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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Autistic savant type characters - what do you guys think? |
| Jojopa |
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Posted: 31 Dec 2015, 7:43 pm
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| I think your plot will probably benefit from drawing on potential manufacturing methodologies for the hardware you're describing. It would probably be worth thinking about, I'm trying to keep everything in the realm of possible science, at-least as far as we can guess. No hyperdrives or laser sword... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Would you read this story? |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2015, 9:36 am
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| The concept of having a protagonist looking from the outside at humanity is an interesting one, you'll just have to ensure he doesn't come off too preachy and holier than thou when criticising our various flaws. I think I get where you're taking this anyway, that he'll eventually undergo some charac... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Autistic savant type characters - what do you guys think? |
| Jojopa |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2015, 11:46 am
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| Autism is so abstract a concept that few grown ups can grasp it. And you're trying to write a futuristic sci fi fantasy for children with a character that is "slightly autistic". I dont see how that could work at all narratively no matter what you do. But okay-let's go with this idea. Fir... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Autistic savant type characters - what do you guys think? |
| Jojopa |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2015, 8:39 am
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| Autism is so abstract a concept that few grown ups can grasp it. And you're trying to write a futuristic sci fi fantasy for children with a character that is "slightly autistic". I dont see how that could work at all narratively no matter what you do. But okay-let's go with this idea. Fir... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Autistic savant type characters - what do you guys think? |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2015, 7:20 am
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| I'd go with the spine or *gulp* the pineal gland; many regions of the brain are sensitive to light though not all of those express liquid-crystaline properties like those of my laptop's screen. Since I know you're probably dubious about my claims regarding my own cybernetics aspirations, I know I s... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Autistic savant type characters - what do you guys think? |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2015, 5:20 am
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| Cybernetics will take a lot of digging to write on convincingly, take it from someone planning upgrades. That said I also believe it's a topic people should have the resources to explore. The story is going to be set five hundred years in the future, so I wouldn't take it as an accurate guide of to... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Autistic savant type characters - what do you guys think? |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2015, 5:18 am
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| Personally, I think its an assumption that kids wouldn't want to read about relatively ordinary problems, albeit with a twist, on adventures. Think of the famous five - kids loved those adventures, but no-one was superpowered. Or Harry Potter where the characters are magical, but they also make ver... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Autistic savant type characters - what do you guys think? |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2015, 7:07 pm
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| I think in an adventure story, there's a need for all the characters to be useful to the "quest". So I think it's a good idea to give him some special talents. You should be fine as long as you make him non-stereotypical in other ways. Good luck! Thanks! Yes, it probably would be a good i... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Autistic savant type characters - what do you guys think? |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2015, 6:33 pm
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| Curious to get some fellow aspergers/autistic opinions on an issue that has been giving me thought over the past few days. For context, I'm writing an science-fiction adventure story for pre-adolescent children. Being autistic, I feel strongly about getting us more representation in fiction and so I... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic or with autism? |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2015, 4:27 pm
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Replies: 55
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| Slurs like 'autist' can go die in a fire though. Appears to be an actual word: https://www.wordnik.com/words/autist That's not a slur. It was on telly, the guy on the autistic gardener kept using it. Only a word that's in online dictionaries. I've never seen an actual autistic person use the term m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does anyone in your family have autism? |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2015, 3:10 pm
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| I'm the only one, although my dad, and my grandfather and uncle on my mum's side all show some autistic-like traits, so I may have got contributing genes from both sides of the family. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autistic or with autism? |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2015, 3:04 pm
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| I don't mind either way, though I'd use autistic myself because it's shorter and less clunky to say. Slurs like 'autist' can go die in a fire though. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Asexual |
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Posted: 28 Oct 2015, 10:17 am
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Replies: 68
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| Because there may be newly diagnosed spectrum-dwellers reading this and questioning themselves, I am not asexual. Like someone else has said, if you met one person autistic person, you met one autistic person. Yeah, if anything I'm the opposite of asexual (hypersexual bisexual), can't stop thinking... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Wanting to write a book (Either creatively or to publish) |
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Posted: 16 Oct 2015, 11:17 am
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Replies: 16
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| My advice is to write whatever interests you most. Medieval, fantasy, futuristic... there's a market out there for all of those. I prefer writing either fantasy or science fiction, since I like creating my own worlds and letting my imagination run wild. My current project would be best described as ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Apparently I'm not a writer? |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2015, 3:09 pm
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| My advice is to decide a fixed schedule and try to stick to it as much as possible. I'm working on the first draft of my current novel and try to write a section at-least every two days. I find posting my work online helps too, it doesn't have to be a place that gets much traffic and you can delete ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Rough draft of the prologue of a story I'm working on... |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2015, 9:08 am
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| Well, first things first, it mostly passes the grammar test, the exception being the second-to-last paragraph which contains a couple of errors you should be able to spot yourself. This sentence in particular, "Once the bathtub was full, she went inside." comes across very clunky, usually ... |
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