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Author: Catbert

Feb 21st 2012 at 7:03:45 PM

The description is a bit better, but I'm still trying to figure out if the trope is flexible enough to incorporate autistic characters that don't fit all or even most the characteristics listed.  Does just being autistic qualify, or is there a very specific set of features that the character must have?  And what about characters that aren't produced by Hollywood?

For example

You say it is mostly male.  I know of an AmbiguousGender example.  You say it is always potrayed as a tragedy and will likely be miraculasly cured.  I know of examples that try to portray it a a "blessing, not a curse" and show characters trying to learn to live with it but never being cured.  You say it is almost always a children.  The examples I have in mind are kids, but only because it is a kids' book and the author so far as written nothing but kids' books with child protaganists.  You say the lives are always depicted as tragic.  The examples I have in mind, I would not call tragic, or I would say that what tragedy they have is for reasons unrelated to their autism (such as parents dying)