Help - early book about autistic child?

CuriousJane
Mon, 28 May 2012 22:07:23 +0000

Thumper,

Absolutely! While Dibs is a beautiful story, it was used as evidence of a theory that was incredibly damaging to so many families. It needs to be read from that perspective, and should be balanced with other stories and other perspectives.

The way I look at it, there are 2 possible truths about Dibs. One is that the author took lots of liberties, and the story didn’t happen the way she tells it. The other is that Dibs had an emotional issue that wan’t autism. Of course, the truth could be somewhere in the middle.