Aspies For Freedom

What about a fiction genre where many of the characters will be autistic?

I've personally not much idea of how autistics interact with eachother offline, so I found the idea of taking inspiration from personalities shown on autism related boards and the happenings there. So basically I'm making characters out of what I find typical for certain groups of people here and other places, and there would be similar conflicts. One kind of character could e.g. be elitists which ofcourse cause conflicts within the autistic community.

I find that an interesting setting could be with lots of futuristic communication technologies which can basically follow you almost everywhere anytime, and also better programs to enable artists to apply ideas more directly and elegantly to their work. Art and music actually becomes a more important way of communication for autistics who don't or have difficulty talking or writing.

What kind of characters do you think could be in a fiction story with an autistic community?

What kind of settings do you think could be cool?

Well I got one "in progress" already.

Quite a few of the characters in my writing are autistic, or were made to be perceived as such.

I tend to place them in some kind of post-apocalyptic setting, though.  While they were basically considered outcasts in the world when it was alive and well, they find that they have certain skills and abilities that allow them to cope and even help others when everything else has fallen apart.

Me too... *grins*

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In my writing, I'm the only character 'formally' diagnosed (except in a few experimental horror stories I've deleted).

Autism fiction? I've been thinking of some ideas for it.

A drama set with four aspies (3 boys, 1 girl) in high school. Their stoires intertwine as they make their ways through the challenges of high school social life- teasing, cliques, dating, clubs, abusive parents, poverty, drug use, etc.

A surrealistic musical set inside the mind of a nonverbal autistic. Not sure how it would go, but it would be pretty cool.

But two spectrum-based fictions are all I shall ever do, if I do any at all.

Could my characters be in the genre?

Think a fiction only needs to have autistic characters to be in it.

This wouldn't constitute a genre.

(in the same way that fiction with only NT characters isn't a genre; damn no editing!)

Yeah, I've no idea, but wondered if there was alot of fictions with special similarities it could be called a genre.

A sub-genre then.

Thanks.

Sounds like a great idea - one problem for me was that growing up I could rarely find characters in fiction that I could truly relate to.