Trouble writing

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I do not know about anyone else, but I find it difficult to write. I have trouble getting it from thought to paper. My thoughts sometimes seem like a book, but when I try to write them down, it is like my body does not want to cooperate and that the thoughts get mixed up.
When I think, I usually can see things clearly in my head. It is like looking at a photo, only I can change that photo to whatever I want. But sometimes my mind is like a book, like my head is narrating every action. Sometimes I think that the narration is so beautiful I should write it down, but never can. This is a big reason why I fail my English classes, even though I am fluent in English, and have an extremely high vocabulary (I like to read, including dictionaries)

I am sometimes told to keep a journal, but it never works out. I only write down the factual stuff, and tend to focus on the very minute details of my daily life, which never changes course.

I know that some people reading are probably thinking right now 'well, you are writing now, whats the matter?'
I may be writing now, but with difficulty. I am finding it hard to grasp at a thought before it melts away, never to be thought again.

I've learned to write well, but writing is a struggle, and I probably write well now because I've had to work very hard at learning to do it.

I understand what you are saying and have the additional problem of being unable to start or work on writing something that doesn't interest me. Mostly I have no trouble writing posts on WP because I am so interested in ASDs and who doesn't like to write about themselves?

Z

I get writer's block a lot...I'll have a great idea for a beginning, but I'll have no idea where I want it to go from there.

I can't write about personal stuff. I feel that it is next to impossible to form words, write those words and write a text that is coherent and about myself. It's just as if there are no words.

I can write about everything else though. I can write about my autism, I can write about others, I can write fiction and poems and social interaction, philosophical texts and even influence a person positively when I try to cheer them up.

But I can never write about myself.

It makes my mind do a shut-down and if I push hard, it makes me cry and panic to speak/write/reveal about myself.

I have difficulty writing in two ways:

- I have trouble translating thought to words, because my thoughts aren't words and often no words exist to say what I mean to say. For instance, I'd love to describe the imagery and feelings of certain experiences, but that will never be possible. When I can explain in words (such as on an exam), I need a long time to figure out exactly what I want to say and how. I know all of the details in isolation, but I have a lot of difficulty generalizing them to create a shallow essay a couple of pages long to satisfy a university professor. There's a lot more to knowledge than can be put on a final exam, and I always have trouble paring down my understanding to match the requirements.

- I have some difficulty with the physical process. My writing is actually quite neat and legible; however, to get it that way I write more slowly than others (though I'm trying to compensate with a sort of fluid type of handwriting) and I know that I have to grip my pen much harder and put more pressure on the paper than others. (I've been told this and have seen it in others' work.) It's not a hindrance, except when I can't keep up with notes - but if I can't keep up, then certainly there are others who can't and the speed of presentation should be slowed.

There are some cases wherein I have no difficulty writing - either because I am inspired, or because I have a good reason to write, or because I have something to say that I have been wanting to say for a long time. These are rare, though, and usually writing requires a lot of thought, though as far as I've been told the end product is always good.

it keeps making me confused when trying to figure where to put the comma or period or something and maybe also having aphasia has something to do with it but it seems when work on figuring where to put things i get confused to where it would take me almost an hour to write an email and since the library has a time limit on the computer and dont have one at home then just dont even try to figure it out or else can never email anybody ever

Jeyradan said

I've read that most individuals with Asperger's Syndrome have terrible motor planning, like myself.
I've also read that there are many who can have beautiful handwriting, but because they are perfectionists, it takes them a long time to write in this fashion.

I write fast and sloppy

I had much bigger problems writing when i was a child. My sentences were always very literal and when people asked me abstract questions id get in trouble. I just didnt get it. I also wrote like a pig. All the girls in my class wrote cute little letters, mine looked like some smeared goo. Anyway, its improved over the years, but i still cant write small and pretty. Filling out forms is a nightmare, because they make too little room to answer everything