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With Death Comes Food: Asperger Syndrome and Physical Therapy Practice

Barrett L. Dorko, P.T. My language has no words for hello or goodbye…there is no translation for ‘friendly’ or ‘ mannerly.’ People who live in artificially complicated situations call a life such as mine ‘simple,’ but everything looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit. None of this is simple, though it’s easy enough, when you know how to do it, when you are aware of the details.       ~ From Solitude by Ursula K. Le Guin “With death comes food.” Two years ago I heard my brother Kevin say…

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