Chapters 1-10 Discussion
This week my group and I decided to read the first 10 chapters of Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergers. I’ll be honest, the first few chapters were hard for me to read. Not because it was poorly written, but because I could only think about my son who is 10 and would have Aspergers if they still diagnosed it, instead it is diagnosed as “Level 1 Autism”. I have four kids and two of them have an autism diagnosis, but it’s my son that reminds me so much of the author. There was a part where the author was describing how he was seeking comfort from his mother as he broke down because he didn’t understand why it was so hard for him to make and keep friends. This has been a constant battle we have been fighting with my son. I can’t begin to count the times I’ve sat with him crying or the conversations we have had. The difference is, the author of this book grew up in a time that there wasn’t much advocation for people with autism. As he mentioned, if you talked about autism, you