While he’s not the character Michael I created, Chris inspired me to find that little boy-and, amazingly, what I discovered is that my Michael is pretty much like every other seven-year-old boy. Musician, composer, poet, computer tech, athlete, scholar … you won’t find those on the lists, but that’s who Chris is-as well as a guy who absolutely makes direct eye contact and has a wicked, funny sense of humour. And Chris is where the idea for my story went-from that laundry list of traits to the real face of Asperger’s Syndrome. Then I met Chris who, with his Asperger’s Syndrome, pretty much defies everything on the experts’ list. I knew some of the overall facts, but after I began the deep research I needed for this book what I discovered was that every piece of information written about Asperger’s Syndrome is basically the same: a laundry list of traits. Asperger’s has become popularised in fiction lately. Stood behind me solidly-for which I’m grateful.
When I approached my editor with an idea to write a story featuring a child with Asperger’s Syndrome Mills & Boon To Chris, one of the people I love most.You make the world a better place. We may not be married, but Michael needs consistency from us … together.” Except she’d looked not into his soul but through it, and it shook him. She glanced over at him, simply studied him for a fraction of a second, then, without a word, turned her attention back to the dirt road and the never-ending expanse of nothingness stretching out in front of them.īut in that fraction of a second he felt … There weren’t any words to describe it, really.