Just Being Alive: A Memoir of Struggle and Self-acceptance

By Steven Michael Wetstein

What are the challenges of being different-very different? Of growing up at the meeting point of anxiety, depression and family strife? Steven Wetstein underachieved as a student but longed to develop his mind; wanted to help others but felt powerless to do so; and felt left behind as those around him made careers and found partners. Instead, he struggled through four decades as a cook, giving his best but taking little satisfaction from the work. But he did not give up. He began the journey of reading his way to an understanding of life and discovered human rights activism as his chance to make a difference. Suddenly finding, in his fifties, that he is autistic added one more level of focus. Just Being Alive is his story of the universal search for identity, acceptance and meaning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578302152
• ISBN13: 9780578302157
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Steven M. Wetstein
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"