I read the book "My Thirteenth Winter" by Samantha Abeel. It is a memoir about her struggles in her life. There are hints throughout her book that she has a form of anxiety. She learns that the reason that she had this anxiety was because of a math disability she had called, dyscalculia. This kept her from being able to tell time, counting change, and doing an easy math problem. Reading this book really helped me. I had an anxiety problem myself and now that I have read this book it makes me feel better because, she showed me that I wasn't alone. I felt somewhat comfortable knowing that somebody else once went through what I once went through.
One thing in the book that helped me was when she told one of her memories which was her at a sleepover with her friend. She was having fun until it got later, then she worried about not being home. All of the possible bad situations rushed through her mind. At sleepovers this exact thing used to happen to me. I would think about until I started to feel sick and I would go home. This book made me realize all of the things I went through when I was little and how they relate to my anxiety.
All in all, the book "My Thirteenth Winter" has helped me a lot knowing that somebody else out there was like me. She gave many memories that I can relate to.
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