Online Novel featuring an Asperger character

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Hello everyone. I have been posting a story online, and one of the characters is secretly someone with Aspergers. I'm sure people here would figure it out quickly. However, I started writing this book before I was diagnosed, and didn't realize until after my diagnosis that I had been giving my Asperger traits to this character. I think it makes for a very unique book, and I'd like to know what people think.

(There is a chapter where the Asperger connection is explained -- it just hasn't been posted yet. I post one new mini-chapter every day).

http://nomananisland.wordpress.com

p.s. Please leave comments on the site! I'd love to interact with readers, and hear your thoughts.

Thanks to everyone who dropped by my site today -- but please, please, leave comments! I am really grateful for visitors, but I'd really like to see if people are enjoying the book, and if anyone has already figured out which character has AS.

Also, because I don't know any other adults with Aspergers, I would appreciate an alternate viewpoint: I need to know if my written portrayal of the character comes across as accurate. I think so, but considering I wrote 80% of the novel before I myself was diagnosed, it wasn't obvious to me at first that my book is as much about Aspergers as it is about anything else.

Also on the website are examples of my poetry and artwork, for anyone interested in those things instead of prose literature.

New chapter up! There are mini-chapters every day, collected into sections. The current section, entitled Rewind, is a main character having a flashback to an earlier time in his life: and in this section, eventually, it's revealed that he has Aspergers, which makes a lot of other parts of the book suddenly "make sense."

So, we're around chapter 170 now -- anyone interested in reading will have lots to work with! But I am finally getting close to the chapter about Aspergers. See if you can see the clues throughout the rest of the book, though!

Well, the good news is, the new chapter featuring the revelation that the protagonist has Aspergers is up. Here's a link to that chapter:

http://nomananisland.wordpress.com/2008 ... -syndrome/

The bad news is, that it is chapter 192. If you haven't started reading already, you have a lot to catch up on