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Gates once feared getting kicked out of Harvard University. His childhood was rocked by the sudden death of a friend in a hiking accident. He did LSD a few times With Source Code , Gates, 69, is looking back at all of it — the wonderful and the weird. Then came an idea: split his story into a series of separate books.

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Still, he says, being so focused on the past is a departure from the norm. He feels the most revealing part of the book was his decision to "explicitly" write that, had he been growing up today, he likely would have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Gates tells PEOPLE the reason why he waited until the epilogue of his memoir to include this realization was because when he was kid, "those words didn't come up.

The question of Gates being on the autism spectrum — typically characterized by someone having issues with social skills, communication and behavioral regulation — was only something that arose when he was an adult. But, he says, after a "few cases" where people asked him about it, "I had to reflect and say yes. There were other times as he worked on his memoir when he was surprised to look back at his memories and see how they matched up with reality — revealing how he had "sort of mythologized" parts of his life, he says.

For instance, he says, "I thought I got straight As in ninth grade, but they went back and got my report card and I got a B. Your mother and I were very touched at your concern about this. While Gates has great admiration for both his parents, he knew that in order to truly tell his story he couldn't shy away from sharing some of the more complicated aspects of growing up.

The middle son, Gates has an older and younger sister.