Aspies For Freedom

there are lot of books about autistics and it was unbelieveable the way they were treated, so different from how we are treated in real life!

I am writing a novel, and alrady donated the second one to Youth Rights.

I might just make my third one about Autism, Asperger Syndrome especially.

Mm.  I have a vague idea for a book with an aspie villain, I've always thought that would be interesting.

'Hello, I have Asperger's Syndrome, an Autism Spectrum Condition.  People with this condition sometimes 'melt down' and are rendered unable to function by stress or unwanted sensations.  If you are reading this, I am feigning such a condition to distract you while an accomplice goes through your pockets for valuables.'

Hey, what's the least useful savant skill you can think of?  His special interests would be things like lock-breaking and munitions, but I'd prefer to give him at least one far fetched but completely pointless ability.

There are books with autistic characters, it's just that most of them are portrayed as broad stereotypes. Also, they tend to be what I call Issue Books, where autism is the Issue and the story revolves around the character's or the character's family's struggle with being autistic/having an autistic child or sibling. Sort of the novelistic equivalent of a Very Special Episode.

But that doesn't really fit in with his personality; he's obsessed with planning and doing things in order, and he's bored to tears with anything that can't be used to blast things or break locks or sneak about or something like that.  And some other things on those lines.  One of his quirks is a baffling ignorance of pop culture; mention anything from a movie or a book and he'll wonder what the hell you're on about.

...oh, I know.  He can convert bases.  Given any number, he can mentally change it to base 4, or base 12, or binary or whatever you want.  Possibly a useful skill for a hacker, but not for an evil mastermind.

The first I ever heard of autism was in a "babysitter's club" book (i read this series as a kid, it also had a diabetic character). One of the kids that they babysat was an autie. probably an unrealistic stereotype from the little i remember, she played the piano by ear.

I read "a curious incident of the dog in the night-time" recently and liked it.

there is a stereotype autistic character on the excellent movie "cube", but it's not really about him.

rainman of course.

I'm contemplating writing a story. Heck I have Microsoft Word, so I guess I can type out a story. I am thinking about having the setting in a dystopic world where the ruling power are "Genetically Altered and Improved" humans who are the only ones "modified" because they are super-rich and have the high life. Below them are the NT average Joes not genetically engineered and face minimal-to-none discrimination from above, and at the bottom would be the men and women with disabilities, such as AS, Schizophrenia, Alzheimers, and what not... And that's where my protagonist comes from. I got this idea from reading a novel called "The Last Book in The Universe." Any of yall heard of it? Anyway, I am still contemplating a story of an Aspie being the protagonist changing the way society functions in this dystopic society. Any thoughts?