autism and creativity study

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http://news.yahoo.com/autistic-traits-l ... 50570.html

I think that is great. My autism helps me think creatively and help me with my story.

Well, I've been called creative and eccentric and I do things my own way.
I'm always by myself inside my own head analyzing and thinking about things.
I may reinvent the wheel, but it won't be like a wheel you have ever seen before.
I think I'm like a feral child raised by wolfs or apes, totally outside of normal human life on earth.
I don't even know how to act like a normal human, but I can figure out my own way of surviving.
I'm also invisible. I can walk around town and not see other people and they don't see me. So I am free to create my own life and ideas about the world.

The "fewer but better answers" makes a lot of sense to me. That describes how I tend to work. My mind will whir and whir, twisting around an idea until I am satisfied I have examined it thoroughly before committing to it. Overthinking at its finest!

I think the survey has got it about right. My solutions to problems are often unusual, and I think it's because my thinking isn't hackneyed by too much conformity to mainstream thinking.

I sometimes [ok, sometimes more than sometimes] get lost in a forest of details. simpler is easier on me noodle.