/lit/ - Literature

I’ve had an idea for a book
>be me
>autist
>notice autists are more vocal online now
>it’s all “uwu my stims” “I have 18 personalities” “no fatphobia here” progressive stuff
>I don’t like this one bit
>I want to write a novel about the autistic experience
>I don’t want it to be this progressive LGBT+ stuff
>I want it to be something that can actually express the absurdity and awkwardness of the autistic experience to non-autists

I know people can point to the curious incident as a novel with an autistic POV but Christopher comes off as a more high dependency, more naive autist even if he’s found ways to cope with it (like taking A levels that are all maths based and saying he wants to find a wife to do his cooking and cleaning). I want to write from a more “high functioning low dependency” perspective.

The pitch:
>POV is an autist man
>he is a civil servant working for the department of work and pensions.
>He works out funding formulas that suit the needs of the party in power whilst screwing over locals (e.g intentionally reducing funding so he can put it back up next year and the ruling party can say they increased funding for social programs) but outside of this he has no idea how the department works or what it does outside a very basic outline
>He knows what he is doing is wrong but is scared of change and doesn’t see any other opportunity and has no connections to use his maths skills outside of his current field
>not poverty-porn. This man will live comfortably and the novel will focus more on the social aspect of his life

What do you think of this idea?