Asperger's Are Us Page #6

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is very friendly and

discloses a little bit

too much,

and but I was really flattered

that they found something

a little bit deeper.

Hello, Literate Man.

I have assumed the

shape of K-Strass,

the yo-yo man.

- Wow, your shapeshifting

skills are uncanny!

All right, um...

- Do you want me

holding my soda still?

- Yeah, sure, hold the soda.

That'll be funny.

- Warm brain,

I got a brain fart, and

yeah, I just, I don't

think I could go.

- All right, scene!

Totally.

Definitely what you

expect from K-Strass.

So, he's good at it.

He knows what he's doing.

- Here we have the

infamous gazebo,

which I'm really excited

to get a shot of,

'cause it has the stupidest sign

you could put

outside of a gazebo.

'Cause what the hell else

are you gonna do in a gazebo?

I'm a rebel without

a cause, baby!

No, I love the guys

in Asperger's Are Us.

I think their positives outweigh

their negatives definitely.

We do piss each other off,

but we're like brothers.

I mean, I wouldn't really know,

having never had one.

- Me and Noah started to develop

a pretty strong friendship

a little bit before

Asperger's Are Us.

He would call me

and we'd talk on the phone

for a really long time,

and I was like, "Oh,

that's cool," you know?

You know, 'cause

it was still like

Noah's the older counselor.

You wouldn't call your

close friends your mentors,

but back then,

Noah was a close friend

but also a mentor

because of the age difference

and how much he had to teach me.

- Ideally, New Michael

would be able to get

a career out of this.

I would love to make a career

out of this more than anything

but if I can't, I'll be okay.

I'm really concerned what

New Michael's gonna do

if this doesn't work.

- Being in a

working relationship

with him though,

has in some ways makes

you know, in some ways I

think is not necessarily

good for our friendship at

this moment, at this point.

- This one time,

New Michael grabbed Noah

in the middle of the night,

drove him to the beach,

threw him in the water,

said, "I never want

to see you again."

Noah got back at him,

burned the house down,

they both did some

jail time, it was,

it's not a moment in our troupe

we like to remember, and

Jack, well,

the less said about Jack's

dark side, the better.

Sorry, I totally

knocked you off base!

- Although I know we're

not gonna hang out

or talk much in the

next nine months,

New Michael really

is my best friend.

And has been since

he was a teenager,

which is weird,

but you try and

find another Aspie

who I can get along with,

and maybe we'll be

best friends instead.

- Their humor, I think,

is what really

brought them together,

and then Noah would

extend the relationship.

- I hope you guys

aren't talking about me.

- You told me to be myself!

- See,

see how the humor just,

it's just there!

- I actually didn't have to say

too much of anything.

Good thing your mother's

being interviewed,

'cause she has a lot

of great things to say.

- No, you know me.

I talk too much.

I'm allotted like

one question a day or something

so he doesn't like to

give away too much.

So we can only get so much

information, one at a time.

That's another reason

why I like that

I help get these guys around,

because I get Ethan

and Noah and Jack,

and I'll ask them,

"So do you guys have a

performance coming up?"

"Oh yeah, at such and

such and such and such."

- It's available online

for free, if anything.

Information.

- Uh-huh.

Sometimes it's not,

but that's how I find

out a lot of stuff, too,

so hopefully...

- Are you

guys coming to this show?

- I don't think so.

- Where is it, in Cambridge?

- Yeah.

- Why can't we go?

- I don't think

we are overly welcome,

but that's okay.

'Cause we've seen them perform...

- Are we welcome New Michael?

- Hmm.

- What time is it?

The show?

- The show's at midnight,

so you guys probably

wouldn't want to go.

- Aww, shucks.

- I'd be sleeping at that time!

- Yeah.

Oh well, we'll catch

your next show, honey!

- I guess that's telling me

you don't want me to go.

- He does that a lot.

From the mainstream.

- We gotta go.

- Yes.

- Uh oh.

- So I have to leave.

- Okay.

- The interview's clean.

My son don't want me there.

- Yeah, I know,

I know the feeling.

- I don't understand why.

- Well, it's the same as,

you know how you're

worrying about how you're,

you know, you're like I don't

know if I'm a good father.

I think it's that same sense of

of shame and

insecurity that he has

that makes him not want you guys

to see what he's doing,

'cause he just feels

funny about it.

- Feels uncomfortable?

- Yeah, exactly.

I don't think it's

anything personal,

it's just, you know,

you're his parents

and so he's like,

that's the most intimate thing,

and so it's scary for him.

- So I better not

let him see me!

Yeah, exactly!

If you hide, he'll be all right.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, you know?

I didn't let my mom

see me play a show

til I was like 24,

and I didn't let my dad

until I was, what, 21?

22, something like that.

He tells us stories about like,

"Yeah, me and my dad hung out

throwing socks at the fan,

"and it was really fun."

Yeah, yeah.

We do some fun things.

- He loves that stuff

about you, you know?

And those are the moments.

- Those were the old days.

- Oh, nah, that

wasn't that long ago.

That was a couple years ago

that you guys were doing that.

- Yeah, yeah, you know.

- But he got that

silliness from you

and it makes him such

a better comedian.

Every Aspie parent seems to fear

their kid hates them or

their kid is unhappy,

and it's 'cause their

kid isn't communicating

very much with them.

That's part of the autism is

you're self-centered,

so you really want

to stay within you

and not get out and

interact with the world,

which includes your

parents, unfortunately.

Is it overwhelming for you

to ride the train like this

when you have somewhere

important to go?

- Back and forth.

- Yeah, that makes sense.

- Like just back and

forth is overwhelming,

but if I were just riding

the train coming to a point,

it would be fine.

I mean, transferring

is not an issue,

although I do always get

overwhelmed in rush hour

'cause I'm bumping into people.

- It's good you aren't in

any Chris Tucker films.

Doing really good, dude.

I'm really happy that we're

in this troupe together.

- Very good, me too.

- You are the rock

that keeps us alive.

- Great.

- Pretty good.

Nice work, Cardboard

Cut-out Man.

Hopefully it will be having a

grand vision and succeeding,

but there's always a lot of risk

when we do something big.

This is the biggest

show we've ever done.

On a stage.

When they get here,

we'll run through

superhero palace.

Ethan, what are

the train options?

10:
40,

because that's the

only option for Jack.

- I guess.

- Way to not pick up!

- Is New Michael not answering?

- Yep!

- Okay, well,

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