I was born in Japan just after WWII, from a soldier and a missionary both descended from Puritans (just learned that my father was the most decorated member of his West Point Class with a Silver Star from Eisenhower because he returned wounded to forward artillery observation and saved his company). We moved around a lot – I am almost sure my father was an Aspie like me. I say I ‘grew up’ in Northern MN, where I spent only 3 but important yrs in a small town on ND border in high school, but those wonderful often-frozen prairies and the few folk who flourish there made me who I am. I 'won' the lottery and avoided being drafted to fight in Vietnam. My 1st wife moved in next door when college dorms suddenly went coed (we were sophomores in 1969). Married in 1976. 2 daughters. She died of a brain tumor in 2012, 7 wks from dx to death. Blind date in early 2013 (way too early), slowly dated for three years, remarried in 2016. Estranged from my daughters (likely because we are all autistic and don’t communicate well, perhaps because they can’t handle that I married a conservative Christian). I have been really, *really* lucky with my vocational path. I have only interviewed for 3 real jobs in my career, and I was lucky I didn’t get the first two (Yale, and a now defunct computer company). The jobs I took were ‘handed’ to me, perfect for my +ve and –ve abilities. So fortunate to have loved my work. I was a ‘Professor of Otolaryngology’ and taught anatomy and did hearing research in humans and animals at a medical school in Tx for 25 y. Then did roughly the same in the lovely Shenandoah Valley of VA. Now what should I do in retirement? I can now see signs that I was more spiritual than I thought. Started reading the Bible in 2019. Quite amazed. Now I miss it if I can't read The Word daily. So interesting to see how the Word never comes back empty, so real, so relevant, so much new to see on every repeated reading and study. I was Dx’d ASD/ADD/CAPD in 2020. God might have done the impossible to ‘cure’ my autism, or at least almost cure, but nothing is impossible for God. Jesus says it is harder to get a rich man into heaven than to get a camel through the eye of a needle. I have 4 such 'strikes against me' - sufficient funds, advanced degrees in evolution and neuroscience, and most of all a formal Dx of ASD. Faith, the conviction of things not seen (Heb 11:1), is difficult for Aspies. LG LifesGood LovingGod aka Lincoln Gray