Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

24 reviews

emma_sky's review

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Physical abuse, Self harm, Classism, Eating disorder, 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

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

zara89's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Drug use, Ableism, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Death

Minor: Bullying and Vomit

orangecasio's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny fast-paced

5.0

Loved reading this. A very raw view of Fern Brady’s life, from a Scottish and autistic woman.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

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

kalubob's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Self harm, and Drug abuse

hanne_chummy's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Grief, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Drug use, Eating disorder, Violence, Sexual violence, Self harm, Misogyny, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

aquariusisms's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Ugh I was really hoping this would be a new favorite, but unfortunately the amount of fatphobic descriptions of other people and "jokes" about  bodies/fatness made this mostly fall flat for me. I did really enjoy hearing about the author's experience as an autistic woman who grew up in Scotland, and I think her perspective is an important and interesting one, but I just wish she hadn't leaned so hard on fatphobia as a way to be "funny". None of those lines were important to include, and if she had hired some sensitivity readers they probably could've told her that. I think with those edits this might be a book I'd rate 4 or 4.5 stars, and just a better book in general- which makes it even worse because it had the potential to be so good :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Violence, Self harm, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Death, Body shaming, Classism, Bullying, Mental illness, Alcohol, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, and Drug abuse

Minor: Vomit and Pandemic/Epidemic