#dirk bracke

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First post 💗

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today’s canon autistic character is Paulien from the Belgian novel Een lege brug (An empty bridge)

https://autisticcharacters.miraheze.org/wiki/Paulien_(An_Empty_Bridge)

this is a heavy one. Flemish/Dutch fiction tends to not shy away from heavy topics and can be described as dirty or raw, even in books aimed at young adults, but jesus. this is a whole other level. content warnings for: statutory rape, animal abuse, bullying, self-injurious behaviour, sadism, explicit descriptions of sex 

a lot of reviews of this book (which is a common mandatory reading in flemish/dutch secondary schools) praise the book for its raw honesty but I have some serious doubts about its accuracy, and i've never seen any #ActuallyAutistic people review it. I'm pretty sure that she also has an intellectual disability in addition to being autistic, but that is never explicated. it does make it hard for me to review because I don't know a lot about ID. 

on the one hand, she clearly states that she enjoys when people are hurt and engages in sadistic behaviour like setting the fucking cat on fire for no reason other than wanting to see what it was like. on the other hand, she does not seem to understand that setting the cat on fire or cutting off the canary's wings is inappropriate. like she genuinely says that she didn't know she wasn't allowed to do that 

and like. the book was written in 1997, and autism advocacy was barely a thing in the anglo-saxon world, let alone in Belgium. on the other hand, this seems egregious even considering that, and especially considering the fact that the author (Dirk Bracke) is known for doing thorough research

[samdonoghue]

Winactie 2/7

Hoi hoi

Vandaag de 2de winactie 🙂

Ik ben eens in mijn collectie gaan kijken en heb een dubbel boek gevonden.

Een boek dat vaak omschreven wordt als een pareltje.

Ik heb het over ‘Henna op je huid’ van Dirk Bracke.

Dit prachtige boek is dus het tweede boek dat ik weggeef 🙂

Geen interesse in dit boek? Kijk dan zeker even bij de winactie van gisteren of kijk de komende dagen hier mee.

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We zijn terug van (even) weggeweest! 

Hierbij geven we alvast de nieuwe trailer van de film “Black” van Adil El Arbi en Bilall Fallah naar het boek van Dirk Bracke. 

[marshfireowisp]

You know, sometimes I wonder if Dirk Bracke his books are translated into English. Because even though I haven't read his books in years, I remember really liking them when I was about 10. Especially my then favorite book "Blauw is Bitter" I can't imagine people who don't speak Dutch not having read them. I thought they where really good (maybe if I read them now I'll hate them but who knows.)  Even though my mom is convinced he's a pedophile because "No one can write that much sex with children if they don't like it themselves"