"Our civilization would be extremely dull and sterile if we did not have and treasure people with Asperger's Syndrome." (Introduction, pg. 14.)

"Now that my parents understand AS, they are able to describe my childhood with the help of an entirely new perspective; one that makes the choices I made then, as well as the choices I make as an adult, seem far more focused and clear, perhaps even more correct, given the way I perceived the world...There is no guilt, no blaming, no wondering about 'what ifs'. Today, there is harmony. There is order. There is cohesiveness" (Chapter 1, pg. 25.)

"It would be years before I would come to realize I did, and thought, many, many things that others apparently did not" (Chapter 2, pg. 37.)

"I was beginning to see that I might never find my place in the big world, but I could not fathom why or what...