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A review by bellscansada
Invisible Differences by Julie Dachez
5.0
A copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
It's really hard for me to talk about this graphic novel. I was really curious about it when it was first published in my country (Brazil) but I wasn't able to buy a copy, so I was really glad to have the chance to read it now. It's been a couple of years (two or three) that I started thinking I might be autistic, some people even asked me if I was which made me think harder about the possibility. One of my friends talked to one friend of hers (an autistic woman diagnosed later in her life) and she said I should read this book. So here I am.
I was crying 15 pages in, and I kept on crying until the very end, because I could see myself on everything Marguerite did and feel. I've always been curious about autism, and used to read a lot about when I was growing up, but I never thought I could be autistic. Reading about someone going through that after their 20s is really powerful and important.
I loved the way Dachez and Mademoiselle Caroline told this story, and I think it worked really well in this format, the colors and repetition helping to tell the story and to make the reader feel what Marguerite was feeling. I will forever keep this one close to my heart.
It's really hard for me to talk about this graphic novel. I was really curious about it when it was first published in my country (Brazil) but I wasn't able to buy a copy, so I was really glad to have the chance to read it now. It's been a couple of years (two or three) that I started thinking I might be autistic, some people even asked me if I was which made me think harder about the possibility. One of my friends talked to one friend of hers (an autistic woman diagnosed later in her life) and she said I should read this book. So here I am.
I was crying 15 pages in, and I kept on crying until the very end, because I could see myself on everything Marguerite did and feel. I've always been curious about autism, and used to read a lot about when I was growing up, but I never thought I could be autistic. Reading about someone going through that after their 20s is really powerful and important.
I loved the way Dachez and Mademoiselle Caroline told this story, and I think it worked really well in this format, the colors and repetition helping to tell the story and to make the reader feel what Marguerite was feeling. I will forever keep this one close to my heart.