by Octavia E. Butler 📚

Did childhood habits die hard—or not die at all?

That’s the trouble with habits. They tend to outlive their usefulness

How many times have you wondered how some especially self-destructive individual managed to survive adolescence? It’s a valid concern for humanity as well as for individual human beings.

And a reading list for those that want to dive down the rabbit hole of this question: “Huntington’s gene, for instance, can so greatly change our lives—what we can do, what we can become—then what are we? What, indeed?”

• The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior by Jane Goodall
• The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing: The Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Judith L. Rapoport
• Medical Detectives by Berton Roueché
• An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks