung up on labels too much but they are useful as a shortcut to learn from others and their similar experiences.
One day he was going on about Kiki, how she does things in a certain way and I kept him going by say how interesting it was. He then turned to me and asked "You know that Kiki isn't real, right, I made her up?". He doesn’t like lying or being lied to, so within that frame I guess he wanted me to confirm that it was just play.