Diversities and divergence's

We all know the main things where we diverge from NT, not wanting a lot of social contact, trouble with change, noise, smells etc, but what about the less tangible? On the whole we seem a very creative bunch, lots of artists and writers etc, one thing that puzzles me is English Literature, ND women are supposed to really enjoy English literature, like Jane Austen, I don't, I dont' understand all the interpersonal and relationship stuff, the same with lots of films telly and theatre.

I wonder what other things that aren't in manuals, that we find interesting and absorbing? Things like spiritual beliefs, the more left field, non rational, grey areas of life? Are we more or less likely to believe conspiracy theories than NT's, stuff like that?

For my part I dont' think I'm that typical an ND, is this because I'm an only child, late diagnosed, that I wasn't accepted by the mainstream of people so looked elsewhere to more alternative lifestyles. 

How do others feel they diverge and do they diverge from the average NT?

With the greater awareness of ND, are we in danger of becoming typecast and if we diverge to much or in unexpected ways, will we become something else, a whole new diagnostic things just for us?

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  • I'm a Jane Austen fan, my favourite Austen book being 'Persuasion'. I enjoy all sorts of literature, I have even read 'Finnigans Wake'. I have found that literature has enabled me to investigate human relationships in greater safety than real life affords. It provides a useful guide to deciphering society. 

    In some ways the social milieu Austen writes about, upper middle class Late Georgian England, is more autism friendly than today. Social interactions are governed by strict rules, as is courtship, even dancing is exactly prescribed.

  • Personally I can't be doing with classic literature, anything being described as that will put me off even trying to read it. I can't be doing with Dicken's, Bronte, Austen, Hardy or any of them, I dont' understand them and find them intensely irritating, I don't relate at all. All I see is other ways of being marginalised and am glad I wasn't born then, rules for everything, I think they would of shut me up in Bedlam for being unable to follow them.

    But give me a police procecural and I'm happy, I can understand the motivations and what its about, the characters I find more relatable, both criminals and cops.

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  • Personally I can't be doing with classic literature, anything being described as that will put me off even trying to read it. I can't be doing with Dicken's, Bronte, Austen, Hardy or any of them, I dont' understand them and find them intensely irritating, I don't relate at all. All I see is other ways of being marginalised and am glad I wasn't born then, rules for everything, I think they would of shut me up in Bedlam for being unable to follow them.

    But give me a police procecural and I'm happy, I can understand the motivations and what its about, the characters I find more relatable, both criminals and cops.

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