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Autistic people can't lie. They can't play the same games as us. And we punish them for it. We see them as aggressive, or blunt, or shy, or excessively reserved, but the truth is that they are better than us because being a person in our society means mastering the art of lying, or the art of settling for less, and by this I mean that we are taught to expect very little from ourselves.
— Jan 06, 2026 06:04AM
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Alan (the Lone Librarian) Teder
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Likewise, nobody could come up with a plot, or a sequence of actions, that might culminate in a decisive end because our way of interacting with our surroundings was too fragmented: it took place in snatches. Narrative had moved somewhere beyond our reach.
[Again, is the narrator breaking the 4th wall and making observations about the novel they are writing? 😉]
— Jan 01, 2026 11:33AM
[Again, is the narrator breaking the 4th wall and making observations about the novel they are writing? 😉]
Alan (the Lone Librarian) Teder
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I'm not sure that this is a novel. I think it might be a confession.
[The author/narrator breaks the 4th wall?]
— Dec 30, 2025 11:03AM
[The author/narrator breaks the 4th wall?]
Alan (the Lone Librarian) Teder
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Like vivisectors, we analyzed a situation until we had proved the presence of evil, and nothing could escape our scalpels.
{At first this one seems completely different from the dystopian apocalyptic world of The Doloriad, but I'm thinking it could be read as a dystopia of academia as it takes place in a nameless decaying university.]
— Dec 30, 2025 05:22AM
{At first this one seems completely different from the dystopian apocalyptic world of The Doloriad, but I'm thinking it could be read as a dystopia of academia as it takes place in a nameless decaying university.]
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Jan 06, 2026 01:29PM
But autistic can and do lie. They aren't pathologically honest. They lie all the time when they imitate the others around them to seem "normal". *head scratch*
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Berengaria wrote: "But autistic can and do lie. They aren't pathologically honest. They lie all the time when they imitate the others around them to seem "normal". *head scratch*"It was an aside by the narrator, the rest of the book doesn't seem to deal with neurodiversity whatsoever.
