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>> No.22707114

>>22707101
no
(yes)

>> No.22707118

I genuinely don't think so, because it's an artform that requires really getting into the head of a character and understanding them. Thinking like them.

In other arts, like film and music (thinking of David Byrne and David Lynch) you can get away with just making something sensory and attention-grabbing and expressing yourself. But with writing your character's your portal, making them feel real is an absolute must, so being able to read and understand people is really important.

I might be wrong, it just seems that way.

>> No.22707120

>>22707101
I would like to believe so, been working on my story for a while and it's all I really have these days.

>> No.22707125

>>22707118
OP doesn’t necessarily have to write novels. Look at pessoa he was autistic as fuck and the greatest poet of his century.

>> No.22707129

>>22707101
it is only for them that it is possible desu

>> No.22707132

I wish I had something. Anything to justify this sorry existence. In this world you have to have something. Whether it's beauty, wits, intelligence, smarts, creativity or anything. I just have crippling AvPD and some 'tism.

>> No.22707133

>>22707101

Autism as it's commonly defined [i.e. a concern for detail and a certain degree of inwardness] — YES

Actual real autism — UNLIKELY. You might be able to come up with some specialized thing that's quite successful, but it probably won't have the breadth and empathy of great literature.

>> No.22707141

>>22707125
yes good point!

>> No.22707146

>>22707132
You probably do have something but youre burying it by being a pussy. Most people are unremarkable. Just do what you enjoy.

>> No.22707147

>>22707101
great literature is almost always written by people who have :
1) very high IQ (145+)
2) very high creativity
3) lived a very interesting and eclectic life

>> No.22707148

>>22707118
>>22707125
Yeah, this. You could write poetry but a good novel requires empathy & intuition.

>> No.22707154

>>22707132
Avoidant traits can be managed.

>> No.22707208

>>22707147
Well there goes that dream.

>> No.22707218

>>22707208
at the very least you need to be very smart and very creativity. how can those not be prerequisites ?

>> No.22707222

>>22707218
>very creativity
very creative, oops

>> No.22707224

>>22707147
this is so wrong aside from the creativity part

>> No.22707227

>>22707208
1) & 2), sure
3), not so much. Plenty of great authors lived outwardly unremarkable lives. Jane Austen, John Keats, the Bronte sisters, Marcel Proust, Wallace Stevens, Philip Larkin . . .

>> No.22707230

>>22707147
Not really. Sure there are writers like Henry James or Hemingway who were privileged with the perfect circumstances to write, but others like bukowski or miller or toole or whoever else didnt write what are now considered classics, were just regular dudes who wanted to write and were good at it.

>> No.22707233

>>22707224
you dont think you need a high IQ to write great lit? youre coping very hard

>> No.22707310

>>22707125
no bad point!

>> No.22707324

>>22707233
Why would you? Do you think musicians are high IQ too?

>> No.22707494

>>22707118
David Lynch isn't autistic if that's what you're suggesting

>> No.22708738

Bump.

>> No.22708753

>>22707101
HP Lovecraft is often thought to have had autism

>> No.22708770

>>22707101
Autism yes, frogposters no.

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>> No.22709421

>>22708753
Lovecraft definitely was autistic yes. He would literally be posting here right now if he was alive.

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22709456

>>22707132
Anything you do a lot of, you become good at. One of the ironclad laws of human life. Just be honest about what you want, and take the steps to get there. It's that simple

>> No.22709487

>>22707101
What are you talking about? Hasn't pop culture been teaching us for years that autism is practically a superpower and autistic people were better than others?

>> No.22709499

No. Autists tend to be better at the visual arts if anything.

>> No.22709529

>>22708753
And Lovecraft is certainly not great literature.

>> No.22709720

>>22707101
It's an absolute requirement. Imagine a normal person writing a book lmao.

>> No.22709741

>>22707118
You just need the stream of consciousness of one character.
On top of that, a lot of autistic people are absurdly analytical about social interactions and that could help in a way, depending on whether they're high IQ.

>> No.22710731

>>22708753
He never wrote any great literature though.

>> No.22710737

>>22707101
just do it fag how else are you gonna know

>> No.22711391

>>22707132
>crippling AvPD
Alien versus Predator Disease?

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22711510

>>22707101
All authors who achieved noteworthy status before this past century were autists. However, they were not autistic retards.

>> No.22711560

>>22707494
Lmao. Sure, buddy. Sure.

>> No.22711572

Infinity jest

>> No.22711577

I think we’re actually more likely to get great literature for this era from a NEET, autist, incel, whatever along these lines than we are from other people. I mean, Houllebecq is one of the most remarkable novelists of the last 30 years without question and a lot of that is owed to the fact that he very much was a prototypical incel misanthrope chud.