Finster wrote:
I'm reading a book called The Speed of Dark. The main character is an Aspie and his workmates are Aspies. It's set in the future and their company wants to try an experimental cure on them. It was written by either the mother or sister of an Aspie and is quite good. Sometimes it hits pretty close to home for me (I'm an Aspie).
Wow, that book sounds interesting - who's it by? I've had a fiction idea kicking around in my head for a while about a future in which Aspies and other genetically "abnormal" categories of people (intersex conditions (Klinefelter's, Turner's, Jacob's, etc), Down's, ADHD, schizophrenics, etc) are treated as different "races" and bred/used for very specialised types of labour... would be cool if someone else had used a similar idea...
Re books with Aspie-ish characters, apart from the obvious characters which were actually intentionally written to be AS, i'd nominate Denver in Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Noah Joad (Tom Joad's brother) in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes Of Wrath", possibly Bernard Marx in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (tho i actually think the character of John "The Savage" had closer sympathies/parallels to my life experience) and Charles Dexter Ward in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (probably an autobiographical character, like many of HPL's, since HPL was probably an Aspie himself)...
Probably loads of others, which i can't think of right now...
(this topic, and others like it eg. "songs for aspies", "aspie authors", "aspie celebrities" etc come up so often that maybe they should be made sticky topics?)