I need shared stories...

[judifilksign]

 I sometimes feel my life with Sparkle is like an episode of STTNG:  "Darmok."  This is the one where the alien race speaks only in metaphors, and no one can figure them out.  Picard is kidnapped by the alien captain, and together, they must defeat an alien so they can learn to trust and communicate to one another, which avoids a war between their cultures.

I feel like Sparkle is one of the metaphor-people, and I'm just starting to get a clue as to what her world is.  I wonder to myself sometimes if the writers of this episode had someone in their lives that was autistic.  It has a lot of resonance for me.  

I need more shared stories to talk with my daughter better.