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Middle-grade fiction about kids with special needs is gaining traction in the writing world, though the stories tend to focus on conditions that can be seen and easily identified. In this post, guest blogger and book writer Lisa Pelissier introduces readers to characters in her middle-grade fiction who have invisible special needs. Be prepared to fall in love with Millie and Stasia and Andie like I did!<\/em><\/p>\n

I never thought I would find myself occupying the niche of writing middle-grade fiction about kids with special needs. But then, I never thought I\u2019d be parenting kids with special needs. But here I am. They say you write what you know, and I certainly know the struggles and triumphs my kids have had.<\/p>\n

All my books feature characters with (mostly) invisible special needs. In some books, it\u2019s more prominent than in other books. There\u2019s always a hint of neurodivergence, anxiety, or mental illness. And sometimes, there\u2019s more than a hint.<\/p>\n

One of the things I want to come across to those who read my middle-grade fiction about kids with special needs, is that no one has to be perfect before they can do good, before they can become a hero, before they can be the main character in the narrative. And when the \u201cgood guys\u201d win in the end, the disabilities don\u2019t go away. That\u2019s not the battle they\u2019re fighting.<\/p>\n

My first book to prominently feature a main character with a disability was MilliM<\/em><\/a><\/span>, a wacky dystopian middle-grade novel published in 2020. The main character, Millie, has extreme OCD and has to have everything in her world be symmetrical. When Millie and her best friend Silas (who is autistic, though I never say so in the book) find a baby on her front porch\u2014a baby with a very asymmetrical face\u2014Millie loses it. She knows her mom will want to keep the infant, but she also knows if she has to look at that distorted baby face every day, she\u2019s going to lose her mind. She and Silas get on their bikes and ride to the city center, to the Council of Benevolence (remember\u2014this is a dystopian book), to see if they can trade the baby in on another grandmother. It goes on from there. But one of my favorite things about MilliM<\/em> is that Millie doesn\u2019t overcome her disability. She is who she is. Sometimes her OCD drives her to do the wrong thing\u2014and sometimes it\u2019s the reason things turn out okay. But it doesn\u2019t go away. And she\u2019s still a hero\u2014albeit a broken one. Like any of us\u2014with or without a disability\u2014would be.<\/p>\n

A huge chunk of the goal of not making the disability the central focus and issue to be solved is smashed to smithereens in my upcoming book, Speechless<\/em><\/a><\/span>. The main character, Stasia, has been diagnosed with selective mutism, a disability preventing her from speaking aloud with anyone but her best friend, Andie, who has non-verbal autism and a bunch of other diagnoses. Stasia finds out that the reason she can\u2019t speak isn\u2019t actually her neurology, but a fairy curse, laid on her when she was only three years old. Together, she and Andie puzzle out the riddles the fairy gives her in order to break the curse and free her voice. In the process, both she and Andie learn some valuable lessons about what it means to be a friend.<\/p>\n

This book was my daughter\u2019s idea\u2014the one with selective mutism<\/a><\/span>. I\u2019ve been working on the book for four years now, and in that time, my daughter has made big strides. She\u2019s never told me why she dreamed up the backstory behind this novel. Sometimes I wonder if pretending her disability was the result of something outside of herself could be helping her cope with it. I mean, believing you\u2019re inherently broken is devastating. But if it\u2019s just a fairy curse, then what? It\u2019s not your fault. It takes the burden away. Not that any of my kids\u2019 disabilities are their fault, but I know from my own life that it\u2019s easy to absorb responsibility\u2014and blame\u2014for things that are not yours to bear. But other times, I just think she has a really good imagination.<\/p>\n

Having Stasia\u2019s disability be a curse was uncomfortable for me. I didn\u2019t want to send the message that disabilities are something that will magically go away. I fought with myself about whether to write this novel. I pressed on because I love my daughter and wanted to follow through with her idea. And I think, in the end, I\u2019ve succeeded in what I wanted the book to say. The presence of non-verbal, autistic, really messy Andie redeems the story. She\u2019s broken in ways that won\u2019t be fixed. But she is who she is. She\u2019s valuable. She\u2019s one of the heroines of the story. She\u2019s real. I hope the sweet friendship between these two girls who were born inside my mind and eventually became middle-grade fiction about kids with special needs will inspire children to look for friendship in places they would never have expected to find it.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Pelissier lives in Oregon where she is a homeschool mom and author of\u00a0<\/span>five middle-grade fiction novels<\/a>, the second-grade\u00a0<\/span>Monsters<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>series, and a\u00a0<\/span>YA fantasy novel<\/a>. Lisa owns\u00a0<\/span>SneakerBlossom Books<\/a>, offering Christian, classical homeschool Study Guides and curriculum. She blogs at\u00a0<\/span>Eleventh Willow<\/a>, offering encouragement for Christians parenting the mentally ill. She also works as a freelance copy editor, copy writer, and a marketing editor. In her spare time Lisa enjoys playing the piano and writing books.<\/em><\/p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][et_pb_row_inner _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column_inner saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_comments _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#42313A” button_bg_color=”#EBDCB2″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_comments][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_sidebar _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_direction=”159deg” background_color_gradient_stops=”#42313A 0%|#EBDCB2 100%” background_color_gradient_start=”#42313A” background_color_gradient_end=”#EBDCB2″ custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px|false|false” border_width_all=”3px” border_color_all=”#1c1259″ saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ width=”100%” max_width=”100%” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”25px|0px|5px|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ module_class=”horizontal_optin_column_1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ header_text_align=”right” header_text_color=”#45107a” header_3_font=”Dancing Script|700|||||||” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_text_color=”#B4DBC0″ header_3_font_size=”45px” custom_margin=”10px||||false|false” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

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