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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
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I enjoyed reading this and found some very insightful snippets about perspectives on life that I have page marked for the future. However, while I think this anecdotal scientific guide to 'explaining humans' was a really interesting concept, I believe that there is a slightly tainted overall theme to the book of social conformity being necessary for neurodivergent people.
I really liked this book. It is different from other non fiction that I have read because of the correlation the writer makes. It gives us both an insight into het mind and shows us other ways to look at things that seem mundane or too large to handle. Here are a few of my favourite thing I took away from this book:
- fear and anxiety can seem like a blinding light, you can’t look straight at it and it can feel overwhelming. But the moment you filter that light through a filter/prism the colorwaves split and become a rainbow which is much easier to decipher.
- you can look at proteins to see how being different can help you in groups and society as a whole. I really liked this take and now I know what kind of protein I am most like
- fear and anxiety can seem like a blinding light, you can’t look straight at it and it can feel overwhelming. But the moment you filter that light through a filter/prism the colorwaves split and become a rainbow which is much easier to decipher.
- you can look at proteins to see how being different can help you in groups and society as a whole. I really liked this take and now I know what kind of protein I am most like
Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where the author as narrator was not the best choice. When the book started, she was speaking about her childhood, and I wondered if they had found a child to narrate that section. When the voice continued, I checked, and it was, indeed, the author, a woman in her 30s, speaking. She simply has a rather high-pitched voice. I didn't want to be discriminatory and I tried to get used to it, but I simply couldn't get past that initial impression of being narrated to by a child. Maybe this will be one I have to read in print.