Autism and fiction aren’t
commonly mentioned in the same sentence. It took me some time to realize that
there seems these days to be fewer fiction writers in the world who are considered
to be on the spectrum.
In the past we’ve seen brilliant writers like James Joyce, Virginia
Woolf, Hans Christian Andersen, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Janet Frame, and
Lewis Carroll described as exhibiting forms of autism. However, they are only
described this way in our current time... Continue reading ...