text: Check out autistic subculture.\n\nThe fascinating part of this, and what should make it more accessible to you, is that most of autistic subculture exists on the Internet. With face-to-face communication difficult, we find it much more easy to communicate in writing via message boards.\n\nThe majority of these autistics are high-functioning; but there is quite a showing of nonverbal autistics who communicate only by writing.\n\nHere's one site, from which you should be able to follow links to quite a few others:\nhttp://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/\n\nOne warning: Don't pity these people or look down on them. The older ones just ignore it and make you feel awkward. The younger ones might even flame you; they've had to take enough of it in school already.