the air you need is a weird story about a diver. it came from whidbey island in puget sound, where i was visiting family in 2008. it’s a small-town joy to read the crime reports in the local paper… one favourite was a report of a man who was arrested in the supermarket car park for standing there in full scuba gear. the South Whidbey Record didn’t offer an explanation, so i thought i would step in.
the diver sat around as an idea for a while and ended up attracting, with the special magnetic ability of stories, a lot of what i was reading and thinking about autistic kids and the parents of autistic kids. it’s not an explicit discussion of autism, but it’s in there. i hope you like it.
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