Oh, and it's alright you didn't know I'm an Aspie. But yeah, this is my area. I'm a psych major and when I get my PhD I'm heavily considering Asperger's/HFA in teens and adults to be my specialty. It is one of my interests and I know a massive amount about Asperger's.
Originally I actually was going to write a very fluent and literate character but then realised that would be playing into the opposite spectrum of the stereotype. The character doesn't write incredibly horrible, it's not like Mark Twain or Flowers For Algernon, but he has a tendency to talk in run-on sentences and use Southern words/word modifications.
It does seem, so far, that the character is not very intelligent, but after awhile I will make it apparent he can be intelligent- like when it comes to flowers or folk music, two things he loves. He reads a lot about both and knows hundreds of names of flowers and all sorts of scientific information. But his knowledge of things is limited, not on the whole. As a character he just has Average intelligence but he's definitely not mentally retarded. (:
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Date: 2008-11-02 09:34 pm (UTC)Originally I actually was going to write a very fluent and literate character but then realised that would be playing into the opposite spectrum of the stereotype. The character doesn't write incredibly horrible, it's not like Mark Twain or Flowers For Algernon, but he has a tendency to talk in run-on sentences and use Southern words/word modifications.
It does seem, so far, that the character is not very intelligent, but after awhile I will make it apparent he can be intelligent- like when it comes to flowers or folk music, two things he loves. He reads a lot about both and knows hundreds of names of flowers and all sorts of scientific information. But his knowledge of things is limited, not on the whole. As a character he just has Average intelligence but he's definitely not mentally retarded. (: