Some people have said that had a pen and paper been available inside my mom's belly while she was pregnant with me I would have written a novel before I was born. I would scribble lines on paper before I knew the alphabet and would "read" the story out loud wondering why no one knew what the scribbles meant. My first poem that was published I wrote in third grade. I'll write anything, even re-write everything on a cereal box if there is nothing else to work on. I have to write, otherwise I believe I would stop breathing. It's just something I have to do and have always done.
It wasn't until recently that I discovered that people didn't actually see words in their head the way I do. I just always assumed everyone saw words in their head all the time. Mine are like typed with a white background, they change shape depending on my mood... like changing fonts.
Amber
I'm 40 now and I think I've been writing since I was about 8. As a kid it was an escape - my happy place.
I discovered screenwriting about 2 years and that's all I do now. I find it better for me because the format and structure are the same format and structure I think in. That might not make sense but I don't know how else to describe it.
I'm not surprised that people with autism or aspergers are gifted writers. Not at all.
Hopefully more of us will end up published.
there was an earlier thread about ....~trying to remember that amazing name~
homicidal anthology of autistic works? oh now I have to look it up. threaded down to an ezine on a non-ad server and ended. was a good idea.
With me it was the fact that I read a lot, and I always got positive comments by my teachers on my essays. Sadly I'm rather prone to writer's block with fiction. ah well, cant have everything.
words are a way for me to get the pictures in my head into text,
and from text it is simple procedure to express with words.
the only problem is that it takes a while to process.
I just have to many ideas not to write about them. I've got an entire multiverse swimming around in my head and I need to get it down on paper.
That and I hope it will give people an insight into my autistic mind set.
my son has problems with fine motor in his hands and has to use a type writer to write..he has been writing as back as I can remeber..his spelling is terrible..but his concepts are good..
stories are interesting..he carries his little typy thingy everywhere with him..and types away on the school bus..I lawya tell him he is destined to greatness. and I can say that..Im his mother!
my son has problems with fine motor in his hands and has to use a type writer to write..he has been writing as back as I can remeber..his spelling is terrible..but his concepts are good..
stories are interesting..he carries his little typy thingy everywhere with him..and types away on the school bus..I lawya tell him he is destined to greatness. and I can say that..Im his mother!
hehe 
get him a laptop and a word correction application. (openoffce, word etc)
that really helped me.
i spell like a idiot (i am dyslexic).
I've been making up stories ever since I could remember. Then when I learned how to write... it didn't take long to put two and two together.
I'm now constantly searching for a way to better my stories.
I'm always staring into space and playing around with dialog and ideas in my head. And all the NT people ask what's wrong. My response is, "I'm finding the imaginary people in my head a little bit more interesting than my schoolwork right now." I think it scares them when I do that.
I wrote a few stories in school, but didn't really start writing properly until a few years back. For awhile I would try to write poetry or start a story, but try to structure it as I was writing it and get it perfect there and then, and not much would come out. It was only when my partner suggested that I just write and worry about fixing up later that stories started coming out. And then I would just get stories in my head and start writing. Writing is never difficult for me.
I've been making up stories ever since I could remember. Then when I learned how to write... it didn't take long to put two and two together.
I'm now constantly searching for a way to better my stories.
I'm always staring into space and playing around with dialog and ideas in my head. And all the NT people ask what's wrong. My response is, "I'm finding the imaginary people in my head a little bit more interesting than my schoolwork right now." I think it scares them when I do that.
I have told myself stories for a long time too. Can't remember when I started doing it, but I often am playing out my story in my head when I am walking somewhere or doing mind numbing work and when it gets to a crucial point in the story, I will even stay in bed to keep it going. I have always liked characters, especially creating a female character who is different from me.
I couldn't not write. No choice, really.
I started writing 14th October 2006, I started it because I didn't feel like I had any other talents. But I am really pleased with how it's changed me as a person. I've written my first book, and am now in the process of writing a TV series based around a CID Unit.
Right before my sixteenth birthday, this strange urge suddenly popped into my head and kept nudging me to write a fantasy novel. It stayed there like an annoying salesperson, and eventually I threw caution into the wind and decided to write a novel. Though it was hard starting off, right now it's smooth sailing.
Writing on paper may last years, and is easy seen by anyone, especially plastic covered in a binder.