In 1978 I discovered a new idea and I used this idea to treat my own autism without using medications.

Before I started school I spent hours each day examining physical objects and manipulating them.

I took special delight in nails I picked out of the fireplace, and burnt match heads, and ladies' colored belts and shoulderpads.

I made collections of these objects and spent hours a day arranging them into patterns.

My mother read to me for hours each day, and I enjoyed listening to her read poetry.

In conversation, though, I couldn't keep up with the flow of ordinary conversation.

At school, when nonhandicapped children talked, I couldn't think of anything to say.

I didn't inflect my voice or use gestures or make eye contact when I did talk.

Until I was in college I began every day by rocking on all fours on my bed and humming a tune over and over and over.

It didn't rain a lot where I lived, and when it rained the sounds greatly excited me. When it rained I couldn't concentrate on anything else.

When it rained hard I would stop whatever I was doing and run outside and dash around in the torrent.

I would often stand by a water pipe and watch the water pouring from it and making water sounds all around.

Even as a college student, my knowledge about people and society was exceedingly limited.

This lack of rapport with people made it impossible for me to find long-term employment.

In 1978, at the age of forty, I discovered a new idea and I used this idea to treat my own autism and social isolation without using medications.

This treatment has had remarkable results.

All this is wonderful to tell. And I hope that soon I will be helping other people learn to do the same thing to treat themselves without taking any medicine.

New Ideas And Selected Writings

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