Hey, I'm sure it's gonna be good, if anything we need refreshing autism books cause most are basically only about stereotype low-functioning people. Also I wouldn't worry too much about backstories, I read a book that was like 75% backstories and I almost quit cause the author basically wrote only that and random quotes from the law book (this was a crime book but still the movie they made of it was so much better). So if anything avoid making them too detailed.Now that I’m approaching the first draft of my novel I’m concerned about how it’ll be received. I’m worried people will see it as a revenge piece or a 300 page vent. My goal is to write the queer autistic experience accurately. Some of the situations in the story will be based on my past, but many will come from other people’s stories too. I want to write a compelling autistic protagonist who feels alive. I also want to write layered antagonists that have motivations behind their terrible behavior. The problem is I’m not sure if I can write compelling enough backstories.
I could keep the novel to myself, but that feels like a waste. I have something I want to say about how many treat people on the spectrum. It’s not like many books have autistic protagonists. The only book I’ve found that portrays us accurately is “Marcelo in The Real World.” Even then, it’s not like many people have read that book. I guess I’ll have to just write the book and see what happens…
I've just felt like pure crap today. At least my antidepressants finally let me bawl my eyes out over it. I haven't been this depressed or demotivated since my uni days, which was well over a year ago. If this is all side effects of this new medication, I really hope it goes away soon. If it doesn't, there's no way I'm staying on it. I've had enough of feeling like this over the past decade.
felt this one so, so hard. i feel it 24/7. i want to just take the information i gave to everyone and pull it back deep inside so that they never know, and so that i can then disappear. never be perceived again. never have to worry about someone using something they know about me against me.I regret oversharing. I finally found a place I could belong and I already made myself seem weird, eccentric and anmoying. Almost like becoming a charicature of myself. I kinda want to just leave and not see them again.
Talking about my own infraction is fine in this thread, huh? Well, guess I'll still have to save those choice words for myself, amirite bucko? Because yeah, the infraction has certainly bothered me a lot. Talk about an infringement of the first amendment, but whatever.
Anyway, the whole thing has pretty much ruined my day. Everytime I look at my profile now (at least until it expires), I'll forever remember what I've done for the forum, and what the forum has done for me in return. Thanks a lot, guys.
Might just cancel the Halloween event if this gets bad enough. I'm not really in the mood anymore.