Inside the O'Briens Reflection
After reading Inside the O’Briens , I not only have a better understanding of what conditions go along with having Huntingdon’s disease but also of how this cruel disease impacts the lives of families. Throughout the book, the reader gets to truly experience the emotions and feelings felt by the members of the O’Brien family and how they change over the process of finding out who has the HD gene. Firstly, I found it interesting that Joe’s mother never told him that she was slowly dying from this disease. However, I imagine she held that information from him simply because she wanted him to be able to live his life without the anxiety and thought-controlling emotions that come with having a parent with HD and wondering if and when to get genetically tested for the gene. I also find it very interesting that everyone thought that his mother “drank herself to death”, only because many symptoms that go along with Huntington’s can seem like someone is intoxicated. This no