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John Robison was full of playful life as a young kid. But, just like me, he had an uphill road to climb in life. And it took him forty years to grow up. It took me a heckuva lot longer!
He just couldn’t communicate, you see. Asperger’s sufferers can’t read other people’s signs. And like him, though a bit more communicative, I had no concept of good and evil.
Sure, I knew enough to be good. My parents had inculcated goodness deep within my bones. Only I had no concrete idea of its opposite. And eve ...more
He just couldn’t communicate, you see. Asperger’s sufferers can’t read other people’s signs. And like him, though a bit more communicative, I had no concept of good and evil.
Sure, I knew enough to be good. My parents had inculcated goodness deep within my bones. Only I had no concrete idea of its opposite. And eve ...more
As a fellow aspie, I could have been reading a book about my own life, just set in a different location. In my first attempt at writing my own first book, there were so many parallels between John Elder's life and my own, that I ended up going in a completely different direction so as to not just rewrite his wonderful tale.
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