“Stories tell of children stolen away by faeries, replaced by inhuman look-alikes.
These look-alikes, they say, could be identified by their strange speech or silence. They cried without reason or never showed any emotion at all, and struggled to relate to a world that seemed foreign to them. Folklorists theorize that these stories were early descriptions of autistic children - proof that autistic people have always been here.
But once, they called us changelings.”
―
Ivelisse Housman,
Unseelie
