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Neurodiverse Characters in Children’s Fiction without Labels- Frederick Moody and the Secrets of Six Summit Lake
One of the things that bug me the most about seeing neurodiverse characters in books is the storyline is often about struggle and disability. Growing up, as many of you already know, I did not see myself in the pages of book. Identifying with my favorite characters was near impossible, …
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“My colors ran all over the page, poured out of the lines and meshed together to form colors no one had yet recognized. I was different–unique, bold, strong, smart, and hard-headed. I was simply me.”
― Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
― Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
“Focusing on and sustaining life activities...jobs, budgets housekeeping etc. takes from me. It is an exhausting struggle; a desperate attempt to tread water while drowning.
Life drains my well. Special interests fill it back up. I need that time, I need that filling, that relaxing, that decompressing, in order to accomplish other tasks in my life.”
― Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
Life drains my well. Special interests fill it back up. I need that time, I need that filling, that relaxing, that decompressing, in order to accomplish other tasks in my life.”
― Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
“This taught me two things: being smart didn't matter, and grades mattered even less because they did not reflect what you knew or what you did not. They only reflected your ability to follow other people's ways of doing things, even if those ways make no sense.”
― Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
― Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
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