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zombiezami's review
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emotional
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hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
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medium-paced
5.0
Over the past few years, I've been making an effort to seek out perspectives from people with heavily stigmatized diagnoses: anti-social personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, etc. I'm very committed to disability justice action, and I think this is an important part of that that often gets overlooked. If we accept that mental illness is a disability, than we have to accept that it's, well, unacceptable to malign specific illnesses and disorders as if people with them are inherently evil.
As an autistic person, I felt very seen in this book. Like the author, I too have many experiences of people getting angry at me for not having the facial expression/emotional reaction that they expect in a given situation. I felt the frustration of the author as she tried her best to be honest and fit in, yet people still made assumptions about her and tried to use her. Overall, I thought the book was well written and often hilarious. I highly recommend it.
As an autistic person, I felt very seen in this book. Like the author, I too have many experiences of people getting angry at me for not having the facial expression/emotional reaction that they expect in a given situation. I felt the frustration of the author as she tried her best to be honest and fit in, yet people still made assumptions about her and tried to use her. Overall, I thought the book was well written and often hilarious. I highly recommend it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Stalking, and Mental illness
Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Classism, Toxic relationship, and Cursing
Minor: Pregnancy, Murder, Animal death, Suicide, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization
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dark
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5.0
I loved this memoir! What a fascinating look into the mind of a sociopath. Patric Gagne offers so much insight into how her mind works and debunks a lot of misconceptions that people may have about sociopathy while detailing her life in stories that are often heartbreaking, laugh out loud funny, and just plain interesting food for the brain. I loved it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Violence
Moderate: Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death of parent, Self harm, and Death
Minor: Murder and Blood
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