But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it.

Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He's just doesn't communicate well.

Every guy seems nice until he’s not.

I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.

For a long time our son ws a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a teenager who notices girls - we're faced with something else altogether.

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.