My non-fiction is something I’ve re-read over and over again…..

As the father of two autistic, now adult, children…..Nobody Nowhere was/is heart breaking and inspiring.

She did not have an easy early life, and yeah horrible parents not prepared or able to understand or work with a daughter, with pretty much is what would be my daughter…

The best thing about Williams’ works, or her second book – Somebody Somewhere is even better and more revealing into what is possible…..

but this beginning is rare; as she’s articulate, and as with all things autsitic, where that line, ‘ if you know someone that’s autistic, you know one person’ every case is different, even amongst my children…..Williams is able to share the inside that we can’t see, and reveal what those with children at another end of the spectrum can’t explain, sort of like a spy in a secret world…..how she thinks, why she reacts to certain situations, stimulus…..that’s been help for me to understand my own children…..a quote that I highlighted the first time I dove in……an autistic child is always going to be an autistic child….it’s not something we can force out…

‘too many well meaning people would have tried mercilessly to drag me through the darkness unprepared, killing my emotional self in the process. I may never have died physically, but psychically I have died many times in the effort. I had multiple fractures of the soul as a result.‘

That second book was amazing as well, as she becomes a teacher, and is able to see in classroom full of special needs children and understand what each of those unique individuals needs, how the need to be approached…so eye opening…

The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis is something I was lead to after hearing an interview with Davis……yes, I sometimes go in that direction….I don’t read a lot of fiction, or haven’t lately, but I liked being lead into this world, the era of McCarthyism, and how horrible that was……but also 1950s NYC, the Chelsea Hotel, and I don’t know why this world always catches my interest…yep, I’m facinated by the world of fashion, Vogue, and things that perhaps as a guy may be unique….I have no idea how to categorize my love of a novel like Chelsea Girls, but I guess some days I’m all about the far end of punk rock and everything running, biking, and being active, and somedays I’m all about that September Issue, Vaniety Fair or the Chorus Line….I’m not sure where that comes from….I guess I’m just wired that way?.

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