The Rosie Result

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Joined: 1 Oct 2017
Age: 53
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 1,854
Location: Australia

16 Feb 2019, 1:55 am

Has got me in a bit of a funk.

Not because the author doesn't get aspies - he completely does. And if there was ever a book to help NTs understand aspies better, this is it.

Just got me in a funk because everything works out for the characters in a way that doesn't happen in real life. The way Don and Hudson use their social circle to help solve their problems makes me feel inadequate for being unable to do that (even if I had a social circle).

And knowing that people are going to see the book as a comedy and I don't think NTs are going to recognise - despite being quite blatantly told in the story - that the comedic aspects of Don are not really funny at all - to him. If anything they're kind of traumatic, and this is what we have to deal with all the time.

And then he left Allanna with her abuser. Which is the one thing that tallys with real life.
To which I say f**k that

I don't want to diss the book or the author - who's absolutely brilliant imho - just putting out there the way it made me feel.

Open to discussion...