After over two years of copy editing for Twin Cities Geek, a Minnesota-based online magazine, and writing a couple book reviews and a few notices of fandom auctions, I finally decided to dig in and tackle a topic that had been kicking around my brain for a while: the way the autism community often receives “representation” in media by giving non-human characters autistic traits to demonstrate how different they are from humans. I talk about Sarah Rees Brennan’s The Demon’s Lexicon, Martha Wells’ Murderbot, and Star Trek. Read the article here.