Do you play as your Simself?

My daughter has created our Simfamily, and while we've never played them actively, they are almost always added to our worlds. Z did a good job of capturing our appearances--my wife, especially--and she gave us realistic careers and traits. Teen Sim Z is much more grown up than the real Z, who is a very young Teen. We enjoy running across them in our games, and our main characters interact with them. I'm still getting used to "catching" Sim Z flirting with other Teen Sims...

We usually create many of our Townies, because we think it's fun to have our Sims inhabit a world made up of characters we know.