The Beautiful People of My Life

They live in the same world we do.

I had the chance to read Melissa Blake's Beautiful People (Thanks, NetGalley), and oh man. I'm still thinking about what a powerful book it is. I wish I had this book when I was growing up. I had a small birth defect that affected my balance, something I didn't know about until two years ago. For years, it was classified as NOS=not otherwise specified. At times I thought it was dyscalculia (math learning disability) and dysgraphia (writing disability), But it didn't explain so many things: why I hated playing sports because I couldn't hit the ball. Why sometimes I didn't understand a non-verbal cue. Why couldn't I keep my locker clean? Why were my notebooks such a mess? There are days I still struggle; I have vertigo, so I nearly lost my balance and fell down the other day. My house is messy because I never know where to start first. But I know this: there's more right about me than wrong.