Review: Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Skim does a good job of showing misguided attempts to help those with depression, and lets the reader see the absurdity for themselves.
Skim does a good job of showing misguided attempts to help those with depression, and lets the reader see the absurdity for themselves.
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The notion of people faking disabilities is not at all new or novel–and, like many, many disability tropes, it’s a harmful one.
The pain of being the butt of someone else’s joke comes back to me whenever I read fiction that depicts characters on the autism spectrum who repeatedly take idioms and other expressions literally, or fail to understand the double meaning of words in embarrassing ways.