Autism/Aspergers in Fiction

[Carnelian]

Little bit of a rant here.

I was reading this book that I really was starting to like...and then there's this scene where the main character heals this minor character with autism and suddenly No More Autism! Like, she's "straighten, organizing, lining up her mind. She'll never be completely normal, but it'll be close."

And I was like...welp.

I was really getting into that book.

Thanks for ruining it.

 

[Progster]

Which book was this?

 

[ancusmitis]

What kind of healing are we talking about? Is it some kind of magic?

 

[Carnelian]

It was Some Quiet Place.

And she heals with magic.

I was just annoyed in general because the autistic character is only there so the writer can say "look how hard the villain's life is that's why she's mean to the protagonist she has an autistic sister!" And then the sister is cured.

It sorta gets my goat.

 

[Tom]

i doubt any but an autistic could write a realistic autistic character.

 

[ancusmitis]

I was just annoyed in general because the autistic character is only there so the writer can say "look how hard the villain's life is that's why she's mean to the protagonist she has an autistic sister!" And then the sister is cured.

That sounds really rotten to me. I will be avoiding this wallbanger.

 

[tree]

It was Some Quiet Place.

And she heals with magic.

I was just annoyed in general because the autistic character is only there so the writer can say "look how hard the villain's life is that's why she's mean to the protagonist she has an autistic sister!" And then the sister is cured.

It sorta gets my goat.

Sometimes there is more than one book with the same title.
Do you mean, Some Quiet Place by Kelsey Sutton?
Or some other work?

 

[Carnelian]

Sometimes there is more than one book with the same title.
Do you mean, Some Quiet Place by Kelsey Sutton?
Or some other work?

Yeah by Kelsey Sutton, sorry.

 

[tree]

By the Light of the Moon, by Dean Koontz had some romance and
an autistic main character. He was rather magical in a pseudo-scientific
way. I didn't have to make an effort to read the book. I listened to it
on tape while I was sewing. It was ok enough, but I thought the burden
on the autistic brother (to save the world, so to speak) was a little
corny and fed into the idea people have that 'different' must be either
loathsome or EXTREMELY good (blessed).

http://www.deankoontz.com/by-the-light-of-the-moon/