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magicae 's review for:
See You in the Cosmos
by Jack Cheng
See You in the Cosmos contains the transcriptions of an eleven-year-old boy's voice recordings. Alex loves space and science to the point where he has built a rocket he's going to send into space. With this rocket he wants to send his own version of the golden record that was sent along the Voyager spacecraft. In his case it is a golden iPod.
The book follows his journey to the launch and onward, with him doing his best in explaining humans and earth to other lifeforms who might come across his recordings.
Though not explicitly mentioned in the book, Alex is heavily autistic coded. This has lead many people to compare this book to ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’, and I can definitely see where they're coming from. But to me, a real life autistic person, this story has a way more accurate portrayal of an autistic kid, not to mention it being a LOT less offensive and stereotypical.
There’s a lot of realism in his meltdowns (his “hurricanes” as he calls them), thought processes, humor, and the way he uses and responds to language. I could see a lot of myself and my autistic friends and family in him.
Obviously not every autistic person sees the world like Alex, since there are as many variations of autism as there are autistic people in the world, but it is nice to see it portrayed so well!
The book follows his journey to the launch and onward, with him doing his best in explaining humans and earth to other lifeforms who might come across his recordings.
Though not explicitly mentioned in the book, Alex is heavily autistic coded. This has lead many people to compare this book to ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’, and I can definitely see where they're coming from. But to me, a real life autistic person, this story has a way more accurate portrayal of an autistic kid, not to mention it being a LOT less offensive and stereotypical.
There’s a lot of realism in his meltdowns (his “hurricanes” as he calls them), thought processes, humor, and the way he uses and responds to language. I could see a lot of myself and my autistic friends and family in him.
Obviously not every autistic person sees the world like Alex, since there are as many variations of autism as there are autistic people in the world, but it is nice to see it portrayed so well!