On December 14, 2018, I walked into the Multnomah Friends Meetinghouse for the first time. I felt enveloped in a circle of Light, at one with it and with everyone in the room. I had been searching, longing for this my entire life. I was Home.
As someone with Asperger’s, crowds – anything more than two people is a crowd! – terrify me. Over the years, and by necessity, I’ve learned the rules to conventional discourse; I’ve spent years...