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A review by mesy_mark
The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness by Jennifer Latson
5.0
A highly entertaining book that weaves memoir of a woman named Gayle who has a son, Eli, with a lifelong genetic disorder causing extreme impairment in his life. The disorder is Williams Syndrome. And a key feature is pathological friendliness that means the person with the disorder will trust anyone that shows them attention, even strangers who do not even acknowledge the one with the disorder.
This book, which I listened to by a good narrator, had a good combination of science that is explained in a format that may understand and documenting the life of Eli up o his high school years. You see a give all child to a moody teen. But like the disorder implies, it is fraught with hardships. Intellectual disability, wanting to hug everything insight, dealing with male issues. This book covers baby years, to elementary, to middle school and finally high school.
Overall it was a great read, well listen. I got invested at the characters and their lives wishing the best for them.
This book, which I listened to by a good narrator, had a good combination of science that is explained in a format that may understand and documenting the life of Eli up o his high school years. You see a give all child to a moody teen. But like the disorder implies, it is fraught with hardships. Intellectual disability, wanting to hug everything insight, dealing with male issues. This book covers baby years, to elementary, to middle school and finally high school.
Overall it was a great read, well listen. I got invested at the characters and their lives wishing the best for them.