robkelk Wrote:(Don't answer those questions here.)
I'm not sure I could answer those questions.
robkelk Wrote:Go through the same list for some people you barely know from work or school.
NEET on disability here, who pretty much never socialized in college or work. I have only three friends, all of whom I met in high school or earlier (the earliest in 4th grade), and all of whom are high-IQ, STEM-focused, Alaskan-born males like myself. They and my immediate family are my only real IRL socialization, and I don't even do much actual interaction online (this is much more online conversing than I usually do). I'm not sure how much of this is explained by the Asperger's, how much by my lifelong mood disorder, how much by my sensory processing disorder, how much by a family history of antisocial tendencies, and how much by my 151 IQ.
robkelk Wrote:Once you've got that, you can think "what would somebody who likes this and dislikes that do in the situation here?"
And my problem is that I literally do not know how to answer that question. That's the problem I'm trying to solve here, and what I'm asking.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Have you never played "pretend" or been in a roleplaying game?
Not really, no.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:It doesn't take a lot of imagination to come up with a person who isn't you
More than I have apparently. Or at least, if they're not me, then the inside of their head is a black box, their behavior mysterious and unpredictable.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:If you can't imagine any response for either of them which isn't what you would do in that situation
I can imagine lots of possible responses for them; I just don't seem to have any way of figuring out which one is "the right one" for their character and which isn't. How do you do that?
Or perhaps I should only try writing xenofiction?
Inquisitive Raven Wrote:I've often considered outlining characters using a GURPS character sheet, possibly throwing in Nature/Demeanor from the Storyteller system (White Wolf/Onyx Path).
Sure, but then the question remains. How, Inquisitive Raven, do I convert those listings and traits on that character sheet into behavior?
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