Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

72 reviews

laurenkimoto's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Dysphoria, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Ableism, Blood, Bullying, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Biphobia, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

amyford's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gore, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Alcoholism, Rape, Eating disorder, Medical content, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Violence

veelaughtland's review

challenging dark funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Physical abuse

pat_sc's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Gutwrenching but simply wonderful in her sincerity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Drug use, Sexism, Self harm, and Misogyny

Minor: Eating disorder, Bullying, and Body shaming

paddy_chh's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Physical abuse, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Medical trauma, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Sexism, Child abuse, Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

cisutherland's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

jem_carstairs's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Awful as it is that it took until 2022 for a book like this to exist, I’m so glad it does now. Fern Brady writes such an accurate representation of autism in women, a phenomenon that has been ignored for such a long time, using both personal stories AND data. 

More people need to read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Ableism, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Bullying, Biphobia, and Drug use

ciaravirk's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide, Ableism, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting

poison_frogs's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Drug use, Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Addiction

lovelyoutliers's review

funny informative slow-paced

3.0

This memoir gives us a look into Fern’s life through the lens of late diagnosed autism. She showed how some of her early life struggles were shaped by neurodivergence and how it affects her life. 

It’s an important addition to the sparse literature focused on autistic females. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Rape, Eating disorder, and Sexual content