When asked whether she wants to talk about negative feelings: “ Mrs.Older individuals may have an interest in friendship but lack understanding of the conventions of social interaction” “There may be failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental level (Criterion A2) Younger individuals may have little or no interest in establishing friendships.I have to use the chart because when I look at real faces I don’t Get It” (18-19) “Dad says to Look At The Person so I look quickly at a nose or a mouth or an ear” (13)Caitlin has a Facial Expressions Chart: “I have looked at that chart about a million times to try to figure out which emotion goes with each face.There may be marked impairment in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors (e.g., eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body postures and gestures) to regulate social interaction and communication (Criterion A1)” “The impairment in reciprocal social interaction is gross and sustained.Novel inserted after each diagnostic quote: Last diagnostic manual to include Asperger’s, with relevant quotes from the The description of Asperger’s in the DSM-IV-TR (2000, p80 unless stated), the Large number of the clinical descriptions of autism. Several reviewers have noted that Caitlin fits an unusually Portrayal of autism, which made clear that a portrayal of autism can beĬlinically accurate, but at the same time it may well still divide opinion. See whether I was alone in this opinion, I searched out reviews of the However, whilst reading it I couldn’t help but wonder whether Caitlinĭevelops too much, and whether the story devolved into a feel-good story ofĬaitlin battling her Asperger’s and overcoming the problems it gives her. The centrality of Caitlin, the character with autism, who was the story’s Indeed at times I was impressed by the accuracy of the writing and The key traits were there, manifested in reasonablyĬommon ways. While I was reading Kathryn Erskine’s 2010 novel Mockingbird, the depiction of autismįelt reasonably accurate.
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