In Mockingbird, Caitlin, who is an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, loses her older brother, Devon. He had always helped her push through challenges. For example, he helped her figure out all the words and emotions that were confusing to her. Now, with Devon gone, she has to figure out the world alone, since her Dad isn’t really helping her. When she reads the definition of closure in her dictionary, she wants to find out how to get to closure. On her journey to get to closure, Caitlin learns things that will change the way she sees her life forever.

          Meeting Caitlin made me realize that there really is no such thing as being “weird” or “normal”, it’s just how people’s perspective affect them to see the world in different ways. I feel that there is no such thing as being normal because, if we were all normal, we wouldn’t have created what we have in the world today, because we would all think the same, and have no way of creating other things. I have also learned that there is also no such thing as being weird, because even though we’re different and we think and act differently from each other, we are each our own person, and we all do different things from each other. These are some of the ways Mockingbird has changed me as a human.