Some read books in the sun while others played musical instruments. Some strode briskly along the paths while others walked beside service animals or navigated in wheelchairs. Some talked loudly, flapping their hands, as others tapped silently on letterboards. Of necessity, autistic space was tolerant of a wide range of behavior, because autistics are even more different from one another than they are from NTs. Each person who came to Autreat had their own unique set of abilities and intense interests, which they had been pursuing for years in solitude with monastic devotion.
