![]() ![]() Instead, he has a different form of neurodivergence – he was severely epileptic as a child and underwent a radical hemispherectomy. Siri is not ever described in the book as autistic. The character in this book who’s most often described as autistic – or as an unintentional autistic stereotype – is the narrator, Siri Keeton. So I want to talk about why that is, and what an autistic reader might get out of this book, and why I disagree in general with how people are going about things here. Not super often, but not just once, and not in just one way. It shows up on lists of books with autistic characters, it gets recommended to autistic friends, etc. ![]() Why? Because, despite the aforementioned lack, this is a book that keeps coming up every so often in discussions of autism in SFF. I’m departing from my usual formula today and reviewing a book with neither an autistic author nor autistic characters. The Plot: Mentally augmented scientists investigate the source of a mysterious alien signal.Īutistic Character(s): None, but see below. ![]() Today’s Book: “Blindsight” by Peter Watts ![]()
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