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Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix
29 reviews
lunabbly's review
5.0
At first glance a lot of the passages look like word vomit, making grand leaps from one thought to the next. But truly it is gorgeous writing. It is beautiful, chaotic, terrifying reflections of heartache, love, romance, and self torture. Felix also interweaves her bipolar diagnosis and discovery -- one that revolved around her childhood trauma of CSA, as well as her mother not quite understanding on behalf of Camonghne but in the ways that mothers can and want to.
The descriptions of loving X are so vivid. It is so sweet. So gentle. But the chaotic falling out, the cheating, the absence, the abortion that Camonghne gets without telling him which results in his temper tantrum and distance, it is all so absorbing. It's so relatable. We've all been in those relationships where we loved someone so deeply and couldn't give our full selves to this person. Couldn't be 100% vulnerable, couldn't commit the way this person wanted us to. We had different dreams at the end of the day. Even though we loved this person. Even though this person loved us endlessly, unconditionally and it made us feel so good about being loved.
The heartache was so palpable I cried multiple times.
... how I let his love be my field of discovery, the green of his want tortured with the marks of my prancing, how I let self-obsession be an acid that corrodes the denim of a big heavy heart.
Thank you Camonghne for this beautiful memoir of the greatest heartbreak. Thank you for treating yourself with much kindness and accountability for your actions. I so appreciated every word of this memoir.
Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Child abuse, Abortion, and Abandonment
vainnerj's review
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion
pamslibros's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Self harm
alannashelfhelp's review
Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Suicide attempt
misa97's review
Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Medical content
romadera's review
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Rape, Self harm, and Abortion
tomisin's review
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt
purplesoccer126's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Drug use and Abortion
pristrauss's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Self harm, Sexual assault, and Blood
Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Abortion
geesammy's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting