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It is not a crutch. Writing is writing.
As Jeff Atwood put it:
The process of writing is indeed a
journey of discovery, one that will
last the rest of your life. It doesn't
ultimately matter whether you're
writing a novel, a printer review, a
Stack Overflow answer, fan fiction, a
blog entry, a comment, a technical
whitepaper, some emo LiveJournal
entry, or even meta-talk about writing
itself. Just get out there and write!
If fanfiction is what gets you writing, then write. It doesn't mean you have to do it for the rest of your life! But whatever you are interested in doing enough to get you writing is good.
As a parallel, my mother wanted to discourage me from reading comics when I was a kid, but my father argued that anything which got me reading--even if it was reading with pictures--was a good thing.
People here have variously argued that fanfiction is a crutch, that it is limiting. But that is silly. It's limiting in the sense that you couldn't go and sell it, but other than that, it's an art form like any other. Some people here claimed you couldn't do world-building with it; that is wrong, because you can always build on top of the existing world the fandom is set in. You can always add characters to the ones already in the fandom, and you can always take the characters in a direction that was not obvious from the show, so good character building is also possible.
In short, there is nothing you can do in any other form of fiction writing that you can't do in fanfiction, and any skills you hone while writing the latter will help you in the former.
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