19 March, 2016

An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage - The New York Times

An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage - The New York Times: "I’ve made new friends, and built a stronger business. And there’s something else: I’ve learned that the grass is not always greener when it comes to emotional vision. For much of my life, I’d imagined I was handicapped by emotional blindness. When that changed, seeing into other people was overwhelming. Becoming “typical” proved to be the thing that was truly crippling for me. Now I realize that my differences make me who I am — success and failure alike. I’d call that hard-won wisdom.

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