My dear daughter,
I have enjoyed reading just about anything since I was very young. I read everything there was to read back home: newspapers, my mom’s magazines, our two encyclopedias, TV guides, the books we had and mostly comics.
At first I didn’t understand much of the texts. I would read an editorial and just think to myself: “well, that seemed like a well written editorial, good arguments and all…”.
They were mostly bullshit, though. It takes a lot of reading to figure that out, to be able to read between the lines or to understand what was left unsaid. The school of thought followed by the writer, or the absence of any thought.
Sometimes a full understanding requires one to have read everything the author wrote and read, and some more. But that’s uncommon. Most just write out of their asses and people go on propagating it like parrots.
We live in dangerous times where a lot of writers and opinion makers are trying to overthrow the meaning of words, concepts and ideas. Everything is language; by changing the meaning they’re attempting to overthrow History for their own petty and mediocre agendas.
Our only defense against it is reading and studying beyond their myopia.
Love,
Dad
Aspergers Dad 