David Marchese

Yes.

No, no.

Even though it's in the book?

No, it's done.

Can I ask a general question that's not specifically about the material in the book?

Well, it's about the... I'll stumble through this.

Part of the reason that the material in the book about your relationship with your daughter, your strange relationship with your daughter, part of the reason why I found it so painful is that it resonated with me for personal reasons.

I've seen my father...

I think twice in 20 years.

You know, I've spoken to him once in those 20 years, and I'm very curious about other people's experience of that kind of estrangement.

In this instance, the estrangement is my choice, but I just wonder if you have thoughts about where reconciliation might lie between estranged parents and children.

I understand.

Towards the end of the book, you talk about a couple labels that might apply to you, one of which is Asperger's.

I think you say in there that your wife, Stella, sort of suspects that you may have Asperger's.

Have you ever been diagnosed?

No.

But the other label, it's right in the same paragraph.

You say another label that might apply is the label cold fish.

And you say that you prefer the cold fish label to the Asperger's label.

Why is that?