First, I want to make the comment that everybody has the potential to be a hard companion to someone else who has a different personality...

I have deep affinity to those who are neuro-divergent. Several years ago, before it was mainstream to feel this way, I started to see autism in a new light. I started to see that this thing that society had labeled as a mental disorder was so far from the truth. If anything, the autistic kids that I knew were far superior to me in their mental capacities. What they lacked were social skills. Now, I know that there are different levels of function, and some kids are very low f