Curious Incident?

[conuly]

Remember that book? That lovely piece of fiction? Written by somebody who is not autistic?

Yeah, that.

It isn't a good reference material. For anybody. Because the person writing the book lacked any sort of personal experience with autism. And it's fiction. FICTION.

There are scads of autistic authors out there. Some of them are quite well-known. (And, to head off this argument, if you want to know how autistic people think, you really would want to read works by more than one autistic person, because not all autistics think the same way.)

Now, go forth and educate yourself.

Thank you.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Would you be referring to The Curious Incident With The Dog And The Long Title I Can't Remember? I wanted to kill that kid within pages of starting, seriously, I could barely finish it for imagining laughing at his corpse and covering him in all those colours he was so set against. No offense to anyone who actually is autistic, but that kid really really got to me, pushed exactly the buttons he needed to in order to get me that angry at someone who wasn't even real. Anywho, rant over, sorry if I offended anyone.

- Kemp