Looks like this book will knock people's socks off...

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Looks like this book will knock people's socks off...

"Autistic Authors, and Autistics and Autism in Literature" [Kindle Edition]

http://www.amazon.com/Autistic-Authors-Autistics-Literature-ebook/dp/B00BNDZIBY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362280615&sr=8-1&keywords=%22autistic+authors%22

Emerging trends suggest that autism is being portrayed in literature less as a diagnosis, and more as a minority lifestyle. Sometimes it is even portrayed as a culture. Autistic factional politics are having a significant effect on autism and literature as well.

Of further concern, much of what is written by “autistics” is actually being written by “self diagnosed” autistics, and no matter who is doing the writing (autistic author or self-diagnosed author), plots, characterization, and other elements, are many times being drawn and presented based on observation of “autistics” with unconfirmed diagnoses in informal venues rather than upon observations of real, diagnosed autistics in realistic or controlled settings.

This book offers some general opinions about the topic of autistic authors, and autistics and autism in literature, and gives a critique and criticism of some specific literary works. Covered are many different forms of literature, including fiction, nonfiction, autobiographical writing, journalism, and blogging.

I'm with Fnord on this. Unless you're writing a book on what it's like to be on the autistic spectrum, there's no need to disclose your diagnosis, try to make it something it's not (lifestyle my ass- being autistic is a lifestyle choice as much as being homosexual is; meaning: it's not a choice) and especially not to speak for anyone on the spectrum other than yourself.

You've already knocked my socks off.
Have you ever heard of a coward plane?

Well the best Geek culture produced was comicbook guy on the Simpsons.

Gamers are thought to be hackers, but are never seen.

Autism spreads through near a third of the population, so most have run into it, and never understood what it was. So now they have a name to misuse.

It is a culture because the autistic are too out of it to cover up their being out of it.

Cold, unemotional, a Mr. Spock, without pointed ears. At least he was a Science Officer, others are the IT Guy, The Accountant, and there is a lot of range of the type that fails to meet the DX, as they have a job.

Psych is about the welfare state, so only the poor get a DX. I do not think that only the ones who can be caught best represent the species.

Sherlock Holmes was an early example of those who got away with it.

Political correct aside, everyone is not the same, they do not think the same, and a mature species would understand this. We have obvious examples, girls, who are nothing like people.

Besides which, writers are a very small minority, who listen to no one.

Who would read this sock knocking book? Those who think everyone else is wrong?

2.9 of the twelve dianostic traits and you are not and never will be autistic, you are just weird, so we are back where we started.