Adventures, anomalies, and achievements in a world of normals.
A personal account of navigating childhood and early adulthood long before Asperger syndrome was ever part of the conversation.
Imagine stumbling around society for six decades hampered by what one early researcher described as “a devastating handicap.”
The only thing that could be worse is not knowing you had it or what it was!
Imagine – despite that – surviving school, winning national sports championships, raising a family, becoming a police officer then the youngest detective in a big city PD, working in big business on- and off-Wall Street while always running some kind of side hustle!
This book is a window into what that’s like…
Midnight transfer. Broken station. Neighborhood on edge. Undiagnosed AS.
What could possibly go wrong?
Police work is challenging for anyone. Being thrust into police work with 147 freshly minted rookies directly from the academy, with no veteran police officers to break you in, a severe challenge. With undiagnosed Asperger syndrome, it was challenging to the nth degree.
I recently saw an ad for safety equipment in which a retired police officer professes in two and a half decades of police work, he never once intervened in a rape, home invasion, or robbery.
I don’t know where he worked, but I checked all those boxes during the first few months.
Between Volume One and Volume Two, I experienced shootings, stabbings, burglars, blizzards and horse chases.
This volume starts as I return from my first vacation, forced by my lieutenant, because I didn’t want to miss anything.
And, it wasn’t about to slow down any time soon.
The lieutenant was absolutely right when he said, “There’ll plenty of crime left by the time you get back.”
When I came back and jumped on the still-spinning merry-go-round of police drama, it was clear he should have added, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!”
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