If I didn’t have autism, would my encyclopedic knowledge of dinosaurs be a problem?

Some models of autism frame special interest as something unsettling and obsessive. This is an unfair double standard

You have to understand: no five-year-old knows more about dinosaurs than I did.

It’s also possible that no five-year-old on earth has marched confidently into Brashs (tailed by a willing adult) to purchase the 12” single of Was (Not Was)’s Walk the Dinosaur, my first ever record. Did I know – or care – that it was a Reagan-era meditation on a certain nuclear apocalypse? No: it had “Dinosaur” in the title, in the lyrics and on the cover, and that was enough for me.

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