Éleonore's book is an exceptionally powerful document, showing how prejudices and stigmas, with which we too often live without asking questions, are not so impregnable. With the strong support of admirable parents and an enormous desire to live a full life, this rebellious, cheerful, witty and tenacious girl not only manages to become independent and live a full love life, but also reviews in her reflections all the great questions of existence, often by reading her, making us completely forget about genetics and its supposed constrictions. Its reading is a challenge and questions many paternalistic conceptions with which we often console ourselves every time we cross paths with someone 'different' in the street. 'I know, sometimes I do things that can be uncomfortable: I talk to myself, I grimace.... But we are not poison! We are like others, we live like others. I make an effort, I talk to myself less and less. I have an extra chromosome, that's all. My father says it's the 'chromosome of happiness': I have Down's Syndrome'.
