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Feb. 1st, 2008 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsIf I have one fandom I'm really deeply and scarily and permanently attached to, I think, the way so many of you are about Supernatural or Lost and many other wonderful and worthwhile things, it's Diana Wynne Jones books. I am here asserting my right to spam about them! *plants flag, looks defiant*
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dianawynnejones: Diana Wynne Jones has said recently in a letter that Cat Chant, from the Chrestomanci books, is written as slightly autistic.
I find this utterly fascinating, especially having just recently read Diane Duane's take on autism. On an initial think back to the character, that characterization seems to make a lot of sense to me in terms of the way Cat is described as perceiving the world, and interacting with others. (For context, DWJ has also said in interviews that she thinks that she herself is somewhere on the autistic spectrum.) But your thoughts, show me them!
For those of you who know the books but don't follow
dianawynnejones: Diana Wynne Jones has said recently in a letter that Cat Chant, from the Chrestomanci books, is written as slightly autistic. I find this utterly fascinating, especially having just recently read Diane Duane's take on autism. On an initial think back to the character, that characterization seems to make a lot of sense to me in terms of the way Cat is described as perceiving the world, and interacting with others. (For context, DWJ has also said in interviews that she thinks that she herself is somewhere on the autistic spectrum.) But your thoughts, show me them!
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Date: 2008-02-02 12:09 am (UTC)And yeah, that's really what made me think 'oh that makes sense!' - how he's kind of unsure about how to cope with these weird 'emotional reaction' and 'social behavior' things, and it's easiest for him to react the way people seem to expect him to. Which is why Gwendolen's able to drag him around so much.