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A review by carleesi
Adora and the Distance by Will Dennis, Marc Bernardin
0.5
About 3/4 of the way through, I almost DNFed this because the plot was so confusing and the characters did not have depth and acted like we understood a bunch of dynamics that hadn’t been established. But I thought back to the prologue and pushed through because I thought something cool would be coming.
Instead. Wow. The author explicitly says he doesn’t want to write a story about himself as a parent of a child with autism and instead… assumes what it must be like to have autism? And constructs it as something to overcome, with a very weird binary about autism vs the world that won’t allow Adora to be autistic and happy. Just so much ableism in that ending.
Instead. Wow. The author explicitly says he doesn’t want to write a story about himself as a parent of a child with autism and instead… assumes what it must be like to have autism? And constructs it as something to overcome, with a very weird binary about autism vs the world that won’t allow Adora to be autistic and happy. Just so much ableism in that ending.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism