Any data on percentages of obsessions that are creative?

[dipper_d]

I think that obsessions should have sub categories and, even, sub sub categories. I can "feel" that my obsessions are "different", like maybe even originating from completely separate parts of the brain. And that, perhaps, it is some "other" chemical or something that latches on, piggybacks, onto whatever the interest is. I think this may have been a standard ramble.

ANYWAY, the point was that I was hoping to get a separate forum thread for creations. Regardless of any other sub categories, I think that creative obsessions should have a separate section. This is cause the obsessions of "non created/creative" persuasions really have "nothing to do with" AS. Whereas the creative ones are, in my case, directly a result of the AS in me.

And I am far more interested in seeing what others that share this condition are conceiving in the unlimited imagination of the AS brain, and sharing what my wonderland in my head has done.

I should mention that I was only self diagnosed with Asperger two weeks ago. I am 34. Both AQ tests confirm it, not that I needed them to. The list of Aspie symptoms (funny that Aspie is considered a misspelled word, in THIS forum. Yes, I realize that it is a template forum site, but still funny), the list of Aspie symptoms is my life, almost to a tee. (clumsiness is the only trait I am without). I see a shrink on Wed. I am able to see that I "suffer" the same type of AS affects that children do, even though I am, now, an ol man. Rather than the lifestyles and choices that adults with AS, who were diagnosed as a child, experience. Kind of frustrating. Very. That I now have to learn to change after such a long time of living without understanding, is both great and awful, all at once.

 

[Undiagnosed]

I am with you. I am rrecentley self diagnosed or as I call it undiagnosed. I am 44. I am obseivley creative.

 

[Pella]

Anyone who was diagnosed with asperger's as a child would be rather young.

I was a little confused when reading Tony Atwood's Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome about the criteria for diagnosis and one of having to do with limited imagination. I think i have alot of imagination. So I am still trying to work out what that part of the assessment means. I do have difficulty often when I get an assignment to write something and i tend to sit there alot longer than everyone else, and think I don't get it, I don't know what to do with this, but then it gets down to the wire and I have to do something, and what I end up usually doing is twisting the instructions and what I come up with tends to be something that other people are impressed by because it was a lot more outside of what they were thinking of it as. My best writing tends to come from, me not understanding the instructions and having to turn it on its side to work for me. Before I used to try and work within their limits and the teachers were like "I don't even know how to grade this" "non-sequitar" was a phrase I heard alot at that point. Then I thought ok if you want it written well and an opinion, the opinion is either going to sarcastic, or its being intesely disproportional. Like maybe how offended I am with people saying pea green is a bland color or something. I had to write an emotional poem one time, so I wrote about my love for the X-files. I do have difficulty though when I sit down to write or draw and nothing happens. I don't know if this is just good old fashioned writer's block (artist's block) or what. But my love tends to be along the line of creative pursuits.

 

[Geordie]

Creative obsessions?

Well, can we call them 'Geniuses in the Process'