The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy

At birth, Benjamin did not look like other newborn infants. As he grew older, an aversion to physical touch and loud sounds, an uncanny ability with numbers and words, and a distinct lack of emotional expression in social exchanges all marked Benjamin as an unusual—or in Gilman’s words, anti-romantic—child. Around the time of his fourth birthday, he was diagnosed with hyperlexia, an extremely high-functioning form of Asperger’s disorder. Though Benjamin was an extraordinary child, the signs of

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