as small as a world and as large as alone

9:04pm August 17, 2014

karalianne:

chavisory:

bree-backstage:

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT TIME IS A VERY GOOD PLAY

AND I MIGHT ACTUALLY BUY THE BOOK TOO

BUT GOSH WHAT A PLAY

I haven’t seen it, just read it, but man what a play to stage and design it seems like such fun. And it’s a play with a post-credits scene!

My roommate says it’s really good.  And she knows me, so I give her opinion some weight.  I will probably actually see it.

Most popular media about autism drives me up the fucking wall with its misrepresentation and inspiration porniness.

(Most autistic people I know who have read the book, hate it.  It sounds like the play might actually be a LOT better than the book.)

I actually enjoyed the book (but I enjoy most things, so you know). BUT I also knew that it wasn’t actually a very good representation of autism, so I was reading it strictly for entertainment, not to “learn what autism is like” something ridiculous like that. (I had plenty of autistic friends by then and I’d read lots of autobiographies, so I knew reality when I saw it; that wasn’t this book.) As a book, it’s fun. As a representation of autism, not so good. So I tell friends who are thinking about reading it that I enjoyed it but that it’s really not a good representation of autism so they shouldn’t believe that part of it.

What really disturbed me…

I liked the book okay somewhat when not thinking of it as a book about autism.

But I have come upon online discussions in which people actually say “You should read this, it will give you an inside view of what autism is like, from the inside.”  And I go “No it won’t, the author isn’t autistic and he got his ideas about autism from reading too much Simon Baron-Cohen, who is also not autistic.”  And they insist that somehow this will give you a better view of autism-from-the-inside than actual autiebiographies and it’s like WTF WTF WTF.

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