Hmmm. It's not a bad article, and it's nice to see "Autism is not, in fact, something far worse than cancer!" by someone who sounds like "just another parent".

Too, "I'm an alien, learning by rote the ways of the people of this planet, that's why I seem strange sometimes and why sometimes I just get tired of pretending," is an explanation I've heard (and given) before, so I wasn't bothered that he was using an actual alien as a comparison.