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All of this kind of tracks. From the dismissal of autistic people's imagination and creativity to the very different ways they can express imagination and creat
by bena 2y ago
All of this kind of tracks. From the dismissal of autistic people's imagination and creativity to the very different ways they can express imagination and creativity.
I think the disconnect comes from the lack of fantasy in a lot of (for lack of a better term) autistic creativity. They're usually not going to invent out of whole cloth. There will be some basis in reality. In terms of fiction, they're "For All Mankind" as opposed to "Star Wars".
It's something we've dealt with ourselves. And I have to remind my wife sometimes, this is how he plays. The spreadsheets and the rankings and the recording of statistics are all an integral part of it. He's constructed an entire world of characters in his head that he peeks into. It's as imaginative and creative as wanting to be Batman.
- jprete 2y agoI personally have a hard time being creative. But the more I dug into it to comment on the post, the more I thought it was a series of emotional defenses rather than something intrinsic to the disorder. Creativity is inherently going to involve "coloring outside the lines" and that's psychologically hard to do when surprising reactions are painful to deal with.