"Looking back, maybe my friendship with Doug wasn't the best omen. But at least I stopped whacking other kids. Somehow I figured out that whacking does not foster lasting friendship." (Chapter 1, p. 8).

"I was so used to living inside my own world that I answered with whatever I had been thinking." (Chapter 2, p. 20).

"As I got older, I found myself in trouble more and more for saying things that were true, but that people didn't want to hear. I did not understand tact." (Chapter 3, p. 33).

"There is a dark side to Asperger's, and it comes from our childhood dealings with people who do not treat us the way they would like to be treated." (Chapter 8, p. 69).

"Interacting about technical things had become comfortable, and the more I did it, the more I knew and the easier it got. I wouldn't hesitate at all to walk up to a...