Does autism aid your creativity?

I've written since I was young to express my emotions, thoughts and ideas.  I was encouraged to be academic and sporty rather than creative, not really allowed to do things like music, drama and dance.  In my early 20s a couple of friends saw some of my writing and liked it but they didn't understand what I meant by it - to them it meant something different, so I didn't let anyone see more of my writing until the last 5 or 6 years when I started to get involved with Spoken Word.  So, although I've only just been diagnosed, I think being autistic has helped with my writing but it's only now I think I can say that.
The other thing I've found is that if I go to an art gallery or museum I don't like the tours or audio guides, I don't want someone else to tell me how to think about what I'm looking at or what the artist meant.  I sometimes think people have built whole careers on interpreting things in a certain way or whatever the populist belief is.  Give me the facts and let me make my own mind up.  It reminds me of being at school when I'd read a book for English lit in the summer and then when we studied it, the teacher told me my interpretation was wrong and that I needed to learn certain answers for the exam - that put me off reading for some time.

I've written since I was young to express my emotions, thoughts and ideas.  I was encouraged to be academic and sporty rather than creative, not really allowed to do things like music, drama and dance.  In my early 20s a couple of friends saw some of my writing and liked it but they didn't understand what I meant by it - to them it meant something different, so I didn't let anyone see more of my writing until the last 5 or 6 years when I started to get involved with Spoken Word.  So, although I've only just been diagnosed, I think being autistic has helped with my writing but it's only now I think I can say that.
The other thing I've found is that if I go to an art gallery or museum I don't like the tours or audio guides, I don't want someone else to tell me how to think about what I'm looking at or what the artist meant.  I sometimes think people have built whole careers on interpreting things in a certain way or whatever the populist belief is.  Give me the facts and let me make my own mind up.  It reminds me of being at school when I'd read a book for English lit in the summer and then when we studied it, the teacher told me my interpretation was wrong and that I needed to learn certain answers for the exam - that put me off reading for some time.