Published on 12, July, 2020
Do you generally read or write fiction and/or fanfiction?
I spend my life reading and writing stories of various types, and I wondered if this is normal for autistic people. I thought we were supposed to have very limited imaginations and interests and that was how we got diagnosed. But my imagination is vast, I tend to live in a fantasy world rather than the real world because it is nicer tbh!
What is your imagination like?
Hello
I only read factual books, dictionaries, books about the mind for example ‘the marshmallow test’
fiction I have to re read and struggle to keep the storyline in my mind.
I do love to write though and have a vivid imagination, or my world so that’s the same thing. Yes I would agree autism and imagination do go together, after all we are individuals as different as each cloud in the sky.
So the 'experts' cof cof cof are wrong when they say autistic people have limited imagination. Interesting indeed isn't it.