Oh, hey, it's APRIL already! I forgot!
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conulyIt is time for my yearly question:
Is Everybody Aware That Autism Exists?
You are? Great! Well, that's autism awareness over and done with for another year. I've got posters if you need 'em, somebody linked me to them somewhere.
Incidentally, is anybody familiar with E. L. Konigsburg? Well, you've all at least heard of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, no doubt, but I mean the rest of her stuff? I've read a lot of her work, and she's really pretty good at slipping neurodiversity-related issues into them, although I don't know if she knows she's doing that. Like the main character's best friend in Silent to the Bone (who is, in fact, the one silent) reads like an aspie all over, and (george) is about... actually, I forget, but the message (one of them) is that being plural (multiple personalities) isn't a bad thing in and of itself, that more danger comes from changing functioning systems than by letting them be, however strange they might seem to everybody else.
I don't think I've ever seen that specific message in fiction before, least of all in a kid's book.
Is Everybody Aware That Autism Exists?
You are? Great! Well, that's autism awareness over and done with for another year. I've got posters if you need 'em, somebody linked me to them somewhere.
Incidentally, is anybody familiar with E. L. Konigsburg? Well, you've all at least heard of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, no doubt, but I mean the rest of her stuff? I've read a lot of her work, and she's really pretty good at slipping neurodiversity-related issues into them, although I don't know if she knows she's doing that. Like the main character's best friend in Silent to the Bone (who is, in fact, the one silent) reads like an aspie all over, and (george) is about... actually, I forget, but the message (one of them) is that being plural (multiple personalities) isn't a bad thing in and of itself, that more danger comes from changing functioning systems than by letting them be, however strange they might seem to everybody else.
I don't think I've ever seen that specific message in fiction before, least of all in a kid's book.
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Date: 2009-04-01 06:04 pm (UTC)Our Konigsburg book is Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. It is one of Iris' all-time favorite novels, but we all love it.
And this reminds us, we have to go bug the library again about their "autism awareness" display not including any books by autistics.
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Date: 2009-04-01 09:59 pm (UTC)Seriously? TELL me you didn't have to do this last year and the year before, too!
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Date: 2009-04-02 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-01 06:04 pm (UTC)Our Konigsburg book is Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. It is one of Iris' all-time favorite novels, but we all love it.
And this reminds us, we have to go bug the library again about their "autism awareness" display not including any books by autistics.
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Date: 2009-04-01 09:59 pm (UTC)Seriously? TELL me you didn't have to do this last year and the year before, too!
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Date: 2009-04-02 02:42 am (UTC)