![]() ![]() Most of the research Simsion did for the book was listening to the autism community and going to conferences, often when he had been invited to present a paper. ![]() "I was a lot like Hudson and I would venture that, if I was that person today, someone might have raised the flag and said 'does this guy qualify for a diagnosis?'." "There's more of me in Hudson than there is in Don," Simsion said. Simsion has written an essay in a forthcoming collection, The Split, edited by Lee Kofman, in which he writes about his own childhood and the difficulties he had fitting in as an 11-year-old who had just moved from New Zealand to Australia. So Simsion made Hudson his father's avatar. Many readers had told Simsion they wanted to know about Don's childhood, but that would have meant writing a book set in the 1980s, when people were not as familiar with words such as autism and Asperger's. ![]()
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