Does autism aid your creativity?

No. I aid my creativity. I am autistic. But it's me that is being creative.

Hi Simon,
I'm a composer and do lots of writing of words as well, and I'm hoping to train as a therapist soon which is arguably a very creative career as well. 

For me being Autistic is central. It helps with the passion and commitment these kinds of practices need. Musically, my sensory desires and needs definitely impact the kinds of sound I choose, (I often aim for quiet, smooth, luminous and/or downy sounds and either very still or softly rippling musical textures). In terms of poetry, my sensory world infuses how densely packed and vivid my images can be, and my tendency to see connections impacts my conceptual and narrative choices. 

I hope none of that sounds arrogant - it's impossible to see our own work in objective terms, so none of the descriptors I've used are intended as value judgements. 

Thanks for asking such a fascinating question! 

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.

Ditto, I love the therapeutic feelings from being creative.

Better than any therapist, in my opinion ^^

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.

Good point!

I don't know because I don't know what it's like to be creative without autism.

Si Mon Numberto

'Night, mate. See you tomorrow, hopefully. 

Yes......I know what you mean, so I'll take it as my queue to get micelph to bed.  Nice to chat mate.

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I'm worried now, because this new language is starting to make sense to me, and also to seem real. 

I still have this dubious mindset that we're the people who are supposed to fail to grasp the obvious, while NT folks are supposed to be all-capable and all-knowing. So, to my stuck-in-a-rut mind, you'd reversed all that (in the example you laid out in your initial post). 

The posts above show that, no matter how many words I use, I still don't explain myself well.

I wrekon your baiting me and picing on me coz I"m ortistik!

Oh OK (INSERT embarrassed emoji) I didn't bother wreading the last word of your repost.....who's the "lump of butter" now!

See - you can't even spell duel! (INSERT now I'm just bantering and joshing emoji here)

WHAT!?!? I challunge you to a jewel for insultinging my floorless righting!

Yea, you have definitely earned a reputation for being useless at writing (INSERT ironic, winking, yes I'm joking, please don't take literally, I mean the complete opposite - emoji here)

It's probably my clumsy or ignorant use of words/nouns :) 

Not really role reversal, in my opinion?  Don't forget that, for me, I spent circa 99% of my life believing that I was NT and my lived experience with regard to creativity has been the same for 100% of my life.....it's just that now I can understand it/me better.