For about three or four years, I wrote book reviews for a mid-level newspaper. This was around 5 or 6 years ago, so I hope things have improved…but the number of authors who had autistic characters that were woefully fleshed out was truly disturbing. Like, they would say: this character is autistic, so of course all of their clues are in code! Or, this character is autistic, so of course they know everything about ancient Egypt … and the murder down the road! If only we could convince the character to act like he is in ancient Egypt, he can help us solve the mystery!
It really was quite repulsive over time. This was almost exclusively in the thriller genre.
For about three or four years, I wrote book reviews for a mid-level newspaper. This was around 5 or 6 years ago, so I hope things have improved…but the number of authors who had autistic characters that were woefully fleshed out was truly disturbing. Like, they would say: this character is autistic, so of course all of their clues are in code! Or, this character is autistic, so of course they know everything about ancient Egypt … and the murder down the road! If only we could convince the character to act like he is in ancient Egypt, he can help us solve the mystery!
It really was quite repulsive over time. This was almost exclusively in the thriller genre.