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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
funny
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reflective
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informative
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Amazing memoir of how humans differs but yet connecting with each other. This brief and accessible book include plenty off excellently explained scientific ideas to help us navigate our lives while beeing a better human.
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Great insight into how an autistic person can view the world. A bit too scientific in its explanation though. Pleasant to listen to, but not enough memorable moments to give it more than 3 stars.
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i feel like this would be more interesting for audhders, definitely more of a memoir than advice i would say
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inspiring
medium-paced
It’s a really interesting concept, and an insight into how the author sees the world. As tools for myself, I’m not sure I gained much though—the connections she makes between scientific principles and human concepts felt both obvious to me and contrived at the same time. While it might be helpful, for example, to think of relationships as molecular bonds, there is always a limitation in the metaphor, and it feels odd to draw from these ideas as if they are absolute truths.
It’s still useful though to realise that this is how some people view the world, and the book was well written.
It’s still useful though to realise that this is how some people view the world, and the book was well written.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
As an autistic ADHD’er with a psychology degree this book sounded really interesting. Today, I decided to give up and just count it as a DNF. Even if I dislike a book, I usually make myself finish it anyways but this book was just too boring to me. I also felt that the things I did read were not necessarily helping me understand the concept she tries to help you understand. Chapter 2 for example is called ‘How to embrace your weird’ and draws the analogy to proteins. Well, to summarise, different types of proteins take on different roles and each is needed for your body to work efficiently. They need to work together and each one is valuable in their own way. So to embrace your weird you just need to be less self conscious and more accepting of different types of people… like seriously? To me it feels like the author wanted to info dump.
I also want to mention that, because of their problematic nature and history, I didn’t appreciate the use of ‘high functioning’ and Asperger’s in the introduction. I guess I expected the author to be aware of this considering her interest in science, words, and her own neurodiversity.
I also want to mention that, because of their problematic nature and history, I didn’t appreciate the use of ‘high functioning’ and Asperger’s in the introduction. I guess I expected the author to be aware of this considering her interest in science, words, and her own neurodiversity.