An Autistic Author Recommends Autistic Kidlit
Let’s talk about some great kidlit books with autistic representation. There are so many more that could be included—but these are some of my favorites.
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Elizabeth Bartmess Interviewed on autchat, Autistic Community, and Autism in Fiction
Elizabeth Bartmess runs the autistics-and-cousins autchat discussions on Twitter, and also writes and critiques autism-themed fiction. We talked with Bartmess about why autchat matters, sometimes in surprising ways, and also about why “‘Autistic character learns empathy’ is the character arc I most wish would go away.” Elizabeth Bartmess [image: photo of a white person with