Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.

Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

I never wrote my books especially for children.

Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted brain to take. Some of the parts must be sculpted at critical times. One cannot, after all, carve out toes unless he knows where the foot will go. We need tools to do some of the fine work. The tools are our childhood experiences. And I'm convinced that one of those experiences must be children's books. And they must be experienced within the early years of our long childhood.

They say, and I have reason to believe, that in times of intellectual laziness we are at our most genius when we find someone who is better in some way; it allows us to dismiss the reality that all our pride and profundity comes from our aptitude to copy and paste their intelligence. Except for memes, we get to share those by definition - and further watch the ADHD evolve them to golden cancer.