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08 Jun 2016, 5:57 am

I agree with you about Jane Austen.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
It's like one of the posts in the Love & Dating forum. A neverending search for guidelines to life.

I liked reading the article you posted, and I agree with you. Yes, we can only speculate about which historical figures may have been autistic - but assuming that none of them were is also unrealistic. With people like Nikola Tesla, it's hard to find other explanations.

Also, there are people who have autistic traits without being impaired - wouldn't it seem reasonable that there are more of those among writers than in the general population?


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08 Jun 2016, 6:07 am

Traven, thank you so much for the link to the book "Writers on the Spectrum". I am so glad to have found this, and having read the first 30 pages, it's exactly the kind of book I was hoping to find (but never have until just now).



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08 Jun 2016, 6:15 am

Simmian7 wrote:
i've been trying to get published.... 10+ years of rejection and i haven't given up!


You can self publish in ebook form ;)


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08 Jun 2016, 12:45 pm

I write a fair bit, and have written a giant fantasy novel, poetry, and a couple short stories.


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08 Jun 2016, 2:16 pm

League_Girl wrote:
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Speaking from my own experience, I honestly think it would be tough for autistic writers to create believable characters with their own personalities, since we have trouble putting ourselves in other people's shoes


I write sci-fi/fantasy type stuff. Never tried to publish anything. I get around this issue by creating main characters who are outcasts in one way or another, and are also usually aliens or androids or some kind of magical being. Then I just give them my own f'ed up personality, and it fits them pretty well. :lol:

And therein lies the problem; most of the characters I've created resemble me in some way, and I don't know how I'd be able to write fleshed-out characters that aren't like me. Sure, I can create flat characters based on stereotypes, but that's lazy.


Or you can cheat and base characters off real people, lot of authors do that, same as for TV shows and movies. I have done it too.

Good point. I mean, it wouldn't be *as* effective as writing a character whose headspace I can get into, but it would still be easier than just making one up.


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08 Jun 2016, 5:05 pm

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Good point. I mean, it wouldn't be *as* effective as writing a character whose headspace I can get into, but it would still be easier than just making one up.


My stories are plot-driven (I write cheeseburgers, as Stephen King would say) so I usually come up with things I want to have happen, and then reverse-engineer characters who would do those things.



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09 Jun 2016, 1:13 pm

ZD wrote:
Simmian7 wrote:
i've been trying to get published.... 10+ years of rejection and i haven't given up!


You can self publish in ebook form ;)



that's a last resort. i'm not done yet! lol i'm not a fan of ebook's though....i love the feel of novel pages in my fingers and hands. and the smell of a new book. LOL


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