The Impossible Coolness of My Father

"I'm still a person who carries his insecurities, right? That's just a part of who we are as human animals," she says. "My father wanted us to make sure that we were okay with the fact that people's brains all work differently." She writes about how her dad was impossibly cool but also had patients over for dinner at family barbecues. 'Nothing seemed strange or abnormal because it wasn't different in my household'