David Belin & Me ("Trust this Tisch, too")

"Trust is hard for you"--David W. Belin

Reading time: 8 minutes

Dear Commissioner Tisch:

As a highly educated autistic man, stigmatized and shamed for my “peculiarities,” and for my damaged face, which makes me look too serious, superseded by my unabashed directness, I have had a lifetime challenge making friends. “If you know one of us, you only know one of us,” but we are your congregants, y…