Thoughts on my new project?

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?

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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