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Parallel Play by Tim Page
It is a memoir written by Tim Page.
He discovered late in life he has Aspergers. This is answered many questions and made things line up for him...

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My second-grade teacher never liked me much, and one assignment I turned in annoyed her so extravagantly that the red pencil with which she scrawled “See me!” broke through the lined paper. Our class had been asked to write about a recent field trip, and, as was so often the case in those days,

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