I'm certain he's not trying to tell me something. The Grand Canyon thing came up over a game. Tonight it was a story about a couch he made for his friend mouse. Tomorrow it'll be something totally different. They're stories where he'll tell me he built a house then tell me the steps he took to build it. Things that are too fantastic, he doesn't make things up about the mundane. I pretty sure he's ever made up anything about school or anything that's happened at a kids house. He will say he knows how to do things he can't or knows things he doesn't and that's the part that bothers me the most, he uses it to get out of trying. He does have problems failing and is a perfectionist, I don't know if that's related or not.
We haven't talked about it much yet. I fairly certain he doesn't do it at school and I've never heard him do it with kids although it's not impossible. I think he mainly does it at home and with my parents.
I'll try the game and start talking about it more with him. Thanks!
ETA - We did talk a bit tonight. At first he said it's real but later said some are. I told him I won't tell him he can't pretend because I think it's neat but I do expect him to say it's pretend when someone asks. He said OK. In the next few days we'll talk more about it and I amy suggest writing a storybook.
I had wondered if it was a gifted thing because the lists always say vivid imagination and that clearly comes through in his play as well as the stories.
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