Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

36 reviews

sarahreadsromance's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

It’s weird to rate someone’s personal story and judge that it is or isn’t good.  I appreciated the honesty and transparency that Fern Brady offers in this book, and it’s helpful to understand both her and other autistic women in my life.  My experience reading it was 4 stars, but that’s not to say that it couldn’t be much more valuable to someone else. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Addiction, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Classism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence

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

rochelle03's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Domestic abuse

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

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

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

amyrandles1's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Bullying, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Classism, and Self harm

itsbumley's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Description of an act of necrophilia.

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

soph_la's review

challenging emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Mental illness, Ableism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Self harm

Moderate: Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fatphobia, and Drug abuse