Freaks Like Us by Susan Vaught
Reads a bit like William Faulkner's The Sound and Fury and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night.
The book is told from the point of view of Jason aka Freak. Jason has schizophrenia. His best friends are Derrick aka Drip and Sunshine. They refer to themselves as the Alphabets. They call themselves that because they are all special ed whose disorders are all acronyms. There are other alphabets too, but they are the kids whose letters refer to behavioral disorders, and therefore do not fit in with Jason and his friends. Or rather, the other way around.
After getting off the bus one afternoon, Sunshine goes missing. They don't know if she was kidnapped, or if she ran away. The previous Saturday, Sunshine tells Jason something that she tells him he must forget. He does forget, but he tries desperately to remember because it could be the key to finding Sunshine. Then there's the part about Jason himself being a person of interest.
Good book.
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