hello welcome to my YouTube channel Mahi news the site at the Democratic Convention on Wednesday night of Tim walls' 17-year-old son leaping to his feet with streaming eyes a hand to his chest with a cry of that's my dad was heart-piercing as the mother of Georgie a 38-year-old on the Spectrum son who still lives with me I recognized him immediately as one of ours a sweet unfiltered slightly bewildered looking young man who wasn't quite sure what was expected of him in this epic moment of political agulation Gus walls has according to his parents a non-verbal learning disorder ADHD and an anxiety disorder all of which they regard not as a setback but as his secret power that makes him brilliant and hyperaware I know exactly what they mean one of the joys of my life in the social churn of New York is living with a son whose inability to read the room makes him incapable of telling anything but the truth once as my husband Harry Evans and I left a pretentious social gathering in the Hamptons Georgie told the host sunnily thank you very much no one spoke to me really so it was a very boring evening the food was okay I doubt I will come again I have never been prouder of you in my life shouted my husband in the car how many times have all of us wanted to say that as we gushed about the fabulous time we just hadn't had then there was the moment he went up to Anna wintor at one of my book parties and asked if she was Camila Parker BS and the time at the intake meeting for a supported work program when the therapist asked Georgie has anyone ever molested you unfortunately not he replied gie teaches me every day how much we depend on social lives to make the world go round his sister his forever best friend and I feel so lucky to have him in our lives so did his dad who died in 2020