And the more I learned about myself, the better I could write this character - her name is Stella - but then as I wrote Stella I was learning about myself as I wrote her, so it was this reciprocal process. and that put me on this journey where I started to explore, could I be on the spectrum? And this all kind of happened as I was drafting the book. Because if you move your fingers or you move your body or you rock in your chair, then people will see, and that's no good, it has to be secret. I tap my teeth, but I tap them because no one can see. And as I was reading, I was thinking about all the things I do. women have learned to mask their autism, and they learn to copy their peers, and they learn to mimic. Book Reviews Sweet And Hot, 'The Kiss Quotient' Really Adds UpĪnd so I started to research autism solely for the book, but as I researched, I ran into this very interesting thing where autism seems to display differently in women than in men.
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