Do you think you have a good imagination

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Practically weekly now my 10 year old sister brings a list of 15 spelling words and I help her create a story based around them. I've always wrote stories as a kid (lost interest as an adult) So I was curious if any other Aspies or people on the spectrum had a good imagination and a quick mind to create stories? My parents suggest to me to start writing again but looking back at those stories (that my parents mention) they focused on interests of Power Rangers and Star Wars and Lightsabers etc. So they all SUCKED IMO LOL! I haven't thought of a good story in years LOL! Oh well.

Yes! Even as a young child everyone always commented on my brilliant imagination. It was usualy only about my special intrests but it was still admired by my parents and (good) teachers and envied by other children. Even some of my bad teachers were jelous.

Here's some evidence to consider:

I have a 437 pages of college ruled loose leaf paper sci fi novel written for my own entertainment and bunches of drawings an scratchbuilt models for it. Been playing at that almost half my life.

Started a couple short stories of different genres last year.

Design my own models of boats, trains, buildings.

Come up at random moments with twisted, tacky, perverted, and/or somewhat disturbed parodies of song lyrics.

Final bit of evidence, just asked my wife and she said yes I do.
(or am I just imagining that????)

That is really cool

yup. was always told i had a good imagination.
though verbal story telling i suck at, i can write, apparently. currently working on a story now. how will it end? perhaps zombies?

Certainly do. I had a typewriter as a child (enough said). I do enjoy creative writing today - An article I wrote for the school Newspaper was described by the principle as "borderline brilliant"

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No, I'm not very original at all.

I started writing when I was ten and then stopped and started again when I was 12. Then stopped and started again. PS my fanfictions sucked from 6th grade. It was so unrealistic and my mom says they were good stories? Well she is my mother and parents are biased about their kids and everything is perfect to them their kids do so they aren't really lying when they say "Oh you did a good job" "Oh your drawing is very good." I probably won't be bias about my kids. I am certainly not about my husband. I don't think he's the greatest man on earth or the most handsome looking or perfect looking. But I do think he's great and the best because my ex's sucked.


I have done original stories too. I have even done an aspie character (undiagnosed) and her brother has it too and so does her mother (or autism, I've never decided) and her Dad has OCD and her sister has dyslexia and her oldest brother is just normal. But it was a diaper story, but not AB/DL. The character just suffered from incontinence but admits she actually likes her diapers but hates being incontinent. I never mentioned any aspie labels in my story. I wanted to leave it a mystery and up to the readers to decide, same as about her little brother and her mother. Okay so the readers know they all have problems as they read it. I've said my OC has learning difficulties and incontinence and her sister has dyslexia. I think I mentioned about her dad having OCD and her mom having anxiety and her little brother doesn't have very good balance.
I have done another with me in it and I bring up AS at the very end and when I posted that story online, it sure gave people an education about it and that was how one of my online friends learned about it, (they wanted to know what it was) and then the word was brought up to him by his aunt and then we were chatting in 2004 and I brought it up to him and he got tested for it and was diagnosed. He said I've helped him for the diagnoses. We're still friends.
I have also done another original naming a character after me but I made her normal and then I did sequel and threw in two aspie characters. One is severe and one is mild. The second story was never finished.
All these were diaper stories. I once started one based on my ex and me because I was so pissed off at him and I decided to write a story about it and post it online but I never got to it. I calmed down and lost interest. But I kept the story. Now when I read it, it's funny. I've posted it online once as a draft. I gave the characters the same name as him and me but changed our last names and some details. But I am thinking about rather I shall work on it again and this time make it take place in Oregon than in Montana. The girl character also has AS but it won't be mentioned really because it's not another aspie story. It's about how the girl meets a man, her very first boyfriend but he turns out to be lazy and she gets sick of it, so she tells him he has to wear diapers or he moves out and lives back with his mother again. He thinks the whole thing is "ret*d" so he is forced to wear diapers because he doesn't want to live with his mom because it sucks there. So he ends up wearing them and she makes the bathroom off limits and keeps the door locked so he can't use it. He is forced to do everything in them and stay in his mess or pee. I really did want to do this to him in real life because he always made me mad. I wanted to humiliate him and torture him. But what stopped me was the cost of the diapers. I didn't want to pay for my own and his. My husband occasionally teases me about it by saying "No wonder you wanted to put him in diapers, he was a big baby" whenever I talk about him and how lazy he was.

Then I have done a few without the diapers. I even started one about what if everyone had AS and the "NTs" were in the minority. I reversed everything, I took the NT bashing I have seen on the forums and reversed it. Now I am doing the aspie bashing by saying how stupid we are and stuff. Going to the ASD relationship forum gives me ideas for my story and I enjoy seeing "Nt's" perspectives on us. Gives me an idea for my story. I am thinking the kid gets depressed because he wants to hear "I love you" from his family and praises but he never gets any. He is viewed as needy and needs treatment for it. Also no matter what his family does, thoughtful things and stuff, it's still not good enough for him because he thinks they are all uncaring about him. He wants more than that just like normal people. One of my pet peeves about them. Luckily my husband isn't like that. Anyone want to read the first chapter, PM me. I was told I did a good job with it. I've always been good at this stuff. Taking two sides of the story and other peoples perspectives. I just use anecdotes. It's simple. That's why I enjoy going to the ASD forum, even if it peeves me what I read there. Some things there piss me off about the "NT" partners. I told them to tell their feelings to shut up and they are being needy. But then again that place has helped me be a better wife. My husband has noticed how it has made me show more empathy but some things there are over the top and unnecessary to do.


