About Me — Jonathan Scott Griffin

Where do I begin? Well, for starters, I’m a writer. Oh, and I’ve been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. As such I don’t completely understand humanity or the world around me. I am currently studying Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Hebrew, Arabic, Romanian, Czech, and Swahili (primarily focusing on Spanish, French, and Japanese) and as challenging as they can be, learning them so far has not been nearly as challenging as the years I spent trying to learn facial expressions and basic body language. Maybe that’s why I’m a writer, to try and make sense of humanity and the world around me.

“But what do I write,” you may ask? On the pragmatic side I write articles. But often my pragmatic side takes a backseat to write works of fiction.

My Works of Fiction

From kindergarten to middle school, I didn’t have many friends. I did become the well respected nerd in high school, but that’s another story. As such, I was often alone, especially during my elementary school years. Even in kindergarten, being unable to understand social cues, I was the object of mockery from other students. Yeah, school was rough. But don’t get me wrong! Once school was out I always found joy, solitude, imagination, and magic in life, ingredients would that would transform me eventually into a writer.

For instance, the garden in the backyard of my childhood home, full of grape vines, blackberry bushes, and tomato vines was a jungle, teaming with dangerous beasts (tomato worms), for me to explore. Mountains were the outlines of deceased dinosaurs. Nestled in the clouds were magical kingdoms, and there was sure to be treasure on the other side of that rainbow.

As I have aged, I have never lost that sense of magic.

I live and breathe fantasy.

As a child, The Hobbit was one of my favorite novels, and remains so to this day, with its sense of sweeping adventure though a world populated by wizards, dwarves, elves, goblins, trolls, and a dragon. But it wasn’t the only world that pulled me in. Willow, one of my favorite movies, took me to a world high adventure. As you can guess, it didn’t take long until I was creating my own worlds of myth and magic, from a very tender, young age.