Jeanette Purkis spent her early life reacting violently against her feelings of embarrassment, anger and confusion about her 'difference' from other people. She was unaware until well into adulthood that everything she found difficult, including her lack of success in forming relationships, could be a result of having Asperger Syndrome. Used to being a misfit from a very young age, Jeanette found that being a member of a group in which she had a label Jeanette the Communist; Jeanette, Enemy of the State; Jeanette the convict; Jeanette the drug addict gave her a sense of order she could depend on, particularly in prison, where each day