“Twiddling is one of my autistic things. I do it to calm me down. I twiddle frantically for a while, and I fantasize about all kinds of things while I twiddle.”

— Jonathan Mitchell

American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome

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American writer and activist 1955

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