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It must be nice, to live the kind of life where you could believe kids only faced problems that could be solved by Mom and Dad with milk and cookies or a hug.
He had to work to be accepted, to be masked, to be useful—sometimes he wished he could just be. Or be someone else, who didn’t have to work so hard at it all. Books gave him that. So, he’d have to settle for reading love stories for the time being.
Did you know the therapies used to force autistic kids to act in ways seen as normal have the same origins as the conversion therapy that tries to force kids not to be queer? Some people want to erase us all. The clubs and books for every kid, showing every kid—disabled too—they say we exist. That it’s okay that we do. As we are.”
He simply didn’t know what else he could do to avoid Harmony leaving his heart, inevitably, like that abandoned lump of ice cream on the ground.
“We should accept everyone, even if they turn out to be different from what you thought. Even if their lives are different than yours or what you imagined.”
This book is for all the fat girls always cast as the joke or the mom but never the heroine, my chance to give the fat woman the starring role in her own romance, where she is desirable and pursued and fully humanized.
Librarians shouldn’t have to be heroes, but they are absolutely heroes to me, for fighting to keep books on shelves and events on schedules, and for the infinite small everyday things they do that benefit us all.
