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    Loving and Precarious
    Loving and Precarious
    Loving and Precarious
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    Loving and Precarious

    By Erika Hammerschmidt

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    Book 2 in Erika Hammerschmidt's "If the World Ended" series. Aliens destroy childhood nostalgia. A boy on a starship loses touch with reality. Two lovers learn to fly, and a jewelry box learns to communicate. An often dark and tragic collage of speculative fiction, delving deeper into the lives of lonely outcasts and the tumultuous world of love and family. (Adapted from the 2013 short story collection "If the World Ended, Would I Notice?")

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErika Hammerschmidt
    Release dateMar 18, 2020
    ISBN9781370256068
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    Erika Hammerschmidt

    I am an autistic author, artist and speaker. I give speeches to schools and support groups, telling the story of how I grew up as an alien on earth.I was diagnosed with various neurological disorders around the age of 11, but labels aren't everything to me. We are all individuals, and a diagnosis is just one of humanity's flawed but natural attempts to arrange the world into categories that seem neat and orderly. It's language, and as much as I love language, it is not a perfect way of describing reality. There is no perfect way. No word's definition is universally agreed upon. No written definition can perfectly encompass the idea expressed by a word. And some ideas can't even be expressed by words in the first place.What I am can be described partially by the words "Autism," "Asperger Syndrome," and "Tourette Syndrome," with their definitions as printed in the 1992 edition of the DSM-IV, as they were interpreted by my childhood psychiatrist... but really, individual people all have their own unique mental conditions. Mine works for me right now, with or without labels. I see no need to change.

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