I'm just over half way through this book by Gina Rippon, has anyone else read it? If so how did you get on with it? It's bringing up a lot of stuff for me about how I was when I was younger, like how much I masked and cammoflaged, how whilst I wouldn't exactly prepare a script for being with others, but I would read a lot of stories and then get confused when people didn't act the same way in real life as they did in books.
Whilst I didn't and don't have special interests, so much of my behaviour was repetitive, things like embroidering table mats, they all had to have exactly the same patterns of stitches if not I couldn't cope and would get really upset and aggitated. How all my toy farm and riding stable animals had to go in the same places, no dolls were allowed in my dolls house, it was MY house and everyting had to be arranged in exactly the same way.
I think I'm enjoying this book although it is a bit triggering, but I think in a good way.
