Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

19 reviews

stephriggs25's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

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

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

mads_jpg's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Really interesting memoir about life as an autistic woman, I'm a big fan of Fern Brady's comedy and knew about her diagnosis, but was surprised to see this was the main focus of the book. Really well written and very funny, tempted to listen to the audiobook too since I spent most of this book trying to read it in her voice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Classism, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcohol, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Sexual content, Addiction, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

bearystarry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

I feel incredibly seen by this memoir. I’m… probably going to reread and annotate this almost immediately.

Just wish there was less fatphobia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Violence, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Grief, Self harm, Drug use, Death, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Bullying, and Alcohol

Moderate: Police brutality, Sexual violence, Fatphobia, and Vomit

Minor: Rape, Racism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

wheelyautistic's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Brilliant memoir from one of my favourite comics. I love how honest and real Fern is about their life and how even now they are still working through their autistic journey of acceptance. This is a great book for anyone but particularly AFAB autistics or those who suspect they may be autistic. It isn't a self help book, far from it, but that's what makes it amazing because it allows a lot of people to relate to the difficult things they have also experienced as Autistic people. Fern inadvertly breaks the stereotypical autistic female mould and shows how being autistic can look outside of the typical white male presenting autistic representation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Ableism, Bullying, Death, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Abandonment, Alcohol, Body shaming, Hate crime, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Sexism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Excrement, and Police brutality

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

jcole32's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

dean_'s review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Addiction, Biphobia, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Classism, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Dementia, Grief, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Violence, Body shaming, Cancer, Bullying, Lesbophobia, and Police brutality