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6:25am February 2, 2015

"Realistic"

I have said many times that Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is not realistic.  Not because he’s too mild, not because he’s too severe, not because he’s a combination of both.  But because his autistic pieces don’t fit together the way a real person’s would.  The author took a lot of stereotypes and incorporated them willy-nilly with no regard for how autistic people’s skills and deficits fit together.

But be very careful before you say a live human being’s autistic traits are “unrealistic”.  Autistic people, real autistic people, the living kind who are not characters?  We don’t have to be realistic.  We’re real.

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    I don’t remember a thing about the book except for one thing: wingdings.
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