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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.

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  • Yeah it does. When I see code my creative energy almost explodes and then I can spend hours creating and devouring code. Same with health and diseases, I create essays and papers, symptom sheets for people. If my programming ever falls through I'll join the medical field.

  • in reply to Hack∈r

    Good point, I work in Digital and do a limited amount of dev work but find my colleagues often ask me how to do something.  If there is a standard way I normally know about it and if there isn't I'll find a solution (I quite often then create a standard in case it comes up again).  Whilst I don't always think of that as creative I guess it is in terms of problem solving.

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  • in reply to Hack∈r

    Good point, I work in Digital and do a limited amount of dev work but find my colleagues often ask me how to do something.  If there is a standard way I normally know about it and if there isn't I'll find a solution (I quite often then create a standard in case it comes up again).  Whilst I don't always think of that as creative I guess it is in terms of problem solving.

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