Bad for the boss talia hibbert6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruth Kabbah is pretty much the outcast of her small English town. (For more about good and bad autistic representation, Elizabeth Bartmess has an excellent series of posts that mostly focus on YA and middle grades books.) Autistic representation, when it does exist, is also almost entirely white men, so it was great to see an autistic black woman, too. An autistic character who isn’t an alien or a changeling or even a theoretical physicist. I hope that my neuroatypical readers find in Ruth the sort of representation we rarely get: an autistic character with a personality and a life, rather than an animated stereotype. It was a lot of fun to write a main character with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, as someone with ASD myself. Good autistic representation is pretty hard to find in romance novels (or anywhere, really.) That seems to be slowly changing, though, and A Girl Like Her is a great example of autistic representation done right. ![]() It’s been a while since my last post - real-life stuff has been keeping me busy - but welcome back, anyone who’s still following! I’ve been wanting to review this book since it first came out. ![]()
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