>> This is really good! I love your whole "love is for children" Verse. <<
Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
>> I was wondering if you could do something to do with Autism? Aspergers particularly. I suffer from that myself and I really want to see your take on it! Every issue that you put in here is wonderful and your portrayal makes it a lot better than the normal take on it. <<
If you look closely at some of the stories in Love Is For Children, you can see hints of that. I don't think any of the Avengers are quite a perfect fit for autism or Asperger's but several of them are pretty obviously neurovariant and there is overlap of expression, so I use some of the same materials. For instance, Bruce-and-Hulk waffle between touch-averse and touch-seeking; Hulk has communication difficulties; Tony often prefers to play with electronics rather than interact directly with humans and he's terrible at reading emotions. Natasha's training stripped away much of the personal intuition and replaced it with rote learning which creates that flat affect she has when not portraying a cover identity. Bucky has similar damage. Bucky, Tony, Bruce-and-Hulk all share the meltdown tendency.
However, I also have an original series in which a majority of the characters are on the spectrum. See An Army of One: The Autistic Secession in Space. It has been prompted largely by some of my fans who are various flavors of neurovariant and helped me find references outside the not-very-accurate clinical ones. Catch me at any open prompt call and you can ask for more of this, or start something new. Next up will be the December poetry fishbowl on Tuesday 2 with a theme of "games and fun."
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
>> I was wondering if you could do something to do with Autism? Aspergers particularly. I suffer from that myself and I really want to see your take on it! Every issue that you put in here is wonderful and your portrayal makes it a lot better than the normal take on it. <<
If you look closely at some of the stories in Love Is For Children, you can see hints of that. I don't think any of the Avengers are quite a perfect fit for autism or Asperger's but several of them are pretty obviously neurovariant and there is overlap of expression, so I use some of the same materials. For instance, Bruce-and-Hulk waffle between touch-averse and touch-seeking; Hulk has communication difficulties; Tony often prefers to play with electronics rather than interact directly with humans and he's terrible at reading emotions. Natasha's training stripped away much of the personal intuition and replaced it with rote learning which creates that flat affect she has when not portraying a cover identity. Bucky has similar damage. Bucky, Tony, Bruce-and-Hulk all share the meltdown tendency.
However, I also have an original series in which a majority of the characters are on the spectrum. See An Army of One: The Autistic Secession in Space. It has been prompted largely by some of my fans who are various flavors of neurovariant and helped me find references outside the not-very-accurate clinical ones. Catch me at any open prompt call and you can ask for more of this, or start something new. Next up will be the December poetry fishbowl on Tuesday 2 with a theme of "games and fun."
>> If you wish to contact me then please use my Ao3 account http://archiveofourown.org/users/FireflyInTheBus <<
It doesn't seem to have a message function. :( I did find your Facebook account through there, so maybe that will connect.