I am booknut.

[RiverSong]

Hi! Welcome to the forums, booknut. I'm also a book nut.

 

[8398]

Welcome Booknut. I hope you feel better soon. I also mostly like nonfiction.
I was badly depressed for a few years, somehow I got better on my own, at the time nothing people would say to me would help really. It not good. But. My inbox is open to any kind of message, if you feel like chatting.

 

[pjcnet]

I usually only write non fiction in places like this forum (apart from here lol), but I always write really badly on my first attempt and have to read through what I've written correcting multiple mistakes including mixed up words and I also normally greatly improve what I've written. Often I have to do this multiple times to get everything right, but if I take my time the final product is usually pretty reasonable. Why not take your time writing short stories and read through, correct, Etc, then when you're satisfied try publishing them online at somewhere like this at first and see what people think, you may even find that you get recognised enough to start submitting stories to more serious publishers. The worst that can happen is people don't like your stories which probably won't happen, but even if it did you've lost absolutely nothing and you've most likely enjoyed yourself writing them.

At the end of your post you stated, "I'm probably not doing this right. End.", but at the time of writing you've so far received 8 friendly ratings for your introduction which means you definitely did do something right, please try to have more confidence in yourself, you're doing well and I'm glad that you're here. You're also amongst a lot of like minded people here, a high proportion of members are somewhere on the autistic spectrum, while most of the remainder know someone who is autistic, E.g. family, partner or friends.

Anyway welcome to ASPIESCentral, a friendly and non judgemental community.

 

[jacinto]

Reading through these threads, I am seeing different aspects of my own story told over & over...For 40 years I (and others) have wondered what was wrong with me, and if there was anyone else even remotely like me. I had given up & resigned myself to never understanding or being understood by others. I've often felt like an alien who's only here to study human psychology from the fringes of it's inscrutably intricate social networks. Thank you for posting this.