With the publication of Reasonable People he joins a group of poets who have written nonfiction accounts of disability that includes Lucy Grealy, Nancy Mairs, Mary Karr, Kenny Fries, Michael Berube, and Audre Lorde just to name a few. Reasonable People is a landmark book, both in its poetic appreciation of what Carl Jung’s followers call “depth psychology” and for its tough minded counter-statement to a longstanding view that autistic people will, necessarily have limited epistemological options in life. Such views are the product of neo-Victorian science and they depend on the inability of individuals to resist easy classifications. Such resistance is, of course, the business of poetry, that “sweat of the heart” as the poet Marvin Bell would call it.