Aspie's and Creative Arts

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Is is true that a majority of the aspie population have a greater skill in the creative arts and prefer it?

As an aspie I love, acting, directing, writing scripts and general writing and dancing.

I understanding that not every aspie will, but it seems to be a great skill area for most aspie's. Just ashame that employment is so lucrative in this field...

It's a generaly accepted theory that most aspies prefer areas of math and science over the arts; but there are plenty of aspies here who are just the opposite, myself included.

I am good at math in a classroom setting but I prefer writing and painting. But I don't think you can generalize a trait such as that, it seems too arbitrary.

I am a complete flop at anything beyond basic addition, subtraction and division.
I much prefer creativity and painting and writing and drawing and fiction.
So i am not a geek aspie but a creative one.

I am an odd combo of both. I am good with math and computers, but I am a graphic artist and illustrator professionally.

Most aspie's I've met are creative, its nice to hear its a mixed bag

I have terrible difficulties with math beyond the concrete (as someone above said, adding, subtracting, etc). I was a computer geek for one of my first careers, back in the day of the big room-sized machines with flashy lights, and loved it. But I'm more of a mechanic. I can take things apart and ascertain what's broken, and fix them. I have incredibly good spacial skills and an inherent internal "map" system for location that serves me very well. I love cooking and baking - it's more an art than a science for me.

My daughter also doesn't "do" math - other than geometry, which makes very obvious sense to her as it's not abstract. She's extremely artistic - her drawings of people are sometimes mistaken for photographs, she creates her own versions of historical costumes, she's got wonderful color sense... all the things I do not have she has. She has recently discovered baking, and is into creating entirely too sweet things from 100 year old cookbooks. (It's amazing any ancestors in this country had any teeth left if they actually ate those things!)

We're a mixed bag I think, we Aspies. I suspect some of the old thought that we're all numbers and science geeks is left over from when those were the only people thought to be on the spectrum - they weren't looking for the rest of us!

Precisely. I am math/science minded (and analytical) but this is a creative process. I think important to emphasize these disciplines do in fact overlap where the artistic process is an extension of math/science (and vice versa). For me, I would be lost if I weren't artistic alongside my science. I do not, nor have I ever, considered these mutually exclusive - the contrary.

I guess, maybe especially when I was little, some considered this "mix" a dichotomy (it isn't). Also, not to generalize, but I am ambidextrous. More specifically, I learned I'm what is termed "bidextrous" which just means I'm not both-handed but instead need to choose according to what task I'm doing. Apparently this is not too uncommon amongst those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A conventional example of a common overlap, that is so prevalent amongst ASD individuals is music - so many music lovers, and musicians, on the Wrong Planet.

I draw, I write, I photograph. I'm interested in science but because of my poor ability in maths the mention of the subject just makes me cringe. I'm definitely more right brained than left.

Interesting... music. My family tree is multigenerational on the spectrum. Many (if not all) of those who are spectrum, with the exception of the severely impacted, have very good musical talents. I was, at one time, slated to become concert musician (silly me, not a career for a poor girl who could not afford the advanced lessons) and had won many awards. My brother was a career musician who could play any instrument and who wrote arrangements for a professional organization. My father won some awards, etc. My sister, who was NT, didn't have a musical bone in her body and couldn't keep a beat if her life depended on it. Neither could my mother, who was also NT. It's the same with the uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.

Unlike some of the case studies that I've read about, I seem to have many big interests spanning from science to the arts. One of my jobs is as a professional illustrator. For a long time, I would jump around between different types of media. It just seemed that I could right away grasp the qualities of amy art supply and create with it running mostly by intuition. I also have hobbies in the performing arts including acting, some pantomime, and musical theater (I really dig Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and the Sherman Bros.). But I also have intense interests in filing and acquiring information, creating charts and graphs, The backgrounds, religions, and history of cultures around the world, and medical science, yoga, meditation, with some mild interest in botany, theology, and literature. Along with a great memory, and heightened senses which I've trained myself to tune in and out on specific things, I consider my case as somewhat unusual for having such a wide range of Aspergian strengths

I'm a very creative individual, and I enjoy the arts, better than the maths.

I was good at all my subjects in primary school but in HS I couldnt understand Maths, Science or Commerce to save my life.

My best and fave subjects were Art, History and Asian Studies.

I have very little creativity and am more on the math, logical side.

However from my experience of autistics, most are at one end, or the other of the continuum with fewer in the middle (which im going to guess from my experience of NTs is opposite to them)

Not surprising, as autistics (maybe not people with Asperger syndrome or NVLD) are mostly right-brained, where math and creative processes are handled.
People with NVLD and Asperger syndrome may be predominately left-brained.
Because that part mostly processes language issues.
Maybe not.