Do you play as your Simself?

When I was younger, I made myself and my family as well as our house. It was more a novelty than anything else, since I quickly found it boring to play it. For me, the appeal of the Sims is to create characters, their backstories, their homes and their worlds, then play out their lives. I don't find much appeal in recreating my own or "living vicariously" through my simself. I often include aspects of myself, my goals and fantasies in my sims, especially when it comes to atmospheric things such as living in a cute coastal town or a remodeled historic house. I have a great fascination with houses and buildings in real life and love imagining what people live, work and otherwise dwell in them, and what their stories are. So the Sims allows me to channel that imagination.