Should I write a book

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Hello,

Nobody knows I have Aspergers, although, people suspect it. I was wondering whether I should write a book about my experience with Aspergers and how it has effected and shaped me. I am only 17 will I have enough?

Thanks

Well, you grew up being an aspie, so you probably do.

Why not? If you want to write, go for it. Writing can be a good way to understand yourself and your place in the world, and at 17 you're probably right in the middle of working all that out.

I don't know if you'd get it published--writing's hard to break into--but you don't have to have a publisher to write a book, or an essay, or a blog. (That's what I do; I blog. I don't think I'll ever write a book, but I've had people pitch the idea to me, so I guess I could if I wanted to.)

Feel like writing something? Write! Go for it. I know it seems pretty intimidating, like you've got to get the next great bestseller, but in reality, you don't even have to show your writing to anybody. You don't have to be an amazing writer to get started. Anyway, every amazing writer has a whole lot of bad writing to get out of the way before they can get to the good stuff.

If you want to be a writer, that's pretty much the best way to go about it... just write stuff, and keep going until you get better at it. And why not write about your own life? That's what you know. Everyone's an expert on their own experiences. It'd be a cool topic to start out with, at the very least.

Good luck! Writing is fun. I highly recommend it.

Depending on what your exact focus is, I really don't see why you wouldn't have enough to write about. Aspergers already has influenced your life.

I have started writing recently about my experiences so far with Aspergers too. Writing has been a pretty amazing experience so far. I started writing after I started to speak to a club at school about autism. I started thinking of so many things I wanted to tell the group and so I started writing and sending out emails to club members who signed up to get them. The reactions I have gotten are amazing and encouraging. People thank me and share their amazement in learning what autism is like.

One thing I didn't expect at all was how much it has helped me to really understand myself and come to terms with some difficult experiences. Now I write just to write. I'm thinking about starting a blog, but I'm not sure yet.

I think you should go for it. It's your experiences with Aspergers and not your age that matters.

absolutely!

Sure, go for it. Writing a book takes a long time; I've been working for a year (minus five days), and am only to chapter seven so far. Given that, you'll doubtless have more material to draw from as you get older and write more. I find writing to be a greatly rewarding hobby, and would encourage it in anyone even remotely interested. You don't have to be perfect at it starting out; the more you do it the better you get. I've had to go through the short stories I've been accumulating since I was sixteen (whose word-count now totals over that of six and a half novels; yes I counted) and have had to do some serious punctuation and paragraph structure overhauling at least three times so far as I learned more about the structural rules for writing. Regardless of whether or not you wind up publishing, I would recommend giving a novel a go, and then letting us here on WP read the draft

Of course you have enough life experience to write a book. It could be informative to parents of people on the spectrum or relatable to people your own age on the spectrum. Just start writing and make time for it as a routine.

I would say so, I mean I'm 17 and thinking of also writing a book about my experiences to at some point so go for it

I've seen autobiographies written by teenagers before. You don't have to be a certain age to have 'enough' for an autobiography. Plus, you could always write a sequel if enough interesting stuff happens to you after you've written your autobiography. (Donna Williams did this.)