Katie

I was wary that this would present the “good people on both sides” trope or whitewash history. It did neither.

Some of its information is vital, but I don't read books about adoption trauma written by non-adoptees anymore, especially ones claiming to be ‘experts' about being an adoptee. She has a view as an adoptive woman that she can share. She goes on to shame people that need to use day care, and touts her belief in that as therapist to give that bias/classism some sort of psychological validity. As a therapist myself, I'm calling bullsh!t on that.

Didn't want to know where the student/teacher relationship was headed, tired of reading about that stuff. Realized I was skimming/not reading the interspersed science stuff (despite being an avid science type reader) and realized this book was not for me.

I had to put this one down because of it's portrayal of neurodivergence. Life is too short to spend time on books that perpetuate harmful myths about autism.

This was a bit much.