When Ethan Rice was four years old, he was diagnosed with high-functioning autism. He decided that he wanted to tell his first grade class that he had autism on his seventh birthday. His parents asked him many questions about what having autism felt like for him and wrote his answers down as a reference for when he told his class. The answers are now published so more people can understand what it is like to have autism.

“Sometimes I lose track of where my body is and I run into people. I don’t mean to and I really don’t like fighting.”