Introduction

In our story, the individual with Aspergers has been mismanaged from an early age by parents who rather than institutionalize him, or lock him up in the attic, kept him in the home, in the family. The results often devastating, his tantrums were unintentionally reinforced. When physical violence erupted, instead of taking strong measures to extinguish the behavior, they gave into his unreasonable, often impossible demands. Aspergers individuals will feel their own psychic pain and often self-medicate with various behaviors, drugs, and or alcohol. For our story's principal character, gambling became another addiction. On the plus side of the condition, Aspergers persons often have at least one remarkable ability, such as being able to perform at a high level on an instrument with little or no training. In our story the character has a genius level of ability with any-thing to do with numbers. As a successful car salesman he had all the relevant numbers connected to a sale, such as the original list price, the financing charges, margins, all at the tip of a remarkable mind and therefore able to recite them to customers without having to reference any printed or computerized information. In this story, our character is based on a real person with Aspergers. Over many years of man-aging his life, providing them with unconditional love, modeling the attitudes and behaviors they hoped to someday see in them, slowly but surely a radical transformation began taking place. Eventually displays of understanding and empathy began to emerge. In time joy began to replace the chronic negativity and depression, giving way to efforts to give back to those who had stood by them with acts of kindness and gifts. As you take on such a task, never underestimate the...Power of Love.