Editing TotalAsperger Literary Theory (section)

=== From case studies to a general theory ===
A pivotal step was the analysis of '''autistic narrative''' in James Joyce’s ''Finnegans Wake'': collage-like composition; sound-led association; punning under strict private rules; preservation of sameness; monologue and set-piece “scripts”; plot-minimizing drift with high local patterning—features read as a coherent outcome of autistic cognition rather than as mere modernist difficulty. The essay explicitly frames ''Wake'' as “the autistic collage technique” and details pragmatic and sensory atypicalities in Joyce that align with the text’s form.

A complementary dossier on '''William Shakespeare''' assembles indices consistent with an autistic mind-style—hyperfocus, narrow specialist interests (e.g., legal, medical, botanical, military lexicons), fascination with language and unprecedented lexical innovation, identity diffusion (including sexual identity diffusion) supporting fluid impersonation, weak conventional “central coherence” in dramaturgy where idea-chasing can unbalance a work, and affect displaced into procedural and prosodic patterning. The document argues that these life-and-practice features plausibly generated the structural traits visible across the plays and sonnets.