Something that helps you cope with AS/Autism?

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For me, writing isn't just writing. It's not jus some hobby I do for fun. I am serious about my writing because its my life. Not only isn't an anti-drug but it's my expression when I can't use verbal or emotional expression.

Writing is my second voice. There only a few people in my life that know how much it means to me. No, I don't get money for writing nor is it for a class. Writing is my way of life, my anti-anxiety drug and how I express myself. I know for some, you might think its nothing but to me, it's everything.

If I didn't have writing, then I never would have gotten so far with my autistic disorder. Writing has given me a reason to keep on going when things get rough and when I feel like I can't go on. So if I stopped writing even for a second, I feel like I'm giving up on my life.

I mean, don't you have a talent you just couldn't be without? Something that you do to help cope with your disorder? If you do, then what is it?

(sorry, I wrote this out of the blue and wanted to share it and see how others cope with having anxiety due to autism.)

by screaming as loud as i can

Unfortunately no, I do like writing but..

I'd say i'd live more for my passions. I can't think of a talent I have that keeps me going..but my interests, anime, video games, music, television, psychology, deep meaningful conversations that my peers don't usually care about--etc.

I mean those are the things that drive me, I can't think of a real talent that I have that I find practical.

I have always had an active daydream life, with a number of different story universes. I have also been into reading since about first or second grade, and am in my early 50s now. These have been the mainstays of my life. I also cope by surfing the web, and by hanging out here at WP. Music is good, too, but I can only listen, as I was never good at playing any instruments. I find that keeping occupied and distracted help me cope, and these are my best methods of doing that. Sometimes I manage to wade through my Executive Function Disorder enough to do some chores or run errands, too. I like to watch TV sometimes, but my TV died. I will be getting another one soon, though.

Daydream are the only little thing I have left... but yeah, depression destroyed any thing I normally use to get through asperger's. f**k.

Reading. I learnt to read before I was 2, and ever since then it's been a passion of mine. My mental health would suffer if I didn't have access to books. A good fiction book can help me escape from reality, and a good non-fiction book can help me understand it.

Well, writing is something that I can't be without. I can't see myself not writing anything, even if it's just writing in my personal journals on my iPad... I have to write or I get filled with anxiety. Since I got my iPad, it's been much easier for me to communicate through written expression when needed. People always think that writing is just writing.

There are even people here who don't really understand the value that writing has for me. Without it, I'd be better off not living at all because I wouldn't be able to express myself. It's just something that's changed my life. I'm 23 years old and I've been writing since the fifth grade. Writing has made my life much better and easier to cope with, even when things are out of my hands... I write and I feel like I am in my own world where I can express myself so much that nobody even realizes how well I am able to do that.

It's like an artist. Artists don't draw just because they can, because they have talent... they draw because they can express themselves using colors that match what they feel. For me, it's writing.

Writing, reading and watching/reading about my obsessive subjects. I have to write too or I get really anxious as well, its why I post on this forum. I don't think my posts are that enjoyed, but I use to have a blog that had to be deleted and gradually I've phased out sites and places that influence me negatively so this is all that's left pretty much. Music helps me a lot too, as does jogging. I brainstorm a lot of my favorite ideas late at night with the mp3 player while running on the track.

When I feel really bad I just think and focus on subjects I like or a story I'm working on and think up characters, situations or try to become inspired by books or music. As sad as it sounds, I get really lonely so in some ways characters I make up and create are like my friends too. I don't think they're real, but it helps me when I feel a lot of pain.

I want to become an artist too, actually going to try taking some classes this summer to get on the right foot maybe..but I'm really worried because of my hand to eye coordination.

Reading, riding and playing the guitar, bass or drums can help me pass for normal. If I can't do any of those things, like currently, I try new stims. Music I can only listen to when I'm in a situation to appreciate it, laying back and no distractions. One of the things I'm growing disgusted with is society's cheapening of music by trying to attach emotions to it to sell things

Listening to The Kinks.

I always find that redirecting all the negativity and sadness is something that needs to come out, I draw and write to get it all out, I actually even invent characters. Characters I add to. If I'm in an angry mood, I'll draw and write about a character named 'Ira' (Means Wrath or anger in Latin) who is pretty much me when I'm really, really mad. Ira's a screaming, angry lunatic who slobbers flammable material, I usually draw him doing something horrible to a random monster,

But after I write and draw, I always feel better, like... Like my emotions are the characters I invented around them and when I am overwhelmed by an emotion or feeling, it's that character clawing and screaming to be let out. So I draw,
Now this is after YEARS of practice and it's pretty much become a part of me.
I've found it really helps, and as a wise man once said: "It's good to act crazy to keep yourself from going crazy!"