User blog comment:SpartHawg948/An Open Letter Regarding Mass Effect: Deception/@comment-217.120.178.21-20120201151707/@comment-70.74.70.202-20120201160929

While I understand what you are trying to say, and in Deception Gillian's autism at this point should not have been a disability for her at all, it is simply stripping her of who she is by sweeping her condition under the rug completely. A person with autism can totally function normally but pardon me if I'm wrong but they will always think differently especially when it comes to social living. That is precisely WHY she felt at home on the Flottilla and that as far as I know isn't even explored or mentioned at all. It's so sad that her character development so far has been destroyed. It would have been wonderful to see how far she had progressed, instead we got she used to have a temper. Excuse me? Her problems were far bigger then that. :S What Cerberus did to her was awful and is an integral part of who she was and THE reason why Gillian would want to get to TIM, her father's death should have come into the picture on her journey to find TIM and add more fuel to the fire. Now I'm starting to think I could have written a better book.... And I'm no writer. :/
 * disclaimer* I also have a 'learning disability', Auditory Perception Disorder, it's no Autism, but I felt like I understood Gillian as I used to be a very closed off child afraid of social interaction and not understand what people were saying half the time. So to me this is an awful transgression against a character I felt deeply about. :S