Totally forgot they were Jewish, that’s how big a deal it was.

All not books

I read really widely, but it was mostly by going to the library and picking random books off the shelves.

Cheers! :)

Oh my god, yes! I loved both of those! I totally forgot about them.

If you remember some of the titles I’d love to get my hands on them.

YES. I want some Jewish protagonists that have nothing to do with the holocaust k thx.

This is true of pretty much all minorities, at least from my experience in the 90s where I read EVERYTHING with female protags I could get my hands on. The only PoC main female character in a novel that took place in the present day I can think of from my childhood is Julie (From Julie of the Wolves), who is iirc…

Cassie was always my favorite! She was a total badass and I was ridiculously jealous of her farm life.

If we’re just talking kid’s books.... Cassie, from Animorphs

Gifted — so whatever was there was masked to some extent. I got a lot of “You’re so smart, you should understand!”

Fnord and Spiderpig actually terrify me, they’re so out there that Something Awful would not tolerate them. I might lurk and read up on some of the research, but I can’t handle people like them who are so obviously trolling and getting away with it because of their diagnoses.

Thanks for the tips! I want those operating instructions, that’s pretty much the goal :)

I’m really lucky, in that I found my old IEP evaluations, along with my WISC-III scores, when I was in the states over the summer. They show a massive gap between my verbal and performance IQ.

I just spent some time reading through wrongplanet, and holy fuck, I do not have thick enough skin to deal with men like that.

Yes it is!

Thanks for that link, the dude with “suspected” aspergers is pretty much autistic_white_dude.txt and I’ve come across a lot of guys like that, and I don’t have time for misogynist douchebags, shared diagnosis or no.

I hope you feel better soon! I cut my dad out of my life, and that’s been a good decision for me. But I’ve never been really family oriented, but I know a lot of people who are so I understand how devastating that can be.

...this leads to a lot of missed diagnoses or misdiagnoses (like BPD, bipolar disorder, OCD, or avoidant personality disorder instead of autism). i was a gifted student so when i was younger a lot of my “quirks” and challenges were either overlooked or just attributed to the “eccentric intelligent person” stereotype.

I don’t have any fish right now, but I miss my little 3 gal (with filtration, of course) with a single cranky beta and hideous fake plants. Maybe again someday!