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Written by Keith Donohue, The Boy Who Drew Monsters tries to insert discussions on parenting and autism in a horror story. The way it portrays Asperger’s Syndrome, however, is questionable, to say the least, and the fact that the overall narrative is marred by repetition, baffling characters, and artificial situations only makes things worse.
In the story, Jack Peter is a ten-year-old boy who has Asperger and Agoraphobia, living isolated with his parents in a house on the coast of Maine, in the United States. While his mother, Holly, works to support the family, the father, Tim, takes care of him. Jack’s only friend is Nick, a boy who was present when Jack suffered [...]