Aspergers and Acting.

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Crying on command...I'm still trying to master that.
And yes stagefright is a major problem for me which is why I tend to lean towards movies

After a while it's not an emotional thing anymore, your eyes are just trained to cry when you want them to. I've been told. I'm no actor, I just taught myself a parlor trick.

Having done theater before, I find the anxiety I get talking to a person or group of people to be non-existent in that situation because of two things. Number 1: It's scripted. You already know what you are going to say and what other peoples responses are. Number 2: Most of the audience is going to be people you don't know and will never see again. Unless you are doing a school play and its classmates, usually its random people and I don't care what they think of me.

However this was a while ago, I only did four plays as part of a local children's theater group in 7th and 8th grade. I enjoyed it though, and even had a good part in the last play I did so I guess I did decently enough for them to cast me in a major role(I was the Genie in a production of Aladdin). But it's been like 15 years since I did any of that.

[quote="eelektrik"]Having done theater before, I find the anxiety I get talking to a person or group of people to be non-existent in that situation because of two things. Number 1: It's scripted. You already know what you are going to say and what other peoples responses are. Number 2: Most of the audience is going to be people you don't know and will never see again. quote]

i really like this paragraph it helps explain it very well thankyou. i myself usually mimic master chiefs voice from halo. the first time i knew i was good was when someone online said where do you get master chiefs voice from the internet? and i said no this is my real voice lol. ever since then i would use hes voice whilst playing online and essentially create my own identity. i can do many different voices such as old men, old women etc.

i would like to make a career out of acting, i feel that acting as someone else makes me so much more confident (or at least people think i am) im really not outside of acting lol.

Being someone your not is not me such as being on a stage playing a character is just not me. I have friends in a disability theatre group and they seem to do really well and they are able to get into character and pretend to be someone they are not which is hard for me because I like being me. I rather play the drums in a band or play the flute in an orchestra on stage.

I actually love doing it, it feels like I am in my own zone when I do it. It's kind of a release for me, to a degree.