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* FirstKiss: Jessa's parents have banned her from dating until she's sixteen, but they haven't specifically banned her from kissing. She and Nathaniel share a few brief kisses when they make up after their misunderstanding.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Nathaniel's dad thinks Asperger's is just an excuse to act like a brat and is constantly trying to force him to act more normal.
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* TantrumThrowing: During a meltdown, Nathaniel throws a Rubik's cube at his closet door, doing minor damage to the door and major damage to the cube. His rage disappears as he's crawling around picking up pieces of the cube.
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* WordSchmord: Nathaniel says, "I don't think I am cut out to be a rock star." Jessa says, "Rock star, schmock star." Nathaniel asks what a schmock star is, and Jessa explains that you can replace the beginning of a word with "schm," which Nathaniel finds confusing but funny. Later, when his mom asks if there's something going on between him and Jessa, he says, "Something, schmomething."
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* FoodFight: Cooper throws a marshmallow peep at Nathaniel, which turns into a food fight. All kinds of food are thrown except Emily Erin's cookies, which are too good to ruin.
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* HeldBackInSchool: Nathaniel is surprised to learn that Logan is still in middle school despite being fourteen, like the others.
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* FirstKiss: Jessa's parents have banned her from dating until she's sixteen, but they haven't specifically banned her from kissing. She and Nathaniel share a few brief kisses when they make up after their misunderstanding.
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** Jessa smells like citrus.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Nathaniel wants to date Jessa, but Jessa has told him that her parents won't let her date until she's sixteen. At the party, Nathaniel sees her with a boy, assumes she lied to him, and freezes her out for several days. He realizes too late that the boy was actually her cousin Sam, whom Nathaniel hadn't seen in years.
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* SignatureScent: Molly wears her leather riding boots everywhere, including to riding lessons, so she always smells like manure.
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** Molly wears her leather riding boots everywhere, including to riding lessons, so she always smells likemanure.manure.
** Three-year-old Joshua smells like a mixture of Mr. Bubble, mint toothpaste, and chocolate.
** Molly wears her leather riding boots everywhere, including to riding lessons, so she always smells like
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* DumbStruck: Nathaniel's dad forces him to go to a WildTeenParty, where he drinks punch that turns out to be spiked with vodka. The vodka interacts badly with his medications, rendering him almost catatonic for days. Eventually he recovers enough to communicate by typing on his computer, but it's another few days before he can talk well.
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* INeedToGoIronMyDog: When Nathaniel is ambushed by Jessa and Logan, when his last interaction with them involved drunkenly insulting Jessa and vomiting, he says, "I need to get a drink of water or other reasonable action" and then bolts for the bathroom.
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* TextualCelebrityResemblance: A girl at a party says that Nathaniel looks like a cross between Creator/LucasTill and Creator/AlexPettyfer.
* VerbThis: Nathaniel's mom says, "Was that a sense of humor I just glimpsed?" Nathaniel starts talking about how she can't "glimpse" something auditory. His mom says, "Glimpse this!" and tosses a bag of potato chips at him.
* VerbThis: Nathaniel's mom says, "Was that a sense of humor I just glimpsed?" Nathaniel starts talking about how she can't "glimpse" something auditory. His mom says, "Glimpse this!" and tosses a bag of potato chips at him.
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* HomeschooledKids: Nathaniel attended one day of preschool, but failed to fit in so badly that he's been homeschooled ever since.
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Nathaniel replaces swear words in other people's dialogue with "(R-rated word)."
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Nathaniel Clark is a fourteen-year-old with Asperger's. Some people call him a genius, but Nathaniel has read that a true genius is someone who uses his talent to make a contribution to the world. Nathaniel is determined to live up to his label, and begins his quest to do something important.
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Nathaniel Clark is a fourteen-year-old with Asperger's.UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome. Some people call him a genius, but Nathaniel has read that a true genius is someone who uses his talent to make a contribution to the world. Nathaniel is determined to live up to his label, and begins his quest to do something important.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Nathaniel's parents split up when he was eight, and he dreads his weekend visits with his father, a successful motivational speaker and "people person" who loves sports and trucks. His father has much more in common with Nathaniel's half-brother Joshua, an outgoing toddler.
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* ParentWithNewParamour: Nathaniel's stepmom Rachel. Nathaniel doesn't love her, but she's at least nice to him, which is more than his dad can say.
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* IdiotSavant: Nathaniel, as well as his friend Molly, a horse-obsessed girl whose detailed drawings of horses have been praised by ''TIME'' magazine.
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* SignatureScent: Molly wears her leather riding boots everywhere, including to riding lessons, so she always smells like manure.
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[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mindblind.jpg]]
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* TeenGenius: Nathaniel [[ChildProdity graduated high school at eleven]] and is now a college graduate with a major in computer science and minors in Mandarin Chinese and mathematics.
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* TeenGenius: Nathaniel [[ChildProdity [[ChildProdigy graduated high school at eleven]] and is now a college graduate with a major in computer science and minors in Mandarin Chinese and mathematics.
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''Mindblind'' is a 2010 young adult novel by Creator/JenniferRoy.
Nathaniel Clark is a fourteen-year-old with Asperger's. Some people call him a genius, but Nathaniel has read that a true genius is someone who uses his talent to make a contribution to the world. Nathaniel is determined to live up to his label, and begins his quest to do something important.
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!!''Mindblind'' contains examples of:
* {{Dedication}}: "To Gregory, a wonderful, supportive husband and father."
* MaleBandFemaleSinger: Nathaniel's band consists of himself on keyboards, Logan Finley on drums, Cooper Owens on guitar, and Jessa Rose on lead vocals.
* OwnGoal: During Nathaniel's short-lived attempt at soccer when he was seven, he kept running in the wrong direction no matter how many times his father tried to explain where the goal was.
* PhotographicMemory: Nathaniel remembers everything that's ever happened to him since he was one. He often gets caught up in a memory and spaces out, which causes some people to think he's having a seizure.
* TeenGenius: Nathaniel [[ChildProdity graduated high school at eleven]] and is now a college graduate with a major in computer science and minors in Mandarin Chinese and mathematics.
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Nathaniel Clark is a fourteen-year-old with Asperger's. Some people call him a genius, but Nathaniel has read that a true genius is someone who uses his talent to make a contribution to the world. Nathaniel is determined to live up to his label, and begins his quest to do something important.
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!!''Mindblind'' contains examples of:
* {{Dedication}}: "To Gregory, a wonderful, supportive husband and father."
* MaleBandFemaleSinger: Nathaniel's band consists of himself on keyboards, Logan Finley on drums, Cooper Owens on guitar, and Jessa Rose on lead vocals.
* OwnGoal: During Nathaniel's short-lived attempt at soccer when he was seven, he kept running in the wrong direction no matter how many times his father tried to explain where the goal was.
* PhotographicMemory: Nathaniel remembers everything that's ever happened to him since he was one. He often gets caught up in a memory and spaces out, which causes some people to think he's having a seizure.
* TeenGenius: Nathaniel [[ChildProdity graduated high school at eleven]] and is now a college graduate with a major in computer science and minors in Mandarin Chinese and mathematics.
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