Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

43 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

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

donna_fay's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

While reading this I have recommended it to almost everyone I met, as someone who’s struggled  with similar things but never knew what it was I’ve never felt more seen. It made me feel less alone in so many ways. I even shed a tear in the end

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Self harm, Eating disorder, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide attempt

quiet_vulture's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Bullying, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

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

bridget_t's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, and Ableism

bookscattracks's review against another edition

3.0

I'll be honest, it's been hard for me to know what to write about this book. I feel strange passing judgement on a memoir like this, rating it, when it contains the content that it does. If anyone is thinking about reading, I'd say make sure you're aware of that first. 

Overall, this is a book about autism, and there were a lot of good points brought up, that I hope other people who have maybe struggled with autism, and been misdiagnosed, can find helpful. It is a book about autism, but there is also so much trauma. Again, I don't really feel right passing judgement on someone's personal story, and I know that using comedy to speak about difficult times in your life, can help some people. But I just couldn't find it funny. 

There was also a lot of language and thinking that didn't sit right with me, including fatphobia, double standards with other women, and just the general looking down on others. Again, it made it hard for me to laugh along. Maybe I am just doing the usual of focusing on the negatives, but this was a tough read for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Fatphobia