Asking for a friend. No, really.

[mrissa]

A friend is looking for a short story that fits the following parameters: "It's about an autistic girl who is with her mother at a convention, I think, and gets whisked away to Faerie by some kind of imp who implies everything will suit her, and in the end the girl comes back to her mother."

Any thoughts on what story that is/where it might be found? Other discussion of fictional handlings of autism reasonably welcome in the comments, especially if you can flag the "ugh no stop it does not work like that" examples.

Comments

[moiread]

I, too, preferred Fulda's story. Sadly I had to make a judgment call about vocabulary, since we have so many ESL kids, and it did not make the short list for my classroom. But thankfully not all suggestions need to be suitable for my students -- they can just be good things to read and enjoy.

[sprrwhwk.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's an issue. Yeah.