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Nitz the Bloody

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Subj: Re: A More Personal Subject: How To Write Autistic Characters
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 07:15:09 pm EDT (Viewed 4 times)
Reply Subj: A More Personal Subject: How To Write Autistic Characters
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 at 11:22:21 pm EDT (Viewed 593 times)

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http://nitzthebloody.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-write-autistic-characters-with.html

This can be applied to writing characters of any minority group, but since I just read Jodi Picoult's House Rules and felt that it was as thoughtful a representation of autistic characters as the Taco Bell Chihuahua was of Mexican culture, I had to say something.

On this topic I note the death of Kim Peek, the real-life model for Babbett of Rain Man. I further note that Peek was not actually autistic but microcephalic with a blister inside his brain that damaged his left hemisphere. This means that a generation of autistic interpretations of the "idiot savant" are based on a portrayal of somebody who didn't experience autism.