Light Switch is a profound and funny play that smashes stereotypes about autistic adults while also telling a great story. As an autistic playwright, I found reading this play very inspiring. Henry is a character who learns and grows throughout the show, but that growth is on his own terms, not in search for some neurotypical "normal." I also appreciated the ways this play depicts autism as a strength, particularly in Henry's single-mided devotion to scholarly study.

I so rarely am delighted with a script--and Light Switch had me reading without pausing. Maybe because I love the same authors that the main character Henry does? (Except for Wuthering Heights...) No, it's just such a clear coming of age story--coming of age complicated by being gay, too smart, and having autism. I'm so glad this script has garnered such success.

Euphoric, messy, confusing, frightening – these adjectives can apply to being in love, or being autistic in a neurotypical world, and Osmundsen evokes both experiences with warmth and clarity. Henry, the protagonist, is obsessed with the classics of nineteenth-century literature, and like those great novels, the romantic misadventures of this play's characters are depicted with a minimum of sentimentality and a wealth of empathy. Everyone in this play is yearning for something or someone they can't quite reach, but they never stop trying, and Osmundsen leaves the audience with the hope that someday, maybe, they just might succeed.