Why I Write
I am Isaac Hudson, and I like a lot of things: Animals, boba (bubble) tea, family, cold seasons, and so much more.
When I was about three years old, I was diagnosed with classic autism due to a delayed myelination to the brain. This diagnosis has not only set me up in life, but it has also greatly burdened me and is a cause for many dark things in my life, whilst at the same time, not being directly linked. It has stopped any basis of logical thinking with the people around me. That someone with autism cannot be self-aware. So, when I struggled with my identity and told my parents, I at the time thought it was a logical idea, when I should have known they wouldn’t take it. They had told me I couldn’t be that simply because I was autistic. Yet, after trying so many times I convinced them; that what I was, wasn’t a phase or obsession. And my autism was not the be all or end all.
Independence was also very hard for me to do, but I felt liberated when I went to Spain again with my best friend to visit my grandparents last year. The trip was liberating as it was scary. It was the first time going on a holiday with just a friend. I had never felt so entirely free in my life. With my best friend I had experiences I never really had before. It’s a time I will never forget. A first breath of freedom from being raised a sheltered lifestyle. I want to add this liberating feeling to my work, so many other people can relate to it, whether their liberating feeling maybe different.
However, during my trying times I fell in love with writing as it became my way to escape the reality around me. I read more, absorbing all the information I could, adding it to my own work and making it my own. The stories I found myself leaning towards were fantasy, but as I grew up it changed to realism. That way I could relate to the characters in the stories better. My parents saw my writing and insisted I become a writer. I didn’t disagree. I like writing, and it has become a voice for me when I struggle to express myself through speaking.
This is the reason I am here. The wanting to express my voice and prove myself worthy of the world. I want to show people the world through the eyes of people who have barely any voice and show them that what they think, and feel will not always be the same as to what the stereotypes are.
As for how it could possibly help my career in the future, I’m not entirely sure but I know that it will make me think before judging someone’s story, even if it’s someone’s story or I may not agree with. This could help with keeping a level head and not making a biased opinion on someone or an article and writing a fair piece. Letting the people decide what they want to believe. It will also give people who are often marginalised have a chance to say what’s on their mind as well. Leading to quite a lot of people who maybe willing to share their story through me.
That eventually I would like to become an author who can share stories of marginalised people and make it so that they won’t be hated for being who they are, whether they were born that way or simply chose it.
