• Replies 71 replies
  • Subscribers 101 subscribers
  • Views 9816 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Does autism aid your creativity?

Steven

(Sorry for starting yet another thread. I just have so many questions, all the time.)

I'd love to know how being autistic helps, or hinders, your creative abilities.

Parents

  • To clarify - by creative abilities you do not mean art/craft only, correct?

    If yes then:

    1. Ability to spot inconsistencies, and to come up with solutions for many things.

    2. Massive database of things my senses collected so far makes playing with my imagination even more entertaining. I am not sure if my imagination would be different if I wasn't autistic, but I read about a special case autistic one UK professor wrote in his book, where he speculated that improved spatial perception at the expense of speech recognition gave him a very vivid imagination. My case in regard to physical parameters is very similar

Reply

  • To clarify - by creative abilities you do not mean art/craft only, correct?

    If yes then:

    1. Ability to spot inconsistencies, and to come up with solutions for many things.

    2. Massive database of things my senses collected so far makes playing with my imagination even more entertaining. I am not sure if my imagination would be different if I wasn't autistic, but I read about a special case autistic one UK professor wrote in his book, where he speculated that improved spatial perception at the expense of speech recognition gave him a very vivid imagination. My case in regard to physical parameters is very similar

Children