Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

2 reviews

foxwish's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

An exceptionally raw, difficult to listen to book. It took me 2 months to finish it because I found it so overwhelming to read. Definitely check out all of the content warnings before jumping in to make sure you're emotionally prepared.

Like some other readers, I found Fern's attitude towards many of the women in her stories to be misogynistic and she often has negative things to say about people's weight that she doesn't reflect on, so be careful reading this if you are averse to that.

The most interesting part to me was at the end, when Fern talks about how she sought to reduce her meltdowns and identify the causes of them as well as habits that helped.

There is a shocking lack of resources for autistic adults in general, and less for autistic women. This will prove to be an important resource for autistic women, however Fern oftens speaks as if her experience is how all autistic women experience life and I think more of an emphasis should've been put on the reality that autistic people have our own individual struggles, some of us have meltdowns yes, but some of us have shutdowns and shutdowns are only mentioned as a throwaway comment. 

I think when you are contributing to an area that currently has a distinct lack of information available you do need to be careful about avoiding presenting your experience as if you are representing all autistic women.

I truly hope the release of this book inspires more autistic women to share their stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual content, Ableism, Drug use, Abandonment, Blood, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Classism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Death of parent and Excrement

dean_'s review

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