And when Tara says that it is her belief that I am autistic, she is not joking. I have tried my utmost to be objective, to stand outside myself and look in. There is no question that there is a strong obsessive streak running through my character. I have huge difficulty looking people directly in the eye, and initiating conversation. As a lawyer, I have learned a thousand tricks to deal with these things, but deep down, they’re still there. Taylor is, in many ways, like me. ASD is a huge spectrum, and I may well be on it, somewhere.
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