I was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in the sixth grade. I remember when it happened. I was with
my shrink (I always called her my shrink because she had a way of making one feel small), Laurie Leventhall Belfer. She told me I had AS and showed me a picture book about a boy obsessed with the weather. At the time I didn’t know what it was really. It took years of therapy to discern how this makes me different from all other children.
To me having AS means that I will always be a little remote, a little bit removed from the people
around me. I will frequently forget to communicate with the people around me and thus create a plethora of misunderstandings. I am as headstrong and stubborn as a rock, and I get tired very quickly from too much social interaction. I had to be trained how to interact with people among a million other little things.