Final Blog for Lit. Circles

For the literature circles books I read the novel Thinking in Pictures: My life with Autism. By Temple Grandin.
 For this final blog I reviewed and compared my book to The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks from Haley Mooney's blog entry. Both books talk about challenging the status quo with oppression. In Temple's book she talks about how autistic people get oppressed in life and the disabled get pushed aside because they are thought of as incomplete. Many people see it as easier just to label disabled people and not worry about maybe they actually have something to offer. No one spend the time to figure out what their strengths are; Temple Grandin is able to see images in her head that no other "normal" human can see and yet she also at first was just labeled like everyone else. Henrietta had a similar story but she was not labeled purely by who she was, this played a role but really the problem with her was that no one ever tried digging to the bottom of who she was and what her real story was.
People in this society find it much easier to just go along with the rest of the crowd than spend time actually trying to find out the truth.  Haley sums this up well in her blog saying that "people are afraid of change and therefore when "signs" show that something may not go so well, the idea is quickly dropped and moved on from." This is what happens with autistic people too. No one wants to spend the time to actually find their strength and work with it, that is why it is hard for them to get past basic level job work. Yet if one was to actually spend the time to find their strengths and utilize them in the future, for education and job preference (like Temple did) they would flourish and be able to accomplish much more than then the average person.
Society needs to stop being lazy and get around just normal stereotypes, there are deep secrets that are hidden in things we choose to ignore, all we need to do is actually spend the time looking in them. They could help up solve our biggest problems.