Not only is Jacob loaded down with every single symptom, each of his symptoms are of the most extreme variety. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. That’s what I do this afternoon, after my brother decides to cast me as the perp in his fake crime scene. One girl, for example, related everything in her life and personal relationships to episodes of the Disney series “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Writing a story from the perspective of an Asperger's patient or popuraly known as autistic, is most difficult thing i would say.

If someone asks me what I’m doing for the weekend, I can’t respond as easily as Theo would, for example.As his core body temperature rose, he took off his own clothes because he felt hot…but in reality, that’s what made him freeze to death. I dive into the bushes, where I hold my breath and watch the boy spill out of the van first, wearing hockey gear. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that his findings began to gain wider notice and Asperger’s Syndrome became a standardised diagnosis for high-functioning autism across the globe.

Then we really feel the freedom of choice to living another life, to feel the feelings we may never get to know. My biggest fear: that they will, and I won’t always be there to keep people from thinking the worst of him. I have instinctively stepped between him and his brother, although Jacob is a head taller than both of us. We look like polar opposites – his hair is fine and so blond it could pass for silver; mine is dark and gets bushy if I do not have it cut religiously every three weeks (actually, part of the reason I get it cut every three weeks is because three is a good safe number, unlike four for example, and the only way I can handle someone touching my hair is if I know it’s coming in advance. You feel like helping them but it's just like life, you have to accept the people the way they are .Nice work – but you didn’t need to pull me away from the Bruins in overtime for death by natural causes. So if you’re a new parent, and you’re worried about the controversy surrounding vaccines and autism, what do you do? But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. This is not real, I remind myself, and I watch him lie back down in the exact same position – on his back, his legs twisted to the left.

I hardly ever go to the cafeteria, because a) there’s no one for me to sit with and b) all those conversations crossing each other feels like knives on my skin. There's like 50 movies based on his books now or something, and you know they're scraping the bottom of the barrel when Miley Cyrus is the best they can get to star act be filmed in one.For Jacob's mother, Emma, it's a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. I know, because that kitchen with its warm yellow walls is a place I want to be, not somewhere I’d run away from.