Aspie Actors

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I'm undiagnosed, but am 99% sure that I am at least mildly Aspie.

I understand that there are some others on this forum that are actors, or at least have some theatrical aspirations, including our intrepid moderator Alex.

What I wonder is something someone recently asked me: do you think that AS is a help or a hindrance to our artistic pursuits? Or do we on some level use performance as a kind of therapy?

Given the difficulty I have with physicality onstage, and my buried emotions, my strength is my voice. I am leaning toward some kind of career in Books-On-Tape or radio performance.

Let's start some kind of discussion. What's your experience been as an Aspie actor?

all aspies act, we cant do it very well but we havre to to get by, somer aspies have the acting gift, i dont, byt i try to act normal every day

I've been told Im a very good actor. I can even come off semi normal sometimes, because of the way I've learned to debate and argue. I've always seen life as a movie or a tv show so my reactions to things seem a little exaggerated to the nuerotypical eye, and I think that has to do with my life revolving around the television and media in general. I've been told Im a decent writer by some people. I just think I might be a lucky one, even if I didn't want to be anything but normal.

I have a way of copying peoples accents. And one time I was at Camp and we did a skit for parents where we pretended we wre the councellors. The guy I was had a stuttering problem and when I did my impreesion I got a Standing Ovation!
I have always been an actor. Always interested in theatre>

[quote=" And one time I was at Camp >[/quote]

band camp right?

Do voice/dubbing actors count?

I can act, but I have bad stage fright. Another one of those ironies of my life.

I do some acting. Not a whole lot, though people have told me I'm good. I find it a lot of fun most of the time.

I do some acting. I've been in many plays in the past, and am in one every year. Not a whole lot these days, though people have told me I'm good. I find it a lot of fun most of the time.

I am an excellent Clarinet player, but I don't act a lot.

Now are you talking about acting or acting up?

Now I was actually contemplating starting a thread along these lines, because I'd wondered about this. I find I can hide motions but can't fake them, and wondered if this was an Aspie thing and if so if there were any Aspie actors, etc. I guess there's my answer - I can hide emotions but can't fake them. I can do smiling and nodding and suppressing stimming and stuff but other than that don't feel I can act normal, really.

I don't act but I'm a novelist.

I started acting in middle school, took two years off in high school for reasons I don't totally know, but then this year started taking not only acting, but singing seriously again. I've done one musical already and am performing in another (opening show on Saturday), and I realize just how much I love musicals. My singing voice isn't the greatest, but it's getting there, plus I know I have the capability to learn and to have my voice developed.

I'm decent enough. I love acting though. It is the one thing that has made me social, I guess. Every aspie should act!

Bah, I just realized I did a double post. Probably meant to edit the first one to add the other information. D'oh...appologizing for that now. Sorry guys.