Interesting book and disturbing consequences

Just finished blitzing my way through a book: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. It's written first-person, from the perspective of an autistic man living around 2040. I found it both disturbing and compelling. If anyone has free time and reads it, let me know what you thought. I'd be interested in discussing impressions.

( Warning: semi-coherent, long, very deep introspection behind this link. Read at your own discretion. I will not be offended if you skip it. )

Ze drugs, zey do nussing!

Tonight my antihistamines decided they didn't want to work. I took my antihistamines a full hour and a half before the party, just to make sure they were fully in my system. But after just over an hour at the party, I was sneezing, my nose was running, my eyes were red and puffy, and I couldn't breathe. I took my inhaler. It worked for about 15 minutes. Ugh. So I decided to come home. I thank my lucky stars that my car didn't give me too much trouble in starting in the -20-something weather (-38 with windchill).

Of course now I still can't breathe, and I can't take my inhaler for another 3 hours. Maybe a shower will help.