Adam Page #4

Excuse me, sir. What are you doing there?

- I said, what you doin'?

- Watching the children.

Uh-huh. Let me have some I.D., sir.

I-I was looking at the children.

Sir, turn around.

Put your hands on the fence, please.

- WhyWhy are you doing this?

- Lean forward, put your hands on the fence, please.

Turn around!

Hands on the fence.

WhatWhat are you doing?

I'm taking your wallet out of your back pocket

to check your identification, sir.

- 1 5-Adam to Central-K,

I need a name check. Adam Raki.

- Let's go.

- Is this the man you reported?

- I wasn't the one who saw him.

Where do you live, sir?

Please stay where you are.

Do you live or do you have business

in this neighborhood, sir?

Everything's fine. Go on back inside.

Beth!

- Are you the one who reported this?

- Adam.

- What's going on?

- You know this man?

Yeah, he's my neighbor. What happened?

I:

1 5-Adam. Raki- R-A-K-I. No hits.

- He's clean.

- All right. Sorry about that.

Can't be too careful with kids, right?

You can go.

Adam!

Adam?

Enough with the presents, okay?

Well, that was kind of awful, wasn't it?

I mean, God, you just stopped by

to watch the kids. I do that for a living.

- Police freak me out too. Okay?

- Do you wanna come in?

Okay.

So, you live alone?

Yes.

I mean, it's it's big for one person.

For the city.

Well, my father lived here too.

Oh! Where is he now?

- Queens.

- Queens.

He died six weeks ago.

Oh, God. I'm so sorry.

My friend Harlan says Queens

is where everybody goes to die...

because they can't tell the difference.

That'sThat's awful.

Harlan said it was a joke.

Oh, I meant about your father.

Uh

- What about your mother?

- She died when I was eight.

I'm so sorry.

I had a really nice time last night in the park.

Were you excited?

- What?

- Sexually, when we were in the park.

No, not exactly.

Well, I ask because I was,

and I wondered if you were too.

Thank you so much for the glass of water.

I I should I should be going now.

Because I said that thing

about being sexually excited?

No! No, no. I just

Well yeah.

Oh

Sometimes it's hard for me to-

I have this thing

that makes it hard to, um- to a-

It's called Asperger's syndrome.

Oh.

One thing about it is not knowing

what people are thinking.

- Like right now.

- Oh. Right.

I guess I was wondering

what that feels like for you.

It doesn't feel like anything. It just is.

Okay.

My brain works differently from N.T.'s.

N.T.'s?

Neurotypicals.

Sometimes I can't understand them...

especially when they mean something different

from what they're actually saying.

You don't do that?

No, most Aspies are really honest.

Psychologists think

it's a lack of imagination.

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