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A Lou Arrendale, un autista adulto, se le ofrece la posibilidad de probar una nueva «cura» experimental por la que podría dejar de ser quien es o, si lo desea, continuar viviendo como un auténtico extraterrestre. Con ese tratamiento, Lou podría cambiar po
tortoise: Both are well-written novels with a first-person autistic-spectrum narrator. The Curious Incident has a better-constructed plot (the villain in The Speed of Dark is a bit cartoonish), but The Speed of Dark is I think more interesting as a commentary on autism.… (más)
LamontCranston: Pathological corporate greed, manipulation of the disabled/differently abled, and both for space applications, but Falling Free has a much more proactive response to being exploited
La autora de Restos de población, madre en la vida real de un autista, aborda la compleja y entrañable historia personal de un chico con problemas de autismo, Lou Arrendale. La tecnología de un futuro cercano le ofrece la posibilidad de optar por convertirse en normal dejando de ser quien es o, si lo desea, pese a todo, seguir siendo un completo extraño, un verdadero alienígena, en nuestro propio planeta.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Questions, always questions.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Normal is a setting on a dryer.
I had to learn to say conventional things even when I did not feel them, because that is part of fitting in and learning to get along. Has anyone ever asked Mr. Crenshaw to fit in, to get along?
I wonder, not for the first time, why a woman friend is called a girlfriend and not a womanfriend.
Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder.
I do not understand the rules about interrupting. It is always impolite for me to interrupt other people, but other people do not seem to think it is impolite for them to interrupt me in circumstances when I should not interrupt them.
Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.
What I mean is the speed of dark is as interesting as the speed of light, and maybe it is faster and who will find out?
It is all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.
It feels to me that too many things are happening so fast that they cannot be seen. They are happening ahead of awareness, in the dark that is always faster than light because it gets there first.
But there is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias. So I think there may be positive darkness, and I think dark can have a speed.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world.
Supposedly autistic persons do not care what others think of them, but this is not true. I do care, and it hurts when people do not like me because I am autistic.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
A Lou Arrendale, un autista adulto, se le ofrece la posibilidad de probar una nueva «cura» experimental por la que podría dejar de ser quien es o, si lo desea, continuar viviendo como un auténtico extraterrestre. Con ese tratamiento, Lou podría cambiar po
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