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A review by kinzo103
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
funny
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
While Glinda is never explicitly identified as autistic, I saw a lot of myself in this main character. For everyone who doesn’t understand my thought process or where I am in my head sometimes, my anxieties and abstract way of thinking, I wish I could have them read this book. Maybe it would clarify absolutely nothing, but there was nothing about this character that I didn’t understand and I really loved that. Glinda portrays many characteristics that we identify in women with autism that differentiate from the current diagnostic criteria, and having been grieving and coping with my own diagnosis the past few months, this book helped me mourn and process in a way I didn’t expect. Emily, thank you for writing a character, regardless of Glinda’s neurotype, that I identified with in ways that I’ve never identified with another human being.