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With a limited on-screen presence, autistic characters have emerged in another medium: fan fiction

  • Written by Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor's Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Irvine

In one Harry Potter fan fiction story, Hermione Granger anxiously awaits the results from a recent test.

It isn’t her performance on an exam in a potions course that she’s concerned about. Instead, the higher-ups at Hogwarts had ordered she undergo some psychological tests. They had noticed how quickly she talked, along with her...

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