My own brother said I showed some signs growing up that might now be considered autistic. I’d come home from school when I was nine or ten and just lay on the sofa thinking up stories in my head for hours at a time. I didn’t write them down (except for a few); I just stared into space and lived them.
Thank goodness they didn’t drug kids back then. My careers in information science and my avocation of playwrighting are both going pretty well. I’m no genius, but I think some of my unusual (”autistic?”) tendencies as a child helped me with my creative outlets as an adult.
People wonder why I have never done drugs. I tell them I don’t need to do drugs, with my brain I can barely keep the wild horse under control as it is!
I guess I’m somewhat autistic according to this article, I have a number of those characteristics to varying degrees though they’ve diminished some with age.