I genuinely don't think so, because it's an artform that requires really getting into the head of a character and understanding them. Thinking like them.
In other arts, like film and music (thinking of David Byrne and David Lynch) you can get away with just making something sensory and attention-grabbing and expressing yourself. But with writing your character's your portal, making them feel real is an absolute must, so being able to read and understand people is really important.
You just need the stream of consciousness of one character.
On top of that, a lot of autistic people are absurdly analytical about social interactions and that could help in a way, depending on whether they're high IQ.
I wish I had something. Anything to justify this sorry existence. In this world you have to have something. Whether it's beauty, wits, intelligence, smarts, creativity or anything. I just have crippling AvPD and some 'tism.
Anything you do a lot of, you become good at. One of the ironclad laws of human life. Just be honest about what you want, and take the steps to get there. It's that simple
Autism as it's commonly defined [i.e. a concern for detail and a certain degree of inwardness] — YES
Actual real autism — UNLIKELY. You might be able to come up with some specialized thing that's quite successful, but it probably won't have the breadth and empathy of great literature.
great literature is almost always written by people who have :
1) very high IQ (145+)
2) very high creativity
3) lived a very interesting and eclectic life
1) & 2), sure
3), not so much. Plenty of great authors lived outwardly unremarkable lives. Jane Austen, John Keats, the Bronte sisters, Marcel Proust, Wallace Stevens, Philip Larkin . . .
Not really. Sure there are writers like Henry James or Hemingway who were privileged with the perfect circumstances to write, but others like bukowski or miller or toole or whoever else didnt write what are now considered classics, were just regular dudes who wanted to write and were good at it.
What are you talking about? Hasn't pop culture been teaching us for years that autism is practically a superpower and autistic people were better than others?
I think we’re actually more likely to get great literature for this era from a NEET, autist, incel, whatever along these lines than we are from other people. I mean, Houllebecq is one of the most remarkable novelists of the last 30 years without question and a lot of that is owed to the fact that he very much was a prototypical incel misanthrope chud.
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I genuinely don't think so, because it's an artform that requires really getting into the head of a character and understanding them. Thinking like them.
In other arts, like film and music (thinking of David Byrne and David Lynch) you can get away with just making something sensory and attention-grabbing and expressing yourself. But with writing your character's your portal, making them feel real is an absolute must, so being able to read and understand people is really important.
I might be wrong, it just seems that way.
OP doesn’t necessarily have to write novels. Look at pessoa he was autistic as fuck and the greatest poet of his century.
yes good point!
no bad point!
Yeah, this. You could write poetry but a good novel requires empathy & intuition.
David Lynch isn't autistic if that's what you're suggesting
You just need the stream of consciousness of one character.
On top of that, a lot of autistic people are absurdly analytical about social interactions and that could help in a way, depending on whether they're high IQ.
I would like to believe so, been working on my story for a while and it's all I really have these days.
I wish I had something. Anything to justify this sorry existence. In this world you have to have something. Whether it's beauty, wits, intelligence, smarts, creativity or anything. I just have crippling AvPD and some 'tism.
You probably do have something but youre burying it by being a pussy. Most people are unremarkable. Just do what you enjoy.
Avoidant traits can be managed.
Anything you do a lot of, you become good at. One of the ironclad laws of human life. Just be honest about what you want, and take the steps to get there. It's that simple
>crippling AvPD
Alien versus Predator Disease?
Autism as it's commonly defined [i.e. a concern for detail and a certain degree of inwardness] — YES
Actual real autism — UNLIKELY. You might be able to come up with some specialized thing that's quite successful, but it probably won't have the breadth and empathy of great literature.
great literature is almost always written by people who have :
1) very high IQ (145+)
2) very high creativity
3) lived a very interesting and eclectic life
Well there goes that dream.
at the very least you need to be very smart and very creativity. how can those not be prerequisites ?
>very creativity
very creative, oops
1) & 2), sure
3), not so much. Plenty of great authors lived outwardly unremarkable lives. Jane Austen, John Keats, the Bronte sisters, Marcel Proust, Wallace Stevens, Philip Larkin . . .
this is so wrong aside from the creativity part
you dont think you need a high IQ to write great lit? youre coping very hard
Why would you? Do you think musicians are high IQ too?
Not really. Sure there are writers like Henry James or Hemingway who were privileged with the perfect circumstances to write, but others like bukowski or miller or toole or whoever else didnt write what are now considered classics, were just regular dudes who wanted to write and were good at it.
HP Lovecraft is often thought to have had autism
Lovecraft definitely was autistic yes. He would literally be posting here right now if he was alive.
And Lovecraft is certainly not great literature.
He never wrote any great literature though.
Autism yes, frogposters no.
What are you talking about? Hasn't pop culture been teaching us for years that autism is practically a superpower and autistic people were better than others?
No. Autists tend to be better at the visual arts if anything.
It's an absolute requirement. Imagine a normal person writing a book lmao.
just do it fag how else are you gonna know
All authors who achieved noteworthy status before this past century were autists. However, they were not autistic retards.
Infinity jest
I think we’re actually more likely to get great literature for this era from a NEET, autist, incel, whatever along these lines than we are from other people. I mean, Houllebecq is one of the most remarkable novelists of the last 30 years without question and a lot of that is owed to the fact that he very much was a prototypical incel misanthrope chud.