I tend to write mostly poetry or scripts when I'm working on my own original projects, but I've been giving SW fanfic a shot to hone my fiction skills, which involve describing how characters think and feel in fairly explicit terms. I haven't written that kind of fiction ever since college; in my junior year I had not just one person, but three people AND a professor compliment me on writing such well-researched autistic viewpoint characters.
...I was not writing my characters as autistic. During winter break, I talked to a psychologist and took a neurological study, and I returned with a shiny new diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome.
It's been a few years since then. I've also come to really hate stories where characters who aren't obviously autistic in canon are headcanoned as autistic, or with pretty much any executive function disorder that people seem to throw randomly in there.
I am INCREDIBLY relieved that nobody has yet commented on any of my posts and complimented me on writing such a realistic autistic character.
i just wanted to get this off my chest
...I was not writing my characters as autistic. During winter break, I talked to a psychologist and took a neurological study, and I returned with a shiny new diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome.
It's been a few years since then. I've also come to really hate stories where characters who aren't obviously autistic in canon are headcanoned as autistic, or with pretty much any executive function disorder that people seem to throw randomly in there.
I am INCREDIBLY relieved that nobody has yet commented on any of my posts and complimented me on writing such a realistic autistic character.