Okay...thinking that there is a distinct autistic streak on the other side of my family. (in-laws) a diagnosis would have been helpful.

My husband's eldest brother was diagnosed at 70, this a maths professor who had travelled the world delivering papers.

Refined, generous, a lover of good food, I noted he could not easily shrug off something like a throw away comment at a dinner party. He would still be mulling it over days later. It wouldn't matter that the dinner part was a huge success.

Just had 'the conversation' with my husband. He's reluctant to truly embrace the idea that his family could be autistic. The notion that its a 'condition' he finds hard to accept.

I reminded him that in many instances autistic people are highly-intelligent, and belong in the STEM group (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) his family to a tee!!

My husband did a PhD which was all about proving a theorem about theorem-proving...I mean, I don't even understand the title!!!! Moreover he did it in two and a half years...a dog at a bone, if you ask me!!!

Can you imagine two people more juxtaposed (him and me) ??? Even today he hates being interrupted!

Here's a wee story for you...about the Scottish mother watching her soldier son on marching parade. She turned to the crowd and said, "See! Everybody's out of step but our Jock!"

It's much how we choose to look at things.