Jess: This personal essay from Mary H.K. Choi is super interesting in how it considers the tangled ways that family, culture, and neurodivergence can all intertwine and sometimes you miss one crucial piece of what's you. Also it made me wish desperately for her next novel. www.thecut.com/article/mary...

This personal essay from Mary H.K. Choi is super interesting in how it considers the tangled ways that family, culture, and neurodivergence can all intertwine and sometimes you miss one crucial piece of what's you. Also it made me wish desperately for her next novel. www.thecut.com/article/mary...

I Was Diagnosed With Autism in My 40s. It Gave Me Answers.www.thecut.com By 43, Mary HK Choi had come up with many explanations for her strangeness around other people. Was it something else all along?

For example, she always considered her dislike of eye contact to be traced to the conflict between her Korean culture where eye contact could be hostile and the English teachers at school who demanded eye contact as a sign of attention. But hey also what about autism! We are complicated beings!

Anyway if anyone knows when her next novel is coming (I think I heard whispers it's an adult novel, which I would be even more excited about) please tell me. And if you like this essay I highly recommend her novels YOLK and EMERGENCY CONTACT.

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