Novels featuring Aspies/auties?
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Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Green features a boy on the spectrum, and the story is told from the point of view of his imaginary friend. I want to read it so badly. I ordered the book several weeks ago and I'm still waiting for it to come in the mail (I had to import it from the UK as that's where the first printing of the book took place)
I just read a review of this book. It's curious because one of the trait labels kids on the spectrum get is a "Lack of imaginative play"
"House Rules"-Jodi Picoult
Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself to others, and like many children with Asperger's, Jacob has an obsessive focus on one subject - in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do - and he's usually right. But then one day his tutor is found dead, and the police come to question him. Reluctance to make eye contact, stimulatory tics and twitches, inappropriate gestures, all these can look a lot like guilt. Suddenly, Jacob finds himself accused of murder.
I've recently read this book. It was pretty good but I found the person with Asperger's is very typical of how the media usually portrays people with Asperger's and to the extreme. It was still a pretty good read though.
I'd like to read more fiction with female protagonists who have Asperger's Syndrome.
For a more adult series, the protagonist in the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is supposed to have Asperger's. It's not a typical portrayal of an Aspie other than she's an unconventional loner who is highly intelligent - but she's more like a superhero than she is like an actual human being. Which I suppose is the other way that media tends to go.
Dr. Malcom Decter from Rober J Sawyer's "WWW" trilogy (Wake, Watch and Wonder) has Asperger's. In fact it was the second two books of this series that made me start to realize that I had Asperger's.
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CuriousKitten
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Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself to others, and like many children with Asperger's, Jacob has an obsessive focus on one subject - in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do - and he's usually right. But then one day his tutor is found dead, and the police come to question him. Reluctance to make eye contact, stimulatory tics and twitches, inappropriate gestures, all these can look a lot like guilt. Suddenly, Jacob finds himself accused of murder.
I've recently read this book. It was pretty good but I found the person with Asperger's is very typical of how the media usually portrays people with Asperger's and to the extreme. It was still a pretty good read though.
I'd like to read more fiction with female protagonists who have Asperger's Syndrome.
I'll post if/when I ever get my mystery written and published. My sleuth is very much patterned after me -- I like rocking chairs and porch swings. Once a friend & co-worker suggested that I was more social than he -- I replied that I'm not social; I can fake it for 8 to 10 hours a day. In the wake of my niece's diagnosis, I'm exploring and troubleshooting my own Aspiness. The past 50 years are finally making sense -- only in the sleuth's case, it's more like 35 to 40 years
I just read a review of this book. It's curious because one of the trait labels kids on the spectrum get is a "Lack of imaginative play"
That people with AS lack imagination is a common misconception. Based on numerous threads on the topic that have come up on WrongPlanet over the years, the amount of imagination that people with AS can possess varies greatly. On one extreme, some people don't know what it's like to have an imagination at all (which is what most people commonly assume about those with AS), while at the other extreme are people like me, who can see vivid images and movies with their mind's eye and can form emotional attachments to the characters in their daydreams. It all depends on the individual.
"He is Your Brother" by Richard Parker - I remember this being a book for older children/teens, and it was about a teenage boy and his relationship with his autistic younger brother. ( I don't recall that the author used that exact term, only that anyone familiar with the signs of autism would pick up on this)
I like this one. It's written in a different style to most books - it's "from the mind of an autistic boy" style. It has lots of facts and things in it every so often, things he himself (the character) finds interesting, so I found it interesting.
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Martha in A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris. She's not identified as being autistic, but I think she is. There's also a movie based on the book.
Here's a review:
http://blogcritics.org/books/article/a- ... an-almost/
I should add that it's not a particularly positive portrayal of the title character but it's not mean either. The novel was written shortly after the Asperger's diagnosis was official and I don't know that the author was even aware of it.
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"The Woman in the Wall"-Patrice Kindl
This is actually a teen novel that I remember reading as a teen and I really enjoyed it because I could relate to it so much. It doesn't say that the protagonist in the story is autistic but she very well could be. This is a good book to relate to if you have Asperger's Syndrome, Autism or Social Anxiety. I'd still recommend it for older readers as well.
Anna is more than shy. She is nearly invisible. At seven, terrified of school, Anna retreats within the walls of her family's enormous house, and builds a world of passageways and hidden rooms. As the years go by, people forget she ever existed. Then a mysterious note is thrust through a crack in the wall, and Anna must decide whether or not to come out of hiding. Patrice Kindl's astounding, inventive novel blends fantasy and reality -- and readers will not forget it.
The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry.
The Kitchen Daughter
From Publishers Weekly
The Kitchen Daughter
From Publishers Weekly
Sounds good, some of these others sound interesting too.
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