We laugh, we cry, we suffer. In the intervening years, I have stolen her candy, gone to her house and met her father.
Many girls have come and gone through our group like food through a digestive tract. Six of us have ended
up sticking around and form our society of the socially dysfunctional; Kristy, Kristen, Tamsin, Anna,
Sasha, and myself. We all attend parties together and we all know each other, which is extremely rare for a social skills group. We have now been split up into two social skills groups but the whole remains unbroken. Not
all of us have a diagnosis of AS. Tamsin and Sasha both have NLD (nonverbal learning disorder). The main difference between AS and NLD is that people who have NLD have more trouble in school then people who have AS. Most of us have the same or similar behavioral dysfunction and need the same or similar kinds of support. For the sake of convenience I interviewed Tamsin and Sasha.