Note to the Reader
Becky's Questions
Part 1: "Will I Always Be Slow?"
The Rough-and-Tumble of Family Life
A Good Balance
To Hawaii, 1959
Defensive Wounds
"You Can't Hit Me, I'm Retarded!"
"Monster Mash"
The Beach Boys
Virginia Beach: A Mellaril Haze
"It's All Happening in Love With Me"
Part 2: "How Do You Know When You're in Love?"
"I Am in Deep Love"
Tora, Tora, Tora
"I Know How You Feel About It"
"I Try to Be Myself and Not Anybody Else"
"I Am a Slow Learn"
Assessment
"I Am Trying to Play It Cool"
"They Try to Get Me Drunk"
The Mary of Egypt Connection
"I Am Having Problems Seeing Eye to Eye With Men"
"It Seems like I Don't Like the Men Who Like Me"
Part 3: "What Can I Do to Be Good Enough to Develop Skills?"
"A Big Poodle in the Dog House"
"I Try to Change for a New Me"
The Finder of Lost Things
"I Want to Change but Am Afraid of Change"
"I Feel Lost Again"
Not Stoicism, but Stability
"All My Dreams Get Sunk"
Part 4: "What Does 'Being Dependent' Mean?"
"I Know God Has a Plan for Me"
"If I Stay with the Family I'll Be a Failure"
Mrs. R.
A Haunting
"Becky Says You're Getting a Divorce"
"Please Don't Ask Me about My Group Home"
"I Have a Hard Time Loving Myself"
"I Can Only Change Me"
"I Passed the Drunk Test!"
Part 5: "What Will Happen to Me If You, Dad, and Mom Get Sick?"
"I Feel Hurt Because You Wrote a Book and I Didn't"
"You Should Write a Book about Me"
The Writer in the Family
Ho'omalimali
"I Was Praying for That"
"I Don't Want Mom or Dad to Die"
"I'm Acting like a Child, and I Don't Know Why"
Misfits
"I Guess This is What It Means to Be Bipolar"
"I'll Be Fine. I Have a Positive Attitude"
"I Think You're Right"
Part 6: "It's Important to Be the Right Kind of Person"
"A Hugging Church"
"I Know Now People Live and Die"
"I Need to Spread My Wings"
"She Appears Older than Her Stated Age"
"No One Loves You; You Should Just Die"
Vows
"A Swan, and Not the Ugly Duckling"
Phone Hugs
"Manicky"
"I Feel OK about Her Going"
"I Tell Them All About It"
Holy Week
Part 7: "Here We Go Again"
"She's a Mother Hen and I'm Fed Up with Her"
"I Wish I Could Be Like Him"
What I Owe to Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"A Freak in This World"
"I Like It Here"
"Here We Go Again"
"The Divine Presence Is Everywhere"
Daisy
The Color Artist
"Thank You for Telling Me"
Part 8: "I Bet I Can Have Dessert Now"
"I'm Afraid That I'll Die Alone"
"I Bet I Can Have Dessert Now"
"Does She Have Faith?"
Rebecca Sue Norris: Medications as of April 2013
"We Learn a Lot About Love"
"I Have the Cutest Doctor, and He Surfs!"
Communion
"I Hate My Symptoms"
To God's Kingdom
"She Was Still Able to Be Herself"
Tulips
"I Am the Butterfly, Spread the Wings"
"Tabitha, Get Up"
The Perfect Thing to Say
Like a Child at Home
"It Was like She Took All the Light With Her"
Becky's Birds
The Gospel According to Rebecca
"And I Will Raise Them Up"
Iron Man 3
Acknowledgments