Short stories, emotions and autism

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I'm curious what the connection between emotions, story-making and autism might be as I was wondering if I could definitively rule out the possibly of autism from a short-story (But not necessarily "rule in" that someone has autism from a short story). So, here are the simple rules:

Make a short story involving as many of the emoticons as you want (The more, the better!), and try to use them in mid-sentence as much as possible (or at the end of the sentence.). The story doesn't have a minimum amount of sentences requirement and could have as little as one sentence.

For an example one-sentence story:

Someone just told me a hilarious joke and I at it.

Here's my story (You can laugh it, but don't laugh at me too harshly. ):

Like, you know, it was sunny outside when I woke up and I was like... ... and I then saw a giant ant standing in my front lawn. So, I decided to grab my flamethrower hanging in my closet and I attacked it like a and it finally died and all of its family was over its death. But, still, I was pretty for killing a giant ant with my flamethrower. I knew it would come in use one of these days!

[Btw, if anyone can decisively tell if I'm autistic or neurotypical from my short-story, feel free to take a guess.]

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This thread has received much less replies per views than I would've originally expected. I'm wondering if this implies...

1) Story-making is difficult for the typical aspie (It might be. Is it?).
2) Story-making is considered trivial and silly (Which it probably is, from Aspies and NT adults alike.).
3) A majority fear how the OP may respond to their reply (Possible, but I'm not going assume too much with my exceedingly low post count and subsequent visibility; regardless, I should improve my reply quality / friendliness to minimize future discouragement.)
4) Everybody doesn't want their story compared to the poetic magnitude of my story, as I'm obviously an up-and-coming Shakespeare. (Or possibly other stories are intimidating)


So, I'm leaning towards 1) and 2) right now. I wonder if this evidence supports any known existing facts about autism in the literature? If so, then maybe I don't have aspergers and I'm just a freak? A freak among aspies and freaks alike! I'm so freaky, I'm not even considered a "freak" in the traditional sense. I'm a super freak!

Wait, I guess the OP being a "super freak" might also be another adequate reason to not reply, haha. If that's the case, will someone else create this thread under their username and retype it it in a way that seems "acceptable" and maybe then people will reply?

Actually, I am a person (who is also an Aspie) and I replied. My reply has been ignored. Kind of makes me wish I hadn't put myself out at all. I feel very slighted and insulted. I will go back and delete my story.

It's situations like these that make me feel like a huge idiot that I didn't intend to be.

(The kind of social ineptitude that makes me suspect I'm autistic in the first place.)

This was a case of miscommunication (Communication I hadn't intended) on my part and I apologize deeply for that. I was extremely grateful that you replied and had a story, I was just wondering why there weren't as many participants as I might have suspected, and I was trying to explore those reasons. If it was the case many found it really difficult to make up a story, then maybe I could infer that an ease in generating a story itself implies not having aspergers, and possibly the various people who come in here wondering if they have aspergers / autism could have a simple and quick way of determining whether they have aspergers, in addition to other evidence that they might possess. It's like an extra way of assessing "autism" that could supplement AQ test results in order to help someone determine whether they have autism and might even help assess their severity. My intentions are good, I promise!

This is the est thread I've seen on here.

I usually in to here to , , and get/give s.

Today, though, .

And to the OP, I'm going to say... I have no clue whether you're an aspie or not. I have no idea what making a story using emoticons has to do with autism, and the emphasis on them made me originally think you're more likely NT. But then you had your list, and that's a little off the beaten path. Maybe. I don't know. Only you can really tell, or a psychiatrist, maybe.

Thanks Quietbird for the short story!

The theoretical background is that emoticons are used to convey emotion [emoti- (con/on)], and so neurotypicals would probably tend to create more "emotionally neurotypical" short-stories than aspies/autistic types. And the purpose of this thread was to explore to see how true that hypothesis might be, and to see if there were any other obvious differences between "neurotypical" stories and "aspergian" stories. If there were a distinctive set of differences, then one curious about whether or not they have autism could possibly compare their story to these stories to see if they're likelier to be more neurotypical or aspergian.

As far as the wackiness of my example story, maybe that's scared off a lot of people. I'm thinking I should hire someone to recreate this thread under their own user, and maybe then the 'normal-ness' of it won't scare away so many. And, also, preferably... that person shouldn't be predisposed to creating threads and unintentionally pissing people off.