Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

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

3 reviews

praisethee's review

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

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, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Suicide, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Self harm, and Child abuse

teatales's review against another edition

3.75

Overall quite good and I learned some things. Written in quite a conversational way, with contractions etc that was interesting. Still a bit confused why so many things had triggers but the section on Nazis and eugenics didn't.  A little tokenistic at times I think, could have included more perspectives and experiences. The author is a little prone to hyperbole too if you're unfamiliar with her work 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Ableism, Mental illness, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, Bullying, and Child abuse