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

[zannechaos.livejournal.com]

Unless you're legally blind or print disabled, you probably cannot get it read that way.

Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering what you meant. Is the audiobook format only available by special order to those who are blind/print-disabled? Do you have to go through a doctor to get a prescrition in order to get it?

Or are you saying that someone has to be blind/print-disabled in order to enjoy and appreciate audiobooks?

Because I know a good number of people with perfectly decent vision, who read print books by the dozens, and love audiobooks and oftentimes listen to them while walking or on long commutes.

I can't, for obvious reasons, being deaf, but still... I've been sitting here trying to figure out what exactly you meant there.

[leora.livejournal.com]

The version I listened to came from the US Library of Congress collection of audiobooks for the legally blind and print disabled. They make their own audiobooks, with their own readers, that violate copyright given the legal exception for such things, but that can only be used by the blind and print disabled. You need signed paperwork to get into the program and borrow the audiobooks.

I have no idea how similar or different any other audiobook version of the book may be. Perhaps sometimes it is the same, but it could be done by someone completely different, and my guess is it is. So, you can't listen to the version I heard unless you're in the program (and can hear).