In a 2017 interview with an online magazine, she suggested that her stories were humorous, and that she assumed this meant that autistic people didn’t understand them. ‘This book wasn’t really written for an autistic audience,’ she said.
“I’m writing a book talking about people like you, but it’s not meant FOR you.”
No, I think autistic people understood juuussssst fine. What a creepy woman.
I have schizo-affective disorder and occasionally see “schizophrenic” used perjoratively still to describe something that runs dysfunctionally (“our schizophrenic capitalist system”, “manufactured online rage pitting people schizophrenically against one another” — those are two I’ve seen recently).
Thank you for an article from the autism POV and a chance to read from that worldview.