But my main weakness for writing is coming up with a plot, I can't stick to my ideas, I have to keep changing them so sometimes my character will start out as normal and then I decided to make it quirky or give it a condition or give it an aspie trait, etc. But with my A League of Their Own crossover, it shouldn't be a problem. There be no original characters really. But I keep changing it. I have decided to make Evelyn be Ruthie's old friend out of LA. I have decided Claudia doesn't come out to Chicago nor Eric or Benny or Sam, only Ruthie and Joon do. I even had Joon and Ruthie go to the Keller's Farm with Ernie when he tries to get Dottie to tryout for the league. But then I decided they just stay behind at the hotel while Ernie goes to the farm. Joon and Ruthie can;t stand Ernie because he is a mean guy. His sarcasm is bad. I keeps changing parts in the story. I feel it's not good enough. I am not sure if I am happy with the beginning or if I should change it. I have started to think, one of the B&J characters is related to someone who played in the AAGPBL and she is visiting in Spokane and she tells everyone about her time she played in the league. Then they all watch A League of Their Own and Joon couldn't stand Kit but then in the next chapter, it's 1943. So it's like a time machine. The first chapter, it's present time (when the movie was made) but in the second chapter, it's 1943, not 1993. Everything in Spokane is the 1940's version and everyone has older cars. Mike is off in the war fighting. Benny and Ruthie still have their regular jobs they had in the movie but Sam works at a movie theater since they didn't have VCR's back then or TVs. Joon still paints and reads. Thomas still has his job as an orderly. But in 1943, Joon and Ruthie play softball and so does Eric's wife Claudia. Joon still has her mental illness. They had treatment back then for schizophrenia but it was different.


But I never took creative writing and stuff. I don't like dead lines or being told what to write about. I get many writer's blocks. I did script writing once in 7th grade and I wrote a story about a fairy who couldn't hear well so when she grant wishes to the kids, she did errors. Like this boy wished he was in Paris France, she thought he wished he was a pair of pants. So she turned him into that pair. Then there was this spoiled boy who wished he was rich so he get whatever he wanted, the fairy thought he wished he was a witch so she turned him into one. My mom gave me that idea and those ideas and I wrote about it. She helped me with the drawings too. So basically she created the idea and I wrote it. I still have it in my notebook but I am not sure what I did with the pictures. I never cared for them.

I have gotten another story idea about my original characters from my Benny & Joon fanfiction except they won't be in the story, only my OCs. They're all aspies too. But one of them was created by my online friend from Canada.

Okay, that's long.

I am writing stories since I was 9.

I've written stuff but (especially when I was younger) most of it was copied rather shamelessly from whatever I was into at the time. My song lyrics have become more original with time, but they still don't stand out as anything that's never been done before....some of the ideas are mine, but mostly it's kind of generic. The actual music is probably a little more my own. Most of what I perform is writtten by others - traditional and cover songs. Sometimes I've had compliments on my arrangement of songs, but I find that hard to understand, as it's always the ones I've just thrown together that get the most praise.

Of course there's nothing new under the sun, so I could level the same argument against most works of art.

I'm rather equating originality with imagination here.....there are some things in which I can seem quite imaginitive - I even have some kind of social imagination, though I wouldn't trust it too readily. I don't usually have much trouble thinking of possible solutions to problems or approaches to acquiring particular goals. It's rare that I can't dream up some kind of strategy, even if it's not necessarily a good one.

No, I don't think I have a very good imagination. >A<;;
I love to draw but it's not very original.
I'm working on improving that though. :3

Not even a little. I have never had much of an imagination. I rarely, if ever, played creative games, role playing, etc...(It annoyed my mom than I never had an interest in barbies, I could just never get behind pretending a toy had a life of my creation, it was just a toy!) I have never been a good fiction writer. I can write factual papers (research, essays, etc) but I have never been able to make up interesting stories.

I would like to have an imagination, especially since my young nieces want me to play with them (they have incredible imaginations that I can't get myself to take part in).

Interesting about how many posters mention writing as part of their creativity.

Maybe you are original and creative but not in an artistic way

There's what might be called"artistic" creativity and also a "practical" creativity too.

Example of the practical creativity:
Way back in my younger days, Dad had driven his International Scout to the parking lot which was the only level place in town so he could (IIRC) change fluid in the rear differential.

Ran out of rags, now what?

He gave me a dirty look when I jumped up and ran off.

He had a rather different look when I returned with a handful of newspaper which had been discarded along fence.

A creative practical solution.

I used to write all sorts of crazy stuff in elementary school...then somewhere around middle school, I noticed my imagination just draining away, and writer's block took hold. I kept wishing I could get my imagination back, and didn't know what was going on.

Though I do have a very different sort of imagination than most people, sort of twisted and off-beat, so I guess that counts for something.

I don't have much of an imagination most of the time... but can come up with really random things to write down at times. I like to draw a lot, and color and all, but when I draw, I usually find a thumbnail image of a picture I want to draw and make it poster sized, so I'm just enlarging it, not really doing anything creative. Many others disagree with me, and comment "oh I wish I could draw like that" and all... but I feel like I'm just copying things that I like all the time.

I only do when i'm not expected to. I really don't have any when i'm under pressure.

I don't think I have much of an imagination. I wish I did. I work mostly with what I can see and interpret, in some instances differently, but otherwise seems to be a black hole where imagination goes. I'm nearly incapable of lying as well and all sort of works together that way I think. My mind is very literal and not very good with anything abstract but I'd like to be able to work on it and see if I'm able to push the bar a bit in order to see what's possible.