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The Literary Autistic Perspective

Posted by Jasper Lee on Sunday, October 30, 2016, In : Autism

Autism and fiction aren’t commonly mentioned in the same sentence. It took me some time to realize that there seems these days to be fewer fiction writers in the world who are considered to be on the spectrum.

In the past we’ve seen brilliant writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Hans Christian Andersen, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Janet Frame, and Lewis Carroll described as exhibiting forms of autism. However, they are only described this way in our curren...
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ALONENESS...

Posted by Jasper Lee on Thursday, October 27, 2016, In : Autism

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Posted by Jasper Lee on Monday, September 9, 2013, In : Autism

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LIVING IN A GEOMETRIC UNIVERSE - On Being an Autistic Synaesthete

Posted by Jasper Lee on Friday, August 30, 2013, In : Autism

Imagine living in a world where geometry dominates your life, where squares, circles and triangles form a mental language that you use every day because it provides you with clues about the people who surround you, and what goes on around you in the world. Imagine knowing that everyone and everything you meet throughout the day will be converted to a shape: someone’s hand, a passing bus, a bird in flight. The hand may become a square, the bus a triangle, the bird a circle, an...
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Do Aspies See Too Much Rather Than Too Little?

Posted by Jasper Lee on Thursday, July 4, 2013, In : Autism

I sometimes wonder if people on the spectrum see, feel, sense, and get to know more about others and their situations than is commonly believed. I have long had an ability to know exactly where people are coming from, which a geometric mental system I live with - affectionately called my 'signals' - informs me about.

Technically, I am not supposed to know such things; as an aspie I am supposed to be lacking sufficient communication skills, with trouble in handling conversations. We see things...
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