What do people mean by an "Aspergian style of writing"?

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Speaking of hard of hearing (or hard at hearing), sometimes I have to ask people to repeat things because I feel like my ears are plugged. I hate that feeling.

This thread came just in time to save a brief trip report I am in the middle of writing. I have been struggling with how to include everything, the details, the important things to understand, the back story, etc. which typically make my writing convoluted, dense and boring.

Thank you!! !! !

I can really only speak to my own style and say that I have been accused of committing wanton acts of literature so I rarely write these days. What people consider highbrow is nothing more than self indulgent wittering and it saddens me when people don’t see it for what it is because I feel like I have duped them. The rubbish I write is not clever, just stupidly dense.

Edit for spelling

“Wonton acts of literature” can be at least as delightful as wonton soup.

I'm actually the one who spelled it wrong LOL. I just realized it as I'm writing this right now.

I actually wasn't speaking of the "error.' I was speaking more in terms of the sheer "goodness" of your creativity. Why mess with your "streams of consciousness?" Just go with the flow of your mind. I've had a tendency to do that myself.

(unless, of course, you're seeking to give advice or something).

If you wrote it yourself, you should get credit for it. I don't go for this garbage whenever somebody doesn't think YOU wrote something. There are MANY great writers out there who never get noticed.

They would have to PROVE plagiarism through something like "Google Scholar." I've written some pretty decent things in my time (believe it or not LOL).

I wouldn't let anybody accuse me of plagiarism without PROOF.

I'm not criticizing you one bit for letting those folks accuse you of plagiarism, and thus you're writing "less well now." I would encourage you to "let it flow" again. Perhaps present it here on WP.

Show off your flowers and your pollen! See how many bees become attracted to it!

I think the world does not need another Sylvia Plath and it’s better to keep intimate things private so people don’t put too much meaning into them. It’s all just stuff and nonsense.

That's understandable that you want to keep intimate things private.

I was talking more about "creativity"----when one writes about, say, the beauty of the sky, or the shadows of birds on lakes. Or just true things in general---like how homeless people converse about philosophy while sitting on the sidewalk.

Many other things. No intimacy necessary.

I got put in a psych ward and spent most of a semester of sixth grade out of school because of a poem I wrote from the perspective of an old man nearing death talking about regret. I didn't write anything because I wanted to write for twelve years after that. Basically stopped writing altogether. No poetry, a rare journal entry here and there, but I usually end up burning my notebooks when they're full.
My English teacher in college got me to write again. I still don't write much, but I don't usually burn my notebooks anymore either.

^ Wow.
That seems extreme, for writing a poem.