David Finch
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About the author: David Finch’s essays have been published in The New York Times, Slate, and Psychology Today. His debut memoir, "The Journal of Best Practices," was published by Scribner on January 3, 2012. David lives in northern Illinois with his wife, Kristen, and their two children. Please join him on Facebook.

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How An Asperger Syndrome Diagnosis Saved My Marriage

181 Comments | Posted January 19, 2012 | 01/19/12 11:31 AM ET

It was my wife Kristen, a speech therapist who had worked with autistic children, who was most suspicious about my behavior. After we were married and living together, she started noticing little "things" about me that were consistent with Asperger Syndrome, a mild form of autism: impaired social reasoning; persistent,...

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