Published by Knights Of
“The ocean needs all kinds of fish,” Keedie says quietly. “Just like the world needs all kinds of minds…”
I picked this small volume up yesterday and dipped into it and found myself reading about a teacher and a young girl whose writing was “…utterly disgraceful.” I suppose the start resonated with me. I was bullied by a teacher too. I never thought of it quite that way – till I read this.
This is about how everyone of us is, in one way or another, different from everyone else. Some are autistic. Others colourblind, most are left or right handed and a few are ambidextrous. We are all as unique as each other. Never-the-less we seem to want everyone to be the same – whether in ability, skin colour or shape. We aren’t. Each of us has talents that others don’t, looks that are individual. Have distinctive, often beautiful skin tones. We are though all the same in that we have joys, hopes, dreams and loves. As well as fears, trials and the odd hang-up too.
I wasn’t supposed to be reading this, I was at work. Though at the moment it can’t be said that we are exactly busy – so I found myself quietly reading… My duty manager was quite understanding (I did stop, when I realised I had got to chapter two) and I took it home, reading it on the train, in bed last night and I finished it this morning…when I should have been sorting out the kitchen…
This is the story of a young autistic girl who makes a stand. It’s about history and the persecution of witches. Persecuted for being different. It’s about bullying and friendship, families and sisters. Oh – sisters. There is something wild about having a sister…
It’s about being different… How we don’t know, unless we take the time to find out, to ask, exactly why someone might be behaving the way they are – how they are different. What we can do to help. It’s about how small things can grow into terrible actions as well as into beauty.
Everyone should read this.
I will not let people use my difference, as a stick to beat me with.
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