Elephant’s Kitchen: An Aspergirl's Study in Difference
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Elephant’s Kitchen – An Aspergirl's Study in Difference is about a quiet teenage girl named Delphine who has Asperger’s, but just as with the television shows Bones and The Big Bang Theory, the condition is never mentioned. Instead, the story walks the reader through many of the markers of the condition.
The story also addresses the misery associated with poverty when it comes face-to-face with the “haves” of society and their obliviousness and callousness towards those who are struggling to survive. Viewed by a teenage girl who volunteers at a church’s charity kitchen, it highlights the damage that such insensitivity can inflict upon the very people that such institutions claim to benefit. This is just part of the backdrop of the story; Delphine also attends a private school, plays the violin, acts in a play, and deals with bullies. She is quiet, stealthy, and effective in her own way.
This story was written to inspire teens with Asperger’s, to show them that there is nothing wrong or bad about them, and to celebrate rather than condemn difference.
Stephanie C. Fox, J.D.
Stephanie C. Fox, J.D. is a historian, author, and editor. She is a graduate of William Smith College and the University of Connecticut School of Law. Ms. Fox has written several books on a variety of topics, including the effects of human overpopulation on the environment, the economic meltdown of 2008, honeybee colony collapse disorder, Asperger’s, travel to Kuwait and Hawai`i, and cats. She runs an editing service called QueenBeeEdit, which caters to politicians, scientists, and others. Her areas of interest include – but are not limited to – women’s history, biographies, women’s studies, science fiction, environmental studies and environmental law, human overpopulation, international relations, Asperger’s, and cats.
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Elephant’s Kitchen - Stephanie C. Fox, J.D.
Elephant’s Kitchen
An Aspergirl’s Study in Difference
Stephanie C. Fox, J.D.
Bloomfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Copyright © August 2004
by Stephanie Carole Fox
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by QueenBeeEdit Books, Connecticut.
This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Name: Fox, Stephanie C., author.
Title: Elephant’s Kitchen – An Aspergirl’s Study in Difference / Stephanie C. Fox.
Description: Connecticut: QueenBeeEdit Books, [2004].
Subjects: FICTION / General. FICTION / Psychological. FICTION / Short Stories (single author).
www.queenbeeedit.com
Cover design by Stephanie C. Fox
Cover art by Stephanie C. Fox
This story is dedicated to girls and boys
who grow up undiagnosed with Asperger’s.
Asperger’s is a wonderful condition
that occurs in a small percentage of the human population,
and contrary to what many neurotypicals say,
it is not a disorder.
Many famous people who have done
wonderful, things have had Asperger’s:
Marie Curie, Temple Grandin, Thomas Jefferson,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf,
Nikola Tesla, and many others.
Asperger’s makes a person different from the majority.
Asperger’s leads to innovation, invention, creativity, and even stardom.
It’s a stardom of a very different and unique sort.
Also by Stephanie C. Fox
An American Woman in Kuwait
The Book of Thieves
Scheherazade Cat: The Story of a War Hero
The Slamming Door: Bone Cancer, Asperger’s, and Loss
Nae-Née
Birth Control: Infallible, with Nanites and Convenience for All
Every Sunday, my family attended St. Anne’s Church. My parents liked to see other families at the church, and chat with them and the minister after the service. My mother liked to see her friends; my father just went to please her. As far as he and I were concerned, it was the pipe organ and the concerts that made going there worthwhile.
We weren’t religious; we liked to see the stained glass windows and carved wooden pews, and the stone masonry was beautiful, but the sounds that the pipe organ made when visiting artists were invited made the tedium of the services seem pointless. We didn’t need a lecture on how to be good people. But my mother insisted on attending and on listening to Mr. Baker, the minister. The service always included a sermon containing such good advice as Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
I could relate to that, and on both sides of the issue. That meant that I wouldn’t be cruel to anyone, but if anyone were cruel to me, there would be payback. One part of religion that I disagreed with was the turn the other cheek
doctrine. The problem with that was that more often than not, I had to do comply with it simply because I couldn’t come up with an equally unyielding phrase to back up doing the opposite of that. Only recently, in a movie, had I heard proportionate response
– the ideal comeback.
This past week at the exalted Havermeyer School, the exclusive private institution that I attended (conveniently located in the next town, so that my parents had to drive me there), Katie Wills and her clique had harassed me several times.
She was a bully, and the leader of her pack of idiots. Of course, they didn’t seem like idiots when they spoke to teachers and most of the other kids, either girls or boys. They always knew how to come across as cool and up on the latest trends.