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

While the list on Google Docs is mostly excellent in outlining the errors in Deception, but I've got to take offense to its objection about Gillian's autism. While autism is not strictly speaking something you can grow out of, there is a wide autism spectrum, and it is not necessarily a disability. It is entirely possible for a child with a lot of disabling problems to grow up into someone without any social or other problems, while still having autism. Though it seems a poor omission in the book, calling autism a disability without any clarification is as wrong as acting like it's a phase---at least the latter recognizes the fact that autism doesn't have to be a disability, and that people who do have problems with it can overcome them.

....but, back on topic: this open letter is excellent, and I fully support it.