Katie
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.
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 have very little interest in reading a book that contains the phrase ‘suckling at her breast' in the first few lines. Flipping through the first chapter, it got worse and it's a nope for me.
I'm so confused why none of these reviews talk about the casual racism that turned me off after 60 pages of it. I've looked at synopses online and I guess it turns into some kind of a tale of ‘olden times' seen as they were, which, cool, I just couldn't stomach getting through ‘darkie' to get there.
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.
