An Unquiet Mind Reflection

I choose this book as a personal curiosity as I have always wondered if I was a bit autistic. Throughout my life, I have been labeled as intellectually gifted, but emotionally challenged. As a child, I had anger issues and never had many friends, often socially awkward. So, I wanted to read a book to see how a person who does have autism was. I wanted to see if I had some of the same issues and complaints. For instance, I had many surgeries and other issues as a child and teenager, all of which I was unbearable and it wasn’t until I was 19 and I had one of my worst anger fits that my mother said something that really struck home, “think of how others might feel.” I was in fact mind blind, I had trouble seeing the other perspective. From that moment on I have been a bit better, but I am not constantly focusing on it I tend to still miss the other perspective and this continues to cost me friendships and hardships to this day. I am fortunate enough to have found someone who is willing to help me and help me grow. So, after the book do I still think that I might be autistic? Well, I know for certain there I still have some of the emotional processing issues,

The only critique of the book I have is that the events in the book read as if they were overly dramatic, as if the events were not of as huge of proportions until remembering them for this book. An example of the dramatization can be found on page 111, “The morbidity of mind was astonishing… I even slept in the same clothes from that day because I was too tired to undress”. The quote starts with seeing death everywhere and by the end it this affected her to the point of sleeping in the same clothes. First, who hasn’t slept in the same clothes at times and secondly while I understand the concern, the wording feels as if it is over the