Story Details

“The World on a Stage” is an autobiographical piece of creative nonfiction prose, exploring themes of community and belonging through the perspective of a high-functioning autistic young adult, intertwining two interconnected periods of time through the unifying factor of one singular location. As someone homeschooled from 2nd grade onward, the social disconnect that comes from growing up outside of the traditional K-12 public and/or private school systems, combined with the ongoing extensional questioning of one’s place, as a neurodivergent individual in a broader and largely neurotypical society, are subjects that have not as of yet been widely explored in either creative nonfiction or fiction.