Never One of Them: Growing Up With Autism

Have you ever felt out of place? Nearly everyone has experienced that sort of unease in one context or another, but prior experience serves to remind them that the feeling will pass. Imagine, then, living over 40 years as a virtual outsider – always feeling like you don’t belong among humanity, but never able to come to grips with the reason why. You try to join in conversations, but your poor timing and difficulty relating to others serves only to annoy most people. Everyone else seems to ...