A novel that will revolutionise Asperger's understanding

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Never mind. Obviously nobody is interested in it. Long live the Asperger's community in all its glorious solidarity.

like the blurb, hate the title

The only autism book that I think is any good is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

Good luck with the book.

"Revolutionize," seriously? I wasn't aware the world at large was interested in having any understanding of "Ass Burgers" at all.

I think your instincts are admirable, but don't get your hopes too high that the public is going to be bowled over by the trials of a lonely guy with an invisible disability with a funny sounding name. I don't know if the idea of AS is a strong enough hook all by itself to captivate the imagination of neurotypical readers who by and large, just don't care what those autistic geeks are going through. But I've been known to be wildly mistaken before.

Don't get me wrong, I think creating AS characters in fiction is a great way of raising awareness of just what AS is, but IMHO it works better in smaller doses, when the story is about something else entirely and the AS character's disability allows them to bring a unique perspective to the narrative, without dominating the whole story and sounding preachy and 'educational'. A sort of 'Guerrilla Activism."

Good luck - here's hoping you're the next JK Rowling success story!

It seems like an interesting book: I read the first few pages on Amazon and it looks promising. One thing I should point out though is that the MMR vaccine as a cause of autism has since been disproven: Dr. Andrew Wakefield who performed the initial study in 1998 falsified his data: eight of the twelve children in his study turned out to be showing autistic symptoms before ever receiving the vaccine; he basically made the whole thing up.