Only slightly off-topic, but Nicholas Sparks, author of such "Chick Books" as "The Notebook", "The Wedding" etc -- in some ways the literary equivalent of Thomas Kinkaide -- nonetheless wrote a rather moving, empathic, and tender account of life with an adult with Asperger's in his novel "Dear John".

I should say, I find Sparks to be a better story-teller than Kinkaide is a painter.