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Originally Posted by ArcheM
do you have any advice about creative endeavours from the Asperger's perspective? I'd kind of like to narrow my interests and efforts down to what is realistic to accomplish. I might need to expand on this point more.
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I have only recently been diagnosed with Asperger's and I'm in my fifties, but I've known for some time. As a result, I didn't get the help and/or direction that many who have been diagnosed earlier in life have received. This has been a benefit as well as a detriment. I wouldn't let a diagnoses limit me. Frankly, I think that it is best to let your own interests guide you. If you are interested, then I would think that you are capable of accomplishing it, regardless of diagnosis.
My creative outlets earlier in life were things like chess and math. They felt like art to me, and I still think that at the highest levels, they are art. Eventually, I began making framed pictures of overlapping graphs of mathematical functions - my reaction to them mirrored regular folks reaction to art and so I began thinking of them that way.
I have written too, I have one book published and another in the process. The first was technical, the second, a novel.
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Originally Posted by ArcheM
and what do I do with the social aspect? If I have no social interests, a non-social job... but at the same time I feel sort of precarious...
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I'm not certain what you mean by precarious in this context, but if you have no social interests and no social requirements at work, what is giving you pause in accepting this? Why not simply enjoy your solitude?