Queer Tales for Autistic Folk

A fan fiction storygame by hashtagcerys

Player Rating?/8

"Too few ratings to be ranked"

Based on 3 ratings so far

Story Difficulty3/8

"Trek through the forest"

Play Length3/8

"A nice jog down the driveway"

Maturity Level3/8

"Must be at least this tall to play"

Contains content that may not be suitable for persons under age 10. If this were a movie, it would probably be between G and PG.

Tags

Based Off A True Story

Fantasy

Humor

LGBT

Queer Tales for Austic Folk is a choose your own story telling show written and performed by Cerys Bradley, with support from lots of wonderful creative people including Amy Greaves, Adam Larter, Beth Watson, Steffan Alun, and Mikey Bligh Smith. It was produced by Ingenious Fools for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as a WIP in progress in 2024 and will be performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2025 every day (except 14th) in Underbelly at 2:45pm. The show will then tour the UK (find out if it's coming to a town near you via https://www.cerysbradley.com/queer-tales-for-autistic-folk) This story right here right now is the first half of the show. I have uploaded it here so that people who have watched and enjoyed the show can play through the parts that were not performed at the performance that they watched. There are some bits that don't quite make sense outside of a live show and I've tried to add footnotes and [] to accomodate for this. If you're looking for a fun cyoa story to play through today, this one might not make a lot of sense if you haven't seen the show. I still encourage you to give it a go though! Maybe it will make you want to come and see Queer Tales sometime... (As I said, you can see where we're performing next on my website please do check that out I have so many shows booked in I have to sell so many tickets oh my goodness.) Anyway, I hope you enjoy this thinly veiled/barely disguised/who are you fooling you couldn't do subtle if it stabbed you with a knife metaphor for being an undiagnosed neuroqueer in a straight laced neocapitalist cubicle.

Player Comments

Not really my thing, but I commend you for running a successful play. I think sometimes, on stage dramas don't translate as well to CYOA style stories. I think you could have set the scene a bit more and made it a bit more immersive. Unlike the stage going audience, all we really have are your words, so they need to be at their best!

In any case, good effort, and the stage production sounds cool.

— RKrallonor on 6/26/2025 4:52:28 PM with a score of 0

Oh boy, are we ever not the audience for this. Good luck lol. Although, moving this to fanfic for now since it's....well a little difficult to quantify but "based on an existing thing" fits better than fantasy at a glance. Maybe it should go in Modern.

I've only looked at the first few pages so far, though if it in fact makes zero sense as its own thing you might find it getting low ratings. If it's mainly been written for people who have watched the thing, it might be better off unpublished with Sneak Peek on so you can share the link around to the intended audience without opening it up to criticism and ratings from people just browsing the site for regular stories. (It should've been in Sneak Peek by default when created unless you went in and disabled that, but in any case if you can see the title and description in your profile it means anyone with the URL can access it.)

— Mizal on 6/26/2025 11:10:00 AM with a score of 0

This is an interesting story. I can relate to most of it, and I've just chosen the options I would normally choose most likely during my morning routine. I've found a bug though, in that on the "Take out the bins..." page, the "go to work" choice leads to the "waste 10 minutes" page. Otherwise, great and neatly told, but of course, due to the nature of the 2nd part of the show being improvised, it feels somewhat unfinished. Some of the options, like wasting 10 minutes on deciding trivial things, give you an insight of the problems some autists have. I'm a diagnosed Aspergers case as well, so I've felt drawn to this story.

— Kurt_Woloch on 6/26/2025 7:52:35 AM with a score of 0

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