{"id":4493,"date":"2017-09-19T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:02:17","slug":"case-study-how-i-turned-my-unique-perspective-into-a-paid-writing-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/case-study-how-i-turned-my-unique-perspective-into-a-paid-writing-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: How I Turned My Unique Perspective Into a Paid Writing Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jonathan Muirhead
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I have written more free reviews and short stories and poems than I care to remember. But I always had a hankering to be a \u201creal\u201d writer \u2013 that is, one who got paid.<\/p>\n

When I was about twenty, I found out I had a condition called Asperger Syndrome.\u00a0 It is a form of autism, more common amongst males than females.\u00a0 It affects motor skills, our cognitive abilities and our general abilities to interact with other members of the human race with the same ease that everyone else (apparently) does.\u00a0 What, then, could I write about this?<\/p>\n

What did I have to offer that no one else did? I decided to do some research. \u00a0To find out what other writings about Asperger Syndrome were available out there,\u00a0 so I could see what wasn\u2019t <\/em><\/strong>out there, which needed to be.<\/p>\n

I a lot of writing on the subject of autism in general.\u00a0 I saw a lot of writing on how to help children and teenagers deal with Asperger Syndrome.\u00a0 I could even see a fair bit on how parents could help their children cope with Asperger Syndrome. What I couldn\u2019t see were any articles for people of my own generation.\u00a0 The generation who had grown up being misunderstood.<\/p>\n

Surely, there would be others out there who felt the same way? Who had grown up wondering why they could not join in with class and playground games with the same ease that others around them apparently had? Whose parents were always having to take them to one side and have \u201cwee words\u201d or \u201cwee chats\u201d with them, due to continued social or practical indiscretions?<\/p>\n

I made a list of websites concerning Asperger Syndrome.\u00a0 I made a note of the kind of content on them.\u00a0 Then, I wrote an email to those that I thought would be most receptive to my idea.<\/p>\n

I have found, through my writing career to date, the easiest way to get people to relate to you is to write plainly and simply.\u00a0 If people see you doing that, they will want to know more.\u00a0 My email stated who I was, what kind of writing I did and why my articles would be of interest to their users.\u00a0 Eventually, one of them got back to me \u2013 The Asperger\u2019s Test Site (https:\/\/www.aspergerstestsite.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n

That was what got me the gig with The Asperger\u2019s Test Site.\u00a0 That was how I found the opportunity. My proposal to The Aspergers Test Site was as thus:<\/p>\n

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