Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After by Chloé Hayden

53 reviews

amiiliy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

wheelyautistic's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I have never read a book that has felt like me ever and I think this is a must read for anyone whether autistic or not. Chloe's raw emotions and stories really help me to empathise with them and with myself 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

swanny_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is one of the first books I've read about neurodiversity from a neurodiverse person. 

I'm on my own journey, and I appreciated reading a story that echoed feelings I had growing up and experiences that I still have today. 

I found occasionally it repeated something that had been said, but that's not a bad thing just an observation. 

This is another tool that can help me on my own self discovery, and I hope will help me feel better that I'm 33 trying to figure this out. 

I've listed some triggers in the list, but those triggers are labelled in the book as well. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Medical trauma

mothreadsbookssometimes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

This was a good book. It was nice to read a book about autism by an autistic author. I didn’t really learn a lot, but it was good to learn about other people’s experiences. 
I liked the content warnings (though I do wish there had been a warning for the discussions of bullying) and the markers of exactly where the triggering content was. I thought that was incredibly helpful. I liked the combination of memoir, self-help, and information about autism. It was well-balanced, which I feel like most nonfiction books of that type struggle to pull off. 
I’m docking half a point because I wish Hayden would’ve done more with the Disney movie analogies (you can’t lead the book by saying you’re going to connect everything to three Disney movies and then reference ten movies, and only a few times in the entire book). And, good god, the fucking grammar. I don’t care about UK/Australian spellings, but use the goddamn Oxford comma!!! And there were a lot of sentences that didn’t quite make sense, or redundant paragraphs that could’ve been removed. 
I’m also just a little bummed because I didn’t find it super helpful. I think that if I’d read this when I was first learning about being autistic, it would’ve been great, but now I’m at a place where I accept myself so I didn’t really need most of what Hayden was saying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual assault

peachmoni's review against another edition

informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Bullying

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Medical content

nutmegvotour's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault

aliciavalenski's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Suicide

thisthat100's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring

3.5

As an autistic person, I have settled for crumbs when autistic people are represented in the media which makes it more refreshing that, along with Hannah Gadsby's memoir, there are mainstream platforms for unapologetically autistic perspectives.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault

There are trigger warnings in this book to help prepare you for some of the more intense themes in this book.

aseel_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Hands down one of the best books ever, as well as one of the best ND resources I've consumed. I felt very seen and reminded that I'm worthy of good things. I definitely will be forcing all of my ND friends to read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Bullying

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

meaghanbethany's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault