Growing Up With Undiagnosed Asperger's

Tim Page was a weird kid. In grammar school he seemed to have a photographic memory, yet was always on the verge of failing most of his classes. He could memorize large portions of the World Book Encyclopedia as a very young child but would still wet his pants long into middle school. One beacon through which Page would connect with the world was music.

Eventually, his obsession with music would lead him to a career writing about it for the New York Times and Washington Post. He won a Pulitzer Prize for music criticism in 1997 .

In his memoir PARALLEL PLAY, Page writes out growing up in his own world and how he eventually learned that the name for his way of thinking had a name: Asperger's Syndrome.

LISTEN: TIM PAGE - "PARALLEL PLAY"