Excellent A perplexing childhood friendship leaves lasting questions. The Enigma of a Childhood Friend by Seth Underwood True Story Contest contest entry

This is a true story from one who is autistic. At the time it occurred, I didn’t know I was autistic, although the family pediatrician suspected something was odd about me. So, there was a girl with hair that went down her back. We hung out together at her house. She taught me how to knit and process b/w photos. She had cable tv, and we watched MTV together. But one day she told me to go away and not come back. I never knew why, even forty years later when I found out where she was, she was still mad at me even so late in time. I have no clue because I’m autistic and may have missed something in the relationship. It still bothers me despite being married for twenty plus years with children. Author Notes Image by By Chris Tefme Sourced and Licensed by Writer via Adobe Stock. Seth Underwood is an autistic author living in the Washington, DC area. He writes speculative science fiction, usually dealing with androids, the future, and angels. His style of writing is known as vignette or Kishōtenketsu. He won the Reedsy Short Story Weekly Prompt in Jan 2018 for Rosella Tolfree’s Mother’s Day. He is also an old gamer, and has some videos posted on YouTube. He currently writes on Medium for Invisible Illness and Short.Sweet.Valuable.

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