I’m scared about the health secretary’s vow to find the cause behind the so-called ‘autism epidemic’

I always knew my parents operated on a different wavelength than most.

For one, they are both exceptionally smart. My mother is a former mathematician, who studied the various levels of infinity as part of her master’s thesis. My father is a computer programmer who, at 17 years old, was one of the youngest people to ever be able to communicate with ships in morse code. They met at a party for members of Mensa, a club for the highly intelligent.