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I'm not an autist but growing up I had a big fascination with history and the passage of time on places and cultures and things. Used to watch the History Channel and was big into the Titanic.
I'd used to draw landscapes then on a sheet of blank paper and slowly fill up the horizon with buildings, first small, then larger and evermore futuristic-looking, and then I'd erase and "destroy" the buildings to mimic some apocalyptic event and then draw it get consumed by nature, then begin drawing the city again being rebuilt eons later. Another kinda drawing I'd do would be to just create top-down road maps with lines and simulate the expansion of cities over time.
I'd also make little cities in the mud and dirt and mulch outside or on playgrounds and imagine elaborate histories for them as I create the streets and little lowrise buildings, much in the same way as the drawings.
Then I found out about Bioshock Infinite when I was like 13 and discovered from it that America used to have an epic way of creating cities on-par with Europe. This would lead me down the path of becoming an epic RWer later down the like but I slowly would break outta that post-2016 over the next several years. It was only some time around 2020 I found a twitter (lol) called Wrath of Gnon and that brought me down a rabbithole of trad architecture that reawakened this fascination I had for cities and how they're built from when I was younger.
And with that came a new-found appreciation for mass transit, especially trains and trams, and also epic urban planning and all the history behind those things + how we can get better from here. But really it all comes down to me liking this idea of just making a comfy place that I and others can be invested in as a community that looks nice and is easier to get around without a car (I don't like driving personally).
I have ADHD btw
