[#canYouSeeMe #libbyScott #rebeccaWestcott ]
[i found this most relatable. the longer book is more fleshed out around its didactic sections about #autism, and to be fair i forgot what happened after the 'ending' surrounding rupert. that was it for me ]
[id love to hear from other autistic people whove read this what they think about 'tiger girl' - the protagonists adopting of a physical mask and persona, and the dichotomy between this physical mask and assimilative masking ]
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[#canYouSeeMe #libbyScott #rebeccaWestcott ]
[a longer read, a book less comforting and more didactic, but even though i feel like i 'know' a lot of what the book was trying to teach, there were enlightening sections. the young female #autistic protagonist is shown dealing with #demandAvoidance the whole way through, and the strains it puts on her family are shown, but never at the expense of making clear that the autistic person is distressed and hurt, and always trying ]
#autisticBookClub
[one of the most related parts of #canYouSeeMe (scott & westcott) was the protagonists relation of #demandAvoidance. negotiating with the self, and outside parties, to navigate motivation, stress, and energy. #spoons, you might say. obviously i dont have an identical experience to this character, but i recognised many similarities between my own processes and past failures to demand avoidance in this character ]
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