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Bugging me that like a lot of supposedly broadening media, it still centers Euro-descent culture as if eg. indigenous cultures nvr existed or hv same prevalence/importance + didn’t have different mores. Even euro indigenous cultures had broadr understandings of ppl that might have even stretched to sth like 2 spirit or specific characteristics like among the Maori. This is very middle class white USA perspective

Lololol
“Release the Kraken!” takes on a whole new meaning. Poor Kelli who’s mentally holding her head repeating “the horror! The horror!”

I think /I’m/ hoping to cry
Imagine a friend who isn’t surprised or put off by just utter release of all that internal pressure and disruption and just says “yeah, I know. You can let it out. It’s okay.” And on we go? Really? Does that exist?

Reading right along but also this feels maybe a cm deeper than fanfic 🤷‍♀️

Maybe my imagination or experience is stilted but I cannot imagine a child of 8 managing that kind of social complexity or caring to bother, ADHD or not, in order to build up and engage multiple difficult and potentially contradictory needs of other children of the same age

The other weird thing for me possibly is that at this age I was hanging out with the boys on the playground bc the girls were boring and afraid to get dirty etc so they didn’t do anything. And i think I would have really disliked Am, though she seems to be being a good friend to Kelli, which is a nice change for the type

Fun switch between Kelli’s perspective and her writing/character’s. The back and forth to childhood sounds like she had a robot programmed with ABA therapy which is 😣 and honestly weird for a future far enough away that they’re living middle class suburban lives near Jupiter

Almost feels like it’s trying too hard to shout its MC’s identity - yes, we get it, she’s autistic. If that’s so acknowledged in this future society, it wouldn’t 1. be considered a disability but simply another way of being 2. need to be detailed in friend relationships beyond “that’s how she is”