Excerpt
An excerpt from what i wrote for my novel today:
Autism isn’t always a ‘gift’ to be celebrated. It isn’t anything remotely like what the movie Rain Man will have you believe. Jenna has no special super powers. She has severe developmental disorder that took away any ability for her to lead an independent life and make friends. It took away her ability to communicate with the rest of us with ease and it put in it’s place the frustration that makes her scream so much that she shakes with rage. All in the effort to try and understand and to be understood. Doomed to a lifetime of neither.
I had to stop because I started crying after that last word, but I'm up to almost 3000 words in two days. Not too bad. Hope to do another 3000 tomorrow since I don't have to go to work.
Autism isn’t always a ‘gift’ to be celebrated. It isn’t anything remotely like what the movie Rain Man will have you believe. Jenna has no special super powers. She has severe developmental disorder that took away any ability for her to lead an independent life and make friends. It took away her ability to communicate with the rest of us with ease and it put in it’s place the frustration that makes her scream so much that she shakes with rage. All in the effort to try and understand and to be understood. Doomed to a lifetime of neither.
I had to stop because I started crying after that last word, but I'm up to almost 3000 words in two days. Not too bad. Hope to do another 3000 tomorrow since I don't have to go to work.