Are disability dolls a “blessing or a sick joke“?, the June 25th Times (UK) asks. There are dolls with prosthetic devices, dolls with Down Syndrome, and Chemo Friends for kids with cancer (and back in 1997, Mattel came out with Share a Smile Becky, in a wheelchair). My Autism Dolls makes ragdolls from puzzle piece fabric, and My Sibling Dolls come with stories about the special needs of siblings with developmental differences and are assembled and packaged by special needs teens and adults.
Not sure what an autistic doll would look like—-like any doll, I would say (we’ve always been more …read more