Dispatches from Ray's Planet

A collective memoir that explores a woman’s journey to understand the complexities of her adult brother’s symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder. As a child, Claire’s big brother Ray was bright and inquisitive, but as the two became teenagers, Ray struggled to acquire the social skills that came more easily to others. Claire tried to help, pointing out what he should or shouldn’t have said or done. Ray insisted that he wasn’t the problem—“On my planet…” he would explain, there were no social ...