I was out with my family today at an orchard!  People were staring at me and my family which made me nervous!  It turned out that they were hearing impaired and were impressed with my ability to use a letter board to communicate!  I misjudged them!  It is easy to get defensive about the public reaction when you are autistic!  We need to be more sensitive to differences in others!  I think the more I am in the community, the more I can see that others also struggle with different problems which make us more like than unlike others!  Let’s all accept each other!