Reviewing ‘Things I Should Have Known’ by Claire LaZebenik
I can definitely see how people who don’t know many autistic people (and you should, because we’re awesome!) would benefit from reading LaZebnik’s book.
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Book Review: There’s More Than One Way Home
Maxfield Sparrow unstrangemind.com A mother’s worst nightmare: That’s what Anna thinks she might be facing at the beginning of Donna Levin’s spellbinding novel There’s More Than One Way Home. It’s 2004 and Anna has accompanied her Autistic son, Jack, as a class chaperone on a field trip to Minotaur Island near San Francisco. When four children—Jack among
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