Do aspies have a lack of creativity

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I am fascinated by anything that stimulates my brain, whether it is math and science, or it's the arts.

True that. Sometimes I feel like I'm addicted to learning. As a result I spend at least 50% of my waking hours teaching myself things. Unless I'm in the middle of a really good book.

I think we can be very creative. to the point that it bothers some of the NT, so they like to put rules on creativity, which we don't fit, and claim that we are not creative. It can be hard to find time to be creative,becasue I am so occupied by trying to keep everything in my environment predictable and controlable, or just trying to keep up with everything..

My 11 year old AS son is obsessed with Starcraft and Bionicles. Every night at bedtime, we have this ritual. It goes like this:

D: Can we do phone call?
Me: Okay.
D: Can I make the phone ring?
Me: Go ahead
D: [makes a ringing sound]
Me: Hello?
D: Hi! It's me, [fill in name of a Bionicle, a Starcraft character, or a "Zerg Club" character, which are Starcraft-like characters he invented.)
Me: Hi, ------! How's it going?
D: Great! Guess what? Tomorrow is my birthday! We're getting together at [appropriate ficticious place, which is often one of several places he has made up.) Wanna come?

Then he goes on to describe games and contests that they are going to do at this birthday party. He hates real life birthday parties, but his imagination goes wild during these times. It's always something very detailed, and appropriate for whatever character he's being, but he comes up with it so easily.

So...on the one hand, these things are very scripted and use a lot of pre-defined characters, but on the other hand, he adds a lot interesting details. His made-up characters are very detailed, and have histories and backgrounds.
His written stories and comic books are like that, too.

I think that takes a whole lot of creativity.

@ thebarkingbird

as drawing cartoon is my hobby not profession the timeline is not fixed...but theres sketching all around the borders of almost every page of my notebooks or roughs....

No.

Some of us are differently, fascinatingly interestingly creative and some not, and like those not on the autism spectrum we are as diverse and different as those that are not...

I agree with millie question "a little weird" as we are not all a stereo type image, well I hope , I find generally asd individuals push boundaries and concepts which can make us extremely fascinating creative wise...

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal." --Pablo Picasso

I'm told I'm creative, although personally I think I have all the imagination of a lead pipe.

I think most people are creative, the ones who don't think they are just arent trying to apply their creativity in the way that best suits them.

lol apparantly i'm not creative

Not necessarily - I consider my creativity to be one of my most useful assets.

I have asperger condition and i am an artist. I write fiction, draw, and do theater. I want to go into writing or acting when i grow up. I think AS affects how we are creative, but whether we are or not is just what kind of person you happen to be.

People who have slightly the StPD are more creative than others, BUT when they have it very strong, than they are usually not creative at all and more technical thinking.
I have the feeling that in autism it is very simmilar.

I'm definitly more creative than others, also very often in my way of thinking.
But sometimes I also have a very "rigid" way of thinking and seeing things and that's also a part of autism.

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I have both rigid way of thinking and a more out of the box insane ideas popping into my head out of nowhere style.

With my writing I like to be literal but then I write science fiction and I get these ideas and then I have to see if they stay within the laws of physics. Most of my art projects just start as a completely finished idea in my mind and I'll have to work toward making it a reality.

What I'm writing about now hasn't been explored in sci-fi, or at least it hasn't hit the mainstream. Yes I get the ideas from some memory buried deep in my subconscious that I forget where it came from, but I make it my own. Philip Pullman admits to stealing ideas, as does Orson Scott Card. There's not a whole lot of original ideas going around. Not even Inception was an original idea, or mobile phones or the iPad.

I think if you get ideas from many sources and make them your own and offer something different to the world than all the other cloned garbage that keeps coming out, then that's creative enough. I keep checking the latest released sci-fi novels and it's all futuristic or fantasy and in a way I'm comforted by that though nervous at the same time. But I'm offering something different.

These are sorts of questions that baffle me. I hear a lot that Aspies prefer to spend a lot of their time being creative, and that NTs lack this. Now it's suddenly the other way around.