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Best Of: Wired for Change

A Slight Change of Plans

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How I Learned About Autism

"I felt like I was second-rate. And I wanted so much to be normal," she says. "All I can ever understand is bad things": People don't like me, they're going to throw me out. But maybe there's this whole other set of messages where people really love me and they like me." She hopes her book will help autistic people see emotional cues in others.

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