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Thoughts on my new project?

Eled

I style myself a bit of a writer, and at 36, I've had time to contemplate and formulate coping strategies for life amid the aspy brain.

Infact over the years, I've been in a position to help a few parents to autistic children understand their kids a bit better, giving them an inside track on what it feels like and some of the reasonoings behind behaviors.

So I have been thinking, to distract myself from worries about benefits and all the rest, I might start distilling that haphazard council and what ever wealth my experiance consitutes into a book, for use by both autists ad their carers.

Now there are a few issues, I dont nesicaraly see this ending out vastly long, book lenght may not be achevable, and I dont know what else to do with it.

Secondly I am no bastion of funtionality on the good days, I just found ways to avoid cutting myself to ribbons on the jagged edges of the world. I have no formal psycological training, and no reall grasp of current 'helping the autistic' best practace' so much of my thught may be prior art.

Lastly, I worry that my advice may just not be that helpfull.

any way, as a progect, as a concept I thought I would ask here, perhaps theres ways about the pitfalls, perhaps an opertunity to guadge intrest?

  • Eled, why don't you think of it as keeping a diary of your thoughts and feelings and leave it at that for now?

    If you just want to keep it only for yourself that's fine but if in the future you think it might be worth getting it published, that's fine too. It doesn't matter but it would probably help you anyway if you could get your feelings out on paper, if you are able

    Take it one step at a time.

  • Who says you don't have the right to write this?

    You do have the right to write it  and you can tell them how you do manage to cope through being scared sick and miserable.  What is your secret of getting through natural emotions for us all?

  • Thank you all.

    I madea  start, got a pretty easy 2 and a half pages.

    And then it happened =/

    My already depressed and anxious state from being moved off DLA to ESA teamed up with my self doubt.

    Now I'm worrying that I dont have the right to wright this, that the wisdom I have dispensed amounts to a few bent coppers that I have exagerated o myself into a miraculolous dragon's hoard.

    I'm scared sick and miserable more than half the time, who am I to tell any one how to cope?

  • I too have similar dreams in that is so little out there to help adults who are new to autism diagnosis.  Lots for parents with children but hardly any for adults themselves.

    I thought of different ways but stopped before I started with each way.

    Really hope you get somewhere with it.

  • I say go for it! In my opinion as a parent who has autism and an  autistic child, i would be interested in reading the content of your book, any real life experiences to me are often more helpful than the very 'clinical' sounding info and descriptions! Best of luck with it. Sarah

  • Eled, I think any helpful advice from someone who has actually gone through the rather turbulent world of autism would be invaluable to parents and kids. 

    It doesn't have to be a literary masterpiece in order to get the information across and it would be a interesting project for you to get involved with that, hopefully, you would find rewarding, even theraputic.

    If it all goes belly-up so what, at least you made an effort, which is what many other people don't do.

    So, yes, go for it Eled.