No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her,” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have the same impact.

Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child.

Every guy seems nice until he’s not.

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.

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.