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In case this doesn't make sense, Kevin and I watched Adam, a movie about a guy with Asperger's Syndrome who falls in love with a "normal" girl. Kevin has Asperger's. I'm somewhat "normal." (Yeah, I'll keep telling myself that...) We thought it would be a good bonding experience since maybe we could relate to the characters and hopefully learn something. Ultimately, I ended up feeling extremely grateful that Kevin is exactly the way he is and possesses all the positive traits associated with AS: a high level of intelligence, varied and deep interests, complete honesty, etc.

I could go into my insanely long opinionated rant about why mental conditions like this are a gift as opposed to a liability and how people with these conditions simply have certain aspects of their personalities at different ends of a spectrum than others, but I'll have to save that discussion for some other time.

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In case this doesn't make sense, Kevin and I watched Adam, a movie about a guy with Asperger's Syndrome who falls in love with a "normal" girl. Kevin has Asperger's. I'm somewhat "normal." (Yeah, I'll keep telling myself that...) We thought it would be a good bonding experience since maybe we could relate to the characters and hopefully learn something. Ultimately, I ended up feeling extremely grateful that Kevin is exactly the way he is and possesses all the positive traits associated with AS: a high level of intelligence, varied and deep interests, complete honesty, etc.

I could go into my insanely long opinionated rant about why mental conditions like this are a gift as opposed to a liability and how people with these conditions simply have certain aspects of their personalities at different ends of a spectrum than others, but I'll have to save that discussion for some other time.