Creativity and Autism - Quantifying Creativity

There is lot of research going on currently in identification of Autism and also identification of characteristic in autistic people. There is lot of theories put in place. But one of the main issues has been how to measure these characteristics. There has been so much of research in analysis of creativity in autistic individuals. These research works have enlightened so many positive traits which could be well used for development of autistic individuals. But the major drawbacks have been lack of well defined model for analysis and hence lack of statistical data. We understand that one of the major issues with autism has been high variation in characteristics of autistic individual. And these characteristics differ from geographical locations. This brings in a need for flexible mathematical model to which N different characteristics can be added or removed based on geographical location or sex of individual under analysis. This paper contributes by proposing a simple algorithm for building a software framework which would help in collection of data and represent them quantitatively. The Quantifiable representation will be a table. Each row will have a personality with high functioning autism who has been very creative in his field. Each element in a column will denote a autistic characteristic exhibited by the personality and each cell will have a value based on characteristic observed in the personality. This table is called a reference table. Each characteristic represented in the column is derived from analysis of different creativity theories and trying to derive the creativity characteristics specific to autistic individuals.