Will be in a large hall, lots of folk I basically haven't seen since I was 14. My mom wants me to go, but I feel like it's more her family than it is mine. I probably won't attend.
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Knower of nothing
Callistemon
Did you know your grandpa, KON? 100 years, wow! 
Knower of nothing
I'd seen him often enough to remember. But something about ASD in youth is like staring back through a thick glass wall. Might as well not have been me back then. Because of that if I have to be honest I don't think I can say I ever even met him.
Callistemon
Wow, that's so interesting about seeing your past through a thick glass wall. I once read a bio about a severely autistic child who ended up coming out of his shell when he got a dog. The mother wrote the bio and the son the afterword, and because this kid was really severely uncommunicative with huge speech delays, it was fascinating to read his afterword!