Previous Entry | Next Entry   Rose Lemberg pointed me to this
post by Ada Hoffmann: Note to people thinking of writing
autistic characters.  “If you write a story where your character
has no character traits except for impairments and behavioural
issues, and where they take no actions not related to these
issues (or to someone’s desire to “cure” them), you are
presenting a distorted and objectified picture of autism. This
goes double if you are writing from the autistic character’s
point of view.”  Personally, I think it’s worth reading even if
you’re not a writer and have no intention of ever writing an
autistic character.  There’s a part of me that wants to write a
much longer blog post here, talking about my son, about the
character of Nicola Pallas in Libriomancer, about the need to
listen when people tell you you’re portraying people like them
in a one-dimensional way. But I worry that doing so would pull
attention from Hoffmann’s piece, when my goal was to divert
attention to that piece.  I’ll probably