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Let's Play AQ-10 • I usually concentrate more on the whole picture, rather than the small details (self.autism)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by octoperson to c/[email protected]
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This is one of a series of discussion posts based on questions from the AQ-10 autism test.

4. I usually concentrate more on the whole picture, rather than the small details.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Obligatory not diagnosed, though fairly high scoring.

I go through swings of obsessing on one or the other. I notice this in my fiction writing and worldbuilding a lot, where there will be periods where I keep posting about small, damn near inconsequential aspects of the lore and some periods where I feel like a failure for not having an outline of the entire story figured out and just do that for a while. And of course I spend insane amounts of effort to work the small details I develop into my greater plot in a way that doesn't feel shoehorned in and the result of "I already spent effort developing this so I have to use it" syndrome.

I also genuinely think I enjoy writing endless notes on lore (some of which with enough prose to potentially pass for a documentary piece in-universe) than I do actually writing the actual story. Not sure of this means I focus more on details than the bigger picture but I do know this is a pretty big detriment to any potential fiction writing career, evident by the fact that I have been worldbuilding multiple fictional universes since literally my childhood but have yet to put out any actual stories based on them, despite meaning to.