The Rosie Result

[2] The Rosie Result includes several autistic characters, and Simsion states that he felt ‘huge pressure’ to get the autism representation right.

Activist Stuart Neilson says ‘The book does not struggle, it conveys the confusion around stigma, resourcing and self-awareness very well...If you went through school as an undiagnosed autistic pupil, or suffered the wrath of adults who found it easier to call non-compliance a problem behaviour, or are trying to work through the same problems with your own kids now, you will find this a timely novel.

It resonated with my own experience…There was lots of humour but also some deep thoughts on what it means it be autistic and indeed what it means to be human.’ [5] Kathy Hoopman, author of All Cats Have Asperger’s Syndrome wrote: ‘Author Graeme Simsion breaks open the ‘A’ word by smashing preconceived prejudices and stereotypes’ [5] Katie Sutherland: ‘[The Rosie Result] unpacks a few myths...

She argues that Tillman is "cut from the same cloth as Hugh Dancy’s Adam in the eponymous film, Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory and the protagonists of The Good Doctor and Atypical.

[7] Furthermore, Luterman has argued that Simsion's characterisation of female characters, particularly of those with autism spectrum disorder, reduces them to "villains or intolerably shrill".