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Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

10 reviews

kell_xavi's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

Memoir by multilingual Scottish comedian, working class autistic woman, fashion icon, and former stripper Fern Brady. Brady’s experience of autism, depression, and anxiety is very unlike my own—different class, culture, field, and gender context, as well as 2 decades and celebrity status separate us—yet a lot of it is familiar, and the added stories (descriptions, frustrations, examples) are appreciated. I hope all of us women and trans autistics can find ways to be comfortable and safe with ourselves. I hope books like these can help us to be seen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Misogyny, Mental illness, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Police brutality and Rape

misdiagnosis

winter_ma's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

Informative perspective and reminder of the individuals frustrations and struggles intelligence individuals face in unaccompanied environments of education. In addition to the impact of unrecognised asd.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Classism, Homophobia, and Eating disorder

tetrootz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Self harm, Grief, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Rape, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Drug use, Ableism, Classism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Vomit, Physical abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Police brutality and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Dementia

readingpicnic's review

emotional funny reflective

5.0

Very real and unfiltered account of being a late diagnosed autistic woman, with lots of humor throughout. Fern also points out lots of common autistic traits throughout to the reader, to which I realized that so many things I do are shared experiences in the autistic community that I thought were just applicable to me…very validating to read though. The commentary on autistic women becoming strippers and/or sex workers was so interesting and something I’ve never heard before, but it makes sense with how she laid it out coupled with her own experiences. I loved the audiobook narration.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Ableism, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Misogyny

evelyn_parkhouse_reads's review against another edition

2.75

This is a memoir about a very angry woman, who unconsciously exhibits immense internalised misogyny and biphobia whilst claiming that her actions are beyond her control because of her autism. I appreciated the honesty, enjoyed her writing style immensely, and connected with the strong rage she often felt. However, her hatred of those around her, and her often violent actioning of this hatred, being tied almost entirely to her autism was a hard pill to swallow. There are many autistic women who might feel similar, but also many who don’t feel the same vitriolic hatred of others that Fern does. I hope that readers understand that her violence is an expression of her experiences/other mental illnesses worsened by her autism, and not that autism makes women hateful, mean bullies and physically aggressive like this book implies… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Self harm, and Bullying

carolineloveswombats's review

challenging dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Ableism, Self harm, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Fatphobia and Classism

hjb_128's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, Suicide, Gore, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Biphobia, Homophobia, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

It was difficult to read at times, but otherwise no notes.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Ableism, Addiction, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Alcohol, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Classism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, and Suicide

wishbea's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

An exceptionally raw, difficult to listen to book. It took me 2 months to finish it because I found it so overwhelming to read. Definitely check out all of the content warnings before jumping in to make sure you're emotionally prepared.

Like some other readers, I found Fern's attitude towards many of the women in her stories to be misogynistic and she often has negative things to say about people's weight that she doesn't reflect on, so be careful reading this if you are averse to that.

The most interesting part to me was at the end, when Fern talks about how she sought to reduce her meltdowns and identify the causes of them as well as habits that helped.

There is a shocking lack of resources for autistic adults in general, and less for autistic women. This will prove to be an important resource for autistic women, however Fern oftens speaks as if her experience is how all autistic women experience life and I think more of an emphasis should've been put on the reality that autistic people have our own individual struggles, some of us have meltdowns yes, but some of us have shutdowns and shutdowns are only mentioned as a throwaway comment. 

I think when you are contributing to an area that currently has a distinct lack of information available you do need to be careful about avoiding presenting your experience as if you are representing all autistic women.

I truly hope the release of this book inspires more autistic women to share their stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual content, Ableism, Drug use, Abandonment, Blood, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Classism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Death of parent and Excrement

radfordmanor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Body horror, Body shaming, Classism, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Violence, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, Self harm, and Sexism

Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Fatphobia, Ableism, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Pedophilia