NegativeFriction

Well, this has officially caused my neighbors to ask what the hell I'm doing in my apartment. But they did admit that it sounded like I was torturing a wookie, so score.

Thanks for this AMA! I'd like to know, what's the most interesting thing you ever had to censor from your work?

Is anything sacred? Is there anything you just refuse to riff?

What's your go-to pickup line? Gotta have a fallback for girls you're not friends with yet!

Hi Daniel! I feel like a bad person bringing this up, but in highschool I wrote a play about a kid with autism and his strained relationship with his father that went on to be read in a script reading by actual actors. Looking back on it, the whole thing was a load of rubbish based entirely on Hollywood autism (Rain Man was a decent source; Cube was not).

An older woman with an autistic grandson told me that I described it perfectly. Feeling smug, I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and Born on a Blue Day. Neither book reinforced my notion that I'd done characters with autism justice, and I stopped trying to depict it from then on out. I was wondering- how do you react to "Hollywood autism?" Does it bother you seeing characters who stutter and are now "autistic," or who show no symptoms, but are described as autistic due to their intellect?