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01 Sep 2020, 5:41 pm

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Aspies are supposed to have poor fine motor skills, according to the original diagnosis by Hans Asperger.

Can any aspies say they were good at drawing or painting when they were a kid? or now? If so what do you do portraits or landscapes?

Not particularly great at drawing. i do enjoy doing pencil sketches but id o terrain and i wouldn't really say as it's drawing. i for one have horrible fine motor skills but it' kinda jagged at the sametime. I'm sure if i wroked at drawing i could get good at it though. I don't think having poor fine motor skills means you can't draw either. just that it'd take more effort. Also Not all autistic people will have poor motor skills. My brother doesn't have any he also doesn't have any restrictive interests.


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01 Sep 2020, 6:08 pm

carlos55 wrote:
Aspies are supposed to have poor fine motor skills, according to the original diagnosis by Hans Asperger.

Can any aspies say they were good at drawing or painting when they were a kid? or now? If so what do you do portraits or landscapes?


I can only really speak from my own experiences, but what I struggle with is not fine motor skills per-se, it's stereotypy of fine movement. In terms of writing, my letters don't look consistently shaped, angled, or spaced. In drawing, I am good at drawing from reference, but bad at drawing a cartoon character the same way over and over again. There is a certain amount of natural randomness to my hand motions that also makes me bad at architectural illustrations, but remarkably good at drawing realistic looking leaves on a tree, fur on an animal, or even a cluster of bees on a nest. These things need a bit of "noise" to look natural to the eye. These kinds of things I am good at.



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01 Sep 2020, 6:18 pm

In WP 'Topical Discussion' - Art, Writing, and Music: 'You Can Draw' might be of interest:
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02 Sep 2020, 5:04 pm

I’m a full time artist and I’m self-dx autistic (in the process of pursuing official diagnosis). My fine motor skills are generally average-mediocre and I find myself struggling with handling small objects at times, but I think I’ve ended up using that to my advantage with my mediums (soft pastel and graphite) and in turn use them a bit unconventionally.

I’ve noticed an autistic influence most directly on my color palette and use of texture. I tend toward colors that “vibrate” very strongly together and I think this acts as a visual stim. Same with texture.

I’ve been able to render what I see fairly accurately since I was a kid, and drawing became wrapped up in one of my special interests in middle/high school which led to me pursuing art as a career. That, coupled with using it as a way to connect to others without spoken word.