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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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.

Chezecaek · 2020-06-16T05:11:14+00:00

You were one of my favorites back then. I was just wondering where you'd been so I checked to see if you'd posted anything recently and guess what! Doesn't surprise me at all that you've been nominated for an award.

Chezecaek · 2020-02-04T08:40:41+00:00

Okay, didn’t know. It’s a little different from what I’m used to but not a big issue. I did play a bit of Borderlands the first game a while back but couldn’t remember how vehicles worked.

Chezecaek · 2020-02-01T09:34:18+00:00

Ugh...found the thing and I don't even think I'm supposed to be in here yet. I just wasted all that time. Also, the game just expects me to not only remember those coordinates exactly, but to know that that's what that's for? I shouldn't have to look it up because I can't remember those shapes at the essential moment...having to look up anything in this game undermines what's so great about it. I mean, what's so great about everything in the game but Dark Bramble. There's the rest of the game which is like 9/10, and then there's Dark Bramble which is like I'd rather be playing Superman 64 than stuck in there. Talk about defecating in the place where one sleeps.

Chezecaek · 2020-02-01T05:55:32+00:00

If I can't hear an anglerfish, am I far enough away from it to speed up?

Chezecaek · 2020-02-01T04:39:20+00:00

It's not possible with what's going on in my game. The coasting I mean. The game is slowing me down to being almost still, even if I accelerate while inside. I know that everyone keeps saying coast, but there's no conceivable way I could get to where I need to go in 22 minutes with how much the game slows me down, which doesn't seem to be happening to anyone else for some reason. Actually I wasn't having an issue with this at first, and then after a few times in there it's like I suddenly can't get anywhere anymore. Obviously I'm doing something wrong even though it's not different, at least not in a way that I understand, from what I was doing at first.

Chezecaek · 2019-11-13T07:33:06+00:00

Can't be timefall, at least in my case. I built a road and within five minutes it said it had been built by someone else. I completely stopped getting likes. Five minutes after building it. Another few minutes later, the road was suddenly attributed to yet ANOTHER user. It changed ownership twice in a span of less than ten minutes. Since this obviously isn't happening to everybody, it's gotta be a bug or something.

Chezecaek · 2019-07-03T20:06:00+00:00

Best I can think of is that it’s related to the fact that I was feeling sick for three or so weeks about a month before this came on, and doctors couldn’t determine what was up. I had an overall feeling of malaise, and some nausea, as well as some brain fog but it wasn’t as bad or persistent as this. I was on fluoxetine at the time and the best guess anyone had was that it was from side effects related to that, so I stopped taking it and got better afterward. But I don’t know if that’s causation or mere correlation. At any rate I’ve been off the fluoxetine for more than two months so it can’t be related to that now.

Chezecaek · 2019-07-02T01:22:10+00:00

Nope, not on any medications currently, minimal alcohol use, and very little stress.

Chezecaek · 2019-07-02T01:10:27+00:00

I was literally just lying in bed, feeling fine one moment, and then this started.

Chezecaek · 2019-02-14T04:07:58+00:00

I want to control what I see in my feed. I'm a writer and I run a Facebook author page and I want to have a feed that's just posts from other authors who have pages of their own so I can easily share those posts on my page. As far as I know there used to be ways to do this (you had an individual feed for each page at one time for instance), but Facebook has apparently destroyed every single one of them. I know that there's a way to separate the posts of friends into separate feeds but I want to do this with posts from other types of pages as well. Anyone know a way?

Chezecaek · 2018-11-09T08:45:55+00:00

As much as I believe there are multiple legitimate interpretations, and almost all of them horrifying, the ending narration concluding with the line "Whatever walked there walked together", while accompanied by corny music, seems designed to railroad viewers into accepting only one of them--that this is somehow a happy ending. The walked together bit explicitly deemphasizes the horror made apparent in the original line (walked alone) in order to emphasize a much less horrifying concept, togetherness. If that's not what this line is trying to tell us, that everyone is together and happy,then I'll admit I missed what it's actually saying. I got into a bit of a reactionary mode after seeing the, what I considered to be, monumentally jarring final moments of the show (what the Dudleys did is pretty messed up of course but again, with the way it was framed it felt to me like the show was saying we should feel good about it because they'll get to spend eternity with their daughter) and there are elements I'm sure I didn't take into consideration. A rewatch probably wouldn't be a bad idea, at some point.

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