Kaitie Moore’s Reviews > But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life > Status Update

No faith in your own understanding of the world/your own perception, so you’ll discard what you believe to be true in favor of the opinions of others, because you perceive them as facts

She feels a need for symmetry (one hand is touched so she touches her other hand)

She worried that she was a narcissist and manipulative, and have worried about that too before

I feel validated that the author separates reading and literary comprehension. I always considered them the same/similar, and since I struggle with understanding deeper meanings behind words/decisions/literary devices, I assumed I was just not as good a reader as I assumed or not good at critical thinking. Her pointing that out (chapter 6) erases some of the negative options about myself that I held