Creative Story Writing

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I can't recall how I felt about creative short stories, but in elementary school we used to make cartoons and it was quite fun.

When I was in high school teachers used to tell me that I was very good at writing essays (not creative ones I guess), but I can't recall enjoying it a lot.

It wasn't that I didn't like it but couldn't do it. Nothing was ever in my head to write down. I remember teachers losing their patience with me and just begging me to write something.
Strange though, because I've had a vivid imagination since I was about five.

These days though I love to write but need to be medicated to get the creative juices flowing. It's still mentally exhausting though and I have to give time to myself to recover from it. I'm having one of those days now.

I love making up stories in my head, though I have a lot of difficulty actually penning them. I heard a saying that "there is nothing more frightening to a writer than a blank Word document", and that holds true for me.

I like to make up stories in my head as I fall asleep. I should buy myself journal to write my stories in, before I close my eyes at bedtime.

I am an Aspie with a passion in the social science and am relatively weak in the math and science. I also enjoy creating writing as well as writing nonfiction. One very strong "Aspie" memory that does stand out is that when I was in middle school, we had a school-wide story writing contest. All the language arts classes had made it a requirement to participate in the contest with the top 5 books chosen in each grade winning gift cards to the local bookstore and 10 honorable mentions getting ribbons but no gift card. The judges were a team of high school honors students who did NOT know about my status as the school "dork" as they were several years older than me and just saw my book for what it was and not who I am. I won second prize for the entire 7th grade grade and received a $25 gift card. I had written an animal tale about a household mouse who makes friends with the little boy who lives in the same house as them. The family cat is always after the mice in the household so the little boy hides the mouse in a book box where he (the mouse) teaches himself how to read. When the boy gets sick, the mouse comforts him by reading him stories and even writes a book report for him.

Here's the "Aspie" part: The other kids would NOT STOP MAKING FUN Of me for writing a "baby fairy tale" while the other prizes and honorable mentions (which were all on display in the school office) were all written were about topics like about winning a shopping spree and buying all the brand name clothes, sneaking out behind parents' backs, or being the star of the school football team. On the day, we picked up our books after the 30 day display period, the "popular girls" pretended they wanted to "read my book" so I naively gave it to them, thinking that they finally saw how smart I was and were going to stop teasing me. Once they got it in their hands, they actually shredded the pages of my book into tiny pieces and flushed it down the toilet. I had used a typewriter to type the book (this was in 1988 and a year before our family got our first computer) so I didn't have a saved file of all my hard work. I only had a couple of "rough drafts" on binder paper to remind me of all the hard work I put into this project.
When I had a meltdown at school after this happened, I was the one who got into trouble for having a "tantrum" in middle school while the popular girls got off scot-free.

Regards,
Allie Kat
http://www.myaspergerslifestory.com/ [i]

I do all right if I'm writing an essay, or maybe a short piece inspired by personal experience, but I've had to accept that fiction is not my forte. I wrote a novel several years ago, and it was a meandering, tiresome thing. I re-read my old manuscript not long ago--shortly after I was diagnosed with Asperger's--and I found the main character to be very me. That is, someone with AS. Not that I had a clue about AS at that time. It was self-therapy masquerading as fiction, really. Not very accessible.

My first post, by the way. Hello to everyone.

I love creative writing

Yep: I would say that hands down, that middle school was the worst years of my life. If I ever have an AS child or even a NT child who gets hell from their peers for any reason, I would homeschool them.

I think both middle school and high school are often so cliquish that they even often turn perfectly nice, compassionate, and caring kids into snooty mean girls.

I wrote a fictional story about how my life might have been different if I was born in 1996 instead of 1976 and had an early diagnosis; In my story, my elementary school and college/adult years are a lot better because I have the diagnosis and appropriate intervention (I extrapolated this story to the year 2026) but middle school and high school are still a living hell as I figure that teenagers still be just as mean today and probably worse as I heard cyber bullying has become a big issue. You can read my story at http://www.myaspergerslifestory.com/if_ ... _1996.html

I love creative writing! I also like opinion essay writing. In fact, the only kind of writing we do in school that I don't like literacy paragraphs. I, unlike most autistic people, dislike science class. It's hard and boring to me.

hahahha. I'm imaging that if I had the social skills therapy from the age of 6, that maybe I'd have learned enough to "fake it" by the age of 22......

Anyway, I'm also starting a much more involved project writing a book with an 11 year old protagonist with AS who is loosely based on my real life experience but is being raised in today's time and has had a diagnosis since age 7. The focus is on her transition into middle school. It will be aimed towards both Apsies and NT tweens who like reading realistic fiction with a school setting. (It seems like these types of books are less common with kids these days and have been replaced by a more fantasy type of genre but I'm sure there's still a market for them).