Anonymous asked: Don't mean to be ignorant, but I don't understand what's so bad about the dialogue at the end. Mind explaining?
Sigh. I’m not sure I can adequately answer, especially given that it’s late and my brain is shot.
It’s just…that ending…it’s intended to switch the reader’s identification from Frankie to her grandma. AKA, to the allistic person wondering “what on earth is going on inside the heads of those poor alien autistics?”
I dunno. It’s just a very stereotypical view of autism, and it bothers me how people see it as “so sad!!!” Because I was that kid, sitting there staring at nothing while my parents and everyone else wondered “What on earth could be going on in their head?” It’s like, that’s supposed to be a subject of pity for allistic people, even though no one considers what we actual autistic people feel about our lives.
