repulsive 1

I struggled to get into the stories, especially in the first. The two stories are written in the first person singular. The intention is laudable, the author wants us to live within what goes through the mind of an autistic girl, Juliette, and a mentally disabled man, Stephen. So I put 2 stars for the intention. For cons, the writing style completely repelled me; vocabulary Juliet (she says in her head, world vision, his daily) wants childish and "autistic" but seems actually quite silly and sometimes stupid. There phrases "little Chinese" words invented by the child to the hearing ("the étricité" instead of "electricity"), rehearsals to no end: the "I do not want to. And no. And no ', "it scared me," "I am scared", returning almost every page ... From my point of view, this stylistic bias does nothing and serves the cause that he wants to defend because the rendering borders on the ridiculous. It is a shame and belittle people with autism (although I'm sure it was not the intention of the author). Presumably she imagined what was going on in the minds of autistic children, but what she really knows? The subject is delicate. Maybe their mental constructions are quite developed, and that their "mental" syntax is perfectly correct. It's a shame to stigmatize them as morons. The second story is a little more cautious and seems more plausible. I wanted to know what would become of this man after the death of his mother; So the story is rather involved.