Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

35 reviews

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

hjb_128's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, Suicide, Gore, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Biphobia, Homophobia, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

wheelyautistic's review against another edition

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

nicole_zx's review

challenging emotional funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Self harm, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction

awen_mair's review

fast-paced

3.5

Really insightful, easy to read but sooo stressful omg. Definitely learnt a lot but I think a few things need to be taken with a grain of salt. For example, she mentions getting a lot of referrals to different mental health experts “mainly just to get me out of people’s offices as I was making them uncomfortable“ whereas I read it more as trying to find the best person to help her. On this topic, I think there’s a lot of feeling presented as fact which could be a little misleading. Definitely learnt a lot though! She uses the word ‘Machiavellian’ a lot which I only know, personally, because of Taylor Swift lol. Definitely check the content warnings before reading!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, and Addiction

emily_j_h's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Self harm, Suicide, and Eating disorder

t0astghost's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide

caittweddle's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Self harm, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicide

lemon_mcgee's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I wish I had read this book ten years ago. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, and Suicide

wickedgrumpy's review

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