ABSTRACT
Continued interest in autism finds Nora facing her interview with Dr. Beltran and also enrolling in a home-care respite job. The disrespect and ridicule she felt during the expert’s interview leads to a lesson on the challenges of human interaction. We analyze criticism itself and factors that can determine if it is real or imagined. Her writings describe the twin traumas of the interview and the unexpected events of respite care. Often in life, one has to “make lemonade from lemons,” another task for educational therapy. For the college demands, she must work to refine her conventions of written English.
