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A review by sarahbythebook
I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life by Cody Daigle-Orians
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
5.0
There are only two books that I've wished I could go back in time to give to my seventeen-year-old self. I Am Ace is one of those two.
Cody Daigle-Orians provides an accessible guidebook for folks who have recently discovered or are wondering if they might possibly be ace. He provides advice, instruction, and questions to consider for their consideration, and he does so with utmost kindness and compassion. After all, he's lived this!
I personally took a great deal of comfort in this book-- like Cody, I didn't figure out I was ace until after I was married, and because of his book, I feel like I have a better understanding of both who I am and how to navigate my relationship.
This book would be excellent for the teen or young adult trying to figure it all out, but it also works for those of us a little further along in life. As I stare down the years to thirty, I am leaving this book with more peace and comfort about my sexuality and its role in my life than I had hoped for.
Ultimately this book provides the permission some of us need to just BE, and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to read this book. If the opportunity ever arises, I hope Cody will turn this into a journal/self-reflection workbook. I would pick it up in a heartbeat.
Cody Daigle-Orians provides an accessible guidebook for folks who have recently discovered or are wondering if they might possibly be ace. He provides advice, instruction, and questions to consider for their consideration, and he does so with utmost kindness and compassion. After all, he's lived this!
I personally took a great deal of comfort in this book-- like Cody, I didn't figure out I was ace until after I was married, and because of his book, I feel like I have a better understanding of both who I am and how to navigate my relationship.
This book would be excellent for the teen or young adult trying to figure it all out, but it also works for those of us a little further along in life. As I stare down the years to thirty, I am leaving this book with more peace and comfort about my sexuality and its role in my life than I had hoped for.
Ultimately this book provides the permission some of us need to just BE, and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to read this book. If the opportunity ever arises, I hope Cody will turn this into a journal/self-reflection workbook. I would pick it up in a heartbeat.
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual violence and Acephobia/Arophobia