Do you play as your Simself?

Sort of? I have a number of different near-simselves. I don't give any of them my exact name (or rhyming names... just names that are vaguely similar), and they don't look exactly like me... just similar coloring and hairstyle, etc. Their fashion/style/aesthetic sensiblities are similar to my own. I don't play with any of them that often, but they're all in the rotation in my main save. I generally start them as young adults (I'm well into the adult stage myself!) and they're really sort of there to play out "path not taken" scenarios that are similar to my own life. What if I had switched to the archaeology major I considered? What if I my legal career had taken a different path? What if I'd decided to write novels fulltime instead? What if I'd stayed in the city instead of moving to the suburbs, or what if I moved to the country to raise cows instead, or to a beachside cottage? Would that one ex-fiance have been as terrible of a husband as I suspected? (Sims 4 verdict: yes!) How would I decorate my house if I'd bought the Victorian I always wanted instead of a Tudor-style home? I, too, feel like it would be weird somehow to recreate my own actual kids, but sometimes instead I have sim kids and give them the names we couldn't agree on IRL. :D

I will say, I probably played my simselves more during the worst of the pandemic lockdown than I normally do. I personally found it comforting to be able to travel, go to music festivals, etc., via an avatar in TS4 when I couldn't really do it. But I could see how someone else might find it more frustrating.