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A review by lochnessvhs
Emo Reality: The Biography of Teenage Borderline Personality Disorder by Jerold Daniels
Did not finish book. Stopped at 46%.
I really wanted to like this book, but it was an uphill battle from paragraph one.
Despite how the author's introduction explains the concept, I'm still not clear on why a father would take all his daughter's personal writings and make a half-real/half-fiction book out of it. He admits that he was oblivious to her struggles when she was a kid, so why is this story being filtered through him??
Everyone with BPD has a different experience, it's definitely a spectrum. Lina's experience as presented here was incredibly difficult to understand. BPD does a lot of things, but it does not block your sight from your own privilege, and that was a difficult hurdle to jump.
After the second hard R-word and calling her mother a wh0re, I DNF'd at page 110.
I was given a copy of Emo Reality for free through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program, but not even my guilt can get me to finish this one.
Despite how the author's introduction explains the concept, I'm still not clear on why a father would take all his daughter's personal writings and make a half-real/half-fiction book out of it. He admits that he was oblivious to her struggles when she was a kid, so why is this story being filtered through him??
Everyone with BPD has a different experience, it's definitely a spectrum. Lina's experience as presented here was incredibly difficult to understand. BPD does a lot of things, but it does not block your sight from your own privilege, and that was a difficult hurdle to jump.
After the second hard R-word and calling her mother a wh0re, I DNF'd at page 110.
I was given a copy of Emo Reality for free through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program, but not even my guilt can get me to finish this one.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood