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I recently finished reading the horror novel Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle, and I absolutely loved it! There are many great aspects I could talk about—the riveting plot, the heartfelt found family trope that develops along the way, the genius act of taking the implicit horror of gay conversion therapy and making it explicit—but what I really want to focus on is the main character, Rose Darling. Rose is a well written, fully developed, and quite unique horror heroine. She is clever, curious, brave, and most importantly, autistic.

I read Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and I just had to write about the autistic representation. Never have I seen so much of myself in a character before--the stimming, the sensory issues, the struggles with social interactions, the researching/hyperfixating/special interest having! Thank you @drchucktingle for this book!

You can read my ramblings about the amazing and autistic Rose Darling in my Substack post Pounded in the Feels by Good Autistic Representation.

#this is what stood out to me most too#reading her narration was like reading my own writing#chuck tingle#camp damascus#autism#actually autistic
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Just read Camp Damascus last night and it is SO GOOD for so many reasons but I especially loved that I could tell almost immediately that Rose was autistic. Something about the phrasing of her narration, obviously her extensive trivia knowledge and stimming and the way it calmed her down to learn more about the upsetting things around her… everything about it felt so perfectly familiar and relatable to me and the way it resonated in my brain was just so good. I also appreciated that she was indeed canonically autistic, but it was stated explicitly like… once. Rose being autistic was very important to the story and very important to who she was as a person and it was very visible and obvious and (for me at least) impossible to miss, but not in a way that was ever presented as something she had to overcome. It was just an interesting and sometimes relevant fact about who she was.

Even though I went in knowing this particular thing, it was immediately clear to me just from the text that Camp Damascus was written by an autistic author, and that made a huge and delightful difference.

#autistic#camp damascus#neurodivergent#autism#rose darling#chuck tingle#just like every other neurodivergent queer out there i feel SO seen
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