Monkey and Autism Acceptance Month

Here at TPGA, we’re featuring “Slice of Life” conversations with Autistics of all ages — kids through adults — throughout April’s Autism Acceptance Month. Today we’re talking with Monkey, who happens to be the son of TPGA Contributor Mir Kamin. What is your name and age? My mom calls me Monkey on her blog, and I’m 12 years old. Do you have a website? No. What would a one-sentence description of yourself sound like? This is a hard question. One sentence that describes me is that I am unable to answer this question because there are too many choices! Do you have any autistic superpowers? What are they? I am really good at math. I am also good with animals. Autism enhances my concentration and memory, I think, which helps with math. Animals don’t notice if I say the wrong thing or act funny, they can just tell I love…