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What the South Wind Whispers
Our second podcast for November is “What the South Wind Whispers” written by H. Pueyo and read by Kate Baker.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
H. Pueyo is an Argentine-Brazilian writer of speculative fiction who occasionally dwells in the world of comics. Her work has appeared before in venues such as The Dark, Broken Metropolis and Capricious, and is upcoming in Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up To No Good.
She currently lives in an antiquarium in the extreme south of Brazil, along with her boyfriend and their interminable piles of work to do. Once in a blue moon you can find her online on Twitter: @hachepueyo.
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MJ wrote on November 26th, 2018 at 9:13 am:
I didn’t see Heloise’s actions as part of a large AI plot so much as the well-meaning-but-wrong relative/caregiver who isolates someone and denies them agency “for their own good.” I think Heloise believes her motivation is exactly what she tells Elías; to a third party, her motivation is fearing the loss of purpose and significance in his life if he develops a degree of independence.
In current media, it’s often a tossup whether stories will center family members of people with autism or autistic people ourselves, so I loved this story.
(If it’s ok, I’d also like to give a plug for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network https://autisticadvocacy.org/ as a related organization.)