Liana Finck

Finck says finishing her Genesis adaptation gave her a new connection to the God of the Torah and a sense of belonging.

“When I finished my book, I did feel a new connection to the God of the Torah and a new sense of belonging to my religion”

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Finck says her problem with the God of the Old Testament is that he is too confident, seeming more like a king than a creator.

“My problem with God is that he's too confident. For me, creation is an act of solving problems, of figuring things out”

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Finck says she knows the social rules but finds they don't make sense to her and works hard to follow them.

“I feel like I know the rules, but I feel intensely that they don't actually make sense to me and that I'm working really hard to follow them”

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Finck says that although undiagnosed, she relates most to mild autism, a diagnosis she believes was not available in her childhood.

“I haven't been diagnosed, but the thing I relate to the most is mild autism”

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