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'Accepting Personality In Nora Raleigh Baskin's Anything But Typical'

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In Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin, Jason Blake is a twelve year-old boy who was born with autism and is having a lot of trouble making friends. He thinks people doesn’t want to be friends with him because all they see in him is his autism. Not his funny and caring personality. Jason spends most of his time at home and school. When he is home, he is on the computer reading and writing stories to whoever wants to see. He writes about myths, trolls, and dwarfs. The main thing he wants, is to make friends with anyone that will accept him and become popular on the Internet, for his stories. He also wants his stories go viral. However, he is not yet getting any comments or likes on them. Until a girl named Rebecca on the other side …show more content…

One day Rebecca decides to leave a comment to Jason that says, “The storyboard convection is going to be right in my hometown this year. And guess what… I am going to go!”(115) Jason is going to the convention too and he is so mad because he might bump into Rebecca. Jason says, “I think something bad just might happen”(116). He says this because he thinks if they meet then she is only going to see his autism and never talk to him again. His mom and dad are trying to get him to tell them what is going on with him and this girl, but nothing is working. Jason thinking in his head of what to say to his parents. He doesn’t want to tell them about Rebecca. Jason can’t think of anything because he can’t believe what just happened. Jason is waiting line and a girl walked up next to him and said, “‘My name is Rebecca. Am I in the right line to get my name tag?’ She doesn’t know because she can't see. Nothing here is in Braille, and Rebecca is blind”(157). A huge relief went off Jason’s shoulders because he isn’t worried about meeting Rebecca anymore. He realizes that he is not the only one in the world, that has a challenge born into

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