Some really cool people I know have Asperger’s syndrome or have Aspie kids. I guess I feel some kinship with Aspies because we struggle with some of the same stuff – inability to care about certain social conventions, or poor executive functioning, or boring people with our perseverations.
Kathleen is one of these really cool people and I’ve written about her before. If Asperger’s is something you care about, you might like to listen to this interview of her conducted by her husband as part of StoryCorps.
She’s uploaded two versions of the file, one mp3 (17 MB), the other wma (24 MB).