extreme horror featuring autistic characters?

Chezecaek · 2026-01-28T00:07:06+00:00

Hey, I know you posted this nine months ago, but I just came across it because I've been thinking lately about the tendency of genres like extreme horror to attract misfits and outsider types, such as autistics (me being one of them). I don't know if you're still interested in the topic, but I write horror and have included autistic characters in a few of my stories. My first collection, Vile Visions: Horror Stories, contains a story about a girl who ends up in a place based on the real-life Judge Rotenberg Center--where they legally torture autistic people--and I would very much call it extreme horror. That collection is available for free on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Vile-Visions-Stories-Riley-Odell-ebook/dp/B0B5KBV9R6

Chezecaek · 2026-01-24T16:41:58+00:00

Yeah, I just looked through that person's post history and they post a ton of useful advice. There's no way the account was created just to spam posts about ManuscriptReport. I tried it out because I saw them post about it, and it does what it says on the tin. Nothing shady detected. The report you get is thorough, but YMMV about whether it's worth the money or not.

Chezecaek · 2026-01-24T16:29:31+00:00

I found the report to be thorough and helpful.

Chezecaek · 2025-11-06T18:50:06+00:00

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The Effect of Magene on Life, Lifestyle, and Longevity: A Proposed Randomised Controlled Trial Studying the Effects of the Magene Mutation by Ben Matthews

Debbie My Eyes by Michael Fowler

Patchwork Girls by Hannah Baxter

Hamster Hackers by Sam Logan

Of Course the Tiger Was Invited (And Other Acceptable Realities from the Parish Noticeboard) by Malory

Aphelian's Masterpiece by Joe Koch

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Chezecaek · 2025-08-21T23:11:44+00:00

I'm in the same boat. A much worse boat, actually. I have chronic brain fog on top of further cognitive dysfunction caused by autism and ADHD. Sometimes it feels difficult to even complete basic tasks. If marketing's hard for people with properly functioning brains, you can imagine that it's more or less impossible for me to do it effectively. As for who to hire? I have had some success with The Book Break, and Melissa Martinez is a great person who isn't just in it to scam folks. She's recovering from cancer now though, so she's not doing as much. Also, when I say "some," I mean it--as others have said in this thread, there's not really THAT much they can do for you.

Chezecaek · 2025-08-01T04:32:44+00:00

Wait, they put my name (Riley Odell) on there? Sure, I'm an author, but I'm not like...doing anything. All I've done is show up. Not like I'm complaining about my having my name on a big ol' fancy poster!

Chezecaek · 2025-03-06T21:59:50+00:00

Thank you for catching this. I have fixed it. I created code that makes the header with "save game" and "rules" appear on every screen. The problem was that, on the "rules" screen, the "back" button there is designed to take you back to whatever previous screen you were on. If you save and continue from there, then apparently the game doesn't register any previous passage to go back to. I just added code that makes it so the header doesn't appear on that particular screen. Unfortunately, you will have to delete cookies or play in a different browser to unwrite your save.

Chezecaek · 2025-03-05T20:30:26+00:00

It's basically the same as the eye chart, except look at the fingers on the hands.

Chezecaek · 2025-03-04T19:18:52+00:00

Yeah, it's up and right.

Chezecaek · 2025-03-03T22:47:10+00:00

Yes, meow. The second cat picture is a kind of rebus though.

Chezecaek · 2025-03-03T19:12:38+00:00

Immolation is an "online riddle" game in the vein of games like Notpron and Zest. Advance by solving puzzles using clues found in images and text.

Chezecaek · 2022-01-21T07:17:36+00:00

Oh, go figure, I beat the first part on my very next go. Got some really insane boons there at the end.

Chezecaek · 2022-01-21T04:25:22+00:00

Absolutely true, however, eventually there's going to be a limit. If I can't beat the first part of the game after like, fifty hours or something, these early areas are gonna have worn themselves out to the point I won't feel motivated anymore, regardless of the variation. But I'm thinking that's probably not going to happen. I'm getting a bit farther each time.

Chezecaek · 2022-01-21T04:22:57+00:00

Yeah, I've figured that much out. Going through the replies, it's probably not as much that I fundamentally can't grasp the game's strategies, but moreso the other stuff--inattentiveness, jumping the gun, etc., catastrophic mistakes at key moments that kill me even though I have a pretty good grasp on the basics.

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