Reading gives you an opportunity to see life through someone else’s eyes– that’s what I keep learning.

It’s 12 : 18 PM on day 1142 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray,   read 1 Kings 22,    publish my Disability of the Day feature, feed myself  Bran Flakes and boiled egg for breakfast,   finish reading  House Rules by Jodi Picoult, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles,  stretch my hamstrings, take off my dirty jacket and t-shirt and put on a clean t-shirt and spend time outside.

This morning I finished reading  House Rules by Jodi Picoult – a novel about Jacob, an eighteen-year-old who has Asperger’s Syndrome, who is accused of the murder of his tutor – there were some things I could totally relate to like the fact that when one family member is differently-abled the whole family is differently-abled by association and other things that were totally foreign to me like what it’s like to hear the smallest sounds reading this novel has  given me a new respect for people who have Autism and has made me grateful for the way my brain processes information.