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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
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brigid_'s review
medium-paced
1.0
Fuck this book.
Everyone CAN get something out of this book, as it reads like a medium doing an appearance on Maury. “Does the letter D mean anything to you? Your father maybe? Uncle? Brother? Grandfather? Family friend? Father figure? Any man with a D name? A masc person with a D name?” And to the extent that you can use this book to name a feeling and try to move through it, rad.
But also.
Arguing that the root of your depression may be your mom had a traumatic birth with you? Fuck off. You may be fat because you just don’t love yourself enough because your grandmother’s vagina smothered two of her children leading to birth defects and two uncles who were subsequently hidden away in the basement for years and years? No seriously, fuck you and your made up anecdotes.
Everyone CAN get something out of this book, as it reads like a medium doing an appearance on Maury. “Does the letter D mean anything to you? Your father maybe? Uncle? Brother? Grandfather? Family friend? Father figure? Any man with a D name? A masc person with a D name?” And to the extent that you can use this book to name a feeling and try to move through it, rad.
But also.
Arguing that the root of your depression may be your mom had a traumatic birth with you? Fuck off. You may be fat because you just don’t love yourself enough because your grandmother’s vagina smothered two of her children leading to birth defects and two uncles who were subsequently hidden away in the basement for years and years? No seriously, fuck you and your made up anecdotes.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia