Anything But Typical: Chapters 1–5

In third grade Jason Blake was diagnosed with ASD, autistic spectrum disorder.

She prefers three different letters: NLD, nonverbal learning disorder.

Or these letters: PDD-NOS, pervasive developmental disorder–non-specific.

I can listen better when I am not distracted by a person’s face: What are their eyes saying?

I want the librarian to take her hands off my shoulders. The weight of her hands is almost unbearable, like lead.

She is, in fact, repulsed by me, which is how most girls react.

Some of them say that there are only seven plots in the whole world:
Man vs nature.
Man vs man.
Man vs environment.
Man vs machine.
Man vs the supernatural.
Man vs self.
Man vs religion.

Other writers say there are only three plots: happy ending, unhappy ending, and literary plot (that’s the kind of ending that is uncertain).

The school had to validate that all Storyboard users are under seventeen and that the site is monitored.

If you don’t, people make the assumption that you do not feel what they feel.

A confluence of ideas. I think I have heard that expression.
I say it out loud.
“Confluence.”

My mother is a different story. That is an expression, since she herself is not really a story. Being able to understand abstract expressions like that is a sign of intelligence.

IQ tests are filled with them. Like “People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” or “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Part of the scoring on the test depends on how well you can understand and interpret those sayings.

So she is looking for a reason. A reason to explain me.
It could be:
The mercury in the DPT vaccines
A wayward chromosome
A mutated gene

So she is looking for a reason. A reason to explain me.
It could be:
The mercury in the DPT vaccines
A wayward chromosome
A mutated gene

So she is looking for a reason. A reason to explain me.
It could be:
The mercury in the DPT vaccines
A wayward chromosome
A mutated gene

So she is looking for a reason. A reason to explain me.
It could be:
The mercury in the DPT vaccines
A wayward chromosome
A mutated gene

Maybe it’s the air pollution, or the fertilizers in the vegetables, or hormones in the milk, acid rain, global warming. Maybe it’s rays coming out of the television. Or the microwave.
Or maybe it is just me.

My mother said it’s called a fontanelle and that all babies have one.

But the Internet is not really a place you can go.
It is not really a net at all, but it is the biggest, most complex place in the whole world. It hosts hundreds of languages, millions of words, billions and billions of bytes of information every single second.