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Even when you begin with an abstract idea, you must follow it to a character, a setting, a situation, and an emotion before there can be a story.
Creating Short Fiction
Damon Knight
Those issues are made more challenging, in part, because they surprise and upset others who don't anticipate odd behaviors or reactions from people who "pass for normal" in many situations. In addition, while people with more severe autism are not generally expected to just suck it up and get through difficult moments, people on the higher end of the spectrum are expected to do just that. Lastly, people with high functioning autism are, in general, very aware of their own difficulties and extremely sensitive to others' negative reactions.
Why "High Functioning" Autism Is So Challenging
autism.about.com
Newman told professors they had to get past their qualms, saying, “This is hard for you because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies, but you can’t. You just have to drown the bunnies . . . put a Glock to their heads.”
Mount St. Mary's Ableist Plan to Push Out Vulnerable Students - The Establishment
theestablishment.co
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