Excellent news! What are you gifted in?
I both write and draw, but have also proven my ability with animation (such as a good sense of timing motions and velocities), and clay modelling.
On both sides of my family, there are creative people.
Aspieness makes me a bit more perceptive and open-minded, resulting in compliments to my writing.
Excessive gloating aside, I do have a bit of insecurity when it comes to the quality of my art/writing, as my own expectations only exponentially grow, and I'll always see my products as noobish, even if it is good, I'll consider it "well done noobish", and I'm not sure if I'll ever feel like a "proper" artist of any kind
of course, society helps this perception, as an artist without a paying gvt stipendium is merely considered a bum or someone with a hobby, and only with an official stipendium can you be "an artist" or "a writer" or whatever. Of course, being paid by success is a better way, but few artists are ever paid enough to support a living, unless they are 1. Dead or 2. Very flexible concerning comission works (such as do advertisement and such)
I am too introverted to do comission work, to spend hours and give my heart and soul to something I'm not interested in, topics and designs I don't like, for money. I can't relate to that at all. I have tried. I have turned down big money, because I knew I could never handle it. I have tried to handle it, only to discover that I was right and I couldn't (making T-shirt motifs, for good pay. I ended up forfeiting the pay)
Obviously, I woulda played another tune if I didn't have disability pay (which I don't, yet, -.- but I am covered by the gvt while I wait... ), but so long as I have it, I don't see why I should bastardize my passion for, idunno, more consumption of store-goods.