IVCAROL WAS MY LIVING proof that it wasn’t just me. And while I had been a few years studying all this stuff to make sense out of it, suddenly I had a new box to think outside of, a new envelope to push. Not that I hadn’t been going that way. But she was such a good hugger. It took me out of what I was used to. Yes, of course that’s scary. For both of us. Now I had another problem to solve. A big one. You see, people that think different like us are mostly discriminated against. Like sexism or racism. Autism was just another -ism that should be considered as a bad, impolite word - like “a*tistic”. Just because people think different doesn’t mean they are diseased, or need to be “cured.” Practically, there’s a much more valid argument that the bulk of humanity needs to be cured of t

