: Re: Are these reasonable traits for someone with autism? A little info as to the story: 'Lily' was abandoned when she was young. She is a Deviant, a group of people who are born with powers,

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I have been diagnosed with Asperger's and I am certainly different in some ways from typical persons.

I don't have any problem being in public places with a lot of people around, like, for example, walking the streets of a city. I have been very happy reading in large rooms in libraries with varying numbers of people around me. But I don't like going to noisy crowded, parties or social events. I remember when in my thirties visiting my grandmother and she took be to an event where I sat and thought and watched her dance.

I only turn on the tv to watch specific shows that I want to watch, and keep it turned off at other times. I like to turn down the sound so that it is just loud enough for me to hear clearly, to not bother other people with the sound and to not let them know what I am watching. I hate it when other people have their tvs so loud that I can hear and understand what is said in programs that I don't want to watch. That is terribly distracting. So I usually keep the door to my room shut to block the sound even though having airflow through the door would often help keep the temperature more comfortable.

Since "Lily" is what is called a Deviant in your story, I suspect that she will feel about as safe as a character in a story I am working on.

I have an idea for a story about the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, happening in the borderland between the Wild West of imagination and the real west of history. A boy whose family members are in the US military is mistaken for the son of a bitter ex-Rebel who is a member of a group plotting to overthrow the USA. He is taken by his "father" to the great Sioux camp of Sitting Bull where the "father" is a liaison between the Sioux and his group, who hope that if they can help the Sioux inflict a big enough defeat on the USA it will trigger a second Southern Rebellion and foreign intervention.

Disgusted by the treasonous plot, the boy gets as far away from his "father" as he can, but isn't permitted to leave the camp. So - knowing sign language and some Sioux - he moves in with a pair of orphan Sioux boys and helps them by telling stories to crowds of Sioux children and some adults, asking for donations of food, etc. for the boys. When the boy tells Arabian Nights stories or fairy tales the Sioux can believe they might be true, but when tells them facts about American society they all say he has a great imagination.

The boy wants to reveal the Rebel plot to the authorities, but he and I can't think of a method yet. And he lives in constant fear that if his true allegiance to the USA is discovered the Rebels and the thousands of Sioux in the great Sioux camp will instantly turn on him and kill him, probably with fiendish tortures.

In high school, where I was one of the bullied kids, I occasionally feared I might be lynched if the others understood just how different I was.

And depending on how "Lily"'s society treats Deviants, she might feel constant fear that she will be killed if she is discovered, and may worry that her unusual behavior due to autism makes it harder for her to go unnoticed.

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