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

Comments

[sprrwhwk]

I recall disliking the Strange Horizons story really strongly when I first read it, and rereading it now I can't remember why. Maybe it felt too self-congratulatory on the part of convention culture to me at the time.

A story with an autistic protagonist which I read at about the same time and which I did like is Nancy Fulda's Hugo-nominated "Movement", which gets me much more in the headspace.

[asakiyume]

"Movement" was great.

[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]

Ooh, that's an issue. Yeah.

[asakiyume]

I remember that story! But I see others have found it for you.