The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness

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The poignant story of a boy’s coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.

What wouldn’t it be like to look everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D’Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions, making him irrepressibly friendly, indiscriminately trusting, and unconditionally loving toward everyone he meets. It also makes him enormously vulnerable. Eli lacks the innate skepticism on the way to lend a hand his peers navigate adolescence more safely—and vastly more successfully.

Journalist Jennifer Latson follows Eli over three very important years of his life as his mother, Gayle, should make a decision whether to shield Eli entirely from the world and its dangers or give him the freedom to find his own way and grow to be his own person.

By intertwining Eli and Gayle’s story with the science and history of Williams syndrome, the book explores the genetic basis of behavior and the quirks of human nature. More than a case study of a rare disorder, on the other hand, The Boy Who Loved Too Much is a universal tale concerning the joys and struggles of raising a child, of growing up, and of being different.

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