Cary, it's amazing how you manage to convey one of the many discombobulating experiences autistic people go through in their lives. Well done!
Details and patterns are something I notice too when they're there, or I look for them, when they're not that obvious at a first glance. I'm also fascinated by symmetry. In a confusing world, it gives me the illusion of control and accuracy. Looking forward to Part 2!
It's a relief to hear you liked it so much! After all the revising and then cleaning up the audio, I couldn't decide if it was any good or not anymore. (My wife reports it's much better than the old draft I gave her to read a while back.)
I love that you used 'discombobulating' — both for be so apt and because it's a fun word! Having such a close relationship with discombobulation definitely helps when trying to put it into words. Ha. Revising the hell out of it surely helped too.
This is another story that's been hanging around a while (though not as long as the scifi one I posted). I have more written, but no ending. Well, I sort of have one ending that's partially written, that draft reader/wife hated. I may still go with it, but in a more subtle form.
Cary, it's amazing how you manage to convey one of the many discombobulating experiences autistic people go through in their lives. Well done!
Details and patterns are something I notice too when they're there, or I look for them, when they're not that obvious at a first glance. I'm also fascinated by symmetry. In a confusing world, it gives me the illusion of control and accuracy. Looking forward to Part 2!
It's a relief to hear you liked it so much! After all the revising and then cleaning up the audio, I couldn't decide if it was any good or not anymore. (My wife reports it's much better than the old draft I gave her to read a while back.)
I love that you used 'discombobulating' — both for be so apt and because it's a fun word! Having such a close relationship with discombobulation definitely helps when trying to put it into words. Ha. Revising the hell out of it surely helped too.
This is another story that's been hanging around a while (though not as long as the scifi one I posted). I have more written, but no ending. Well, I sort of have one ending that's partially written, that draft reader/wife hated. I may still go with it, but in a more subtle form.
@Portia discombobulating is a very Cary word, I was going to comment but he beat me :-)