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Some people still speak in terms of more or less severe, but it’s all autism. Just different needs that evolve, and we meet them as best we can.
“I want what I’m learning about myself, what I’m fixing about myself, how I’m standing on my own,� I say in a rush. “I want that more than anything. Even you.� I reach up to touch the hard, high slant of his cheekbone. “And I do want you so much,�
I know you want to be whole, but I think being whole means acknowledging all your parts. And there are parts of you that want to be held, want to be needed and loved. That is just as emotionally valid as the parts of you that crave independence.�
That she was indeed a hornet, not a butterfly. That the plain of her heart stretched vast enough to love two men so completely, love her children so purely, love her mother and her friends and the world around her with such quiet fervor� because first she loved herself.
