I want to thank Chaya Mallavaram and Mike Cornell for having me on their wonderful SparkLaunch podcast. (Find it HERE, or look for it on YouTube.) I talk a bit in the podcast about my very autistic way of preparing for my first visit with a therapist--scripting and rehearsing every word I wanted to say. I didn't do that so much for SparkLaunch, but I'm afraid that writing my book, writing several articles, and scripting several speeches about the value of neurodiversity had me overly prepared. (My dad would have called the result "diarrhea of the mouth;" my friend Dando Gabi would have said "Trop parler c'est maladie!") I talked too much, and should have settled in for more of a conversation. But in the end, good stuff was said by all.
When I was diagnosed as autistic at age sixty-five, my whole life and my career as a product liability attorney made sense for the first time. This blog, and my book, My So-Called Disorder: Autism, Exploding Trucks, and the Big Daddy of Rock and Roll, celebrate the strengths of autistic people and our value to any human endeavor.
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