All right, it has been over a month so I figure I might inform those who read this blog that I am writing a picture book about a social action topic. In this case, discrimination against those with autism, steming from ignorance of it, and those diagnosed with it. I know this isn't strictly about my book, but I just started reading the mysterious case of the dog in the nighttime about a teenager with aspergers who is abandoned by his mother and discriminated agsainst by many.
I feel this is an issue of great prevelance as the number of the population with autism has vastly increaced scince the early 1900's. This book ilustrates in almost a shocking manner but definetly truthful, though the story is fiction.
you notice that the father himself, the protective character is not perfect and the stress of dealing with the main character is difficult although he has a high functioning form of autism.
THe father yells, and at one point almost gives up, however he, unlike almost the rest of the population, believes in his son, and understans him.
