Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

57 reviews

amyrandles1's review

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

alyshab2005's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I've been a fan of Fern Brady's stand-up for a while now...I love her intelligent and blunt insights. Here she tells her own story of isolation and confusion as an undiagnosed autistic woman. She's incredibly honest about the less social acceptable parts of living with autism (breaking furniture, physical assault, unhealthy relationships). Still, at so many points in the book you feel just intense empathy and worry for her. I love that she doesn't try to tie up the end with a pretty bow, but leaves it still unresolved, a work in progress.  I especially recommend the audio book as she reads it herself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Addiction, Cursing, Violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

fluffy1st's review

challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Self harm, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder, Drug use, Death, and Bullying

mads_jpg's review

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

carolineloveswombats's review against another edition

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

dandelionmoth's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

overwhelmingly relatable but I loved it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexual content, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Misogyny

hrmason's review

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Body shaming, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

aliyachaudhry's review

emotional funny informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Addiction, Bullying, Body shaming, Classism, Death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Vomit

boats's review

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

A very funny account of tales ranging from lighthearted to upsetting. The structure was a little messy but I enjoyed the mixture of anecdote and information. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Self harm

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Ableism

Minor: Fatphobia and Toxic relationship

jillysmith's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

3.75

Equal parts funny and heart wrenching, Fern Brady tells the story of her life leading up to her diagnosis with autism in her mid thirties. While she worries about being defined by her new diagnosis, she shows how damaging suppressing and ignoring her condition has been throughout her life. She pulls no punches, sketching out the characters in her life with an almost cruel factualness. You can easily imagine that this autobiography was painful for many of her friends and family to read. Her life in comedy is given short thrift, with later chapters becoming a little repetitive of the facts and events that seem to give her comfort, but it's a powerful piece of persuasion that women need diagnoses too to help them navigate a world not designed for them. The audio book is a little stilted at times, but a pleasure to listen to

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Violence

Minor: Self harm, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Classism, and Adult/minor relationship